Speaker
Mr
Benjamin Still
(University of Sheffield)
Description
The T2K experiment will fire an intense neutrino beam from the JPARC
facility on the east coast of Japan to the Super Kamiokande detector 295km
to the west. To measure the sub dominant theta13 lepton mixing angle, Super
Kamiokande will detect the appearence of electron flavour neutrinos from the
originally >99% pure Muon neutrino beam.
One of the major backgrounds to this electron neutrino signal is that of
neutral current single neutral pion production (NC1p). The cross-section of
this process is little understood at the energies employed by T2K. The T2K
near detector (ND280), situated at 280m from beam production, will
characterise the neutrino beam and measure the electron neutrino background
processes.
The Pi-Zero Detector (P0D) inside the ND280 is dedicated to measuring the
NC1p cross section. To improve the systematics and statistics of NC1p vertex
detection the P0D will be surrounded by an electromagnetic calorimeter
(P0DECal). In this talk I discuss the design of the P0DECal using MC
simulation data.
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Author
Mr
Benjamin Still
(University of Sheffield)
