# 2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

13-19 June 2015
University of Alberta
America/Edmonton timezone
Welcome to the 2015 CAP Congress! / Bienvenue au congrès de l'ACP 2015!

## Status of Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments

16 Jun 2015, 15:45
30m
CAB 235 (University of Alberta)

### CAB 235

#### University of Alberta

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

### Speaker

Dr Nicholas Hastings (University of Regina)

### Description

The current generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments employ an off-axis $\nu_\mu$ (or $\bar{\nu}_\mu$) beam produced by the decay of pions created when a proton beam strikes a target. The beam is monitored at detector facilities near the production point before travelling hundreds of kilometres to a far detector. Aiming the beam centre slightly away from the far detector provides the off-axis configuration which selects a narrow energy band beam tuned to maximize the oscillation probability. The status of these experiments will be presented. The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment consists of a $\nu_\mu$ beam produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Centre (J-PARC) in Tokai on the East coast of Japan, which is monitored by a suite of detectors before travelling 295 km to the Super-Kamiokande (SK) water Cerenkov detector. T2K has been in operation since 2010 and has been continually releasing new and exciting neutrino oscillation results. The most recent precision $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ appearance and $\nu_\mu$ disappearance oscillation measurements as well as initial results running the experiment in the $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ beam configuration will be presented. The NO$\nu\hspace{-0.11ex}$A experiment, utilizing the NuMI beam and a near detector at Fermilab and a far detector at a distance of 810 km, began operation in 2014. The current status of NO$\nu\hspace{-0.11ex}$A will also be shown.

### Primary author

Dr Nicholas Hastings (University of Regina)

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