DPF 2009

Overview of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment

27 Jul 2009, 18:10

15m

Wayne State University

Neutrino Physics Neutrino Physics I

Speaker

Mr TRUNG LE (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY)

Description

Neutrino oscillations were discovered in solar and atmospheric neutrinos experiments, and have been confirmed by experiments using neutrino beams from accelerators and nuclear reactors. It has been found that there are large mixing angles in the nue to numu and numu to nutau oscillations. The third mixing angle, which parameterizes the mixing between the first and the third family, is constrainted to be small by the CHOOZ experiment results. The T2K experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that uses intense neutrino beam produced at J-PARC and SuperKamiokande detector 295km as the far detector. In this talk, we will give an overview of the experiment.