2010/06/05 by Still, Benjamin
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1006.1034
The Tokai to Kamioka neutrino oscillation experiment aims to determine the third and final lepton mixing angle θ13, through a measurement of the sub-dominant oscillation νμ→νe. The oscillation is a maximum as νμ travel 295~km from the near detectors to the far Super-Kamiokande detector. Single π0 production from neutral current (NC1π0) neutrino interactions are a significant background to νe events in water Cherenkov detectors such as Super-Kamiokande. To reduce this background, the off-axis ND280 near detector contains water target regions to determine the cross-section of such NC1π0 events. Here, I discuss the status of the detectors and tools in preparation for physics data taking.