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The T2K experiment studies the properties of neutrinos, particularly neutrino oscillations. It takes place in Japan and uses a muonic neutrino beam produced by the J-PARC accelerator complex, a near detector, ND280 on the J-PARC site in order to characterise the beam, and a far detector, Super-Kamiokande 295 km away in order to measure the neutrino oscillations. The near detector is also used to study the neutrino interactions and the goal of this thesis is the measurement of muonic neutrino deep inelastic scattering cross sections.The thesis first introduces neutrino physics, then the T2K experiment and more particularly the time projection chambers of the near detector, and its data quality checking that I was in charge of. The analysis is based on the T2K data recorded until 2013. The selection of charged current muonic neutrino interactions is then presented, as well as a preliminary study of the selection of charged current muonic neutrino interactions with the production of a neutral pion. A criterion on track multiplicity allows enriching the former sample in interactions corresponding to a neutrino deep inelastic scattering. Finally a fit, first validated on simulated data, allows the extraction of the muonic neutrino deep inelastic scattering cross sections.
In this thesis, I present a measurement of the absolute inclusive cross section of single + production induced by neutral current interactions ( (NCS +)). I also present a method to identify particles stopping in the Fine Grained Detectors (FGDs). An introductory description of neutrino physics, as well as of the T2K experiment and the ND280 tracker system are included for completeness. Other important contributions to the development of the FGDs, including the selection and characterization of the wavelength shifting bers used in these detectors, as well as their commissioning at JPARC, are also discussed in the thesis. The particle identi cation with the FGDs is based on the reconstructed deposited energy versus track length. It is primarily devoted to separate stopping protons from pions. In particular, this method can distinguish between exiting and stopping muons (or pions). In the measurement of (NCS +), the tracker system of the near detector (ND280) of the T2K experiment is used to reconstruct the particles and respective kinematics. It consists of two FGDs and three Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). One of the FGDs provides a target mass of 1 tonne for neutrino interactions, out of it 93% is composed of CH. The number of neutrino interactions used in this thesis corresponds to a total of 1:077 1020 protons on target at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (JPARC) facility in Tokai, collected during the T2K Run-1 and Run-2 data acquisition periods. Since the ND280 is 2:5 o the neutrino beam direction, its energy spectrum has a narrow width with peak at near 0.6 GeV. The analysis is based on NEUT Monte Carlo (MC) predictions for neutrino-nucleus interactions. The achieved e ciency and purity in the selection of forward-going + are 39% and 21%, respectively, for pions with momentum between 0.2 and 1.1 GeV/c. Systematic errors arising from neutrino ux uncertainties, event reconstruction and neutrino interaction models have been considered in the analysis. The ratio data to MC simulation is data= MC
This second open access volume of the handbook series deals with detectors, large experimental facilities and data handling, both for accelerator and non-accelerator based experiments. It also covers applications in medicine and life sciences. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the "Particle Physics Reference Library" provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A, B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open access
This thesis reports the calculation of neutrino production for the T2K experiment; the most precise a priori estimate of neutrino production that has been achieved for any accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment to date. The production of intense neutrino beams at accelerator facilities requires exceptional understanding of chains of particle interactions initiated within extended targets. In this thesis, the calculation of neutrino production for T2K has been improved by using measurements of particle production from a T2K replica target, taken by the NA61/SHINE experiment. This enabled the reduction of the neutrino production uncertainty to the level of 5%, which will have a significant impact on neutrino oscillation and interaction measurements by T2K in the coming years. In addition to presenting the revised flux calculation methodology in an accessible format, this thesis also reports a joint T2K measurement of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance, and the accompanying electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance, with the updated beam constraint.
The handbook centers on detection techniques in the field of particle physics, medical imaging and related subjects. It is structured into three parts. The first one is dealing with basic ideas of particle detectors, followed by applications of these devices in high energy physics and other fields. In the last part the large field of medical imaging using similar detection techniques is described. The different chapters of the book are written by world experts in their field. Clear instructions on the detection techniques and principles in terms of relevant operation parameters for scientists and graduate students are given.Detailed tables and diagrams will make this a very useful handbook for the application of these techniques in many different fields like physics, medicine, biology and other areas of natural science.