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Search for electron antineutrino appearance in a long-baseline muon antineutrino beam

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Electron antineutrino appearance is measured by the T2K experiment in an accelerator-produced antineutrino beam, using additional neutrino beam operation to constrain parameters of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) mixing matrix. T2K observes 15 candidate electron antineutrino events with a background expectation of 9.3 events. Including information from the kinematic distribution of observed events, the hypothesis of no electron antineutrino appearance is disfavored with a significance of 2.40σ and no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions is found. A complementary analysis that introduces an additional free parameter which allows non-PMNS values of electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance also finds no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions.
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161802

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Publisher:
American Physical Society
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Physical Review Letters More from this journal
Volume:
124
Issue:
16
Article number:
161802
Publication date:
2020-04-21
Acceptance date:
2020-03-25
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1079-7114
ISSN:
0031-9007


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English
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1074703
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2020-01-04

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