Stephen Dolan

Dr. Stephen Dolan

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12Years (2015-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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29 April 2015 in Physical Review D
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KAK. Abe
K. Abe
JAJ. Adam
J. Adam
HAH. Aihara
H. Aihara
TAT. Akiri
T. Akiri
CAC. Andreopoulos
C. Andreopoulos
TCT2K Collaboration
T2K Collaboration
We report on measurements of neutrino oscillation using data from the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment collected between 2010 and 2013. In an analysis of muon neutrino disappearance alone, we find the following estimates and 68% confidence intervals for the two possible mass hierarchies: normal hierarchy:  sin2θ23=0.514−0.056+0.055 and Δm322=(2.51±0.10)×10−3  eV2/c4 and inverted hierarchy:  sin2θ23=0.511±0.055 and Δm132=(2.48±0.10)×10−3  eV2/c4. The analysis accounts for multinucleon mechanisms in neutrino interactions which were found to introduce negligible bias. We describe our first analyses that combine measurements of muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance to estimate four oscillation parameters, |Δm2|, sin2θ23, sin2θ13, δCP, and the mass hierarchy. Frequentist and Bayesian intervals are presented for combinations of these parameters, with and without including recent reactor measurements. At 90% confidence level and including reactor measurements, we exclude the region δCP=[0.15,0.83]π for normal hierarchy and δCP=[−0.08,1.09]π for inverted hierarchy. The T2K and reactor data weakly favor the normal hierarchy with a Bayes factor of 2.2. The most probable values and 68% one-dimensional credible intervals for the other oscillation parameters, when reactor data are included, are sin2θ23=0.528−0.038+0.055 and |Δm322|=(2.51±0.11)×10−3  eV2/c4.

24 October 2018 in Physical Review Letters
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KAK. Abe
K. Abe
RAR. Akutsu
R. Akutsu
AAA. Ali
A. Ali
JAJ. Amey
J. Amey
CAC. Andreopoulos
C. Andreopoulos
TCT2K Collaboration
T2K Collaboration
The T2K experiment measures muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance in accelerator-produced neutrino and antineutrino beams. With an exposure of 14.7(7.6)×1020 protons on target in the neutrino (antineutrino) mode, 89 νe candidates and seven anti-νe candidates are observed, while 67.5 and 9.0 are expected for δCP=0 and normal mass ordering. The obtained 2σ confidence interval for the CP-violating phase, δCP, does not include the CP-conserving cases (δCP=0, π). The best-fit values of other parameters are sin2θ23=0.526−0.036+0.032 and Δm322=2.463−0.070+0.071×10−3  eV2/c4.

10 April 2017 in Physical Review Letters
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KAK. Abe
K. Abe
JAJ. Amey
J. Amey
CAC. Andreopoulos
C. Andreopoulos
MAM. Antonova
M. Antonova
SAS. Aoki
S. Aoki
TCT2K Collaboration
T2K Collaboration
T2K reports its first results in the search for CP violation in neutrino oscillations using appearance and disappearance channels for neutrino- and antineutrino-mode beams. The data include all runs from January 2010 to May 2016 and comprise 7.482×1020 protons on target in neutrino mode, which yielded in the far detector 32 e-like and 135  μ-like events, and 7.471×1020 protons on target in antineutrino mode, which yielded 4 e-like and 66  μ-like events. Reactor measurements of sin22θ13 have been used as an additional constraint. The one-dimensional confidence interval at 90% for the phase δCP spans the range (−3.13, −0.39) for normal mass ordering. The CP conservation hypothesis (δCP=0, π) is excluded at 90% C.L.

10 September 2019 in Physical Review D
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KAK. Abe
K. Abe
RAR. Akutsu
R. Akutsu
AAA. Ali
A. Ali
CAC. Andreopoulos
C. Andreopoulos
LAL. Anthony
L. Anthony
TCT2K Collaboration
T2K Collaboration
This paper reports on the search for heavy neutrinos with masses in the range 140<MN<493  MeV/c2 using the off-axis near detector ND280 of the T2K experiment. These particles can be produced from kaon decays in the standard neutrino beam and then subsequently decay in ND280. The decay modes under consideration are N→ℓα±π∓ and N→ℓα+ℓβ−ν(−)(α,β=e,μ). A search for such events has been made using the Time Projection Chambers of ND280, where the background has been reduced to less than two events in the current dataset in all channels. No excess has been observed in the signal region. A combined Bayesian statistical approach has been applied to extract upper limits on the mixing elements of heavy neutrinos to electron-, muon- and tau- flavored currents (Ue2, Uμ2, Uτ2) as a function of the heavy neutrino mass, e.g., Ue2<10−9 at 90% C.L. for a mass of 390  MeV/c2. These constraints are competitive with previous experiments.

21 November 2017 in Physical Review D
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KAK. Abe
K. Abe
JAJ. Amey
J. Amey
CAC. Andreopoulos
C. Andreopoulos
MAM. Antonova
M. Antonova
SAS. Aoki
S. Aoki
TCThe T2K Collaboration
The T2K Collaboration
The T2K experiment reports an updated analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations in appearance and disappearance channels. A sample of electron neutrino candidates at Super-Kamiokande in which a pion decay has been tagged is added to the four single-ring samples used in previous T2K oscillation analyses. Through combined analyses of these five samples, simultaneous measurements of four oscillation parameters, |Δm322|, sin2θ23, sin2θ13, and δCP and of the mass ordering are made. A set of studies of simulated data indicates that the sensitivity to the oscillation parameters is not limited by neutrino interaction model uncertainty. Multiple oscillation analyses are performed, and frequentist and Bayesian intervals are presented for combinations of the oscillation parameters with and without the inclusion of reactor constraints on sin2θ13. When combined with reactor measurements, the hypothesis of CP conservation (δCP=0 or π) is excluded at 90% confidence level. The 90% confidence region for δCP is [−2.95,−0.44] ([−1.47,−1.27]) for normal (inverted) ordering. The central values and 68% confidence intervals for the other oscillation parameters for normal (inverted) ordering are Δm322=2.54±0.08(2.51±0.08)×10−3  eV2/c4 and sin2θ23=0.55−0.09+0.05 (0.55−0.08+0.05), compatible with maximal mixing. In the Bayesian analysis, the data weakly prefer normal ordering (Bayes factor 3.7) and the upper octant for sin2θ23 (Bayes factor 2.4).

9 August 2018 in Physical Review D
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KAK. Abe
K. Abe
JAJ. Amey
J. Amey
CAC. Andreopoulos
C. Andreopoulos
LAL. Anthony
L. Anthony
MAM. Antonova
M. Antonova
TCThe T2K Collaboration
The T2K Collaboration
This paper reports measurements of final-state proton multiplicity, muon and proton kinematics, and their correlations in charged-current pionless neutrino interactions, measured by the T2K ND280 near detector in its plastic scintillator (C8H8) target. The data were taken between years 2010 and 2013, corresponding to approximately 6×1020 protons on target. Thanks to their exploration of the proton kinematics and of imbalances between the proton and muon kinematics, the results offer a novel probe of the nuclear-medium effects most pertinent to the (sub-)GeV neutrino-nucleus interactions that are used in accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino oscillation measurements. These results are compared to many neutrino-nucleus interaction models which all fail to describe at least part of the observed phase space. In case of events without a proton above a detection threshold in the final state, a fully consistent implementation of the local Fermi gas model with multinucleon interactions gives the best description of the data. In the case of at least one proton in the final state, the spectral function model agrees well with the data, most notably when measuring the kinematic imbalance between the muon and the proton in the plane transverse to the incoming neutrino. Within the models considered, only the existence of multinucleon interactions are able to describe the extracted cross section within regions of high transverse kinematic imbalance. The effect of final-state interactions is also discussed.