Search for neutral-current induced single photon production at the ND280 near detector in T2K
Creators: name: Abe, K.
name: Akutsu, R.
name: Ali, A.
name: Andreopoulos, C.
name: Anthony, L.
name: Antonova, M.
name: Aoki, S.
name: Ariga, A.
name: Ashida, Y.
name: Awataguchi, Y.
name: Azuma, Y.
name: Ban, S.
name: Barbi, M.
name: Barker, G. J.
name: Barr, G.
name: Barry, C.
name: Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M.
name: Bench, F.
name: Berardi, V.
name: Berkman, S.
name: Berner, R. M.
name: Berns, L.
name: Bhadra, S.
name: Bienstock, S.
name: Blondel, A.
name: Bolognesi, S.
name: Bourguille, B.
name: Boyd, S. B.
name: Brailsford, D.
name: Bravar, A.
name: Bronner, C.
name: Avanzini, M. Buizza
name: Calcutt, J.
name: Campbell, T.
name: Cao, S.
name: Cartwright, S. L.
name: Catanesi, M. G.
name: Cervera, A.
name: Chappell, A.
name: Checchia, C.
name: Cherdack, D.
name: Chikuma, N.
name: Christodoulou, G.
name: Coleman, J.
name: Collazuol, G.
name: Coplowe, D.
name: Cudd, A.
name: Dabrowska, A.
name: De Rosa, G.
name: Dealtry, T.
name: Denner, P. F.
name: Dennis, S. R.
name: Densham, C.
name: Di Lodovico, F.
name: Dokania, N.
name: Dolan, S.
name: Drapier, O.
name: Duffy, K. E.
name: Dumarchez, J.
name: Dunne, P.
name: Emery-Schrenk, S.
name: Ereditato, A.
name: Fernandez, P.
name: Feusels, T.
name: Finch, A. J.
name: Fiorentini, G. A.
name: Fiorillo, G.
name: Francois, C.
name: Friend, M.
name: Fujii, Y.
name: Fujita, R.
name: Fukuda, D.
name: Fukuda, Y.
name: Gameil, K.
name: Giganti, C.
name: Gizzarelli, F.
name: Golan, T.
name: Gonin, M.
name: Hadley, D. R.
name: Haigh, J. T.
name: Hamacher-Baumann, P.
name: Hartz, M.
name: Hasegawa, T.
name: Hastings, N. C.
name: Hayashino, T.
name: Hayato, Y.
name: Hiramoto, A.
name: Hogan, M.
name: Holeczek, J.
name: Van, N. T. Hong
name: Hosomi, F.
name: Ichikawa, A. K.
name: Ikeda, M.
name: Inoue, T.
name: Intonti, R. A.
name: Ishida, T.
name: Ishii, T.
name: Ishitsuka, M.
name: Iwamoto, K.
name: Izmaylov, A.
name: Jamieson, B.
name: Jesus, C.
name: Jiang, M.
name: Johnson, S.
name: Jonsson, P.
name: Jung, C. K.
name: Kabirnezhad, M.
name: Kaboth, A. C.
name: Kajita, T.
name: Kakuno, H.
name: Kameda, J.
name: Karlen, D.
name: Katori, T.
name: Kato, Y.
name: Kearns, E.
name: Khabibullin, M.
name: Khotjantsev, A.
name: Kim, H.
name: Kim, J.
name: King, S.
name: Kisiel, J.
name: Knight, A.
name: Knox, A.
name: Kobayashi, T.
name: Koch, L.
name: Koga, T.
name: Konaka, A.
name: Kormos, L. L.
name: Koshio, Y.
name: Kowalik, K.
name: Kubo, H.
name: Kudenko, Y.
name: Kurjata, R.
name: Kutter, T.
name: Kuze, M.
name: Labarga, L.
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name: Lamoureux, M.
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name: Morrison, J.
name: Mueller, Th. A.
name: Murphy, S.
name: Nagai, Y.
name: Nakadaira, T.
name: Nakahata, M.
name: Nakajima, Y.
name: Nakamura, A.
name: Nakamura, K. G.
name: Nakamura, K.
name: Nakamura, K. D.
name: Nakanishi, Y.
name: Nakayama, S.
name: Nakaya, T.
name: Nakayoshi, K.
name: Nantais, C.
name: Niewczas, K.
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name: Nishimura, Y.
name: Nonnenmacher, T. S.
name: Novella, P.
name: Nowak, J.
name: O'Keeffe, H. M.
name: O'Sullivan, L.
name: Okumura, K.
name: Okusawa, T.
name: Oser, S. M.
name: Owen, R. A.
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name: Palladino, V.
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name: Payne, D.
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name: Sgalaberna, D.
name: Shah, R.
name: Shaikhiev, A.
name: Shaker, F.
name: Shaw, D.
name: Shaykina, A.
name: Shiozawa, M.
name: Smirnov, A.
name: Smy, M.
name: Sobczyk, J. T.
name: Sobel, H.
name: Sonoda, Y.
name: Steinmann, J.
name: Stewart, T.
name: Stowell, P.
name: Suvorov, S.
name: Suzuki, A.
name: Suzuki, S. Y.
name: Suzuki, Y.
name: Sztuc, A. A.
name: Tacik, R.
name: Tada, M.
name: Takeda, A.
name: Takeuchi, Y.
name: Tamura, R.
name: Tanaka, H. K.
name: Tanaka, H. A.
name: Thompson, L. F.
name: Toki, W.
name: Touramanis, C.
name: Tsui, K. M.
name: Tsukamoto, T.
name: Tzanov, M.
name: Uchida, Y.
name: Uno, W.
name: Vagins, M.
name: Vallari, Z.
name: Vargas, D.
name: Vasseur, G.
name: Vilela, C.
name: Vladisavljevic, T.
name: Volkov, V. V.
name: Wachala, T.
name: Walker, J.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Wark, D.
name: Wascko, M. O.
name: Weber, A.
name: Wendell, R.
name: Wilking, M. J.
name: Wilkinson, C.
name: Wilson, J. R.
name: Wilson, R. J.
name: Wret, C.
name: Yamada, Y.
name: Yamamoto, K.
name: Yamasu, S.
name: Yanagisawa, C.
name: Yang, G.
name: Yano, T.
name: Yasutome, K.
name: Yen, S.
name: Yershov, N.
name: Yokoyama, M.
name: Yoshida, T.
name: Yu, M.
name: Zalewska, A.
name: Zalipska, J.
name: Zaremba, K.
name: Zarnecki, G.
name: Ziembicki, M.
name: Zimmerman, E. D.
name: Zito, M.
name: Zsoldos, S.
name: Zykova, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino neutral-current induced single photon production is a sub-leading order process for accelerator-based neutrino beam experiments including T2K. It is, however, an important process to understand because it is a background for electron (anti)neutrino appearance oscillation experiments. Here, we performed the first search of this process below 1 GeV using the fine-grained detector at the T2K ND280 off-axis near detector. By reconstructing single photon kinematics from electron-positron pairs, we achieved 95\% pure gamma ray sample from 5.738$\times 10^{20}$ protons-on-targets neutrino mode data. We do not find positive evidence of neutral current induced single photon production in this sample. We set the model-dependent upper limit on the cross-section for this process, at 0.114$\times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ (90\% C.L.) per nucleon, using the J-PARC off-axis neutrino beam with an average energy of $\left\sim 0.6$ GeV. This is the first limit on this process below 1 GeV which is important for current and future oscillation experiments looking for electron neutrino appearance oscillation signals.
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