Sep 28 – 30, 2022
Hida City Cultural Communication Center
Asia/Tokyo timezone

EM shower reconstruction and electron neutrino selection for the T2K near detector upgrade

Not scheduled
3m
Hida City Cultural Communication Center

Hida City Cultural Communication Center

Poster Poster

Speaker

Aoi Eguchi (The University of Tokyo)

Description

The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment and aims at measuring leptonic charge-parity (CP) violation in neutrino oscillations. So far, T2K has shown results that disfavor CP conservation with a significance of two standard deviations. One of the most significant systematic uncertainties is the uncertainty of the electron neutrino cross-section. To reduce the uncertainties and perform more precise measurements of neutrino oscillations, we plan to upgrade our magnetized near detector complex (ND280). SuperFGD (Super Fine-Grained Detector), one of the newly introduced detectors, will consist of about two million $1\ \mathrm{cm}^3$ optically-isolated scintillator cubes whose scintillation light will be read out from three orthogonal directions through wavelength shifting fibers and silicon photomultipliers. Such a novel structure allows us to perform isotropic 3D tracking and calorimetry with sub-ns time resolution. This poster will report the EM shower reconstruction methods developed for SuperFGD and the preliminary results based on Monte Carlo studies of electron neutrino selection.

Primary author

Aoi Eguchi (The University of Tokyo)

Presentation materials