- Page 1 and 2: Tau Neutrino Appearance via Neutrin
- Page 3 and 4: Abstract of the DissertationTau Neu
- Page 5 and 6: ContentsList of FiguresList of Tabl
- Page 7 and 8: 6 Event Reconstruction 966.1 Vertex
- Page 9 and 10: List of Figures1.1 Feynman diagrams
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- Page 13 and 14: AcknowledgementsAfter spending six
- Page 15 and 16: I would like to thank administrativ
- Page 17 and 18: 2and obey the exclusion principle a
- Page 19 and 20: 4Table 1.1: Table of elementary par
- Page 21 and 22: 6then, |ν α (t)〉 can be express
- Page 23 and 24: 8As described in the next section,
- Page 25 and 26: 10Table 1.2: List of the flavor rat
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- Page 29 and 30: 14Data/Prediction (null oscillation
- Page 31 and 32: Figure 2.1: The location of Super-K
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- Page 37 and 38: 22Figure 2.5: The layout of the PMT
- Page 39 and 40: 24< φ 520photosensitive area > φ
- Page 41 and 42: 26Quantum efficiency0.20.10300 400
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- Page 45 and 46: 30CARTRIDGEPOLISHERUVSTERILIZERVACU
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- Page 53 and 54: 38Super−Kamiokande Outer Detector
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- Page 59 and 60: 44Number of PMTs in Each Bin1400120
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- Page 67 and 68: 52Light scattering measurementatten
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70where G E and G M are the electri
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72resonance), M j is the mass of th
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74σ (10 -38 cm 2 )0.25 (a) νp →
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7821.751.5ν 16 O → l ± 16 O π
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80ing experiments [158, 159, 160].
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82shown in Figure 3.5. The timing o
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8410.8ν τν µν eν - τν - µ
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86Chapter 5Data ReductionThe Super-
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88and exit the ID. The neutrino ene
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90• NHITA 800 ≤ 50The number of
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92• The distance between the cabl
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94Coincidence muonsThe remaining co
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96Chapter 6Event ReconstructionThe
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9842 deg. ring(possible center)hit
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100Number of events450400350Single-
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102by muons or charged pions and ha
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104Number of eventsNumber of events
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106the changes in the vertex positi
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108flux. This is because most of ν
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110NUM 14RUN 999999SUBRUN 99EVENT 2
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112expected to be upward-going.Base
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114150100500(a)10 2 (b)1013.5 4 4.5
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116SK-I Multi-GeV MCSK-II Multi-GeV
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118Number of Events9080706050403020
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120Table 7.5: Fraction of neutrino
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122Number of Events604020TAU+BKGBKG
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124100SK-ITAU+BKGBKGDATA6050SK-IITA
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126• Up/down ratio : (For the obs
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128• Charge-current ν τ interac
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130• Tau likelihood selection eff
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132Table 7.8: (For only SK-I) Summa
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134Table 7.10: (Common to SK-I and
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136because for non-zero θ 13 , Mul
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138Bay [184] reactor experiments, a
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140Table A.2: Summary of the damage
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142Appendix BEnergy Flow AnalysisIn
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146be handled by setting any negati
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148[16] K. Assamagan et al., Phys.
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150[48] H. Seo, A Measurement of ν
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152[84] T. H. Johnson et al., Phys.
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154[125] G. Radecky et al., Phys. R
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156[171] K. Hagiwara et al., Nucl.