Tokai to Kamioka

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Tokai to Kamioka is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan that studies how neutrinos change type as they travel from the J-PARC facility in Tokai to the Super-Kamiokande detector in Kamioka.

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instanceOf neutrino oscillation experiment
particle physics experiment
abbreviation T2K NERFINISHED
baselineLength approximately 295 km
beamEnergy approximately 0.6 GeV peak energy
beamlineType conventional horn-focused neutrino beamline
beamSourceLocation Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan NERFINISHED
collaborationSize hundreds of scientists
collaborationType international collaboration
country Japan
dataTakingStart 2009
detectorLocation Kamioka, Gifu, Japan NERFINISHED
farDetector Super-Kamiokande NERFINISHED
farDetectorDepth about 1,000 meters underground
farDetectorMass 50 kiloton water Cherenkov detector
firstPhysicsResultsYear 2011
fundingCountry Japan NERFINISHED
hostInstitution J-PARC NERFINISHED
KEK NERFINISHED
University of Tokyo NERFINISHED
locatedAlongBaseline Honshu, Japan NERFINISHED
nearDetector INGRID NERFINISHED
ND280 NERFINISHED
neutrinoBeamType muon neutrino beam
off-axis neutrino beam
notableResult constraints on the CP-violating phase delta_CP
first indication of electron neutrino appearance from a muon neutrino beam
primaryPhysicsGoal measure mass-squared difference delta m^2_32
measure mixing angle theta_13
measure mixing angle theta_23
measure neutrino oscillation parameters
produces pion and kaon secondaries to generate neutrinos
protonBeamEnergy 30 GeV
researchFocus CP violation in the lepton sector
neutrino mass hierarchy constraints
scientificDiscipline high-energy physics
neutrino physics
studies electron neutrino appearance
muon neutrino disappearance
neutrino oscillations
uses proton accelerator at J-PARC
usesBeamFrom J-PARC NERFINISHED
usesDetector water Cherenkov detector
usesDetectorTechnology electromagnetic calorimeters
fine-grained tracking detectors
time projection chambers
usesTargetMaterial graphite target

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T2K abbreviationFor Tokai to Kamioka