T2K: Neutrino Physics
Following longstanding involvement in neutrino physics, the Glasgow group has recently joined the T2K experiment and a new academic in this area joined the group in February 2019. We are working on the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, in which a predominantly muon-neutrino beam, generated at the J-PARC accelerator facility in Tokai, changes flavour and appears as electron-neutrinos at the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector in the Kamioka mine, at a distance of 300 km. This allows the study of neutrino interactions in the near detector facility at T2K and use of these data to contribute to the analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations. The ultimate goal of the experiment is to determine differences between the rate of appearance of electron-neutrinos and electron-antineutrinos, which could show the first evidence for CP violation in neutrinos. We also expect to be involved in the development of new electronic boards for the T2K near-detector upgrade, or for the upgrade of the Super-Kamiokande experiment, called Hyper-Kamiokande.