The T2K experiment

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Editor: Prof. Chang Kee Jung, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Stony Brook, chang.jung@sunysb.edu, 631-632-8108 Submit Edited to remove line numberscited By 108 affiliation: University of Alberta, Centre for Particle Physics, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland; University of Bern, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Bern, Switzerland; Boston University, Department of Physics, Boston, MA, United States; University of British Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department, Upton, NY, United States; University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA, United States; IRFU, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Chonnam National University, Department of Physics, Kwangju, South Korea; University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States; Colorado State University, Department of Physics, Fort Collins, CO, United States; Dongshin University, Department of Physics, Naju, South Korea; Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, NC, United States; Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Palaiseau, France; ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics, Zurich, Switzerland; University of Geneva, Section de Physique, DPNC, Geneva, Switzerland; H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow, Poland; High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Institut de Fisica DAltes Energies (IFAE), Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain; IFIC, CSIC, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom; INFN Sezione di Bari, Università e Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, Bari, Italy; INFN Sezione di Napoli, Università di Napoli, Dipartimento di Fisica, Napoli, Italy; INFN Sezione di Padova, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova, Italy; INFN Sezione di Roma, Università di Roma la Sapienza, Roma, Italy; Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation; Kobe University, Kobe, Japan; Kyoto University, Department of Physics, Kyoto, Japan; Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom; University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, LA, United States; Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, IPN Lyon (IN2P3), Villeurbanne, France; Miyagi University of Education, Department of Physics, Sendai, Japan; State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook, NY, United States; Osaka City University, Department of Physics, Osaka, Japan; Oxford University, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom; UPMC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRSLaboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Paris, France; University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics, London, United Kingdom; University of Regina, Physics Department, Regina, SK, Canada; University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, NY, United States; RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany; Seoul National University, Department of Physics, Seoul, South Korea; University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, United Kingdom; University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Katowice, Poland; STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom; STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, United Kingdom; University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan; University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kamioka Observatory, Kamioka, Japan; University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Japan; University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada; TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada; University of Victoria, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Victoria, BC, Canada; University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw, Poland; Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw, Poland; University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Coventry, United Kingdom; University of Washington, Department of Physics, Seattle, WA, United States; Wroclaw University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Wroclaw, Poland; York University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Toronto, ON, Canada; JINR, Dubna, Russian Federation; Institute of Particle Physics, Canada; BMCC/CUNY, New York, NY, United States author_keywords: J-PARC; Long baseline; Neutrino oscillation; Neutrinos; Super-Kamiokande; T2K keywords: J-PARC; Long baseline; Neutrino oscillations; Neutrinos; Super-Kamiokande; T2K, Elementary particles, Experiments references: Letter of intent: Neutrino oscillation experiment at JHF (2003) Letter of Intent: Neutrino Oscillation Experiment at JHF, , http://neutrino.kek.jp/jhfnu/loi/loiJHFcor.pdf; Apollonio, M., (2003) European Physical Journal, C27, p. 331; Fukuda, Y., Hayakawa, T., Ichihara, E., Ishitsuka, M., Itow, Y., (2003) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 501, p. 418; Beavis, D., Carroll, A., Chiang, I., Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment at the AGS (Proposal E889) (1995) Physics Design Report, , BNL 52459; (2003) J-PARC TDR, KEK-Report 2002-13 and JAERI-Tech 2003-044, , http://hadron.kek.jp/accelerator/TDA/tdr2003/index2.html; Nakamoto, T., (2004) IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 14, p. 616; Nakamoto, T., (2005) An Invited Paper Presented at the 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC05), , Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 1620 May; Ogitsu, T., (2005) IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 15, p. 1175; Okamura, T., (2009) IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 19, p. 1125; Ogitsu, T., (2009) IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 19, p. 1081; Sasaki, K., (2010) IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 20, p. 242; Nakamoto, T., (2010) IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 20, p. 208; Charrier, J.-P., (2009), http://irfu.cea.fr/Phocea/file.phpclassastfile2627/ PresentationMEST2KMSSDApdf, T2K MSS(2008), http://www.toshiba-tetd.co.jp/eng/index.htm, Toshiba Electron Tubes and Devices Co., LtdNakadaira, T., (2008) AIP Conference Proceedings, 981, p. 290; S. van der Meer, CERN-61-07, 1961Palmer, R.B., Presented at Informal Conference on Experimental Neutrino Physics, pp. 141-146. , CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 2022 January 1965 (C. 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