Thesis Committee: Chris Walter, Kate Scholberg, Ronen Plesser and Calvin Howell (exofficio non-voting member)
ABSTRACT:
This thesis presents tools used to analyze simulated neutral-current
p0 events in the
2km water Cherenkov detector in the proposed T2K neutrino experiment.
T2K is a long baseline experiment designed to measure neutrino
oscillation parameters. In water Cherenkov detectors, a large
source of error in identifying ne
events arises from p0
--> gg decays
where only one g is
identified. I have created software that graphically displays the
signals generated by each g
separately. With these tools it will be possible to characterize
the di®erences between neutral-current p0 events and
charged-current ne
events in the 2km water Cherenkov detector and Super- Kamiokande. This
characterization will be used to improve existing reconstruction
algorithms and further reduce these backgrounds.
Here is the thesis in PDF: Corona_thesis.pdf (about 3.08 MBytes)