Updated T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 3.6×1021 protons on target
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Abstract
Muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance probabilities are identical in the standard three-flavor neutrino oscillation framework, but $CPT$ violation and nonstandard interactions can violate this symmetry. In this work we report the measurements of ${\mathrm{sin}}^{2}{\ensuremath{\theta}}_{23}$ and $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{m}_{32}^{2}$ independently for neutrinos and antineutrinos. The aforementioned symmetry violation would manifest as an inconsistency in the neutrino and antineutrino oscillation parameters. The analysis discussed here uses a total of $1.97\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{21}$ and $1.63\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{21}$ protons on target taken with a neutrino and antineutrino beam respectively, and benefits from improved flux and cross section models, new near-detector samples and more than double the data reducing the overall uncertainty of the result. No significant deviation is observed, consistent with the standard neutrino oscillation picture.