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High-sensitivity searches for transitions of muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos are the main task of the T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) second-generation long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment. The present article is devoted to describing basic principles of T2K, surveying experimental apparatuses that it includes, and considering in detail the muon-range detector (SMRD) designed and manufactured by a group of physicists from the Institute of Nuclear Research (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). The results of the first measurements with a neutrino beam are presented, and plans for the near future are discussed.
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Original Russian Text © A.O. Izmaylov, N.V. Yershov, Yu.G. Kudenko, V.A. Matveev, O.V. Mineev, Yu.V. Musienko, M.M. Khabibulliun, A.N. Khotjantsev, A.T. Shaykhiev, 2012, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2012, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 204–213.
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Report presented at the conference Physics of Fundamental Interactions held at the scientific session of Nuclear Physics Section (General Physics Department, Russian Academy of Sciences) at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP, Moscow, November 23–27, 2009).
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Izmaylov, A.O., Yershov, N.V., Kudenko, Y.G. et al. Investigation of neutrino oscillations in the T2k long-baseline accelerator experiment. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 75, 182–191 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778812010097
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