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Presented in this thesis is the first prediction of the unoscillated neutrino flux at T2K, using dedicated NA61 replica-target measurements from 2009. Previously, only external data collected with thin targets had been employed to tune the nominal, Monte Carlo based, T2K flux prediction. The flux calculation framework has been substantially modified to accommodate for the concept of tuning to thick target data. With the inclusion of this new dataset, the fractional systematic flux uncertainty has been reduced from \({\sim }10\%\) to \({\sim }5\%\).
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Vladisavljevic, T. (2020). Conclusions and Future Prospects. In: Predicting the T2K Neutrino Flux and Measuring Oscillation Parameters. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51174-6_9
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