日米ニュートリノ実験が連携（Neutrino Experiments in U.S. and Japan Join Forces）

2025-10-22 カリフォルニア工科大学（Caltech）

A picture of a neutrino detection. Here, a neutrino entered from the left and interacted to produce a high-energy muon (the long prominent “line”), plus a number of other particles. The presence of the muon reveals that the incoming neutrino was of the corresponding type (muon neutrino). The two panels show the event from a top-down and side view, made possible by having detector cells run in two different directions.

＜関連情報＞

• https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/neutrino-experiments-in-us-and-japan-join-forces
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09599-3

T2K実験とNOvA実験によるニュートリノ振動の共同解析 Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments

The NOvA Collaboration & The T2K Collaboration
Nature  Published:22 October 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09599-3

Abstract

The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or flavour) as they propagate—a process called neutrino oscillation^1,2,3,4,5,6—has opened up a rich array of theoretical and experimental questions being actively pursued today. Neutrino oscillation remains the most powerful experimental tool for addressing many of these questions, including whether neutrinos violate charge-parity (CP) symmetry, which has possible connections to the unexplained preponderance of matter over antimatter in the Universe^7,8,9,10,11. Oscillation measurements also probe the mass-squared differences between the different neutrino mass states (Δm²), whether there are two light states and a heavier one (normal ordering) or vice versa (inverted ordering), and the structure of neutrino mass and flavour mixing¹². Here we carry out the first joint analysis of datasets from NOvA¹³ and T2K¹⁴, the two currently operating long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments (hundreds of kilometres of neutrino travel distance), taking advantage of our complementary experimental designs and setting new constraints on several neutrino sector parameters. This analysis provides new precision on the△m²₃₂ mass difference, finding 2.43^+0.04_-0.03 ×10^-3eV²   in the normal ordering and –2.48+^0.03_-0.04×10^-3eV² in the inverted ordering, as well as a 3σ interval on δ_CP of [−1.38π, 0.30π] in the normal ordering and [−0.92π,−0.04π] in the inverted ordering. The data show no strong preference for either mass ordering, but notably, if inverted ordering were assumed true within the three-flavour mixing model, then our results would provide evidence of CP symmetry violation in the lepton sector.