On Sunday 12th December the T2K group featured in a short story on BBC Midlands' Today programme, talking about the construction of the first P0D ECal module.

You can view the video on our resources page.

T2K's near-detector (ND280) this morning (19.12.2009) recorded its first neutrino event believed to have originated in the J-PARC neutrino beam. The event was ideal, passing through all installed sub-detectors. See the event display below:

Warwick today (14.12.2009) completed construction of the first P0D ECal module for the near-detector (ND280) with five more to follow next year. The detector will now be shipped out to Japan for installation with the other ECal modules built by our collaborators at Liverpool, Daresbury, Sheffield and Lancaster.

During a test run of the J-PARC neutrino beam on 22.11.2009 the T2K experiment saw its first neutrino interaction in the INGRID near-detector. This represents a significant milestone for the collaboration which is now looking forward to a full physics run early next year.

• KEK press release
• UK STFC press release
  

Warwick's Dr Gary Barker represented the T2K collaboration at the international NNN conference held in Colorado, USA. The conference features talks on next-generation neutrino detectors.

Slides: talk_barker_nnn09.pdf.

[The NNN09 conference was held 08.10.2009 in Colorado, USA]

Dr Steve Boyd was selected to present a talk on T2K cross-section measurements at the WIN neutrino interactions conference this year.

Slides: talk_boyd_win09.pdf.

[The WIN 2009 conference was held 16.09.2009 in Gran Sasso, Italy]

The International Workshop on New Photon Detectors 2009 featured a talk by Warwick PhD student Martin Haigh on the simulation of photosensors used in T2K's near-detector.

Slides: talk_haigh_pd09.pdf.

[The PD09 conference was held 24.06.2009 in Matsumoto, Japan]