Neutrino oscillation results from KARMEN

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作者
Zeitnitz, B
Armbruster, B
Becker, M
Benen, A
Drexlin, G
Eberhard, V
Eitel, K
Gemmeke, H
Jannakos, T
Kleifges, M
Kleinfeller, J
Oehler, C
Plischke, P
Rapp, J
Reichenbacher, J
Schnurer, F
Steidl, M
Wolf, J
Bodmann, BA
Finckh, E
Haug, S
Hossl, J
Junger, P
Kretschmer, W
Stucken, I
Eichner, C
Maschuw, R
Ruf, C
Blair, IM
Edgington, JA
Seligmann, B
Booth, NE
机构
[1] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Inst Kernphys 1, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
[2] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[3] Univ Bonn, Inst Strahlen & Kernphys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[4] Univ London Queen Mary & Westfield Coll, Dept Phys, London E1 4NS, England
[5] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
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PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, VOL 40: NEUTRINOS IN ASTRO, PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS | 1998年 / 40卷
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10.1016/S0146-6410(98)00023-4
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The neutrino experiment KARMEN is situated at the beam stop neutrino source ISIS. It provides nu(mu)'s, nu(e)'s and <(nu)over bar>(mu)'s in equal intensities from the pi(+)-mu(+)-decay at rest (DAR). The oscillation channels nu(mu) -->nu(e) and <(nu)over bar>(mu) --> <(nu)over bar>(e) are investigated in the appearance mode with a 56 t liquid scintillation calorimeter at a mean distance of 17.7 m from the nu-source. Analyses of experimental data from the measuring period 1990-1995 corresponding to 9122 C protons on target or 2.52 . 10(21) mu(+) DAR are presented. No evidence for oscillations could be found with KARMEN, resulting in 90% CL exclusion limits of sin(2)(2 theta) < 8.5 . 10(-3) (<(nu)over bar>(mu) --> <(nu)over bar>(e)) and sin(2)(2 theta) < 4.0 . 10(-2)(nu(mu) --> nu(e)) for Delta m(2) greater than or equal to 100 eV(2) in a simple 2 flavor description of nu-oscillations.
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