Results on νμ→νe oscillations from pion decay in flight neutrinos

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Athanassopoulos, C [1 ]
Auerbach, LB
Burman, RL
Caldwell, DO
Church, ED
Cohen, I
Donahue, JB
Fazely, A
Federspiel, FJ
Garvey, GT
Gunasingha, RM
Imlay, R
Johnston, K
Kim, HJ
Louis, WC
Majkic, R
McIlhany, K
Metcalf, W
Mills, GB
Reeder, RA
Sandberg, V
Smith, D
Stancu, I
Strossman, W
Tayloe, R
VanDalen, GJ
Vernon, W
Wadia, N
Waltz, J
White, DH
Works, D
Xiao, Y
Yellin, S
机构
[1] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[3] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[4] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[5] Linfield Coll, McMinnville, OR 97128 USA
[6] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[7] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[8] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[9] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[10] So Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[11] Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW C | 1998年 / 58卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevC.58.2489
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
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070202 ;
摘要
A search for nu(mu) --> v(e) oscillations has been conducted at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility using nu(mu) from pi(+) decay in flight. An excess in the number of beam-related events from the nu(e) C --> e(-) X inclusive reaction is observed. The excess is too large to be explained by normal nu(e) contamination in the beam at a confidence level greater than 99%. If interpreted as an oscillation signal, the observed oscillation probability of (2.6 +/- 1.0 +/- 0.5) x 10(-3) is consistent with the previously reported (nu) over bar(mu) --> (nu) over bar(e) oscillation evidence from LSND. [S0556-2813(98)02510-2].
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