Limit on νe → ντ oscillations from the NOMAD experiment

被引:11
作者
Astier, P [1 ]
Autiero, D
Baldisseri, A
Baldo-Ceolin, M
Ballocchi, G
Banner, M
Bassompierre, G
Benslama, K
Besson, N
Bird, I
Blumenfeld, B
Bobisut, F
Bouchez, J
Boyd, S
Bueno, A
Bunyatov, S
Camilleri, L
Cardini, A
Cattaneo, PW
Cavasinni, V
Cervera-Villanueva, A
Collazuol, G
Conforto, G
Conta, C
Contalbrigo, M
Cousins, R
Daniels, D
Degaudenzi, H
Del Prete, T
De Santo, A
Dignan, T
Di Lella, L
Silva, EDE
Dumarchez, J
Ellis, M
Feldman, GJ
Ferrari, R
Ferrère, D
Flaminio, V
Fraternali, M
Gaillard, JM
Gangler, E
Geiser, A
Geppert, D
Gibin, D
Gninenko, S
Godley, A
Gomez-Cadenas, JJ
Gosset, J
Gössling, C
机构
[1] LAPP, Annecy, France
[2] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA
[3] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[4] Univ Calabria, I-87030 Commenda Di Rende, Italy
[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Cosenza, Italy
[6] Univ Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
[7] Joint Inst Nucl Res Dubna, Dubna, Russia
[8] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy
[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[10] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[11] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
[12] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
[13] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[14] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow, Russia
[15] Univ Padua, Padua, Italy
[16] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy
[17] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, Paris, France
[18] Univ Paris 07, Paris, France
[19] Univ Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[20] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[21] Univ Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Pisa, Italy
[23] Roma Tre Univ, Rome, Italy
[24] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy
[25] CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[26] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[27] Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[28] Univ Urbino, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
[29] IFIC, Valencia, Spain
[30] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia
[31] ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
基金
俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
neutrino oscillations;
D O I
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01344-1
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In the context of a two-flavour approximation we reinterpret the published NOMAD limit on nu(mu) --> nu(tau) oscillations in terms of nu(e) --> nu(tau) oscillations. At 90% C.L. we obtain sin2(2)theta(e tau) < 5.2 X 10(-2) for large Delta m(2), while for sin2(2)theta(e tau) = 1 the confidence region includes Delta m(2) < 11 eV(2)/c(4). (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:406 / 410
页数:5
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