Search for electron neutrino appearance at the Δm2∼1 eV2 scale

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作者
Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A. [1 ]
Bazarko, A. O.
Brice, S. J.
Brown, B. C.
Bugel, L.
Cao, J.
Coney, L.
Conrad, J. M.
Cox, D. C.
Curioni, A.
Djurcic, Z.
Finley, D. A.
Fleming, B. T.
Ford, R.
Garcia, F. G.
Garvey, G. T.
Green, C.
Green, J. A.
Hart, T. L.
Hawker, E.
Imlay, R.
Johnson, R. A.
Kasper, P.
Katori, T.
Kobilarcik, T.
Kourbanis, I.
Koutsoliotas, S.
Laird, E. M.
Link, J. M.
Liu, Y.
Liu, Y.
Louis, W. C.
Mahn, K. B. M.
Marsh, W.
Martin, P. S.
McGregor, G.
Metcalf, W.
Meyers, P. D.
Mills, F.
Mills, G. B.
Monroe, J.
Moore, C. D.
Nelson, R. H.
Nienaber, P.
Ouedraogo, S.
Patterson, R. B.
Perevalov, D.
Polly, C. C.
Prebys, E.
Raaf, J. L.
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Univ Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[3] Bucknell Univ, Lewisburg, PA 17837 USA
[4] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[5] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[6] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[7] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[8] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[9] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[10] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[11] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[12] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[13] St Marys Univ Minnesota, Winona, MN 55987 USA
[14] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[15] Western Illinois Univ, Macomb, IL 61455 USA
[16] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
关键词
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL-NETWORKS; BOOSTED DECISION TREES; PARTICLE-PRODUCTION; OSCILLATIONS; RATIO; SIMULATION;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.231801
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The MiniBooNE Collaboration reports first results of a search for nu(e) appearance in a nu(mu) beam. With two largely independent analyses, we observe no significant excess of events above the background for reconstructed neutrino energies above 475 MeV. The data are consistent with no oscillations within a two-neutrino appearance-only oscillation model.
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