Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters by Super-Kamiokande I

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Ashie, Y [1 ]
Hosaka, J
Ishihara, K
Itow, Y
Kameda, J
Koshio, Y
Minamino, A
Mitsuda, C
Miura, M
Moriyama, S
Nakahata, M
Namba, T
Nambu, R
Obayashi, Y
Shiozawa, M
Suzuki, Y
Takeuchi, Y
Taki, K
Yamada, S
Ishitsuka, M
Kajita, T
Kaneyuki, K
Nakayama, S
Okada, A
Okumura, K
Saji, C
Takenaga, Y
Clark, ST
Desai, S
Kearns, E
Likhoded, S
Stone, JL
Sulak, LR
Wang, W
Goldhaber, M
Casper, D
Cravens, JP
Gajewski, W
Kropp, WR
Liu, DW
Mine, S
Smy, MB
Sobel, HW
Sterner, CW
Vagins, MR
Ganezer, KS
Hill, J
Keig, WE
Jang, JS
Kim, JY
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[1] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Kamioka Observ, Gifu 5061205, Japan
[2] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Res Ctr Cosm Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[3] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[4] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[5] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[6] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Dept Phys, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[7] Chonnam Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Kwangju 500757, South Korea
[8] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[9] George Mason Univ, Dept Phys, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[10] Gifu Univ, Dept Phys, Gifu 5011193, Japan
[11] Univ Hawaii, Dept Phys & Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[12] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[13] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[14] Kobe Univ, Dept Phys, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[15] Kobe Univ, Dept Phys, Kobe, Hyogo 6578502, Japan
[16] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[17] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[18] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[19] Univ Minnesota, Dept Phys, Duluth, MN 55812 USA
[20] Miyagi Univ Educ, Dept Phys, Sendai, Miyagi 9800845, Japan
[21] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[22] Nagoya Univ, Dept Phys, Nagakute, Aichi 4648602, Japan
[23] Niigata Univ, Dept Phys, Niigata 9502181, Japan
[24] Osaka Univ, Dept Phys, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
[25] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[26] Shizuoka Seika Coll, Shizuoka 4258611, Japan
[27] Shizuoka Univ, Dept Syst Engn, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 4328561, Japan
[28] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Phys, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[29] Tohoku Univ, Res Ctr Neutrino Sci, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[30] Univ Tokyo, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[31] Tokai Univ, Dept Phys, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 2591292, Japan
[32] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[33] Univ Warsaw, Inst Expt Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[34] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2005年 / 71卷 / 11期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.71.112005
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
We present a combined analysis of fully-contained, partially-contained and upward-going muon atmospheric neutrino data from a 1489 d exposure of the Super-Kamiokande detector. The data samples span roughly five decades in neutrino energy, from 100 MeV to 10 TeV. A detailed Monte Carlo comparison is described and presented. The data is fit to the Monte Carlo expectation, and is found to be consistent with neutrino oscillations of nu(mu)<->nu(tau) with sin(2)2 theta > 0.92 and 1.5x10(-3)<Delta m(2)< 3.4x10(-3) eV(2) at 90% confidence level.
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