A STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN THE FREJUS EXPERIMENT

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作者
BERGER, C
FROHLICH, M
MONCH, H
NISIUS, R
RAUPACH, F
BLUM, D
BOURDARIOS, C
DUDELZAK, B
ESCHSTRUTH, P
JULLIAN, S
LALANNE, D
LAPLANCHE, F
LONGUEMARE, C
PAULOT, C
PERDEREAU, O
ROY, P
SZKLARZ, G
BEHR, L
DEGRANGE, B
NGUYENKHAC, U
TISSERANT, S
ARPESELLA, C
BAREYRE, P
BARLOUTAUD, R
BORG, A
CHARDIN, G
ERNWEIN, J
GLICENSTEIN, JF
MOSCA, L
MOSCOSO, L
BECKER, J
BECKER, KH
DAUM, HJ
JACOBI, B
KUZNIK, B
MEYER, H
MOLLER, R
SCHUBNELL, M
WEI, Y
机构
[1] LAB ACCELERATEUR LINEAIRE,CTR ORSAY,F-91405 ORSAY,FRANCE
[2] ECOLE POLYTECH,LPNHE,F-91128 PALAISEAU,FRANCE
[3] CENS,DEPT PHYS PARTICULES ELEMENT,F-91191 GIF SUR YVETTE,FRANCE
[4] UNIV GESAMTHSCH WUPPERTAL,GESAMTHSCH,W-5600 WUPPERTAL 1,GERMANY
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)90150-5
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Atmospheric neutrino interactions have been studied with the Fréjus proton decay detector using a total fiducial sensitivity of 1.56 kT yr. The atmospheric neutrino interaction sample has been compared to a Monte Carlo simulation which includes neutrino oscillations. The ve (ve) ∌vμ, (vμ), ve (ve) ∌vτ vμ(vμ) ∌vτ(vτ) oscillations channels have been studied using the ratio of electron to muon charged current events. Three independent analyses have been performed and no evidence for neutrino oscillations has been found. The resulting limits on Δm2 for maximal mixing are more restrictive by more than one order of magnitude with respect to earlier measurements. © 1990.
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页码:305 / 310
页数:6
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