The search for neutrino oscillations in the appearance mode νν→νe for neutrino energies near the muon threshold

T. Dombeck; T. J. Bowles; A. Brown; R. E. Brown; R. L. Burman; D. Clark; S. Clearwater; H. Kruse; D. Lee; B. Aas; G. Igo; C. Newsom; D. Beavis; S. Y. Fung; W. Gorn; R. T. Poe; G. J. Vandalen; B. Bassalleck; B. Dieterle; R. E. Hill; J. H. Kang; C. Leavitt; L. Auerbach; S. Datta; Y. Huang; R. Fisk; D. Koetke; R. Manweiler

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)90240-1

The search for neutrino oscillations in the appearance mode ν_ν→ν_e for neutrino energies near the muon threshold

T. Dombeck, T. J. Bowles, A. Brown, R. E. Brown, R. L. Burman, D. Clark, S. Clearwater, H. Kruse, D. Lee, B. Aas, G. Igo, C. Newsom, D. Beavis, S. Y. Fung, W. Gorn, R. T. Poe, G. J. Vandalen, B. Bassalleck, B. Dieterle, R. E. HillJ. H. Kang, C. Leavitt, L. Auerbach, S. Datta, Y. Huang, R. Fisk, D. Koetke, R. Manweiler

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A search for neutrino oscillations in the appearance mode ν_ν→ν_e was performed using the in-flight pion-decay neutrino source at the LAMPF accelerator. An all-active scintillator detector was exposed to a muon-neutrino beam produced by five Coulombs of 800 MeV protons on target. Oscillations events would have appeared as high-energy electrons from the reaction ν_e+C→e^-+X. We also measured charged-current muons events in the detector to normalize our results. Our data show no evidence for neutrino oscillations and we place 90% CL upper limits on sin²(2φ) < 0.008 at Δm² = 11 eV², and Δm² < 0.67 eV² for complete mixing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	591-596
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	194
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(87)90240-1
Publication status	Published - 1987 Aug 20

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We wish to acknowledgteh e supporto f L. Rosen, J. Browne and G.J. Stephensotnh roughoutth e con-structiona ndr unningo f the experimenWt. e wish to thank the LAMPF and WNR crews who helped us run the beam and to the numerouss ummers tudents who contributedsi gnificantlyto bringing the experiment on-line. This work was supportedb y the US Departmento f Energy, and one of us (G.V.D.) acknowledgessu pportr eceivedt hroughthe University of California.

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Dombeck, T., Bowles, T. J., Brown, A., Brown, R. E., Burman, R. L., Clark, D., Clearwater, S., Kruse, H., Lee, D., Aas, B., Igo, G., Newsom, C., Beavis, D., Fung, S. Y., Gorn, W., Poe, R. T., Vandalen, G. J., Bassalleck, B., Dieterle, B., ... Manweiler, R. (1987). The search for neutrino oscillations in the appearance mode ν_ν→ν_e for neutrino energies near the muon threshold. Physics Letters B, 194(4), 591-596. https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(87)90240-1

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