Prompt electron neutrino to muon neutrino ratio from 400 GeV protons on tungsten

Thesis/Dissertation · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5072512

Volk, J T

A prompt neutrino beam dump experiment has been performed at Fermilab, where an 80 ton lead-scintillator calorimeter with a drift chamber-toriod muon spectrometer was used. The number of electron neutrino charge current events is obtained in two ways. First by subtraction of the muon neutrino neutral current events from the total number of muon-less events. Second by direct identification of electron neutrino events in the calorimeter (Y shift). The ..nu../sub e//..nu../sub ..mu../ ratio is equal to 1.34 +/- 0.26 +/- 0.22 (subtraction method), and 1.01 +/- 0.18 +/- 0.20 (Y shift method, statistical and systematic errors) for energies above 20 GeV/c. This number is consistent with D meson production in the tungsten target and electron muon universitality.

• Research Organization: Ohio State Univ., Columbus (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5072512
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS
BARYON REACTIONS
BOSONS
BRANCHING RATIO
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CHARM PARTICLES
CHARMED MESON RESONANCES
CURRENTS
D RESONANCES
DATA
DECAY
ELECTRON NEUTRINOS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FERMIONS
HADRON REACTIONS
HADRONS
INFORMATION
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MESON RESONANCES
MESONS
METALS
MUON NEUTRINOS
NEUTRAL CURRENTS
NEUTRINOS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEON REACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
POSTULATED PARTICLES
PROTON REACTIONS
RESONANCE PARTICLES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
TUNGSTEN
WEAK NEUTRAL CURRENTS
WEAK PARTICLE DECAY