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Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Fraction above 1 GeV

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 (United States)
  2. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California 94309 (United States)
  3. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 (United States)
  4. The University of California, Irvine, California 92717 (United States)
  5. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
  6. Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 (United States)
  7. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
  8. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544 (United States)
  9. Warsaw University, Warsaw (Poland)
  10. The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 (United States)
  11. The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (United States)
  12. SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794 (United States)
  13. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)
A 2.1 ktonyr exposure of data from the Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven detector has yielded 72 atmospheric neutrino events with a vertex contained inside the fiducial volume and at least 0.95GeV of visible {hacek C}erenkov energy. The ratio of these two ratios ((muon li ke)/(tot al)){sub Data}/( (muonl i ke)/(tot al)){sub MC} was found to be 1.1{sup +0.07}{sub {minus}0.12}(stat) {plus_minus}0.11(syst) . The zenith angle dependence of this ratio of ratios is consistent with being flat. The region of sin{sup 2}(2{theta} ){gt}0.5 and {delta}m{sup 2}{gt}9.8{times}10{sup {minus}3} eV{sup 2} has been excluded to the 90{percent} confidence level for {nu}{sub {mu}}{r_arrow}{nu}{sub e} oscillations while the region of sin{sup 2}(2{theta} ){gt}0.7 and {delta}m{sup 2}{gt}1.5{times}10{sup {minus}2} eV{sup 2} has been excluded to the 90{percent} confidence level for {nu}{sub {mu}}{r_arrow}{nu}{sub {tau}} oscillations. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
OSTI ID:
527025
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 79; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English