Long-baseline search for neutrino flavor oscillations
Abstract
A measurement of the electron neutrino to muon neutrino mixing probability has been conducted in a newly designed narrow band neutrino beam at BNL. The detector employed was 225 metric tons of target and absorber material instrumented with proportional wire chambers located 1 km from the neutrino source. The beamline provided muon neutrinos to the detector at a calculated rate of 1.5 x 10/sup 4/ per m/sup 2/ per 10/sup 12/ protons on target with a relative electron neutrino background at the level of 8.3 x 10/sup -3/. Analysis of data from 3 x 10/sup 19/ protons on target taken at two energies, 1.27 GeV and 1.46 GeV, shows that the nu/sub ..mu../ event energy distribution and rate were consistent with that calculated for the beamline but that the nu/sub e/ event rate was higher than expected.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5661798
- Resource Type:
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; BNL; CROSS SECTIONS; ELECTRON NEUTRINOS; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEV RANGE 01-10; MUON NEUTRINOS; NEUTRINO BEAMS; BEAMS; DATA; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; GEV RANGE; INFORMATION; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NEUTRINOS; NUMERICAL DATA; PARTICLE BEAMS; SPECTRA; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; 645102* - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Experimental- Weak Interactions & Properties
Citation Formats
Lueking, L H. Long-baseline search for neutrino flavor oscillations. United States: N. p., 1987.
Web.
Lueking, L H. Long-baseline search for neutrino flavor oscillations. United States.
Lueking, L H. 1987.
"Long-baseline search for neutrino flavor oscillations". United States.
@article{osti_5661798,
title = {Long-baseline search for neutrino flavor oscillations},
author = {Lueking, L H},
abstractNote = {A measurement of the electron neutrino to muon neutrino mixing probability has been conducted in a newly designed narrow band neutrino beam at BNL. The detector employed was 225 metric tons of target and absorber material instrumented with proportional wire chambers located 1 km from the neutrino source. The beamline provided muon neutrinos to the detector at a calculated rate of 1.5 x 10/sup 4/ per m/sup 2/ per 10/sup 12/ protons on target with a relative electron neutrino background at the level of 8.3 x 10/sup -3/. Analysis of data from 3 x 10/sup 19/ protons on target taken at two energies, 1.27 GeV and 1.46 GeV, shows that the nu/sub ..mu../ event energy distribution and rate were consistent with that calculated for the beamline but that the nu/sub e/ event rate was higher than expected.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5661798},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987}
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