Neutrino-oscillation experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5692666

Ahrens, L A; Aronson, S A; Connolly, P L; Gibbard, B G; Maeda, Y; Murtagh, M J; Murtagh, S J; Terada, S; Callas, J; Cutts, D

Two groups have submitted major proposals for neutrino oscillation searches at BNL. Both are two detector experiments with a close detector at approx. = 100m and a far detector at approx. = 900m. While the details of the experiments are quite different, both groups expect to obtain nu/sub ..mu../ disappearance limits of delta m/sup 2/sin2 theta approx. = 0.1 - 0.2 for small mass difference and sin/sup 2/2 theta at the few percent level for the most sensitive delta m/sup 2/(approx. = 25eV/sup 2/). Since both detectors are designed to identify electrons as well as muons they expect to obtain significant limits on nu/sub e/ appearance (nu/sub ..mu../ ..-->.. nu/sub e/). Each has received approval for a single detector (Phase I) experiment with the two detector phase (Phase II) still pending. The present status of the single detector experiments is detailed. (WHK)

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Brown Univ., Providence, RI (USA); National Lab. for High Energy Physics, Oho, Ibaraki (Japan); Osaka Univ. (Japan); State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook (USA); Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia (USA); California Univ., Irvine (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5692666
• Report Number(s): BNL-33659; CONF-830718-8; ON: DE83018275
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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