1. Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters by Super-Kamiokande I
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G. Guillian, C. Yanagisawa, M. Goldhaber, A. K. Ichikawa, K. Kaneyuki, A. Minamino, Y. Watanabe, S. Mine, D. W. Liu, Atsumu Suzuki, S. Matsuno, E. Kearns, T. Toshito, Hirokazu Ishino, M. Ishitsuka, Y. Totsuka, A. Suzuki, C. W. Walter, Ko Okumura, R. Svoboda, D. Turcan, Shantanu Desai, Y. Nakajima, K. Ishihara, J. P. Cravens, Y. Ashie, C. McGrew, S. Clark, R. J. Wilkes, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, Kunio Inoue, Y. Hayato, K. Taki, T. Sasaki, C. Saji, J. Yoo, A. L. Stachyra, K. Nishikawa, I. T. Lim, Masato Shiozawa, A. Kibayashi, K. S. Ganezer, J. Kameda, Shoji Yamamoto, T. Kato, N. Tamura, L. R. Sulak, C. W. Sterner, E. Blaufuss, J. Shirai, Y. Fukuda, Magdalena Malek, J. L. Stone, E. Sharkey, S. Dazeley, Yoshitaka Itow, Takashi Kobayashi, K. Hayashi, Y. Gando, Yusuke Koshio, Koji Nakamura, Y. Takeuchi, K. Washburn, Mark R. Vagins, John G. Learned, T. Iwashita, H. Okazawa, S. Ueda, T. Maruyama, S. Likhoded, Shinya Yamada, R. Nambu, W. Wang, S. Hatakeyama, Y. Kuno, R. Gran, Kazumasa Miyano, Henry W. Sobel, K. Nitta, Michael B. Smy, H. Seo, Takehisa Hasegawa, Kyoshi Nishijima, J. A. Goodman, Alec Habig, W. R. Kropp, G. W. Sullivan, John Hill, C. K. Jung, D. Kielczewska, Shigetaka Moriyama, J. S. Jang, D. Takemori, Yuichi Oyama, I. Kato, Shoei Nakayama, Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Minoru Yoshida, Y. Obayashi, T. Harada, S. Tasaka, W. E. Keig, T. Ishii, W. Gajewski, Kate Scholberg, S. B. Kim, David William Casper, Masayuki Nakahata, C. Mitsuda, J. Hosaka, Y. Takenaga, Masaya Hasegawa, M. Miura, K. K. Shiraishi, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Masatoshi Koshiba, J. Ishii, J. Zalipska, T. Ishida, Makoto Sakuda, A. Sarrat, Todd Haines, M. D. Messier, C. Mauger, A. Okada, H. G. Berns, T. Ishizuka, Taichi Morita, R. W. Ellsworth, Takaaki Kajita, Y. Choi, J. Y. Kim, Toshio Namba, and H. Maesaka
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Muon ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Monte Carlo method ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,Neutrino detector ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Neutrino oscillation ,Super-Kamiokande ,Charged current ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
We present a combined analysis of fully-contained, partially-contained and upward-going muon atmospheric neutrino data from a 1489 day exposure of the Super--Kamiokande detector. The data samples span roughly five decades in neutrino energy, from 100 MeV to 10 TeV. A detailed Monte Carlo comparison is described and presented. The data is fit to the Monte Carlo expectation, and is found to be consistent with neutrino oscillations of $\nu_\mu \leftrightarrow \nu_\tau$ with $\sin^22\theta > 0.92$ and $1.5\times 10^{-3} < \Delta m^2 < 3.4\times 10^{-3}{\rm eV}^2$ at 90% confidence level., Comment: 32 pages, 44 figures. As accepted for publication in Physical Review D
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- 2005