1. Search for νμ → ντ oscillation
- Author
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V. Palladino, A. Frenkel-Rambaldi, Alexandre Rozanov, G. Zacek, M. Gruwe, E. Di Capua, G. Grégoire, P. F. Loverre, G. Fiorillo, S. Ricciardi, P. Stähelin, V. Zacek, Denis Favart, F. W. Büsser, Antonio Ereditato, T. Layda, S. Buontempo, D. Macina, K. Winter, Antonio Capone, G. Rädel, H. Øverås, A. Maslennikov, F. Niebergall, F. Marchetti-Stasi, R. Santacesaria, K. Hiller, Alfredo G. Cocco, Vincent Lemaitre, L. Gerland, A. Nathaniel, B. Saitta, J. Vogt, W. Flegel, V. Khovansky, H. Grote, W. Lippich, P. Gorbunov, Pierre Vilain, R. Nahnhauer, C. Foos, J. Panman, R. Beyer, A. Staude, G. Piredda, D. De Pedis, P. Strolin, U. Dore, C. Mommaert, E. Grigoriev, T. Mouthuy, E. Knoops, T. Voss, Gaston Wilquet, and H. E. Roloff
- Subjects
Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Calorimeter (particle physics) ,Oscillation ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Detector ,Hadron ,Elementary particle ,lcsh:QC1-999 ,Nuclear physics ,Pion ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Granularity ,Neutrino oscillation ,lcsh:Physics - Abstract
The fine granularity of the CHARM-II detector has been exploited to search, in the CERN-SPS wide band neutrino beam, for quasi-elastic ντ interactions followed by the decay τ → πντ. Since the sampling thickness of the target calorimeter corresponds to ∼ 1 9 of an interaction length, these events appear in the detector as a single track followed by a hadronic shower. The study of the “single pion” events is used to set limits on the νμ → ντ oscillation parameters. The maximum sensitivity to the mixing angle θ is reached for Δm2 = 50 eV2 allowing to exclude values of sin22θ greater than 6.4 × 10−3 at 90% CL.
- Published
- 1993