1. Final results on oscillation from the CHORUS experiment
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O. Melzer, K. Niu, T. Wolff, N. Nonaka, Antonio Ereditato, V. Shamanov, C. Sirignano, M. van Beuzekom, Yoshihiro Sato, T. Okusawa, P. Strolin, R. Santacesaria, Alexandre Rozanov, H. Shibuya, E. Pesen, G. Brooijmans, B. Van de Vyver, D. Bonekämper, Piero Zucchelli, S. Di Liberto, M. Kazuno, J. Hérin, Ramazan Sever, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, P. Gorbunov, K. Nakamura, Pierre Vilain, T. Hara, A. Mailov, Mathieu Doucet, G. Piredda, Y. Ishii, M. Messina, M. A. Mazzoni, J. Panman, M. De Serio, J. Kawada, A. Maslennikov, G. Romano, M. Serin-Zeyrek, A. Bülte, M. de Jong, E. Di Capua, Gulsen Onengut, Y. Kotaka, G. Fiorillo, D. Rondeshagen, Toshiyuki Nakano, N. Ushida, Mehmet Zeyrek, Shigeki Aoki, I. Tezuka, S. Buontempo, E. Arik, G. De Lellis, P. Migliozzi, K. Narita, S. Simone, E. Barbuto, N. Armenise, Michiyuki Chikawa, F. Di Capua, J. Konijn, S. Kalinin, U. Dore, V. Palladino, M. Vander Donckt, T. Kozaki, Ivana Hristova, C.A.F.J. van der Poel, L. Ludovici, Nicola D'Ambrosio, Mihail Chizhov, E. Eskut, C. Luppi, Masahiro Komatsu, T. Toshito, A. Artamonov, R. Tsenov, H. Meinhard, D. Frekers, David Saltzberg, Antonio Capone, D. Kolev, N. Bruski, I.M. Papadopoulos, G. Grégoire, P. F. Loverre, Koichi Kodama, S. Sorrentino, L. Scotto Lavina, S. Ogawa, Jean-Paul Fabre, J. Goldberg, A. Satta, C. S. Yoon, Henry T. Wong, Denis Favart, M. Litmaath, M. T. Muciaccia, T. Kawamura, Ch. Weinheimer, Rudolf Oldeman, R. van Dantzig, Ilya Tsukerman, J. W. E. Uiterwijk, M. G. Catanesi, G. De Rosa, V. Khovansky, A. Kayis-Topaksu, D. De Pedis, K. Winter, Murat Guler, G. Grella, Y. Obayashi, K. Niwa, Th. Delbar, H. Øverȧs, David Cussans, Motoaki Miyanishi, W. Flegel, K. Hoshino, F. R. Spada, U. Kose, E. Niu, F. Cassol, G. Rosa, Gaston Wilquet, P. Tolun, S. Ricciardi, I. Makhlioueva, J. S. Song, Cristiano Bozza, E. Radicioni, Jürgen Brunner, Osamu Sato, L. Vivolo, A. G. Cocco, Jan Visschers, P. Righini, Biagio Saitta, V. Tioukov, A. Marotta, Çukurova Üniversitesi, Eskut, E., Kayis Topaksu, A., Önengüt, G., van Beuzekom, M. G., van Dantzig, R., de Jong, M., Konijn, J., Melzer, O., Oldeman, R. G. C., Pesen, E., van der Poel, C. A. F. J., Visschers, J. L., Güler, M., Köse, U., Serin Zeyrek, M., Sever, R., Tolun, P., Zeyrek, M. T., Armenise, N., Cassol, F., Catanesi, M. G., De Serio, M., Muciaccia, M. T., Radicioni, E., Righini, P., Simone, S., Vivolo, L., Bülte, A., Winter, K., Vander Donckt, M., Van de Vyver, B., Vilain, P., Wilquet, G., Saitta, B., Di Capua, E., Luppi, C., Ishii, Y., Kazuno, M., Ogawa, S., Shibuya, H., Brunner, J., Chizhov, M., Cussans, D., Doucet, M., Fabre, J. P., Flegel, W., Hristova, I. R., Kawamura, T., Kolev, D., Litmaath, M., Meinhard, H., Niu, E., Øverȧs, H., Panman, J., Papadopoulos, I. M., Ricciardi, S., Rozanov, A., Saltzberg, D., Tsenov, R., Uiterwijk, J. W. E., Weinheimer, C., Wong, H., Zucchelli, P., Goldberg, J., Chikawa, M., Arik, E., Mailov, A. A., Song, J. S., Yoon, C. S., Kodama, K., Ushida, N., Aoki, S., Hara, T., Brooijmans, G., Delbar, T., Favart, D., Grégoire, G., Hérin, J., Kalinin, S., Makhlioueva, I., Artamonov, A., Gorbunov, P., Khovansky, V., Shamanov, V., Tsukerman, I., Bonekämper, D., Bruski, N., Frekers, D., Rondeshagen, D., Wolff, T., Hoshino, K., Kawada, J., Komatsu, M., Kotaka, Y., Kozaki, T., Miyanishi, M., Nakamura, M., Nakano, T., Narita, K., Niu, K., Niwa, K., Nonaka, N., Obayashi, Y., Sato, O., Toshito, T., Buontempo, S., Cocco, A. G., D'Ambrosio, N., De Lellis, G., De Rosa, G., DI CAPUA, Francesco, Ereditato, A., Fiorillo, Giuliana, Marotta, A., Messina, M., Migliozzi, P., Palladino, V., Scotto Lavina, L., Strolin, P., Tioukov, V., Nakamura, K., Okusawa, T., Capone, A., De Pedis, D., Di Liberto, S., Dore, U., Loverre, P. F., Ludovici, L., Maslennikov, A., Mazzoni, M. A., Piredda, G., Rosa, G., Santacesaria, R., Satta, A., Spada, F. R., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Grella, G., Romano, G., Sirignano, C., Sorrentino, S., Sato, Y., and Tezuka, I.
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Muon ,biology ,Oscillation ,Chorus ,Weinberg angle ,biology.organism_classification ,Tau lepton appearance ,Nuclear physics ,Neutrino ,Neutrino oscillation ,Lepton ,Event reconstruction - Abstract
The final oscillation analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. Reconstruction algorithms of data extracted by electronic detectors were improved and the data recorded in the emulsion target were analysed by new automated scanning systems, allowing the use of a new method for event reconstruction in emulsion. CHORUS has applied these new techniques to the sample of 1996-1997 events for which no muons were observed in the electronic detectors. Combining the new sample with the data analysed in previous papers, the overall sensitivity of the experiment to the ?? appearance is thus improved. In a two-neutrino mixing scheme, a 90% C.L. upper limit of sin2 2 ?µ ? < 4.4 × 10-4 is set for large ? m2, improving by a factor 1.5 the previously published CHORUS result. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung: 05 7MS12P, 05 6BU11P Grant Foundation: KRF-2003-005-C00014 Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan CERN Israel Science Foundation: 328/94 Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter Korean Foundation for Cancer Research Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics We gratefully acknowledge the help and support of the neutrino beam staff and of the numerous technical collaborators who contributed to the detector construction, operation, emulsion pouring, development, and scanning. The experiment has been made possible by grants from the Institut Interuniversitaire des Sciences Nucléaires and the Interuniversitair Instituut voor Kernwetenschappen (Belgium), the Israel Science Foundation (grant 328/94) and the Technion Vice President Fund for the Promotion of Research (Israel), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (contract numbers 05 6BU11P and 05 7MS12P) (Germany), the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow, Russia), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan), the Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2003-005-C00014) (Republic of Korea), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter FOM and the National Scientific Research Organization NWO (The Netherlands), and the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (Turkey). We gratefully acknowledge their support.
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- 2008