1. Prompt neutrino results from a proton beam dump experiment
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V. Hepp, Konrad Kleinknecht, W. von Rüden, H. Taureg, Jan Krolikowski, B. Falkenburg, T. Flottmann, P. Perez, Jean-Pierre Merlo, R. W. Williams, R. Turlay, B. Renk, F. Ranjard, Joseph Rothberg, D. Pollmann, H. D. Wahl, P. Berge, John Rander, R. Hagelberg, B. Peyaud, H. Blümer, J. Steinberger, J. De Groot, Claude Guyot, P. Buchholz, R. Belusević, K. Tittel, F. Dydak, P. Debu, F. Eisele, J. P. Schuller, J. Knobloch, C. Geweniger, A. Para, H. Keilwerth, B. Pszola, J. Duda, Jorg Wotschack, and H. Abramowicz
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Proton ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Branching fraction ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Hadron ,Electron ,law.invention ,Nuclear physics ,law ,Antimatter ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Beam dump ,Neutrino ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Lepton - Abstract
A study of prompt neutrino events from 400 GeV protons on a beam-dump is presented. The ratio of electron- to muon-neutrino rates is 0.86±0.14, in agreement withe−μ universality. The anti-neutrino to neutrino flux ratio is $$\bar v_\mu /v_\mu = 0.81 \pm 0.19$$ . The absolute rates and distributions observed are shown to be in quantitative agreement with the known properties of charmedquark production in hadron collisions.
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- 1992
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