Evidence for (nu)over-bar(mu)->(nu)over-bar(e) oscillations from the LSND experiment at the Los Alamos meson physics facility

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Athanassopoulos, C
Auerbach, LB
Burman, RL
Cohen, I
Caldwell, DI
Dieterle, BD
Donahue, JB
Eisner, AM
Fazely, A
Federspiel, FJ
Garvey, GT
Gray, M
Gunasingha, RM
Imlay, R
Johnston, K
Kim, HJ
Louis, WC
Majkic, R
Margulies, J
McIlhany, K
Metcalf, W
Mills, GB
Reeder, RA
Sandberg, V
Smith, D
Stancu, I
Strossman, W
Tayloe, R
VanDalen, GJ
Vernon, W
Wadia, N
Waltz, J
Wang, YX
White, DH
Works, D
Xiao, Y
Yellin, S
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[1] UNIV SAN DIEGO,SAN DIEGO,CA 92093
[2] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
[3] EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUT UNIV,PRESCOTT,AZ 86301
[4] LINFIELD COLL,MCMINNVILLE,OR 97128
[5] LOS ALAMOS NATL LAB,LOS ALAMOS,NM 87545
[6] LOUISIANA STATE UNIV,BATON ROUGE,LA 70803
[7] LOUISIANA TECH UNIV,RUSTON,LA 71272
[8] UNIV NEW MEXICO,ALBUQUERQUE,NM 87131
[9] SOUTHERN UNIV,BATON ROUGE,LA 70813
[10] TEMPLE UNIV,PHILADELPHIA,PA 19122
[11] UNIV CALIF,INTERCAMPUS INST RES PARTICLE ACCELERATORS,STANFORD,CA 94309
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3082
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A search for <(nu)over bar (mu)> --> <(nu)over bar (e)> oscillations has been conducted at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility by using <(nu)over bar (mu)> from mu(+) decay at rest. The <(nu)over bar (e)> are detected via the reaction <(nu)over bar (e)> p --> e(+)n, correlated with a gamma from np --> d gamma (2.2 MeV). The use of tight cuts to identify e(+) events with correlated gamma rays yields 22 events with e(+) energy between 36 and 60 MeV and only 4.6 +/- 0.6 background events. A fit to the e(+) events between 20 and 60 MeV yields a total excess of 51.0(-19.5)(+20.2) +/- 8.0 events. If attributed to <(nu)over bar (mu)> --> <(nu)over bar (e)> oscillations, this corresponds to an oscillation probability of (0.31 +/- 0.12 +/- 0.05)%.
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页码:3082 / 3085
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