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Search for muon to electron neutrino oscillations

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

Abstract

A search for νμ → ν e and\(\bar \nu _\mu \to \bar \nu _e \) oscillations has been carried out with the CHARM II detector exposed to the CERN wide band neutrino beam. The data were collected over five years, alternating beams mainly composed of muon-neutrinos and muon-antineutrinos. The number of interactions of ν e and\(\bar \nu _e \) observed is comparable with the number of events expected from flux calculations. For large squared mass differences the upper limits obtained on the mixing angle aresin 22θ < 9.4 · 10−3 for νμ oscillating to ν e andsin 22θ < 4.8 · 10−3 for\(\bar \nu _\mu \) to\(\bar \nu _e \), at the 90% confidence level. Combining neutrino and antineutrino data the upper limit is 5.6 · 10−3.

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  1. P. Vilain & G. Wilquet

    Present address: National Foundation for Scientific Research, Belgium

  2. R. Beyer, G. Rädel & T. Voss

    Present address: DESY, Hamburg, Germany

  3. T. Mouthuy

    Present address: Faculté de Luminy, Centre de Physique des Particules, Marseille, France

  4. G. Zacek

    Present address: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  5. V. Zacek

    Present address: Université de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  6. E. Knoops

    Present address: Inter-University Institute for Nuclear Science, Belgium

  7. A. Nathaniel & D. Macina

    Present address: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

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  1. Inter-University Institute for High Energies (ULB-VUB), Brussels, Belgium

    P. Vilain & G. Wilquet

  2. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    R. Beyer, W. Flegel, T. Mouthuy, H. Øverås, J. Panman, A. Rozanov, K. Winter, G. Zacek & V. Zacek

  3. II. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    F. W. Büsser, C. Foos, L. Gerland, T. Layda, F. Niebergall, G. Rädel, P. Stähelin & T. Voss

  4. Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    D. Favart, Gh. Grégoire, E. Knoops & V. Lemaître

  5. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia

    P. Gorbunov, E. Grigoriev, V. Khovansky & A. Maslennikov

  6. Sektion Physik der Universität München, Munich, Germany

    W. Lippich, A. Nathaniel, A. Staude & J. Vogt

  7. Università ‘Federico II’ and INFN Sezione di Napoli, Naples, Italy

    A. G. Cocco, A. Ereditato, G. Fiorillo, F. Marchetti-Stasi, V. Palladino & P. Strolin

  8. Università ‘La Sapienza’ and INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy

    A. Capone, D. De Pedis, U. Dore, A. Frenkel-Rambaldi, P. F. Loverre, D. Macina, G. Piredda & R. Santacesaria

  9. Università di Ferrara and INFN Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    E. Di Capua, S. Ricciardi & B. Saitta

  10. High Energy Physics Research Centre, YEFAM, Ankara, Turkey

    B. Akkus, E. Arik, M. Serin-Zeyrek, R. Sever, P. Tolun & M. T. Zeyrek

  11. DESY, Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Zeuthen, Germany

    K. Hiller, R. Nahnhauer & H. E. Roloff

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Supported by the German Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie under contract numbers 05-4HH22P and 05-4MU12P

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CHARM II Collaboration., Vilain, P., Wilquet, G. et al. Search for muon to electron neutrino oscillations. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 64, 539–544 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01957768

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