Results from the Palo Verde neutrino oscillation experiment
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F. Boehm, J. Busenitz, B. Cook, G. Gratta, H. Henrikson, J. Kornis, D. Lawrence, K. B. Lee, K. McKinny, L. Miller, V. Novikov, A. Piepke, B. Ritchie, D. Tracy, P. Vogel, Y-F. Wang, and J. Wolf Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech, Pasadena, California 91125 4 Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 ~Received 16 March 2000; published 7 September 2000!
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