Tau Appearance In Atmospheric Neutrino Interactions

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  • Lawrence J. Hall
  • Hitoshi Murayama
چکیده

If the correct interpretation of the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino data is νμ → ντ oscillation, the contained data sample should already have more than 10 τ appearance events. We study the challenging task of detecting the τ , focussing on the decay chain τ → ρ ± → π±π0 in events with quasi-elastic τ production. The background level, which is currently quite uncertain because of a lack of relevant neutral current data, can be measured by the near detector in the K2K experiment. Our estimates of the background suggest that it may be possible to detect τ appearance in Super-Kamiokande with 5–10 years

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تاریخ انتشار 1998