Evidence for muon neutrino oscillation in an accelerator-based experiment.
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چکیده
We present results for nu(mu) oscillation in the KEK to Kamioka (K2K) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. K2K uses an accelerator-produced nu(mu) beam with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV directed at the Super-Kamiokande detector. We observed the energy-dependent disappearance of nu(mu), which we presume have oscillated to nu(tau). The probability that we would observe these results if there is no neutrino oscillation is 0.0050% (4.0 sigma).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 94 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005