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COMMENT ON THE KAMIOKANDE ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO DEFICIT

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-01 v1

Abstract

I describe an attempt to understand the significance of the atmospheric neutrino deficit observed by the Kamiokande neutrino detector. In particular, I am concerned with the statistical significance quoted for the zenith-angle dependence of the deficit, which has been cited as evidence for neutrino flavor oscillations free of systematic uncertainties.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9504343,
  title  = {COMMENT ON THE KAMIOKANDE ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO DEFICIT},
  author = {David Saltzberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9504343},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

2pp. LATEX format. No figures. Postscript available at ftp://fnald.fnal.gov/usr$root39/saltzberg/nu.ps