Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We present an analysis of atmospheric neutrino data from a 33.0 kiloton-year (535-day) exposure of the Super-Kamiokande detector. The data exhibit a zenith angle dependent deficit of muon neutrinos which is inconsistent with expectations based on calculations of the atmospheric neutrino flux. Experimental biases and uncertainties in the prediction of neutrino fluxes and cross sections are unable to explain our observation. The data are consistent, however, with two-flavor nu_mu <-> nu_tau oscillations with sin^2(2theta)>0.82 and 5x10^-4 < delta m^2 < 6x10^-3 eV^2 at 90% confidence level.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9807003,
title = {Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos},
author = {Kamiokande Collaboration and Y. Fukuda et al},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9807003},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
9 pages (two-column) with 4 figures. Small corrections to Eqn.4 and Fig.3. Final version to appear in PRL