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Super-Kamiokande data and atmospheric neutrino decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-07 v1

Abstract

Neutrino decay has been proposed as a possible solution to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly, in the light of the recent data from the Super-Kamiokande experiment. We investigate this hypothesis by means of a quantitative analysis of the zenith angle distributions of neutrino events in Super-Kamiokande, including the latest (45 kTy) data. We find that the neutrino decay hypothesis fails to reproduce the observed distributions of muons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902267,
  title  = {Super-Kamiokande data and atmospheric neutrino decay},
  author = {G. L. Fogli and E. Lisi and A. Marrone and G. Scioscia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902267},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages (RevTeX) + 2 figures (Postscript)