The Discovery of the Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly
Abstract
The discovery of the missing atmospheric muon neutrinos known as the atmospheric neutrino anomaly, is briefly described. Learned and Lipari gave a general review of atmospheric neutrinos at the conference, including the discovery of the anomaly by IMB-1 and subsequent work. Questions answered in this brief note include: the cautious wording, the statistical significance, the 1992 eronious exclusion plot, the Kamiokande confirmation and SuperK's failure to cite the original 1986 IMB-1 discovery.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1902.01757,
title = {The Discovery of the Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly},
author = {John M. LoSecco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01757},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
5 pages 2 figures, presented at the History of the Neutrino Conference in Paris in September 2018. The source contains one figure which is the more readable, full size poster as displayed at the conference. Version 2 is the version as published. It has additional material requested by the editors, some of it provided by them. A number of typos were fixed