Using L/E Oscillation Probability Distributions
Abstract
This paper explores the use of oscillation probability distributions to compare experimental measurements and to evaluate oscillation models. In this case, is the distance of neutrino travel and is a measure of the interacting neutrino's energy. While comparisons using allowed and excluded regions for oscillation model parameters are likely the only rigorous method for these comparisons, the distributions are shown to give qualitative information on the agreement of an experiment's data with a simple two-neutrino oscillation model. In more detail, this paper also outlines how the distributions can be best calculated and used for model comparisons. Specifically, the paper presents the data points for the final MiniBooNE data samples and, in the Appendix, explains and corrects the mistaken analysis published by the ICARUS collaboration.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.3304,
title = {Using L/E Oscillation Probability Distributions},
author = {A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo and B. C. Brown and L. Bugel and G. Cheng and E. D. Church and J. M. Conrad and R. Dharmapalan and Z. Djurcic and D. A. Finley and R. Ford and F. G. Garcia and G. T. Garvey and J. Grange and W. Huelsnitz and C. Ignarra and R. Imlay and R. A. Johnson and G. Karagiorgi and T. Katori and T. Kobilarcik and W. C. Louis and C. Mariani and W. Marsh and G. B. Mills and J. Mirabal and C. D. Moore and J. Mousseau and P. Nienaber and B. Osmanov and Z. Pavlovic and D. Perevalov and C. C. Polly and H. Ray and B. P. Roe and A. D. Russell and M. H. Shaevitz and J. Spitz and I. Stancu and R. Tayloe and R. G. Van de Water and D. H. White and D. A. Wickremasinghe and G. P. Zeller and E. D. Zimmerman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3304},
year = {2014}
}