首次直接观测到反缪中微子消失
高能物理 - 实验
2011-08-17 v4
摘要
本快报报告了首次直接观测到反缪中微子消失。MINOS实验使用了为反缪中微子产生而优化的加速器束流采集数据，累积了靶上质子的照射量。在远探测器中，观测到97个反缪中微子带电流事例。无振荡假设预测为156个事例，在水平被排除。对振荡的最佳拟合给出，。假设具有相同的底层振荡参数，MINOS缪中微子与反缪中微子测量值在2.0%置信水平上一致。
引用
@article{arxiv.1104.0344,
title = {First direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance},
author = {MINOS collaboration and P. Adamson and C. Andreopoulos and D. J. Auty and D. S. Ayres and C. Backhouse and G. Barr and M. Bishai and A. Blake and G. J. Bock and D. J. Boehnlein and D. Bogert and S. Cavanaugh and D. Cherdack and S. Childress and B. C. Choudhary and J. A. B. Coelho and S. J. Coleman and L. Corwin and D. Cronin-Hennessy and I. Z. Danko and J. K. de Jong and N. E. Devenish and M. V. Diwan and M. Dorman and C. O. Escobar and J. J. Evans and E. Falk and G. J. Feldman and M. V. Frohne and H. R. Gallagher and R. A. Gomes and M. C. Goodman and P. Gouffon and N. Graf and R. Gran and N. Grant and K. Grzelak and A. Habig and D. Harris and J. Hartnell and R. Hatcher and A. Himmel and A. Holin and C. Howcroft and X. Huang and J. Hylen and J. Ilic and G. M. Irwin and Z. Isvan and D. E. Jaffe and C. James and D. Jensen and T. Kafka and S. M. S. Kasahara and G. Koizumi and S. Kopp and M. Kordosky and A. Kreymer and K. Lang and G. Lefeuvre and J. Ling and P. J. Litchfield and L. Loiacono and P. Lucas and W. A. Mann and M. L. Marshak and N. Mayer and A. M. McGowan and R. Mehdiyev and J. R. Meier and M. D. Messier and W. H. Miller and S. R. Mishra and J. Mitchell and C. D. Moore and J. Morfín and L. Mualem and S. Mufson and J. Musser and D. Naples and J. K. Nelson and H. B. Newman and R. J. Nichol and T. C. Nicholls and J. A. Nowak and J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux and W. P. Oliver and M. Orchanian and R. Ospanov and J. Paley and R. B. Patterson and G. Pawloski and G. F. Pearce and D. A. Petyt and S. Phan-Budd and R. K. Plunkett and X. Qiu and J. Ratchford and T. M. Raufer and B. Rebel and P. A. Rodrigues and C. Rosenfeld and H. A. Rubin and M. C. Sanchez and J. Schneps and P. Schreiner and P. Shanahan and A. Sousa and P. Stamoulis and M. Strait and N. Tagg and R. L. Talaga and E. Tetteh-Lartey and J. Thomas and M. A. Thomson and G. Tinti and R. Toner and G. Tzanakos and J. Urheim and P. Vahle and B. Viren and A. Weber and R. C. Webb and C. White and L. Whitehead and S. G. Wojcicki and T. Yang and R. Zwaska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.0344},
year = {2011}
}
备注
Six pages, four figures. This version published by Physical Review Letters