Limit on ν(e) → ν(τ) oscillations from the NOMAD experiment

P Astier; D Autiero; A Baldisseri; M Baldo-Ceolin; G Ballocchi; M Banner; G Bassompierre; K Benslama; N Besson; I Bird; B Blumenfeld; F Bobisut; J Bouchez; S Boyd; A Bueno; S Bunyatov; L Camilleri; A Cardini; PW Cattaneo; V Cavasinni; A Cervera-Villanueva; G Collazuol; G Conforto; C Conta; M Contalbrigo; R Cousins; D Daniels; H Degaudenzi; T Del Prete; A De Santo; T Dignan; L Di Lella; E Do Couto E Silva; J Dumarchez; M Ellis; GJ Feldman; R Ferrari; D Ferrere`; V Flaminio; M Fraternali; JM Gaillard; E Gangler; A Geiser; D Geppert; D Gibin; S Gninenko; A Godley; JJ Gomez-Cadenas; J Gosset; C Goßling; M Gouanere; A Grant; G Graziani; A Guglielmi; C Hagner; J Hernando; D Hubbard; P Hurst; N Hyett; E Iacopini; C Joseph; F Juget; M Kirsanov; O Klimov; J Kokkonen; A Kovzelev; A Krasnoperov; VE Kuznetsov; S Lacaprara; C Lachaud; B Lakic; A Lanza; L La Rotonda; M Laveder; A Letessier-Selvon; JM Levy; L Linssen; A Ljubicic; J Long; A Lupi; A Marchionni; F Martelli; X Mechain; JP Mendiburu; JP Meyer; M Mezzetto; SR Mishra; GF Moorhead; P Nedelec; Y Nefedov; C Nguyen-Mau; D Orestano; F Pastore; LS Peak; E Pennacchio; H Pessard; R Petti; A Placci; A Pluquet; A Polayrush

Journal article

Limit on ν(e) → ν(τ) oscillations from the NOMAD experiment

P Astier, D Autiero, A Baldisseri, M Baldo-Ceolin, G Ballocchi, M Banner, G Bassompierre, K Benslama, N Besson, I Bird, B Blumenfeld, F Bobisut, J Bouchez, S Boyd, A Bueno, S Bunyatov, L Camilleri, A Cardini, PW Cattaneo, V Cavasinni Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2000

DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01344-1

Abstract

In the context of a two-flavour approximation we reinterpret the published NOMAD limit on ν(μ) → ν(τ) oscillations in terms of ν(e) → ν(τ) oscillations. At 90% C.L. we obtain sin22θ(eτ) < 5.2 x 10-2 for large Δm2, while for sin22θ(eτ) = 1 the confidence region includes Δm2 < 11 eV2/c4. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.