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Latest results from the chorus neutrino oscillation experiment
The CHORUS experiment searches for vμ,→vτvμ,→vτ, oscillation looking for the T decay topology (with T flight length - 1 mm). The T is produced in a v, charged current interaction on an almost pure v,. beam. The hybrid detector is made of an emulsion target, combined with electronic detector. The tar...
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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2001
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Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2056626 |
Sumario: | The CHORUS experiment searches for vμ,→vτvμ,→vτ, oscillation looking for the T decay topology (with T flight length - 1 mm). The T is produced in a v, charged current interaction on an almost pure v,. beam. The hybrid detector is made of an emulsion target, combined with electronic detector. The target consists of - 800 kg of nuclear emulsion, the only detector with sufficient spatial resolution to reveal the r decay. The electronic apparatus reconstructs the tracks and predicts the zone where to look for the tracks in the emulsion; it is also used for the global event kinematics. In four years of data taking (1994-97) the CHORUS detector collected 456600 events with an identified µ and 116000 events with no µ identified in the final state. So far, 503 of these events have been analysed and located inside the emulsion. No T candidate has been found, giving a limit on the oscillation probability P,., < 4.6 · 10−410−4 at 90% C.L. |
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