Abstract
We present measurements of νμ disappearance in K2K, the KEK to Kamioka long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. One-hundred and twelve beam-originated neutrino events are observed in the fiducial volume of Super-Kamiokande with an expectation of 158.1-8.6+9.2 events without oscillation. A distortion of the energy spectrum is also seen in 58 single-ring muonlike events with reconstructed energies. The probability that the observations are explained by the expectation for no neutrino oscillation is 0.0015% (4.3σ). In a two-flavor oscillation scenario, the allowed Δm2 region at sin 22θ=1 is between 1.9 and 3.5×10-3eV2 at the 90% C.L. with a best-fit value of 2.8×10-3eV2.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 072003 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 74 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partly supported by RIKEN and Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The synchrotron radiation experiments were performed at BL22XU of SPring-8 with the approval of Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) (Proposal Nos. 2014A3713 and 2014B3713).