Upper limits for neutrino oscillations v̄μ → v̄e from muon decay at rest

Physical Review D

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Armbruster, B ^a   Blair, I M ^b   Bodmann, B A ^c   Booth, N E ^d   Drexlin, G ^a   Edgington, J A ^b   Eichner, C ^e   Eitel, K ^a   Finckh, E ^c   Gemmeke, H ^a   Hoßl J ^c   Jannakos, T ^a   Junger P ^c   Kleifges, M ^a   Kleinfeller, J ^a   Kretschmer, W ^c   Maschuw, R ^a,e   Oehler, C ^a   Plischke, P ^a   Reichenbacher, J ^a   Ruf, C ^e   Steidl, M ^a   Wolf, J ^f   Zeitnitz, B ^a,f   more..

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; MASS; NEUTRON; OSCILLATION;

EID: 0036612696     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.112001     Document Type: Article

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