Tau neutrinos favored over sterile neutrinos in atmospheric muon neutrino oscillations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 3999-4003

  Fukuda, S ^a   Fukuda, Y ^a   Ishitsuka, M ^a   Itow, Y ^a   Kajita, T ^a   Kameda, J ^a   Kaneyuki, K ^a   Kobayashi, K ^a   Koshio, Y ^a   Miura, M ^a   Moriyama, S ^a   Nakahata, M ^a   Nakayama, S ^a   Obayashi, Y ^a   Okada, A ^a   Okumura, K ^a   Sakurai, N ^a   Shiozawa, M ^a   Suzuki, Y ^a   Takeuchi, H ^a   Takeuchi, Y ^a   Toshito, T ^a   Totsuka, Y ^a   Yamada, S ^a   Earl, M ^b   Habig, A ^b,y   Kearns, E ^b   Messier, M D ^b   Scholberg, K ^b   Stone, J L ^b   Sulak, L R ^b   Walter, C W ^b   Goldhaber, M ^c   Barszczak, T ^d   Casper, D ^d   Gajewski, W ^d   Kropp, W R ^d   Mine, S ^d   Price, L R ^d   Smy, M ^d   Sobel, H W ^d   Vagins, M R ^d   Ganezer, K S ^e   Keig, W E ^e   Ellsworth, R W ^f   Tasaka, S ^g   Kibayashi, A ^h   Learned, J G ^h   Matsuno, S ^h   Takemori, D ^h   Hayato, Y ⁱ   Ishii, T ⁱ   Kobayashi, T ⁱ   Nakamura, K ⁱ   Oyama, Y ⁱ   Sakai, A ⁱ   Sakuda, M ⁱ   Sasaki, O ⁱ   Kohama, M ^j   Suzuki, A T ^j   Inagaki, T ^k   Nishikawa, K ^k   Haines, T J ^d,l   Blaufuss, E ^m   Kim, B K ^m   Sanford, R ^m   Svoboda, R ^m   Chen, M L ⁿ   Goodman, J A ⁿ   Guillian, G ⁿ   Sullivan, G W ⁿ   Hill, J ^o   Jung, C K ^o   Martens, K ^o   Malek, M ^o   Mauger, C ^o   McGrew, C ^o   Sharkey, E ^o   Viren, B ^o   Yanagisawa, C ^o   Kirisawa, M ^p   Inaba, S ^p   Mitsuda, C ^p   Miyano, K ^p   Okazawa, H ^p   Saji, C ^p   Takahashi, M ^p   Takahata, M ^p   Nagashima, Y ^q   Nitta, K ^q   Takita, M ^q   Yoshida, M ^q   Kim, S B ^r   Ishizuka, T ^s   Etoh, M ^t   Gando, Y ^t   Hasegawa, T ^t   Inoue, K ^t   Ishihara, K ^t   Maruyama, T ^t   Shirai, J ^t   Suzuki, A ^t   Koshiba, M ^a   Hatakeyama, Y ^u   Ichikawa, Y ^u   Koike, M ^u   Nishijima, K ^u   Fujiyasu, H ^v   Ishino, H ^v   Morii, M ^v   Watanabe, Y ^v   Golebiewska, U ^w   Kielczewska, D ^d,w   Boyd, S C ^x   Stachyra, A L ^x   Wilkes, R J ^x   Young, K K ^x   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^j KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^m LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ Bldg 142   (United States)

^o STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^r Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^s SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^u TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^v TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^w UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^x UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MUON NEUTRINOS; STERILE NEUTRINOS;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSFER; OSCILLATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 4243734527     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3999     Document Type: Article

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