Search for muon-Neutrino to electron-Neutrino transitions in MINOS

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 26, 2009, Pages

  Adamson, P ⁱ   Andreopoulos, C ^w   Arms, K E ^r   Armstrong, R ^m   Auty, D J ^aa   Ayres, D S ^a   Backhouse, C ^u   Barnes, P D ^p   Barr, G ^u   Barrett, W L ^af   Becker, B R ^r   Belias, A ^w   Bernstein, R H ⁱ   Betancourt, M ^r   Bhattacharya, D ^v   Bishai, M ^d   Blake, A ^f   Bock, G J ⁱ   Boehm, J ^j   Boehnlein, D J ⁱ   Bogert, D ⁱ   Bower, C ^m   Cavanaugh, S ^j   Chapman, J D ^f   Cherdack, D ^ad   Childress, S ⁱ   Choudhary, B C ⁱ   Cobb, J H ^u   Coelho, J A B ^g   Coleman, S J ^ag   Cronin Hennessy, D ^r   Culling, A J ^f   Danko, I Z ^v   De Jong, J K ^l,u   Devenish, N E ^aa   Diwan, M V ^d   Dorman, M ^q,w   Erwin, A R ^ah   Escobar, C O ^g   Evans, J J ^q,u   Falk, E ^aa   Feldman, G J ^j   Frohne, M V ^c,k   Gallagher, H R ^ad   Godley, A ^y   Goodman, M C ^a   Gouffon, P ^x   Gran, R ^s   Grashorn, E W ^r   Grzelak, K ^u,ae   Habig, A ^s   Harris, D ⁱ   Harris, P G ^aa   Hartnell, J ^w,aa   Hatcher, R ⁱ   Heller, K ^r   Himmel, A ^e   Holin, A ^q   Howcroft, C ^e   Huang, X ^a   Hylen, J ⁱ   Irwin, G M ^z   Isvan, Z ^v   Jaffe, D E ^d   James, C ⁱ   Jensen, D ⁱ   Kafka, T ^ad   Kasahara, S M S ^r   Koizumi, G ⁱ   Kopp, S ^ac   Kordosky, M ^q,ag   Koskinen, D J ^q   Krahn, Z ^r   Kreymer, A ⁱ   Lang, K ^ac   Ling, J ^y   Litchfield, P J ^r   Litchfield, R P ^u   Loiacono, L ^ac   Lucas, P ⁱ   Ma, J ^ac   Mann, W A ^ad   Marshak, M L ^r   Marshall, J S ^f   Mayer, N ^m   McGowan, A M ^a,r   Mehdiyev, R ^ac   Meier, J R ^r   Messier, M D ^m   Metelko, C J ^w   Michael, D G ^e   Miller, W H ^r   Mishra, S R ^y   Mitchell, J ^f   Moore, C D ⁱ   Morfin J ⁱ   Mualem, L ^e   Mufson, S ^m   Musser, J ^m   Naples, D ^v   Nelson, J K ^ag   Newman, H B ^e   Nichol, R J ^q   Nicholls, T C ^w   Ochoa Ricoux, J P ^e   Oliver, W P ^ad   Ospanov, R ^ac   Paley, J ^m   Para, A ⁱ   Patterson, R B ^e   Patzak, T ^h   Pavlovic Z ^ac   Pawloski, G ^z   Pearce, G F ^w   Petyt, D A ^r   Pittam, R ^u   Plunkett, R K ⁱ   Rahaman, A ^y   Rameika, R A ⁱ   Raufer, T M ^w   Rebel, B ⁱ   Reichenbacher, J ^a   Rodrigues, P A ^u   Rosenfeld, C ^y   Rubin, H A ^l   Ryabov, V A ^o   Sanchez, M C ^a,j,n   Saoulidou, N ⁱ   Schneps, J ^ad   Schreiner, P ^c   Shanahan, P ⁱ   Smart, W ⁱ   Smith, C ^q   Sousa, A ^j,u   Speakman, B ^r   Stamoulis, P ^b   Strait, M ^r   Tagg, N ^t,ad   Talaga, R L ^a   Thomas, J ^q   Thomson, M A ^f   Thron, J L ^a   Tinti, G ^u   Toner, R ^f   Tsarev, V A ^o   Tzanakos, G ^b   Urheim, J ^m   Vahle, P ^q,ag   Viren, B ^d   Ward, D R ^f   Watabe, M ^ab   Weber, A ^u   Webb, R C ^ab   West, N ^u   White, C ^l   Whitehead, L ^d   Wojcicki, S G ^z   Wright, D M ^p   Yang, T ^z   Zhang, K ^d   Zheng, H ^e   Zois, M ^b   Zwaska, R ⁱ   more..

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

ⁱ FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Holy Cross College   (United States)

^l ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^p LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^t OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^w RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^x UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^y UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^z STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^ab TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^ad TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^af WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ag Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^ah Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

ELECTRON NEUTRINO; FAR DETECTOR; FERMILAB; MUON NEUTRINO; NUMI BEAM;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 73649122009     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.261802     Document Type: Article

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