Evidence for the appearance of atmospheric tau neutrinos in super-kamiokande

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Abe, K ^a   Hayato, Y ^a   Iida, T ^a   Iyogi, K ^a   Kameda, J ^a   Koshio, Y ^a   Kozuma, Y ^a   Marti, Ll ^a   Miura, M ^a   Moriyama, S ^a   Nakahata, M ^a   Nakayama, S ^a   Obayashi, Y ^a   Sekiya, H ^a   Shiozawa, M ^a   Suzuki, Y ^a   Takeda, A ^a   Takenaga, Y ^a   Ueno, K ^a   Ueshima, K ^a   Yamada, S ^a   Yokozawa, T ^a   Ishihara, C ^a   Kaji, H ^a   Kajita, T ^a   Kaneyuki, K ^a   Lee, K P ^a   McLachlan, T ^a   Okumura, K ^a   Shimizu, Y ^a   Tanimoto, N ^a   Labarga, L ^b   Kearns, E ^a,c   Litos, M ^c   Raaf, J L ^c   Stone, J L ^a,c   Sulak, L R ^c   Goldhaber, M ^d   Bays, K ^e   Kropp, W R ^e   Mine, S ^e   Regis, C ^e   Renshaw, A ^e   Smy, M B ^a,e   Sobel, H W ^a,e   Ganezer, K S ^f   Hill, J ^f   Keig, W E ^f   Jang, J S ^g   Kim, J Y ^g   Lim, I T ^g   Albert, J B ^h   Scholberg, K ^a,h   Walter, C W ^a,h   Wendell, R ^h   Wongjirad, T M ^h   Ishizuka, T ⁱ   Tasaka, S ^j   Learned, J G ^k   Matsuno, S ^k   Smith, S N ^k   Hasegawa, T ^l   Ishida, T ^l   Ishii, T ^l   Kobayashi, T ^l   Nakadaira, T ^l   Nakamura, K ^a,l   Nishikawa, K ^l   Oyama, Y ^l   Sakashita, K ^l   Sekiguchi, T ^l   Tsukamoto, T ^l   Suzuki, A T ^m   Takeuchi, Y ^a,m   Ikeda, M ⁿ   Minamino, A ⁿ   Nakaya, T ^a,n   Fukuda, Y ^o   Itow, Y ^p   Mitsuka, G ^p   Tanaka, T ^p   Jung, C K ^q   Lopez, G D ^q   Taylor, I ^q   Yanagisawa, C ^q   Ishino, H ^r   Kibayashi, A ^r   Mino, S ^r   Mori, T ^r   Sakuda, M ^r   Toyota, H ^r   Kuno, Y ^s   Yoshida, M ^s   Kim, S B ^t   Yang, B S ^t   Okazawa, H ^u   Choi, Y ^v   Nishijima, K ^w   Koshiba, M ^a   Yokoyama, M ^a   Totsuka, Y ^a   Martens, K ^a   Schuemann, J ^a   Vagins, M R ^a,e   Chen, S ^x   Heng, Y ^x   Yang, Z ^x   Zhang, H ^x   Kielczewska, D ^y   Mijakowski, P ^z   Connolly, K ^aa   Dziomba, M ^aa   Thrane, E ^aa   Wilkes, R J ^aa   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^j GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^l HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^m KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^p NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^s OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^u Shizuoka University of Welfare   (Japan)

^v Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^w TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^x TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^y UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^z NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Poland)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NEUTRONS;

ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS; CHARGED CURRENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; TAU NEUTRINOS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 84877263662     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.181802     Document Type: Article

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