Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters from muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis beam

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 21, 2013, Pages

  Abe, K ^y   Adam, J ^ah   Aihara, H ^y   Akiri, T ^k   Andreopoulos, C ^au   Aoki, S ^z   Ariga, A ^b   Ariga, T ^b   Assylbekov, S ⁱ   Autiero, D ^ae   Barbi, M ^ao   Barker, G J ^bb   Barr, G ^ak   Bass, M ⁱ   Batkiewicz, M ^o   Bay, F ^m   Bentham, S W ^ab   Berardi, V ^t   Berger, B E ⁱ   Berkman, S ^d   Bertram, I ^ab   Bhadra, S ^bf   Blaszczyk, F D M ^ad   Blondel, A ⁿ   Bojechko, C ^ay   Bordoni, S ^q   Boyd, S B ^bb   Brailsford, D ^s   Bravar, A ⁿ   Bronner, C ^aa   Buchanan, N ⁱ   Calland, R G ^ac   Caravaca Rodriguez J ^q   Cartwright, S L ^as   Castillo, R ^q   Catanesi, M G ^t   Cervera, A ^r   Cherdack, D ⁱ   Christodoulou, G ^ac   Clifton, A ⁱ   Coleman, J ^ac   Coleman, S J ^h   Collazuol, G ^v   Connolly, K ^bc   Cremonesi, L ^an   Curioni, A ^m   Dabrowska, A ^o   Danko, I ^am   Das, R ⁱ   Davis, S ^bc   De Perio, P ^aw   De Rosa, G ^u   Dealtry, T ^ak,au   Dennis, S R ^au,bb   Densham, C ^au   Di Lodovico, F ^an   Di Luise, S ^m   Drapier, O ^l   Duboyski, T ^an   Duffy, K ^ak   Dufour, F ⁿ   Dumarchez, J ^al   Dytman, S ^am   Dziewiecki, M ^ba   Emery, S ^f   Ereditato, A ^b   Escudero, L ^r   Finch, A J ^ab   Frank, E ^b   Friend, M ^p,bg   Fujii, Y ^p,bg   Fukuda, Y ^af   Furmanski, A P ^bb   Galymov, V ^f   Gaudin, A ^ay   Giffin, S ^ao   Giganti, C ^al   Gilje, K ^ah   Golan, T ^be   Gomez Cadenas, J J ^r   Gonin, M ^l   Grant, N ^ab   Gudin, D ^x   Hadley, D R ^bb   Haesler, A ⁿ   Haigh, M D ^bb   Hamilton, P ^s   Hansen, D ^am   Hara, T ^z   Hartz, M ^y,ax   Hasegawa, T ^p,bg   Hastings, N C ^ao   Hayato, Y ^y   Hearty, C ^d,bh   Helmer, R L ^ax   Hierholzer, M ^b   Hignight, J ^ah   Hillairet, A ^ay   Himmel, A ^k   Hiraki, T ^aa   Hirota, S ^aa   Holeczek, J ^at   Horikawa, S ^m   Huang, K ^aa   Ichikawa, A K ^aa   Ieki, K ^aa   Ieva, M ^q   Ikeda, M ^aa   Imber, J ^ah   Insler, J ^ad   Irvine, T J ^y   Ishida, T ^p,bg   Ishii, T ^p,bg   Ives, S J ^s   Iyogi, K ^y   Izmaylov, A ^r,x   Jacob, A ^ak   Jamieson, B ^bd   Johnson, R A ^h   Jo, J H ^ah   Jonsson, P ^s   Joo, K K ^g   Jung, C K ^ah,bi   Kaboth, A C ^s   Kajita, T ^y,bi   Kakuno, H ^av   Kameda, J ^y   Kanazawa, Y ^y   Karlen, D ^ax,ay   Karpikov, I ^x   Kearns, E ^c,bi   Khabibullin, M ^x   Khotjantsev, A ^x   Kielczewska, D ^az   Kikawa, T ^aa   Kilinski, A ^ag   Kim, J ^d   Kim, S B ^ar   Kisiel, J ^at   Kitching, P ^a   Kobayashi, T ^p,bg   Kogan, G ^s   Kolaceke, A ^ao   Konaka, A ^ax   Kormos, L L ^ab   Korzenev, A ⁿ   Koseki, K ^p,bg   Koshio, Y ^ai,bi   Kreslo, I ^b   Kropp, W ^e   Kubo, H ^aa   Kudenko, Y ^x,bj   Kumaratunga, S ^ax   Kurjata, R ^ba   Kutter, T ^ad   Lagoda, J ^ag   Laihem, K ^aq   Laveder, M ^v   Lawe, M ^as   Lazos, M ^ac   Lee, K P ^y   Licciardi, C ^ao   Lim, I T ^g   Lindner, T ^ax   Lister, C ^bb   Litchfield, R P ^bb   Longhin, A ^v   Lopez, G D ^ah   Ludovici, L ^w   Macaire, M ^f   Magaletti, L ^t   Mahn, K ^ax   Malek, M ^s   Manly, S ^ap   Marino, A D ^h   Marteau, J ^ae   Martin, J F ^aw   Maruyama, T ^p,bg   Marzec, J 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^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^j Dongshin University   (South Korea)

^k DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^m ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^o INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^p HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^q BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^r CSIC   (Spain)

^s IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^t POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^u UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^v SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^w SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^x INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^y UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^z KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^aa KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ab LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^ad LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^af MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^ag NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Poland)

^ah STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ai OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^aj Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^al UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^am UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^an QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^ap UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^aq RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^ar Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^as UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^at UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^au RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^av TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^ax TRIUMF   (Canada)

^ay UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^az UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^ba WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^bb UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^bc UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^bd UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^be UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^bf YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^bg J PARC Center   (Japan)

^bh INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS IPP   (Canada)

^bi Kavli Institute   (Japan)

^bj MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^bk JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^bl CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; NEUTRONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ENERGY SPECTRA; MASS HIERARCHY; MUON NEUTRINO; NEUTRINO FLUXES; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; OFF-AXIS NEUTRINO BEAM; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; PRODUCTION TARGETS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 84961058849     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211803     Document Type: Article

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