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Evidence for Muon Neutrino Oscillation in an Accelerator-Based Experiment

J. Y. KimToshio NambaH. MaesakaK. AsakuraP. KitchingKatsuki HiraideS. UedaY. TotsukaK. McconnelJordi Burguet-castellH. I. JangK. NakamuraK. NishikawaH. YokoyamaF. PierreE. AliuMakoto SakudaW. WangS. M. OserW. R. KroppMasayuki NakahataMark R. VaginsS. YamadaU. DoreT. IwashitaS. MineA. CerveraK. KaneyukiKo OkumuraShigeki AokiMichael B. SmyE. KearnsTadayuki TakahashiL. LudoviciC. CavataS. MatsunoM. FechnerTakaaki KajitaMasataka IinumaJ. YooA. RodriguezD. KerrItsuo NakanoS. LikhodedM. IshitsukaMasato ShiozawaK. HayashiYoshihiro SuzukiFederico SanchezYoshitaka ItowJ. ArgyriadesC. K. JungY. TakuboC. SajiY. TakeuchiD. KielczewskaTaichi MoritaI. KatoN. YershovR. SchroeterA. MinaminoN. TamuraC. McgrewH. C. BhangSilvia BorghiJohn G. LearnedA. KonakaA. Tornero-lopezS P MikheyevJ. BouchezM. Y. PacY. ObayashiY. HayatoLawrence SulakT. KutterT. KutterT. HaraA. SuzukiMasashi YokoyamaMasaaki TanakaJ. L. StoneC. W. WalterR. GranT. InagakiK. K. JooShoji YamamotoS. AndringaA. N. KhotjantsevTsuyoshi NakayaJ. KubotaYusuke KoshioJ. H. ChoiA. BlondelA. IkedaY. FukudaM. M. KhabibullinDavid William CasperE. J. JeonStephane T'jampensC. MitsudaT. IshidaJ. HosakaMinoru YoshidaT. IshiiE. FernandezK. O. ChoA. K. IchikawaE. SharkeyM. SekiguchiKatsuhiro KobayashiS. NawangO. V. MineevF. NovaG. JoverG. SitjesYuichi OyamaK. K. ShiraishiR. L. HelmerP. NovellaC. YanagisawaJ.j. Gómez-cadenasP. F. LoverreC. O. KimY. TakenagaR. NambuMasaya HasegawaM. MiuraC. MarianiYu. KudenkoT. SasakiV. A. MatveevK. TakiR. AshieJ. KamedaX. EspinalY. MoriguchiJ. ZalipskaR. J. WilkesI. T. LimR. TerriYoshitaka KunoTomoyuki MaruyamaJ. MalletKate ScholbergKate ScholbergT. NakadairaTakehisa HasegawaK. IshiharaI. S. JeongT. KobayashiA. SarratC. MaugerA. OkadaH. G. BernsShoei NakayamaJ. HillS. B. KimK. NittaShigetaka MoriyamaH. W. Sobel

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Particle physicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaGeneral Physics and AstronomyFOS: Physical sciencesddc:500.201 natural sciences7. Clean energyHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentNuclear physicsHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)0103 physical sciencesMuon neutrino010306 general physicsNeutrino oscillationPhysicsTamura Norio010308 nuclear & particles physicsOscillationDetectorHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologySigmaFísicaSolar neutrino problemK2K experimentPhysics::Accelerator Physics田村 詔生High Energy Physics::ExperimentBeam (structure)

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We present results for muon neutrino oscillation in the KEK to Kamioka (K2K) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. K2K uses an accelerator-produced muon neutrino beam with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV directed at the Super-Kamiokande detector. We observed the energy dependent disappearance of muon neutrino, which we presume have oscillated to tau neutrino. The probability that we would observe these results if there is no neutrino oscillation is 0.0050% (4.0 sigma).

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2005-03-03
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0411038