A Search for Muon-neutrino to Electron-neutrino and Muon-antineutrino to Electron-antineutrino Oscillations at NuTeV
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/ Authors
S. Avvakumov, T. Adams, A. Alton, L. deBarbaro, P. deBarbaro, R. H. Bernstein, A. Bodek, T. Bolton, J. Brau, D. Buchholz
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H. Budd, L. Bugel, J. Conrad, R. B. Drucker, B. T. Fleming, R. Frey, J. A. Formaggio, J. Goldman, M. Goncharov, D. A. Harris, R. A. Johnson, J. H. Kim, S. Koutsoliotas, M. J. Lamm, W. Marsh, D. Mason, J. McDonald, K. S. McFarland, C. McNulty, D. Naples, P. Nienaber, V. Radescu, A. Romosan, W. K. Sakumoto
/ Abstract
Limits on $ν_μ\to ν_e$ and $\barν_μ\to \barν_e$ oscillations are extracted using the NuTeV detector with sign-selected $ν_μ$ and $\nub_μ$ beams. In $\nub_μ$ mode, for the case of $\sin^2 2α= 1$, $Δm^2 > 2.6$ ${\rm eV^2}$ is excluded, and for $Δm^2 \gg 1000$ ${\rm eV^2}$, $\sin^2 2α> 1.1 \times 10^{-3}$. The NuTeV data exclude the high $Δm^2$ end of $\barν_μ\to \barν_e$ oscillations parameters favored by the LSND experiment without the need to assume that the oscillation parameters for $ν$ and $\nub$ are the same. We present the most stringent experimental limits for $ν_μ(\barν_μ) \to ν_e (\barν_e)$ oscillations in the large $Δm^2$ region.