1. Neutrino physics and oscillation studies at CERN
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G. Fiorillo and Fiorillo, Giuliana
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,POLARIZATION ,Large Hadron Collider ,Oscillation ,NOMAD EXPERIMENT ,Detector ,Direct observation ,NU%28TAU%29+OSCILLATIONS%22">NU(E)->NU(TAU) OSCILLATIONS ,Solar neutrino problem ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Nuclear physics ,CHARGED-CURRENT INTERACTIONS ,LSND EXPERIMENT ,SEARCH ,NU%28TAU%29+OSCILLATION%22">NU(MU)->NU(TAU) OSCILLATION ,Neutrino ,Neutrino oscillation - Abstract
The CERN short baseline program, designed to search for ν μ → ν τ oscillations, was carried out by two experiments using very different approaches: CHORUS, aiming at the direct observation of the τ decay in emulsion, and NOMAD, based on the indirect kinematical selection with an electronic detector. A review of the two experiments and of their τ appearance search, giving no evidence for neutrino oscillations, is presented here. The preliminary results of a search for ν μ → ν e oscillations in the NOMAD experiment are also reported, excluding the parameter region of LSND in the range Δm 2 > 10 eV 2 .
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- 2003
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