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Title: Search for oscillations of a long-lived muon neutrino beam: a status report

A study of the time evolution of a long-lived ..nu../sub mu/ beam is being performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Experiment 704). The proton momentum (1.5 GeV/c/sup 2/) is chosen to concentrate the ..nu../sub mu/ flux at very low energy where all background reactions are kinematically suppressed. Sensitivity to oscillations at large proper times tau varies as l/p (where l is the flight length and p is the momentum of the neutrino) is greatly enhanced by the resulting low neutrino momentum. Transformations ..nu../sub mu/ ..-->.. ..nu../sub e/ are sensed via ..nu../sub e/n ..-->.. e/sup -/p. An early exploratory test using the neutrino detector of the BNL elastic neutrino-proton scattering experiment will be run during 1977. A 200 ton detector for a definitive experiment is also discussed. 14 references.
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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6534724
Report Number(s):
COO-3064-12; CONF-770696-6
TRN: 79-002448
DOE Contract Number:
EY-76-C-02-3064
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: International conference on neutrino physics and neutrino astrophysics, Elbrus, USSR, 18 Jun 1977
Research Org:
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (USA); Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia (USA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; MUON NEUTRINOS; OSCILLATIONS; NEUTRINO BEAMS; ELECTRON NEUTRINOS; FLUX DENSITY; LINEAR MOMENTUM; NEUTRINO-NEUTRON INTERACTIONS; TIME DEPENDENCE; BEAMS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS 645102* -- High Energy Physics-- Particle Interactions & Properties-Experimental-- Weak Interactions & Properties; 430303 -- Particle Accelerators-- Experimental Facilities & Equipment