Status of the CHORUS neutrino oscillation experiment

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1999-01-01

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Pesen, E

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The CHORUS experiment is designed to search for nu(mu) --> nu(tau) oscillation with a hybrid detector system containing 800 kg nuclear emulsions as target and vertex detector. Run I (320 000 recorded nu(mu)CC in 1994/5) and more than half of the run II (460 000 nu(mu)CC in 1996/7) data taking have been successfully completed. Approximately 80 000 events have been analyzed so far, searching for tau(-) --> mu(-)(mu)nu(tau) and tau(-) --> h(-)(n pi(0))nu(tau) decays. No candidate has been found, leading to a limit sin(2) 2 theta(mu tau) less than or equal to 4.5 10(-3) for large Delta m(2).

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63814

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https://doi.org/10.1016/s0920-5632(98)00421-6

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E. Pesen, “Status of the CHORUS neutrino oscillation experiment,” 1999, vol. 70, p. 219, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63814.