5 research outputs found
Theoretical Prospects of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
The compelling experimental evidences for oscillations of solar and
atmospheric neutrinos imply the existence of 3-neutrino mixing in vacuum. We
briefly review the phenomenology of 3-neutrino mixing, and the current data on
the 3-neutrino mixing parameters. The open questions and the main goals of
future research in the field of neutrino mixing and oscillations are outlined.
The predictions for the effective Majorana mass || in neutrinoless double
beta (bb0nu-) decay in the case of 3-neutrino mixing and massive Majorana
neutrinos are reviewed. The physics potential of the experiments, searching for
bb0nu-decay and having sensitivity approximately 10 times better than the
presently reached, for providing information on the type of the neutrino mass
spectrum, on the absolute scale of neutrino masses and on the Majorana
CP-violation phases in the PMNS neutrino mixing matrix, is discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 2 postscript figures, LATEX; Invited talk given at the
Nobel Symposium (N 129) on Neutrino Physics, August 19 - 24, 2004, Haga
Slott, Enkoping, Swede
Search for coherent charged pion production in neutrino-carbon interactions
We report the result from a search for charged-current coherent pion
production induced by muon neutrinos with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV. The data
are collected with a fully active scintillator detector in the K2K
long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. No evidence for coherent pion
production is observed and an upper limit of is set on
the cross section ratio of coherent pion production to the total
charged-current interaction at 90% confidence level. This is the first
experimental limit for coherent charged pion production in the energy region of
a few GeV.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Evidence for muon neutrino oscillation in an accelerator-based experiment
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).Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Search for coherent charged pion production in neutrino-carbon interactions
We report the result from a search for charged-current coherent pion production induced by muon neutrinos with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV. The data are collected with a fully active scintillator detector in the K2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. No evidence for coherent pion production is observed and an upper limit of 0.60×10−2 is set on the cross section ratio of coherent pion production to the total charged-current interaction at 90% confidence level. This is the first experimental limit for coherent charged pion production in the energy region of a few GeV
Evidence for muon neutrino oscillation in an accelerator-based experiment
We present results for νμ oscillation in the KEK to Kamioka (K2K) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. K2K uses an accelerator-produced νμ beam with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV directed at the Super-Kamiokande detector. We observed the energy-dependent disappearance of νμ, which we presume have oscillated to ντ. The probability that we would observe these results if there is no neutrino oscillation is 0.0050% (4.0σ)