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    A new ordering principle for the classical statistical analysis of Poisson processes with background

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    Inspired by the recent proposal by Feldman and Cousins of a ``unified approach to the classical statistical analysis of small signals'' based on a choice of ordering in Neyman's construction of classical confidence intervals, I propose a new ordering principle for the classical statistical analysis of Poisson processes with background which minimizes the effect on the resulting confidence intervals of the observation of less background events than expected. The new ordering principle is applied to the calculation of the confidence region implied by the recent null result of the KARMEN neutrino oscillation experiment.Comment: 16 pages including 5 figures, RevTeX. Final version published in Phys. Rev. D 59 (1999) 05300

    A High Statistics Search for Electron-Neutrino --> Tau-Neutrino Oscillations

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    We present new limits on nu_e to nu_tau and nu_e to nu_sterile oscillations by searching for electron neutrino dissappearance in the high-energy wide-band CCFR neutrino beam. Sensitivity to nu_tau appearance comes from tau decay modes in which a large fraction of the energy deposited is electromagnetic. The beam is composed primarily of muon neutrinos but this analysis uses the 2.3% electron neutrino component of the beam. Electron neutrino energies range from 30 to 600 GeV and flight lengths vary from 0.9 to 1.4 km. This limit improves the sensitivity of existing limits and obtains a lowest 90% confidence upper limit in sin**2(2*alpha) of 9.9 x 10**(-2) at delta-m**2 of 125 eV**2.Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev. D. Rapid Com

    Statistical Analysis of Different Muon-antineutrino->Electron-antineutrino Searches

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    A combined statistical analysis of the experimental results of the LSND and KARMEN \numubnueb oscillation search is presented. LSND has evidence for neutrino oscillations that is not confirmed by the KARMEN experiment. This joint analysis is based on the final likelihood results for both data sets. A frequentist approach is applied to deduce confidence regions. At a combined confidence level of 36%, there is no area of oscillation parameters compatible with both experiments. For the complementary confidence of 1-0.36=64%, there are two well defined regions of oscillation parameters (sin^2(2th),Dm^2) compatible with both experiments.Comment: 25 pages, including 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.

    Lepton Mixing Matrix in Standard Model Extended by One Sterile Neutrino

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    We consider the simplest extension of the standard electroweak model by one sterile neutrino that allows for neutrino masses and mixing. We find that its leptonic sector contains much less free physical parameters than previously realized. In addition to the two neutrino masses, the lepton mixing matrix in charged current interactions involves (n-1) free physical mixing angles for n generations. The mixing matrix in neutral current interactions of neutrinos is completely fixed by the two masses. Both interactions conserve CP. We illustrate the phenomenological implications of the model by vacuum neutrino oscillations, tritium beta decay and neutrinoless double beta decay. It turns out that, due to the revealed specific structure in its mixing matrix, the model with any n generations cannot accommodate simultaneously the data by KamLAND, K2K and CHOOZ.Comment: 14 pages, no figures; version 2: (1) added a short paragraph at the end of subsec 2.2 to record the counting of physical parameters for any numbers of generations and sterile neutrinos for completeness; (2) added a note in ref list, item [18] to quote and comment on an earlier work; (3) added the second paper to ref list, item [17]; (4) fixed typo

    New interactions in neutrino oscillations with three light flavors

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    If one assumes solar and LSND neutrino oscillations to explain the corresponding data, then the atmospheric neutrino deficit cannot be accommodated within the Standard Model with three light flavors, unless one ignores the data's zenith-angle dependence. We propose a novel solution to this problem by postulating large anomalous diagonal ντ\nu_\tau-quark interactions which affect νμντ\nu_\mu - \nu_\tau oscillations traversing the Earth and induce the observed zenith-angle dependence.Comment: Final version, to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters dated May 25, 199

    A Search for Muon-neutrino to Electron-neutrino and Muon-antineutrino to Electron-antineutrino Oscillations at NuTeV

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    Limits on νμνe\nu_\mu \to \nu_e and νˉμνˉe\bar\nu_\mu \to \bar\nu_e oscillations are extracted using the NuTeV detector with sign-selected νμ\nu_\mu and \nub_\mu beams. In \nub_\mu mode, for the case of sin22α=1\sin^2 2\alpha = 1, Δm2>2.6\Delta m^2 > 2.6 eV2{\rm eV^2} is excluded, and for Δm21000\Delta m^2 \gg 1000 eV2{\rm eV^2}, sin22α>1.1×103\sin^2 2\alpha > 1.1 \times 10^{-3}. The NuTeV data exclude the high Δm2\Delta m^2 end of νˉμνˉe\bar\nu_\mu \to \bar\nu_e oscillations parameters favored by the LSND experiment without the need to assume that the oscillation parameters for ν\nu and \nub are the same. We present the most stringent experimental limits for νμ(νˉμ)νe(νˉe)\nu_\mu (\bar{\nu}_\mu) \to \nu_e (\bar{\nu}_e) oscillations in the large Δm2\Delta m^2 region.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters, UR-164

    Constraints on Exotic Mixing of Three Neutrinos

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    Exotic explanations are considered for atmospheric neutrino observations. Our analysis includes matter effects and the mixing of all three neutrinos under the simplifying assumption of only one relevant mixing scale. Constraints from accelerator, reactor and solar neutrinos are included. We find that the proposed mixing mechanisms based on violations of Lorentz invariance or on violations of the equivalence principle cannot explain the recent observations of atmospheric neutrino mixing. However the data still allow a wide range of energy dependences for the vacuum mixing scale, and also allow large electron-neutrino mixing of atmospheric neutrinos. Next generation long baseline experiments will constrain these possibilities.Comment: 27 pages, 4 figure

    Hierarchical Four-Neutrino Oscillations With a Decay Option

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    We present a new and novel synthesis of all existing neutrino data regarding the disappearance and appearance of νe\nu_e and νμ\nu_\mu. We assume four neutrinos: νe,νμ,ντ\nu_e, \nu_\mu, \nu_\tau, as well as a heavier singlet neutrino νs\nu_s of a few eV. The latter may decay into a massless Goldstone boson (the singlet Majoron) and a linear combination of the doublet antineutrinos. We comment on how this scenario may be verified or falsified in future experiments.Comment: 13 pages, no figur
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