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Sterile neutrino decay as a common origin for LSND/MiniBooNe and T2K excess events
We point out that the excess of electron-like neutrino events recently
observed by the T2K collaboration may have a common origin with the similar
excess events previously reported by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments and
interpreted as a signal from the radiative decays of a sterile neutrino \nu_h
with the mass around 50 MeV produced in muon neutrino neutral current (NC)
interactions. In this work we assumed that the \nu_h can also be produced in
tau neutrino NC reactions.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. Revised version accepted by PRD (Rapid Comm.)
after referee's suggestions. Fig.1 added for illustratio
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