Abstract

This paper explores the use of L/EL/E oscillation probability distributions to compare experimental measurements and to evaluate oscillation models. In this case, LL is the distance of neutrino travel and EE is a measure of the interacting neutrino's energy. While comparisons using allowed and excluded regions for oscillation model parameters are likely the only rigorous method for these comparisons, the L/EL/E distributions are shown to give qualitative information on the agreement of an experiment's data with a simple two-neutrino oscillation model. In more detail, this paper also outlines how the L/EL/E distributions can be best calculated and used for model comparisons. Specifically, the paper presents the L/EL/E data points for the final MiniBooNE data samples and, in the Appendix, explains and corrects the mistaken analysis published by the ICARUS collaboration

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