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Experimental Measurements of Atmospheric Neutrinos

Abstract

This talk reports the latest indications of an anomaly in the measurements of atmospheric neutrinos. New results from Soudan-2 and Super-Kamiokande provide evidence that the ratio of nu_mu to nu_e interactions is not as expected. High energy Super-Kamiokande data indicates the cause is a deficit of upward-going nu_mu, and the zenith angle dependence of the effect is consistent with neutrino oscillations. Upward-going muon measurements by several detectors are discussed, but in total they provide inconclusive evidence for the anomaly.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures; Presented at TAUP97, the 5th Int'l WOrkshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Sept 7-11, 1997, LNGS, Assergi, Ital

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