Matter effects in upward-going muons and sterile neutrino oscillations Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The angular distribution of upward-going muons produced by atmospheric neutrinos in the rock below the MACRO detector shows anomalies in good agreement with two flavor v v oscillations with maximum mixing and m2 around 0.0024 eV2. Exploiting the dependence of magnitude of the matter effect on oscillation channel, and using a set of 809 upward-going muons observed in MACRO, we show that the two flavor v vs oscillation is disfavored with 99% C.L. with respect to v v. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

  • Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Auriemma, G., Bakari, D., Baldini, A., Barbarino, G. C., ... Webb, R.

citation count

  • 146

complete list of authors

  • Ambrosio, M||Antolini, R||Auriemma, G||Bakari, D||Baldini, A||Barbarino, GC||Barish, BC||Battistoni, G||Becherini, Y||Bellotti, R||Bemporad, C||Bernardini, P||Bilokon, H||Bisi, V||Bloise, C||Bower, C||Brigida, M||Bussino, S||Cafagna, F||Calicchio, M||Campana, D||Carboni, M||Caruso, R||Cecchini, S||Cei, F||Chiarella, V||Choudhary, BC||Coutu, S||De Cataldo, G||Dekhissi, H||De Marzo, C||De Mitri, I||Derkaoui, J||De Vincenzi, M||Di Credico, A||Erriquez, O||Favuzzi, C||Forti, C||Fusco, P||Giacomelli, G||Giannini, G||Giglietto, N||Giorgini, M||Grassi, M||Gray, L||Grillo, A||Guarino, F||Gustavino, C||Habig, A||Hanson, K||Heinz, R||Iarocci, E||Katsavounidis, E||Katsavounidis, I||Kearns, E||Kim, H||Kyriazopoulou, S||Lamanna, E||Lane, C||Levin, DS||Lipari, P||Longley, NP||Longo, MJ||Loparco, F||Maaroufi, F||Mancarella, G||Mandrioli, G||Margiotta, A||Marini, A||Martello, D||Marzari-Chiesa, A||Mazziotta, MN||Michael, DG||Mikheyev, S||Miller, L||Monacelli, P||Montaruli, T||Monteno, M||Mufson, S||Musser, J||Nicolo, D||Nolty, R||Orth, C||Osteria, G||Palamara, O||Patera, V||Patrizii, L||Pazzi, R||Peck, CW||Perrone, L||Petrera, S||Pistilli, P||Popa, V||Raino, A||Reynoldson, J||Ronga, F||Rrhioua, A||Satriano, C||Scapparone, E||Scholberg, K||Sciubba, A||Serra, P||Sioli, M||Sirri, G||Sitta, M||Spinelli, P||Spinetti, M||Spurio, M||Steinberg, R||Stone, JL||Sulak, LR||Surdo, A||Tarle, G||Togo, V||Vakili, M||Walter, CW||Webb, R

publication date

  • September 2001