1993/04/19 by Stephen Parke, Parke, Stephen
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9304271
LaTeX, 8 pages, 5 figures (not included), Fermilab-Conf-93/056-T
arxiv created 1993/04/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
There is renewed interest in performing a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using accelerator neutrinos because of a discrepancy between the measured and the predicted values of the ratio of electron to muon neutrinos produced in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays.The approximate range in oscillation parameter space indicated by the Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino results and confirmed by IMB is bounded by 10-3~ eV2 < \dmsq < 10-1~ eV2 and \s2t > 0.4~. To reach such small \dmsq, using an accelerator as the source of neutrinos where the energy is typically 1 GeV or greater, requires baselines in the range of 10~km to 1000~km. In this talk I will give an overview of the most likely possibilities for such a long baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment.