STUDY OF NEUTRON BACKGROUND IN THE ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO SAMPLE IN KAMIOKANDE

Authors
FUKUDA Y HAYAKAWA T INOUE K ISHIHARA K ISHINO H JOUKOU S KAJITA T KASUGA S KOSHIO Y KUMITA T MATSUMOTO K NAKAHATA M NAKAMURA K OKUMURA K SAKAI A SHIOZAWA M SUZUKI J SUZUKI Y TOMOEDA T TOTSUKA Y HIRATA KS KIHARA K OYAMA Y KOSHIBA M HORIUCHI T NISHIJIMA K FUJITA K HATAKEYAMA S KOGA M MARUYAMA T SUZUKI A MORI M SUDA T SUZUKI AT ISHIZUKA T MIYANO K OKAZAWA H HARA T NAGASHIMA Y TAKITA M YAMAGUCHI T HAYATO Y KANEYUKI K SUZUKI T TAKEUCHI Y TANIMORI T TASAKA S ICHIHARA E MIYAMOTO S NISHIKAWA K
Citation
Y. Fukuda et al., STUDY OF NEUTRON BACKGROUND IN THE ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO SAMPLE IN KAMIOKANDE, Physics letters. Section B, 388(2), 1996, pp. 397-401
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
388
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
397 - 401
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1996)388:2<397:SONBIT>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Neutron background in the atmospheric neutrino sample was studied base d on the vertex position distribution of the fully contained pi(0) eve nts. No evidence for the background contamination was observed. The ne utron contamination in the sub-GeV e-like sample was less than 1.2% at 90% C.L.