CANDIDATE EVENTS IN A SEARCH FOR (NU)OVER-BAR(MU)-](NU)OVER-BAR(E) OSCILLATIONS

A search for <(nu)over bar>(e)'s in excess of the number expected from conventional sources has been made using the Liquid Scintillator Neut rino Detector, located 30 m behind the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facili ty beam stop. The <(nu)over bar>(e) are detected via <(nu)over bar>(e) p --> e(+) n with e(+) energy between 36 and 60 MeV, followed by a ga mma ray from np --> d gamma (2.2 MeV). Using strict cuts to identify g amma rays correlated with e(+) yields 9 events with only 2.1 +/- 0.3 b ackground expected. A likelihood fit to the entire e(+) sample results in a total excess of 16.4(-8.9)(+9.7) +/- 3.3 events. If attributed t o <(nu)over bar>(mu) --> <(nu)over bar>(e) oscillations, this correspo nds to an oscillation probability of (0.34(-0.18)(+0.20) +/- 0.07)%.