KARMEN AT ISIS - THE ADVANTAGE OF A PULSED NEUTRINO SOURCE IN THE SEARCH FOR NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS AND NEUTRINO NUCLEAR-INTERACTIONS

Authors
ARMBRUSTER B BLAIR I BECKER M BENEN A BODMANN BA BOOTH NE DREXLIN G EBERHARD V EDGINGTON JA EICHNER C EITEL K FINCKH E GEMMEKE H HAUG S HOSSL J JANNAKOS T JUNGER P KLEIFGES M KLEINFELLER J KRETSCHMER W MASCHUW R OEHLER C PLISCHKE P REICHENBACHER J RAPP J RUF C SCHNURER F SELIGMANN B STEIDL M STUCKEN I STUMM O WOLF J ZEITNITZ B
Citation
B. Armbruster et al., KARMEN AT ISIS - THE ADVANTAGE OF A PULSED NEUTRINO SOURCE IN THE SEARCH FOR NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS AND NEUTRINO NUCLEAR-INTERACTIONS, Nuclear physics. A, 629(1-2), 1998, pp. 507-516
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759474
Volume
629
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
507 - 516
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(1998)629:1-2<507:KAI-TA>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
KARMEN, the Karlsruhe-Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrinoexperiment at t he pulsed spallation neutron facility ISIS uses the beam stop neutrino s v(mu), v(e) and <(V)over bar (mu)> from pi(+) and mu(+) decay at res t to search for neutrino oscillations in the appearance channels v(mu) --> ve and <(v)over bar (mu)> --> <(v)over bar (e)>. The signature fo r both oscillations is based on charged current neutrino nuclear inter action spectroscopy in a high resolution 56 t liquid scintillator calo rimeter. The detector system has been upgraded with an additional veto layer during 1996 to eliminate cosmogenic background and to enhance i ts sensitivity in the oscillation channels. This report describes the results based on data acquired from June 1990 to August 1995 and the f irst data of 1997 with the new veto system in operation.