Using L/E Oscillation probability Distributions.

Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A. ; Brown, B. C. ; Bugel, L. ; Cheng, G. ; Church, E. D. ; Conrad, J. M. ; Obarmapalan, H. ; Djurcic, Z. ; Finley, D. A. ; Ford, R.

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关键词: Oscillations;    Neutrinos;    Distribution;    Measurement;    Parameters;   

RP-ID  :  DE141156532

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

This paper explores the use of L/E oscillation probability distributions to compare experimental measurements and to evaluate oscillation models. In this case, L is the distance of neutrino travel and E is a measure of the interacting neutrino's energy. While comparisons using allowed and excluded regions for oscillation model parameters are likely the only rigorous method for these comparisons, the L/E distributions are shown to give qualitative information on the agreement of an experiment's data with a simple two-neutrino oscillation model. In more detail, this paper also outlines how the L/E distributions can be best calculated and used for model comparisons. Specically, the paper presents the L/E data points for the final MiniBooNE data samples and, in the Appendix, explains and corrects the mistaken analysis published by the ICARUS collaboration.