Measurement of neutrino oscillation by the K2K experiment
2006
We present measurements of {nu}{sub {mu}} disappearance in K2K, the KEK to Kamioka long-baseline
neutrino oscillationexperiment. One-hundred and twelve beam-originated neutrino events are observed in the fiducial volume of
Super-Kamiokandewith an expectation of 158.1{sub -8.6}{sup +9.2} events without oscillation. A distortion of the energy spectrum is also seen in 58 single-ring muonlike events with reconstructed energies. The probability that the observations are explained by the expectation for no
neutrino oscillationis 0.0015% (4.3{sigma}). In a two-flavor oscillation scenario, the allowed {delta}m{sup 2} region at sin{sup 2}2{theta}=1 is between 1.9 and 3.5x10{sup -3} eV{sup 2} at the 90% C.L. with a best-fit value of 2.8x10{sup -3} eV{sup 2}.
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