Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 37, No. 7, July 2006, page 1935


Neutrino Oscillation in the K2K Experiment

J. Zalipska

This paper summarizes final results of the K2K experiment which probes neutrino oscillation on accelerator produced neutrino beam sent over 250 km baseline toward the Super-Kamiokande detector. K2K collected 9.2 \times 1019 protons on target during its operation from 1999 to 2004. A total number of 112 beam induced neutrino events have been detected while 155.9+11.5-10.2 events were expected for no oscillation scenario. Incorporating into analysis a distortion of neutrino energy spectra an allowed region of 1.9 \times 10-3 < \Delta m2 < 3.5 \times 10-3 {eV}2 was obtained for sin22 \theta = 1.0 in agreement with atmospheric neutrino results. A limit for transformation of muon neutrino into electron neutrino has been achieved at sin22 \theta 13 < 0.26 from one detected shower like data event.

PACS numbers: 14.60.Pq, 12.15.Ff



 
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