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Oct 2000

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American Physical Society, Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting, October 4-7, 2000 Williamsburg, VA, abstract #AS.046

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The phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, where a neutrino of one type spontaneously transforms into a neutrino of another type, has important and far-reaching consequences for particle physics and cosmology. For this phenomenon to occur, at least one neutrino must be massive and the heretofore observed lepton flavor conservation law must be violated. There are, at present, several results that indicate neutrino oscillations and it is not clear how and if these experimental results are indicative of the situation that actually obtains in Nature. There is evidence for a deficit of electrons neutrinos observed emanating from the sun. There is evidence for a deficit of electron neutrinos compared to muon neutrinos created in the upper atmosphere. And, there is an excess of electron antineutrinos observed in a beam of muon antineutrinos by the LSND experiment. The Booster Neutrino Experiment (BooNE) will focus on the final observation by definitely testing the LSND result. BooNE has been approved to run at Fermilab and is currently under construction. If the LSND result is due to oscillations, the first stage of the experiment (miniBooNE) will observe approximately 1000 oscillation events in the first calendar year of operation.

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