Tau Appearance In Atmospheric Neutrino Interactions

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1998-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9810468v1

Phys.Lett.B463:241-247,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

13 pages, uses psfig

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00951-X

If the correct interpretation of the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino data is \nu_\mu -> \nu_\tau oscillation, the contained data sample should already have more than 10 tau appearance events. We study the challenging task of detecting the tau, focussing on the decay chain \tau^\pm -> \rho^\pm -> \pi^\pm \pi^0 in events with quasi-elastic tau production. The background level, which is currently quite uncertain because of a lack of relevant neutral current data, can be measured by the near detector in the K2K experiment. Our estimates of the background suggest that it may be possible to detect tau appearance in Super-Kamiokande with 5-10 years of running.

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