Publication Date
1996
Journal or Book Title
Zeitschrift Fur Physik C
Abstract
Our goal in this paper is to examine the discovery potential of laboratory experiments searching for the oscillation lk(le)Plq, in the light of recent data on solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, which we analyse together with the most restrictive results from laboratory experiments on neutrino oscillations. In order to explain simultaneously all present results we use a fourneutrino framework, with an additional sterile neutrino. Our predictions are rather pessimistic for the upcoming experiments NOMAD and CHORUS, which, we Þnd, are able to explore only a small area of the oscillation parameter space. On the other hand, the discovery potential of future experiments is much larger. We consider three examples. E803, which is approved to operate in the future Fermilab main injector beam line, MINOS, a proposed long-baseline experiment also using the Fermilab beam, and NAUSICAA, an improved detector which improves by an order of magnitude the performance of CHORUS/NOMAD and can be operated either at CERN or at Fermilab beams. We Þnd that those experiments can cover a very substantial fraction of the oscillation parameter space, having thus a very good chance of discovering both lk Plq and lePlq oscillation modes.
Pages
443-454
Volume
71
Recommended Citation
Gomez-Cadenas, JJ and Gonazles-Garcia, M.C, "Future lq oscillation experiments and present data" (1996). Zeitschrift Fur Physik C. 360.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/360
Comments
This is the prepublished version from arXiv. The published version is at http://192.129.24.144/licensed_materials/00288/papers/6071003/60710443.pdf