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Report number CERN-EP-2000-147
Title New results from a search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{e} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation
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Eskut, E ; Kayis-Topaksu, A ; Onengüt, G ; Van Dantzig, R ; De Jong, M ; Konijn, J ; Melzer, O ; Oldeman, R G C ; Pesen, E ; Van der Poel, C A F J ; Uiterwijk, J W E ; Visschers, J L ; Güler, M ; Serin-Zeyrek, M ; Sever, R ; Tolun, P ; Zeyrek, M T ; Armenise, N ; Cassol, F ; Catanesi, M G ; De Serio, M ; Muciaccia, M T ; Radicioni, E ; Righini, P ; Simone, S ; Vivolo, L ; Bülte, A ; Winter, Klaus ; Annis, P ; El-Aidi, R ; Van der Donckt, M ; Van de Vyver, B ; Vilain, P ; Wilquet, G ; Saitta, B ; Di Capua, E ; Ishii, Y ; Kazuno, M ; Ogawa, S ; Shibuya, H ; Brunner, J ; Chizhov, M V ; Cussans, D G ; Doucet, M ; Fabre, Jean-Paul ; Flegel, Wilfried ; Litmaath, M ; Meinhard, H ; Niu, E ; Øverås, H ; Panman, J ; Papadopoulos, I M ; Ricciardi, S ; Rozanov, A N ; Saltzberg, D ; Strolin, P ; Tsenov, R V ; Weinheimer, C ; Wong, H ; Zucchelli, P ; Goldberg, J ; Chikawa, M ; Arik, E ; Mailov, A A ; Song, J S ; Yoon, C S ; Kodama, K ; Ushida, N ; Aoki, S ; Hara, T ; Brooijmans, G ; Favart, D ; Grégoire, G ; Hérin, J ; Artamonov, S A ; Gorbunov, P ; Khovanskii, V D ; Shamanov, V V ; Tsukerman, I S ; Bonekämper, D ; D'Ambrosio, N ; Frekers, D ; Rondeshagen, D ; Wolff, T ; Hoshino, K ; Komatsu, M ; Kotaka, Y ; Kozaki, T ; Miyanishi, M ; Nakamura, M ; Nakano, T ; Niu, K ; Niwa, K ; Obayashi, Y ; Sato, O ; Toshito, T ; Bruski, N ; Buontempo, S ; Cocco, A G ; De Lellis, G ; Di Capua, F ; Ereditato, A ; Fiorillo, G ; Kawamura, T ; Listone, R ; Messina, M ; Migliozzi, P ; Palladino, Vittorio ; Tioukov, V ; Nakamura, K ; Okusawa, T ; Capone, A ; De Pedis, D ; Di Liberto, S ; Dore, U ; Loverre, P F ; Ludovici, L ; Maslennikov, A L ; Piredda, G ; Rosa, G ; Santacesaria, R ; Satta, A ; Spada, F R ; Barbuto, E ; Bozza, C ; Grella, G ; Romano, G ; Sorrentino, S ; Sato, Y ; Tezuka, I

Affiliation (Cukurova Univ. Adana) ; (NIKHEF Amsterdam) ; (METU Ankara) ; (Univ. Bari and INFN Bari) ; (Humboldt U., Berlin) ; (Inter-Univ. Inst. High En. Brussels) ; (Univ. Cagliari and INFN Cagliari) ; (Univ. Ferrara and INFN Ferrara) ; (Toho Univ. Funabashi) ; (CERN) ; (Technion Haifa) ; (Kinki Univ. Higashiosaka) ; (Bogazici Univ. Istanbul) ; (Gyeongsang National Univ. Jinju Korea) ; (Aichi Univ.of Education Kariya) ; (Kobe Univ. Kobe) ; (Univ. Cathol. Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) ; (ITEP Moscow) ; (Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ. Münster) ; (Nagoya Univ. Nagoya) ; (Univ. Federico and INFN Naples) ; (Osaka City Univ. Osaka) ; (Univ. La Sapienza and INFN Rome) ; (Univ. Salerno and INFN Salerno) ; (Utsunomiya Univ. Utsunomiya)
Imprint 10 Nov 2000. - 12 p.
In: Phys. Lett. B 497 (2001) 8-22
DOI 10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01317-4
Subject category Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN SPS ; CHORUS WA95
Abstract A first analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. The search for $\nut$ charged current events has been performed for both leptonic and hadronic decays of the $\tauu$ lepton. No $\tauu$ candidate has been found. A $\numtonut$ mixing is excluded down to $\sin2t$ = $6.8 \times 10^{-4}$ for large $\dm2$ (90\% C.L.).

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