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Experimental results on neutrino-electron scattering

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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A determination of sin2 θ w based on measurements of elastic scattering of muon-neutrinos and muon-anti-neutrinos on atomic electrons is described. These purely leptonic processes were studied using the CHARM calorimeter exposed to neutrino and antineutrino wide-band beams at the CERN super proton synchrotron. A total of 83±16 neutrino-electron and 112±21 antineutrino-electron events have been detected. From the measurement of the ratio of muon-neutrino and muon-antineutrino cross-sections a value of sin2 θ w =0.211±0.037 was obtained.

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  1. G. Barbiellini & L. Lanceri

    Present address: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Udine and INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

  2. M. Baubillier

    Present address: LPNHE, Paris, France

  3. F. Grancagnolo

    Present address: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli and INFN Sezione di Napoll, Naples, Italy

  4. R. Plunkett

    Present address: Physics Department, Rockefeller University, New York, USA

  5. C. Santoni

    Present address: Physics Department, University of Basle, Basle, Switzerland

  6. T. Hebbeker

    Present address: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  7. A. Baroncelli, C. Bosio & L. Tortora

    Present address: INFN Sezione Sanità and Istituto Superiore die Sanità, Rome, Italy

  8. L. Barone, B. Borgia, M. Diemoz, U. Dore, F. Ferroni, E. Longo, L. Luminari, S. Morganti & F. de Notaristefani

    Present address: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università “La Sapienza”, INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Rome, Italy

  9. P. Monacelli

    Present address: Departimento dell'Aquila, Università dell'Aquila and INFN Sezione dell'Aquila, l'Aquila, Italy

  10. V. Valente

    Present address: Laboratori Nazionali INFN Frascati, Frascati, Italy

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  1. NIKHFF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J. Dorenbosch & F. Udo

  2. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    J. V. Allaby, U. Amaldi, G. Barbiellini, M. Baubillier, F. Bergsma, A. Capone, W. Flegel, F. Grancagnolo, M. Jonker, L. Lanceri, M. Metcalf, C. Nieuwenhuis, J. Panman, R. Plunkett, C. Santoni & K. Winter

  3. II. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    I. Abt, F. W. Büsser, H. Daumann, P. D. Gall, T. Hebbeker, F. Niebergall & P. Stähelin

  4. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, USSR

    P. Gorbunov, E. Grigoriev, V. Kaftanov, V. Khovansky & A. Rosanov

  5. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome, Italy

    A. Baroncelli, L. Barone, B. Borgia, C. Bosio, M. Diemoz, U. Dore, F. Ferroni, E. Longo, L. Luminari, P. Monacelli, S. Morganti, F. de Notaristefani, L. Tortora & V. Valente

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CHARM Collaboration., Dorenbosch, J., Udo, F. et al. Experimental results on neutrino-electron scattering. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 41, 567–589 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01564701

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