Evidence for muon neutrino oscillation in an accelerator-based experiment

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Mar 4;94(8):081802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.081802. Epub 2005 Mar 3.

Abstract

We present results for nu(mu) oscillation in the KEK to Kamioka (K2K) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. K2K uses an accelerator-produced nu(mu) beam with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV directed at the Super-Kamiokande detector. We observed the energy-dependent disappearance of nu(mu), which we presume have oscillated to nu(tau). The probability that we would observe these results if there is no neutrino oscillation is 0.0050% (4.0 sigma).