Abstract
A sensitive search for neutrino oscillations involving , , and may be provided by measurements of the ratio of the total interaction rates of upward- and downward-going cosmic-ray neutrinos within a massive (∼10 kton) detector. Assuming mixing between all pairs of , , and , the experiment is capable of observing time-averaged probabilities and of magnitude set by mixing strengths corresponding to, e.g., the - to -quark mixing strength, and of reaching the limit , where , and are neutrino mass eigenstates, and and are the probabilities for and , respectively, to oscillate into after traversing a distance diameter of the Earth. Possible ambiguities may be resolved through comparison of the ratios for the upward- and downward-going neutrinos.
- Received 21 July 1983
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.29.902
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