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New experimental limit on the muon-neutrino lifetime

J. S. Frank, R. L. Burman, and D. R. F. Cochran

P. Némethy

S. E. Willis* and V. W. Hughes

R. P. Redwine

J. Duclos

H. Kaspar

C. K. Hargrove

U. Moser

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

  • Center d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  • Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, CH-5234 Villigen, Switzerland

  • National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 Canada

  • University of Berne, CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

  • *Present address: Fermilab, Batavia, I11. 60510.

Phys. Rev. D 24, 2001(R) – Published 1 October, 1981

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.24.2001

Abstract

We find no evidence for νμ or ν¯μ decays for any two-body decay mode in which a photon is emitted. The 90%-confidence-level limit which we set is τνμMνμ>0.11, where Mνμ is the mass of the muon neutrino in eV and τνμ is the muon-neutrino lifetime in seconds.

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Reply to "Direct comparison between the γ-ray fluxes from proton beam dumps at LAMPF and SIN"

J. S. Frank, R. L. Burman, D. R. F. Cochran, P. Némethy, S. E. Willis, V. W. Hughes, R. P. Redwine, J. Duclos, H. Kaspar, C. K. Hargrove, and U. Moser
Phys. Rev. D 28, 1790 (1983)

Direct comparison between the γ-ray fluxes from proton beam dumps at LAMPF and SIN

H. Faissner, E. Frenzel, W. Heinrigs, A. Preussger, and D. Samm
Phys. Rev. D 28, 1787 (1983)

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