A method for detecting ${\nu }_{\tau }$ appearance in the spectra of quasielastic CC events

Abstract

A method for detecting the transition \omutau in long-baseline accelerator experiments, that consists in comparing the far-to-near ratios of the spectra of quasielastic CC events generated by high- and low-energy beams of muon neutrinos, is proposed. The test may be accessible to big water Cherenkov detectors and iron--scintillator calorimeters, and is limited by statistics rather than systematics.

10 pages, 4 figures

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