| The standard model of particle physics includes three flavors of massless neutrinos. If neutrinos in fact have mass and non-zero mixing angles, one flavor may oscillate into another. A rich panoply of experiments have searched for this phenomenon using different types of neutrinos, from both man-made and extraterrestrial sources, over a wide range of energies, and employing a variety of detection techniques. Some recent experiments have claimed positive results in the search for neutrino oscillations.;The NOMAD detector examined the neutrino beam at the CERN SPS for four years, from 1995 to 1998. These data are analyzed in a search for nm→nt oscillations in the t→r decay channel. The analysis employs a multidimensional kinematic likelihood function to separate signal events from backgrounds.;The analysis finds no evidence of neutrino oscillations, and sets upper limits on the coupled parameters sin2 2&thetas; and Δm 2 of sin2 2&thetas; < 8.79 × 10–3 for large Δm2, and Δm2 < 3.75 eV2/c4 at sin2 2&thetas; = 1. |
