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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/884
SUMMARY:Search for Neutron Oscillation at Super-Kamiokande
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Jeffrey Gustafson\n\nPart of the Preliminary Oral Exa
	m.\n\nExamining Committee: Ed Kearns\, Robert Carey\, Shyamsunder Erramilli
	\, Martin Schmaltz\n\n\nObservable neutron oscillations provide an interest
	ing and well-motivated\nwindow into physics beyond the Standard Model. They
	 violate baryon number\,\nthus making them a good candidate process for bar
	yogenesis. They are also \nsensitive to a potentially wide range of energy 
	scales\, the lower limit of which are\nbeyond those achievable at particle 
	accelerators. I will discuss various physics\naspects of this process\, as 
	well as its dominant background in the context of\na water cherenkov detect
	or\, atmospheric neutrino interactions. I will discuss\nefforts to improve 
	the analysis done by the Super-Kamiokande collaboration for\nits first data
	-taking period (April 1996 - July 2001) and show that significant\nimprovem
	ents can be made in the signal-to-background ratio\, and thereby the\noscil
	lation time lower limit\, by considering new variables and applying\nmulti-
	variate techniques. Future analysis prospects are also discussed.
LOCATION:PRB 261\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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