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arxiv: 0709.4004 · v2 · submitted 2007-09-25 · ✦ hep-ex · nucl-ex

Muon internal bremsstrahlung: a conventional explanation for the excess electron-neutrino events in MiniBoone

classification ✦ hep-ex nucl-ex
keywords electron-neutrinoeventsminiboonemuonbremsstrahlungcharged-currentexcessexperiments
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We show that the rate of charged-current muon-neutrino events with a hard internal bremsstrahlung photon is consistent with the excess electron-neutrino candidate events reported by the MiniBoone and LSND (decay in flight) experiments. Hard photons radiated by the muon leg in charged-current neutrino interactions (neutrino-Nucleon->muon+gamma+nucleon) are a significant source of background that should be considered by current and future muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino neutrino oscillations appearance experiments (e.g. LSND, MiniBoone, SuperK, MINOS, T2K and NOVA).

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