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Measurements of the muon-neutrino mass

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The Future of Muon Physics

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The most precise upper limits for the muonneutrino mass m vμ have been obtained by measuring the muon momentum p μ+ in pion decay π + →μ + ν μ at rest. The current result for the squared neutrino mass, m νμ 2 = -0.154 ± 0.045 MeV 2, negative by 3.4 standard deviations, indicates that the experimental value for at least one of the three quantities used in the (m νμ 2)- derivation (p μ +, m π+ , m μ +) is wrong.

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  1. Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland

    M. Daum, R. Frosch, D. Herter, M. Janousch & P.-R. Kettle

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 12, W-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    Klaus Jungmann  & Gisbert zu Putlitz  & 

  2. Physics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Vernon W. Hughes

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Daum, M., Frosch, R., Herter, D., Janousch, M., Kettle, PR. (1992). Measurements of the muon-neutrino mass. In: Jungmann, K., Hughes, V.W., zu Putlitz, G. (eds) The Future of Muon Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77960-2_19

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