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Reply to Corrections to the HARP-CDP Analysis of the LSND Neutrino Oscillation Backgrounds

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 نشر من قبل Joerg Wotschack
 تاريخ النشر 2011
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The alleged mistakes in recent papers that reanalyze the backgrounds to the LSND anomaly do not exist. We maintain our conclusion that the significance of the LSND anomaly is not 3.8 sigma but not larger than 2.3 sigma.

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