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Past exam of the particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2017 3 d Solution by
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With the supplied angles, and . At and with the two atmospheric-scale splittings approximated by a common , the requested sketch is represented byThe fast period is and its first disappearance maximum is at . The slow period is , giving slow minima near and . At each baseline the fast oscillations lie between and that value minus . Averaging over unresolved fast oscillations subtracts half that amplitude, rather than erasing the slow oscillation.
The equal atmospheric splittings are an approximation: exact squared masses require . For example, choosing magnitudes and gives . This changes the fine fast pattern while retaining the two physical scales. The figure deliberately displays the source's common-frequency approximation and labels the fast-averaged curve separately from the monoenergetic result.
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