COMMENT ON THE KAMIOKANDE ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO DEFICIT

Abstract

I describe an attempt to understand the significance of the atmospheric neutrino deficit observed by the Kamiokande neutrino detector. In particular, I am concerned with the statistical significance quoted for the zenith-angle dependence of the deficit, which has been cited as evidence for neutrino flavor oscillations free of systematic uncertainties.

Comments: 2pp. LATEX format. No figures. Postscript available at ftp://fnald.fnal.gov/usr$root39/saltzberg/nu.ps