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6.7.1 Multiple scattering analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157<br />

6.7.2 Shower analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158<br />

6.8 γ detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

6.9 Low momentum muon identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162<br />

7 Physics performance 165<br />

7.1 Electron identification efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165<br />

7.2 Muon identification efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167<br />

7.3 τ detection efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169<br />

7.3.1 Trigger and brick finding efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

7.3.2 Geometrical efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

7.3.3 Vertex finding efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172<br />

7.3.4 Brick-to-brick connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174<br />

7.3.5 Detection of a fake lepton at the primary vertex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174<br />

7.3.6 Short and long kink events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176<br />

7.3.7 Kink detection efficiency for long decays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177<br />

7.3.8 Detection efficiency for the e channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177<br />

7.3.9 Detection efficiency for the µ channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180<br />

7.3.10 Detection efficiency for the h channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180<br />

7.3.11 Overall detection efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183<br />

7.4 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183<br />

7.4.1 ν τ prompt background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184<br />

7.4.2 Charm production and decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184<br />

7.4.3 Background from π 0 and prompt electrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188<br />

7.4.4 Background from muon scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189<br />

7.4.5 Hadron reinteractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191<br />

7.5 Sensitivity to ν µ ↔ ν τ oscillations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192<br />

7.6 Determination of the oscillation parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197<br />

7.7 Additional physics subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198<br />

7.7.1 Search for ν µ ↔ ν e oscillations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198<br />

7.7.2 Oscillation search through NC/CC ratio measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198<br />

8 Test measurements and results 202<br />

8.1 Measurements on ECC brick components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202<br />

8.1.1 Emulsion films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202<br />

8.1.2 Lead radioactivity measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202<br />

8.2 Tests on electronic detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207<br />

8.2.1 Prototype scintillator strip modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207<br />

8.2.2 Tests on brick finding with scintillator strip detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209<br />

8.2.3 Measurements with photodetectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213<br />

8.2.4 Tests of RPC detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222<br />

8.2.5 Tests of electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222<br />

8.3 Measurement of the muon scattering background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224<br />

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