Tau Neutrinos Favored over Sterile Neutrinos in Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Oscillations

M. Ishitsuka,B Jamieson,T. Kajita,J. Kameda,K. Kaneyuki,Kazuyoshi Kobayashi,A. Langella,S. Moriyama,M. Nakahata,Y. Obayashi,Atsushi Okada,N. Sakurai,Y. Suzuki,Y. Takeuchi,T. Toshito,C. Touramanis,S. Yamada,A. Habig,E. Kearns,Y. Suda,J. Meier,K. Scholberg,L. Sulak,O. Drapier,Michael Goldhaber,T. Barszczak,D. Casper,W. Gajewski,W. Kropp,A. Mefodiev,LeRoy Price,M. Smy,M. Vagins,W. Keig,R. Ellsworth,S. Tasaka,A. Kibayashi,J. Learned,J. Matthews,D. Takemori,Y. Hayato,T. Ishii,Y. Oyama,Akito Sakai,M. Sakuda,K. Satô,M. Kohama,Atsumu Suzuki,T. Inagaki,D. Maletić,T. Haines,E. Blaufuss,B. Kim,R. Sanford,R. Svoboda,M. Chen,J. Goodman,G. Guillian,S. Strandberg,J. Hill,C. Jung,K. Martens,M. Malek,K. McFarland,E. Sharkey,B. Viren,Makoto Kirisawa,S. Inaba,C. Mitsuda,K. Miyano,H. Okazawa,C. Saji,M. Takahashi,M. Takahata,Y. Nagashima,Akira Tanaka,M. Takita,M. Yoshida,S. Kim,T. Ishizuka,M. Etoh,Y. Gando,E. Bravin,K. Inoue,K. Ishihara,T. Maruyama,J. Shirai,Yoshinori Hatakeyama,Y. Ichikawa,Masafumi Koike,D. Motoki,H. Fujiyasu,H. Ishino,M. Morii,Y. Watanabe,Urszula Golebiewska,D. Kielczewska,S. Boyd,A. Stachyra,R. Wilkes,K. Young,Seisuke Fukuda,A Langella,Anatoly Rosenfeld,Wolfgang Walter