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A search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions by MINOS

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2013-11-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report new constraints on flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) using data from the MINOS experiment. We analyzed a combined set of beam neutrino and antineutrino data, and found no evidence for deviations from standard neutrino mixing. The observed energy spectra constrain the NSI parameter to the range -0.20 < \varepsilon_{\mu\tau} < 0.07\;\text{(90% C.L.)}

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@article{arxiv.1303.5314,
  title  = {A search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions by MINOS},
  author = {MINOS Collaboration and P. Adamson and G. Barr and M. Bishai and A. Blake and G. J. Bock and D. Bogert and S. V. Cao and D. Cherdack and S. Childress and J. A. B. Coelho and L. Corwin and D. Cronin-Hennessy and J. K. de Jong and A. V. Devan and N. E. Devenish and M. V. Diwan and C. O. Escobar and J. J. Evans and E. Falk and G. J. Feldman and M. V. Frohne and H. R. Gallagher and R. A. Gomes and M. C. Goodman and P. Gouffon and N. Graf and R. Gran and K. Grzelak and A. Habig and J. Hartnell and R. Hatcher and A. Himmel and A. Holin and J. Hylen and G. M. Irwin and Z. Isvan and C. James and D. Jensen and T. Kafka and S. M. S. Kasahara and G. Koizumi and M. Kordosky and A. Kreymer and K. Lang and J. Ling and P. J. Litchfield and P. Lucas and W. A. Mann and M. L. Marshak and M. Mathis and N. Mayer and M. M. Medeiros and R. Mehdiyev and J. R. Meier and M. D. Messier and W. H. Miller and S. R. Mishra and S. Moed Sher and C. D. Moore and L. Mualem and S. Mufson and J. Musser and D. Naples and J. K. Nelson and H. B. Newman and R. J. Nichol and J. A. Nowak and W. P. Oliver and M. Orchanian and R. B. Pahlka and J. Paley and R. B. Patterson and G. Pawloski and S. Phan-Budd and R. K. Plunkett and X. Qiu and A. Radovic and B. Rebel and C. Rosenfeld and H. A. Rubin and M. C. Sanchez and J. Schneps and A. Schreckenberger and P. Schreiner and R. Sharma and A. Sousa and N. Tagg and R. L. Talaga and J. Thomas and M. A. Thomson and R. Toner and D. Torretta and G. Tzanakos and J. Urheim and P. Vahle and B. Viren and A. Weber and R. C. Webb and C. White and L. Whitehead and S. G. Wojcicki and R. Zwaska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.5314},
  year   = {2013}
}