Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2015-03-19 v4
Abstract
Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interactions, from an exposure to the NuMI neutrino beam of protons on target. A total of 802 neutral-current event candidates is observed in the Far Detector, compared to an expected number of for oscillations among three active flavors. The fraction of disappearing \numu that may transition to is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L.
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@article{arxiv.1104.3922,
title = {Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS},
author = {MINOS Collaboration and P. Adamson and D. J. Auty and D. S. Ayres and C. Backhouse and G. Barr and M. Bishai and A. Blake and G. J. Bock and D. J. Boehnlein and D. Bogert and S. Cavanaugh and D. Cherdack and S. Childress and J. A. B. Coelho and S. J. Coleman and L. Corwin and D. Cronin-Hennessy and I. Z. Danko and J. K. de Jong and N. E. Devenish and M. V. Diwan and M. Dorman 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 N. Grant and K. Grzelak and A. Habig and D. Harris and J. Hartnell and R. Hatcher and A. Himmel and A. Holin and X. Huang and J. Hylen and J. Ilic and G. M. Irwin and Z. Isvan and D. E. Jaffe and C. James and D. Jensen and T. Kafka and S. M. S. Kasahara and G. Koizumi and S. Kopp and M. Kordosky and A. Kreymer and K. Lang and G. Lefeuvre and J. Ling and P. J. Litchfield and L. Loiacono and P. Lucas and W. A. Mann and M. L. Marshak and N. Mayer and A. M. McGowan and R. Mehdiyev and J. R. Meier and M. D. Messier and W. H. Miller and S. R. Mishra and J. Mitchell and C. D. Moore and J. Morfín 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 T. C. Nicholls and J. A. Nowak and W. P. Oliver and M. Orchanian and J. Paley and R. B. Patterson and G. Pawloski and G. F. Pearce and D. A. Petyt and S. Phan-Budd and R. Pittam and R. K. Plunkett and X. Qiu and J. Ratchford and T. M. Raufer and B. Rebel and P. A. Rodrigues and C. Rosenfeld and H. A. Rubin M. C. Sanchez and J. Schneps and P. Schreiner and R. Sharma and P. Shanahan and A. Sousa and P. Stamoulis and M. Strait and N. Tagg and R. L. Talaga and E. Tetteh-Lartey and J. Thomas and M. A. Thomson and G. Tinti and R. Toner and D. Torretta and G. Tzanakos and J. Urheim and P. Vahle and B. Viren and J. J. Walding and A. Weber and R. C. Webb and C. White and L. Whitehead and S. G. Wojcicki and R. Zwaska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3922},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures. Published in Physical Review Letters