Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions from the MINOS Experiment
Abstract
We report new constraints on the size of large extra dimensions from data collected by the MINOS experiment between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis employs a model in which sterile neutrinos arise as Kaluza-Klein states in large extra dimensions and thus modify the neutrino oscillation probabilities due to mixing between active and sterile neutrino states. Using Fermilab's NuMI beam exposure of protons-on-target, we combine muon neutrino charged current and neutral current data sets from the Near and Far Detectors and observe no evidence for deviations from standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations. The ratios of reconstructed energy spectra in the two detectors constrain the size of large extra dimensions to be smaller than at 90% C.L. in the limit of a vanishing lightest active neutrino mass. Stronger limits are obtained for non-vanishing masses.
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@article{arxiv.1608.06964,
title = {Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions from the MINOS Experiment},
author = {P. Adamson and I. Anghel and A. Aurisano and G. Barr and M. Bishai and A. Blake and G. J. Bock and D. Bogert and S. V. Cao and T. J. Carroll and C. M. Castromonte and R. Chen and S. Childress and J. A. B. Coelho and L. Corwin and D. Cronin-Hennessy and J. K. de Jong and S. De Rijck 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 W. Flanagan and M. V. Frohne and M. Gabrielyan and H. R. Gallagher and S. Germani and R. A. Gomes and M. C. Goodman and P. Gouffon and N. Graf and R. Gran and K. Grzelak and A. Habig and S. R. Hahn and J. Hartnell and R. Hatcher and A. Holin and J. Huang 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 N. Mayer and C. McGivern 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 J. Musser and D. Naples and J. K. Nelson and H. B. Newman and R. J. Nichol and J. A. Nowak and J. O'Connor and M. Orchanian and R. B. Pahlka and J. Paley and R. B. Patterson and G. Pawloski and A. Perch and M. M. Pfützner and D. D. Phan and S. Phan-Budd and R. K. Plunkett and N. Poonthottathil and X. Qiu and A. Radovic and B. Rebel and C. Rosenfeld and H. A. Rubin and P. Sail 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 X. Tian and A. Timmons and J. Todd and S. C. Tognini 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 L. H. Whitehead and S. G. Wojcicki and R. Zwaska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06964},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures