Final results on neutrino oscillation parameters from the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam
Abstract
The OPERA experiment has conclusively observed the appearance of tau neutrinos in the muon neutrino CNGS beam. Exploiting the OPERA detector capabilities, it was possible to isolate high purity samples of , and charged current weak neutrino interactions, as well as neutral current weak interactions. In this Letter, the full dataset is used for the first time to test the three-flavor neutrino oscillation model and to derive constraints on the existence of a light sterile neutrino within the framework of the neutrino model. For the first time, tau and electron neutrino appearance channels are jointly used to test the sterile neutrino hypothesis. A significant fraction of the sterile neutrino parameter space allowed by LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded at 90% C.L. In particular, the best-fit values obtained by MiniBooNE combining neutrino and antineutrino data are excluded at 3.3 significance.
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@article{arxiv.1904.05686,
title = {Final results on neutrino oscillation parameters from the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam},
author = {OPERA Collaboration and N. Agafonova and A. Alexandrov and A. Anokhina and S. Aoki and A. Ariga and T. Ariga and A. Bertolin and C. Bozza and R. Brugnera and S. Buontempo and M. Chernyavskiy and A. Chukanov and L. Consiglio and N. D'Ambrosio and G. De Lellis and M. De Serio and P. del Amo Sanchez and A. Di Crescenzo and D. Di Ferdinando and N. Di Marco and S. Dmitrievsky and M. Dracos and D. Duchesneau and S. Dusini and T. Dzhatdoev and J. Ebert and A. Ereditato and R. A. Fini and T. Fukuda and G. Galati and A. Garfagnini and V. Gentile and J. Goldberg and S. Gorbunov and Y. Gornushkin and G. Grella and A. M. Guler and C. Gustavino and C. Hagner and T. Hara and T. Hayakawa and A. Hollnagel and K. Ishiguro and A. Iuliano and K. Jakovcic and C. Jollet and C. Kamiscioglu and M. Kamiscioglu and S. H. Kim and N. Kitagawa and B. Klicek and K. Kodama and M. Komatsu and U. Kose and I. Kreslo and F. Laudisio and A. Lauria and A. Longhin and P. Loverre and A. Malgin and G. Mandrioli and T. Matsuo and V. Matveev and N. Mauri and E. Medinaceli and A. Meregaglia and S. Mikado and M. Miyanishi and F. Mizutani and P. Monacelli and M. C. Montesi and K. Morishima and M. T. Muciaccia and N. Naganawa and T. Naka and M. Nakamura and T. Nakano and K. Niwa and S. Ogawa and N. Okateva and K. Ozaki and A. Paoloni and L. Paparella and B. D. Park and L. Pasqualini and A. Pastore and L. Patrizii and H. Pessard and D. Podgrudkov and N. Polukhina and M. Pozzato and F. Pupilli and M. Roda and T. Roganova and H. Rokujo and G. Rosa and O. Ryazhskaya and O. Sato and A. Schembri and I. Shakiryanova and T. Shchedrina and E. Shibayama and H. Shibuya and T. Shiraishi and S. Simone and C. Sirignano and G. Sirri and A. Sotnikov and M. Spinetti and L. Stanco and N. Starkov and S. M. Stellacci and M. Stipcevic and P. Strolin and S. Takahashi and M. Tenti and F. Terranova and V. Tioukov and S. Tufanli and S. Vasina and P. Vilain and E. Voevodina and L. Votano and J. L. Vuilleumier and G. Wilquet and C. S. Yoon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05686},
year = {2019}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures; Editors: Budimir Kli\v{c}ek and Matteo Tenti