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Precision constraints for three-flavor neutrino oscillations from the full MINOS+ and MINOS data set

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2020-09-30 v3

Abstract

We report the final measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters Δm322\Delta m^2_{32} and sin2θ23\sin^2\theta_{23} using all data from the MINOS and MINOS+ experiments. These data were collected using a total exposure of 23.76×102023.76 \times 10^{20} protons on target producing νmu\nu_{mu} and νμ\overline{\nu_\mu} beams and 60.75 kt\cdotyr exposure to atmospheric neutrinos. The measurement of the disappearance of νμ\nu_{\mu} and the appearance of νe\nu_e events between the Near and Far detectors yields Δm322=2.400.09+0.08 (2.450.08+0.07)×103|\Delta m^2_{32}|=2.40^{+0.08}_{-0.09}~(2.45^{+0.07}_{-0.08}) \times 10^{-3} eV2^2 and sin2θ23=0.430.04+0.20 (0.420.03+0.07)\sin^2\theta_{23} = 0.43^{+0.20}_{-0.04} ~(0.42^{+0.07}_{-0.03}) at 68% C.L. for Normal (Inverted) Hierarchy.

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@article{arxiv.2006.15208,
  title  = {Precision constraints for three-flavor neutrino oscillations from the full MINOS+ and MINOS data set},
  author = {MINOS+ Collaboration and : and P. Adamson and I. Anghel and A. Aurisano and G. Barr and A. Blake and S. V. Cao and T. J. Carroll and C. M. Castromonte and R. Chen and S. Childress and J. A. B. Coelho and S. De Rijck and J. J. Evans and G. J. Feldman and W. Flanagan and M. Gabrielyan and S. Germani and R. A. Gomes and P. Gouffon and N. Graf and K. Grzelak and A. Habig and S. R. Hahn and J. Hartnell and R. Hatcher and A. Holin and J. Huang and L. W. Koerner and M. Kordosky and A. Kreymer and K. Lang and P. Lucas and W. A. Mann and M. L. Marshak and N. Mayer and R. Mehdiyev and J. R. Meier and W. H. Miller and G. Mills and D. Naples and J. K. Nelson and R. J. Nichol and J. O'Connor and R. B. Pahlka and Z. Pavlovic and G. Pawloski and A. Perch and M. M. Pfutzner and D. D. Phan and R. K. Plunkett and N. Poonthottathil and X. Qiu and A. Radovic and P. Sail and M. C. Sanchez and J. Schneps and A. Schreckenberger and R. Sharma and A. Sousa and N. Tagg and J. Thomas and M. A. Thomson and A. Timmons and J. Todd and S. C. Tognini and R. Toner and D. Torretta and P. Vahle and A. Weber and L. H. Whitehead and S. G. Wojcicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.15208},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables