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Recently, the MINOS collaboration reported an anomaly that the mass-squared difference and mixing angle of $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ $\leftrightarrow$ $\bar{\nu}_\tau$ are both different from that of $\nu_\mu$ $\leftrightarrow$ $\nu_\tau$. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-25 Chun Liu , Jin-tao Tian , Zhen-hua Zhao

Updating our previous measurements with new data and analysis modifications, we report preliminary results on the energy-dependent deficit of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam as observed with the MINOS Far Detector located 735 km…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 MINOS Collaboration

We study the impact of flavor-dependent long range leptonic forces mediated by the $L_e-L_\mu$ or $L_e -L_\tau$ gauge bosons on the solar neutrino oscillations, when the interaction range $R_{LR}$ is much larger than the Earth-Sun distance.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhijit Bandyopadhyay , Amol Dighe , Anjan S. Joshipura

The energy spectrum of cosmic neutrinos, which was recently reported by the IceCube collaboration, shows a gap between 400 TeV and 1 PeV. An unknown neutrino interaction mediated by a field with a mass of the MeV scale is one of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Takeshi Araki , Fumihiro Kaneko , Yasufumi Konishi , Toshihiko Ota , Joe Sato , Takashi Shimomura

Neutrinos propagating through matter may participate in forward coherent neutral-current-like scattering arising from non-standard interactions as well as from the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein matter potential $V_e$. We show that at fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-28 W. Anthony Mann , Daniel Cherdack , Wojciech Musial , Tomas Kafka

The neutral current non-standard interactions (NSI's) of neutrino with matter fermions while propagating through long distances inside the Earth matter can give rise to the extra matter potentials apart from the standard MSW potential due…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Amina Khatun , Sabya Sachi Chatterjee , Tarak Thakore , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla

MINOS will measure the composition of a neutrino beam at two locations, 735km apart, in an effort confirm the (atmospheric) neutrino oscillation hypothesis and measure the associated mixing parameters. Oscillations will be manifested as a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Kordosky

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the "atmospheric neutrino" sector associated with muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-12 MINOS Collaboration , D. G. Michael

Neutrino oscillations, as recently reported by the Super-Kamiokande collaboration, imply that lepton numbers could be violated, and $\tau^{\pm}\to \mu^{\pm}+\ell^{+}+\ell^{-},\tau^{\pm}\to\mu^{\pm}+\rho^0$ are some typical examples. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 X. Y. Pham

It is shown that the $\nu_2 \to \nu_{e}$ and $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{e}$ ($\nu_e \to \nu_{\mu (\tau)}$) transitions respectively of the solar and atmospheric neutrinos in the Earth in the case of $\nu_e - \nu_{\mu (\tau)}$ mixing in vacuum, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. T. Petcov

Dark photons coupling to $L_\mu-L_\tau$ lepton number difference are a highly studied light dark matter candidate, with potential to be discovered through their impact on terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments. We re-examine this in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-12 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , James M. Cline , Benoit Laurent , Ushak Rahaman

Non-Standard neutral current Interactions (NSIs) of neutrinos with matter can alter the pattern of neutrino oscillation due to the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos on the medium. This effect makes long-baseline neutrino experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-03 Yasaman Farzan , Ian M. Shoemaker

If the atmospheric and the solar neutrino problem are both explained by neutrino oscillations, and if there are only three light neutrinos, then all mass-squared differences between the neutrinos are known. In such a case, existing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sven Bergmann , Yuval Grossman

We report measurements of oscillation parameters from $\nu_{mu}$ and $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ disappearance using beam and atmospheric data from MINOS. The data comprise exposures of \unit[$10.71 \times 10^{20}$]{protons on target (POT)} in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-07-11 MINOS Collaboration , P. Adamson , I. Anghel , C. Backhouse , G. Barr , M. Bishai , A. Blake , G. J. Bock , D. Bogert , S. V. Cao , C. M. Castromonte , S. Childress , J. A. B. Coelho , L. Corwin , D. Cronin-Hennessy , J. K. de Jong , A. V. Devan , N. E. Devenish , M. V. Diwan , C. O. Escobar , J. J. Evans , E. Falk , G. J. Feldman , M. V. Frohne , H. R. Gallagher , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , P. Gouffon , N. Graf , R. Gran , K. Grzelak , A. Habig , S. R. Hahn , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Himmel , A. Holin , J. Hylen , G. M. Irwin , Z. Isvan , C. James , D. Jensen , T. Kafka , S. M. S. Kasahara , G. Koizumi , M. Kordosky , A. Kreymer , K. Lang , J. Ling , P. J. Litchfield , P. Lucas , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , M. Mathis , N. Mayer , A. M. McGowan , M. M. Medeiros , R. Mehdiyev , J. R. Meier , M. D. Messier , D. G. Michael , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , S. Moed Sher , C. D. Moore , L. Mualem , J. Musser , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , H. B. Newman , R. J. Nichol , J. A. Nowak , J. O'Connor , W. P. Oliver , M. Orchanian , R. B. Pahlka , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , S. Phan-Budd , R. K. Plunkett , X. Qiu , A. Radovic , B. Rebel , C. Rosenfeld , H. A. Rubin , M. C. Sanchez , J. Schneps , A. Schreckenberger , P. Schreiner , R. Sharma , A. Sousa , N. Tagg , R. L. Talaga , J. Thomas , M. A. Thomson , G. Tinti , S. C. Tognini , R. Toner , D. Torretta , G. Tzanakos , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , B. Viren , A. Weber , R. C. Webb , C. White , L. Whitehead , L. H. Whitehead , S. G. Wojcicki , R. Zwaska

This paper discusses recent results and near-term prospects of the long-baseline neutrino experiments MINOS, MINOS+, T2K and NOvA. The non-zero value of the third neutrino mixing angle {\theta}13 allows experimental analysis in a manner…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-02-17 Tsuyoshi Nakaya , Robert K. Plunkett

We quantify our current knowledge of the size and flavor structure of the matter effects in the evolution of atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos based solely on the analysis of the corresponding neutrino data. To this aim we generalize…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Michele Maltoni , Jordi Salvado

A muon collider is expected to produce a high intensity neutrino beam which is an admixture of either $\nu_{\mu}+\bar{\nu_e}$ or $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} +\nu_e$ which can can be directed to underground detectors far away from the source. It will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 R. N. Mohapatra

We discuss the capabilities of a future neutrino factory based on intense neutrino beams from a muon storage ring to explore the non-standard neutrino matter interactions, which are assumed to be sub-leading effects in the standard mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. M. Gago , M. M. Guzzo , H. Nunokawa , W. J. C. Teves , R. Zukanovich Funchal

This letter reports new results from the MINOS experiment based on a two-year exposure to muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Our data are consistent with quantum mechanical oscillations of neutrino flavor with mass splitting…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 MINOS Collaboration

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-19 MINOS Collaboration , P. Adamson , D. J. Auty , D. S. Ayres , C. Backhouse , G. Barr , M. Bishai , A. Blake , G. J. Bock , D. J. Boehnlein , D. Bogert , S. Cavanaugh , D. Cherdack , S. Childress , J. A. B. Coelho , S. J. Coleman , L. Corwin , D. Cronin-Hennessy , I. Z. Danko , J. K. de Jong , N. E. Devenish , M. V. Diwan , M. Dorman , C. O. Escobar , J. J. Evans , E. Falk , G. J. Feldman , M. V. Frohne , H. R. Gallagher , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , P. Gouffon , N. Graf , R. Gran , N. Grant , K. Grzelak , A. Habig , D. Harris , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Himmel , A. Holin , X. Huang , J. Hylen , J. Ilic , G. M. Irwin , Z. Isvan , D. E. Jaffe , C. James , D. Jensen , T. Kafka , S. M. S. Kasahara , G. Koizumi , S. Kopp , M. Kordosky , A. Kreymer , K. Lang , G. Lefeuvre , J. Ling , P. J. Litchfield , L. Loiacono , P. Lucas , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , N. Mayer , A. M. McGowan , R. Mehdiyev , J. R. Meier , M. D. Messier , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , J. Mitchell , C. D. Moore , J. Morfín , L. Mualem , S. Mufson , J. Musser , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , H. B. Newman , R. J. Nichol , T. C. Nicholls , J. A. Nowak , W. P. Oliver , M. Orchanian , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , G. F. Pearce , D. A. Petyt , S. Phan-Budd , R. Pittam , R. K. Plunkett , X. Qiu , J. Ratchford , T. M. Raufer , B. Rebel , P. A. Rodrigues , C. Rosenfeld , H. A. Rubin M. C. Sanchez , J. Schneps , P. Schreiner , R. Sharma , P. Shanahan , A. Sousa , P. Stamoulis , M. Strait , N. Tagg , R. L. Talaga , E. Tetteh-Lartey , J. Thomas , M. A. Thomson , G. Tinti , R. Toner , D. Torretta , G. Tzanakos , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , B. Viren , J. J. Walding , A. Weber , R. C. Webb , C. White , L. Whitehead , S. G. Wojcicki , R. Zwaska