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The MiniBooNE Collaboration reports a search for \numu and \numubar disappearance in the \dmsq region of a few \evsq. These measurements are important for constraining models with extra types of neutrinos, extra dimensions an d CPT…

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

The MiniBooNE NCEL and CCQE cross-section measurements (neutrino running) are used to set limits in the $\Delta m^{2}-\sin^{2}\vartheta_{\mu s}$ plane for a 3+1 sterile neutrino model with a mass splitting $0.1 \leq \Delta m^{2} \leq 10.0$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Callum Wilkinson , Susan Cartwright , Lee Thompson

Experiments designed to measure neutrino oscillations also provide major opportunities for discovering very weakly coupled states. In order to produce neutrinos, experiments such as LSND collide thousands of Coulombs of protons into fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Rouven Essig , Roni Harnik , Jared Kaplan , Natalia Toro

It has been recently suggested that the anomalous excess of low-energy electron-like events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, could be explained by the radiative decay of a heavy sterile neutrino nu_h of the mass around 500 MeV with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 S. N. Gninenko , D. S. Gorbunov

It has been proposed that a sterile neutrino \nu_h with m_h \approx 50 MeV and a dominant decay mode (\nu_h -> \nu\gamma) may be the origin of the experimental anomaly observed at LSND. We define a particular model that could also explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Manuel Masip , Pere Masjuan , Davide Meloni

MiniBooNE is a neutrino oscillation experiment now running at Fermilab. The experiment will search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations in order to make a conclusive statement about the yet-unconfirmed evidence for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrew Bazarko

Over the past few decades, outstanding progress in the neutrino experiment frontier has greatly advanced our understanding of the flavor oscillations of active neutrinos. The remaining key questions such as the neutrino mass ordering, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Sudipta Das

The MiniBooNE detector at Fermilab is designed to search for $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillation appearance at $E_\nu \sim 1 {\rm GeV}$ and to make a decisive test of the LSND signal. The main detector (inside a veto shield) is a spherical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew K. Sharp , John F. Beacom , Joseph A. Formaggio

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $\nu_e$ appearance data from $12.84 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino mode, an increase of approximately a factor of two over previously reported results.…

Recently, MiniBooNE observed an electromagnetic excess at low energy. What is the nature of this excess? What about the nature of the low-energy excess at LSND 20 years ago? The MicroBooNE detector will see neutrinos from the same Booster…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-18 Tia Miceli

Precise tests of Lorentz invariance can be executed using neutrino oscillations, which can provide sensitive measurements of suppressed signals of new physics. This talk describes the neutrino sector of the Standard-Model Extension, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-30 Jorge S. Diaz

Recent neutrino oscillation results have evoked renewed interest in sterile neutrino oscillation models. This paper reviews the data from MiniBooNE and short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments within the context of sterile neutrinos.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-18 G. Karagiorgi

The study of flavor changing neutrinos is a very active field of research. I will discuss the status of ongoing and near term experiments investigating neutrino properties at short distances from the source. In the next few years, the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-03-03 Mark Dierckxsens

The highly successful Standard Model is not complete. It does not explain the baryonic asymmetry in the Universe, the existence of dark matter or the non-zero masses of the neutrinos. Extensions of the Standard Model that propose the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-24 Sophie Middleton

Neutrino oscillations provide an unique opportunity to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. Fermilab is constructing two new neutrino beams to provide a decicive test of two of the recent positive indications for neutrino oscillations:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 Adam Para

MiniBooNE is an experiment designed to provide a definitive test for the numubar to nuebar oscillations signal seen by LSND. Here, a brief summary of the MiniBooNE goals and strategies is presented, as well as some highlights of its current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo

This letter presents the results from the MiniBooNE experiment within a full "3+1" scenario where one sterile neutrino is introduced to the three-active-neutrino picture. In addition to electron-neutrino appearance at short-baselines, this…

The MiniBooNE collaboration has reported an excess of $460.5\pm 95.8$ electron-like events ($4.8\sigma$). We propose an explanation of these events in terms of a sterile neutrino decaying into a photon and a light neutrino. The sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Oliver Fischer , Alvaro Hernandez-Cabezudo , Thomas Schwetz