MINOS 实验中中性流相互作用对活性到惰性中微子混合的限制
高能物理 - 实验
2015-03-19 v4
摘要
本文报告了在 MINOS 长基线实验中寻找活性到惰性中微子振荡的结果，该结果基于对中性流中微子相互作用的观测，曝光量为 NuMI 中微子束的 靶上质子。在远探测器中总共观测到 802 个中性流候选事件，而在三种活性味中微子振荡的预期事件数为 。可能转变为 的消失 \numu 所占比例 在 90% 置信水平下被确定为小于 22%。
引用
@article{arxiv.1104.3922,
title = {Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS},
author = {MINOS Collaboration and P. Adamson and D. J. Auty and D. S. Ayres and C. Backhouse and G. Barr and M. Bishai and A. Blake and G. J. Bock and D. J. Boehnlein and D. Bogert and S. Cavanaugh and D. Cherdack and S. Childress and J. A. B. Coelho and S. J. Coleman and L. Corwin and D. Cronin-Hennessy and I. Z. Danko and J. K. de Jong and N. E. Devenish and M. V. Diwan and M. Dorman and C. O. Escobar and J. J. Evans and E. Falk and G. J. Feldman and M. V. Frohne and H. R. Gallagher and R. A. Gomes and M. C. Goodman and P. Gouffon and N. Graf and R. Gran and N. Grant and K. Grzelak and A. Habig and D. Harris and J. Hartnell and R. Hatcher and A. Himmel and A. Holin and X. Huang and J. Hylen and J. Ilic and G. M. Irwin and Z. Isvan and D. E. Jaffe and C. James and D. Jensen and T. Kafka and S. M. S. Kasahara and G. Koizumi and S. Kopp and M. Kordosky and A. Kreymer and K. Lang and G. Lefeuvre and J. Ling and P. J. Litchfield and L. Loiacono and P. Lucas and W. A. Mann and M. L. Marshak and N. Mayer and A. M. McGowan and R. Mehdiyev and J. R. Meier and M. D. Messier and W. H. Miller and S. R. Mishra and J. Mitchell and C. D. Moore and J. Morfín and L. Mualem and S. Mufson and J. Musser and D. Naples and J. K. Nelson and H. B. Newman and R. J. Nichol and T. C. Nicholls and J. A. Nowak and W. P. Oliver and M. Orchanian and J. Paley and R. B. Patterson and G. Pawloski and G. F. Pearce and D. A. Petyt and S. Phan-Budd and R. Pittam and R. K. Plunkett and X. Qiu and J. Ratchford and T. M. Raufer and B. Rebel and P. A. Rodrigues and C. Rosenfeld and H. A. Rubin M. C. Sanchez and J. Schneps and P. Schreiner and R. Sharma and P. Shanahan and A. Sousa and P. Stamoulis and M. Strait and N. Tagg and R. L. Talaga and E. Tetteh-Lartey and J. Thomas and M. A. Thomson and G. Tinti and R. Toner and D. Torretta and G. Tzanakos and J. Urheim and P. Vahle and B. Viren and J. J. Walding and A. Weber and R. C. Webb and C. White and L. Whitehead and S. G. Wojcicki and R. Zwaska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3922},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures. Published in Physical Review Letters