Title
Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
Date Issued
07 October 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Adamson P.
An F.P.
Anghel I.
Aurisano A.
Balantekin A.B.
Band H.R.
Barr G.
Bishai M.
Blake A.
Blyth S.
Bock G.J.
Bogert D.
Cao D.
Cao G.F.
Cao J.
Cao S.V.
Carroll T.J.
Cen W.R.
Chan Y.L.
Chang J.F.
Chang L.C.
Chang Y.
Chen H.S.
Chen Q.Y.
Chen R.
Chen S.M.
Chen Y.
Chen Y.X.
Cheng J.
Cheng J.H.
Cheng Y.P.
Cheng Z.K.
Cherwinka J.J.
Childress S.
Chu M.C.
Chukanov A.
Coelho J.A.B.
Corwin L.
Cronin-Hennessy D.
Cummings J.P.
De Arcos J.
De Rijck S.
Deng Z.Y.
Devan A.V.
Devenish N.E.
Ding X.F.
Ding Y.Y.
Diwan M.V.
Dolgareva M.
Dove J.
Dwyer D.A.
Edwards W.R.
Escobar C.O.
Evans J.J.
Falk E.
Feldman G.J.
Flanagan W.
Frohne M.V.
Gabrielyan M.
Gallagher H.R.
Germani S.
Gill R.
Gomes R.A.
Gonchar M.
Gong G.H.
Gong H.
Goodman M.C.
Gouffon P.
Graf N.
Gran R.
Grassi M.
Grzelak K.
Gu W.Q.
Guan M.Y.
Guo L.
Guo R.P.
Guo X.H.
Guo Z.
Habig A.
Hackenburg R.W.
Hahn S.R.
Han R.
Hans S.
Hartnell J.
Hatcher R.
He M.
Heeger K.M.
Heng Y.K.
Higuera A.
Holin A.
Hor Y.K.
Hsiung Y.B.
Hu B.Z.
Hu T.
Hu W.
Huang E.C.
Huang H.X.
Huang J.
Huang X.T.
Universidade Federal de Goiás
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappearance channels, respectively. In this Letter, results from both experiments are combined with those from the Bugey-3 reactor neutrino experiment to constrain oscillations into light sterile neutrinos. The three experiments are sensitive to complementary regions of parameter space, enabling the combined analysis to probe regions allowed by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooNE experiments in a minimally extended four-neutrino flavor framework. Stringent limits on sin22θμe are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δm412. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δm412<0.8 eV2 at 95% CLs.
Volume
117
Issue
15
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84992147340
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
Science and Technology Facilities Council PP/E000398/1, ST/H000887/1, ST/H000887/2, ST/K000640/1, ST/K001329/1, ST/M000028/1, ST/N000307/1, ST/N000404/1, ST/N000447/1 STFC
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