Title
Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS
Date Issued
07 October 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Adamson P.
Anghel I.
Aurisano A.
Barr G.
Bishai M.
Blake A.
Bock G.J.
Bogert D.
Cao S.V.
Carroll T.J.
Chen R.
Childress S.
Coelho J.A.B.
Corwin L.
Cronin-Hennessy D.
De Jong J.K.
De Rijck S.
Devan A.V.
Devenish N.E.
Diwan M.V.
Escobar C.O.
Evans J.J.
Falk E.
Feldman G.J.
Flanagan W.
Frohne M.V.
Gabrielyan M.
Gallagher H.R.
Germani S.
Gomes R.A.
Goodman M.C.
Gouffon P.
Graf N.
Gran R.
Grzelak K.
Habig A.
Hahn S.R.
Hartnell J.
Hatcher R.
Holin A.
Huang J.
Hylen J.
Irwin G.M.
Isvan Z.
James C.
Jensen D.
Kafka T.
Kasahara S.M.S.
Koizumi G.
Kordosky M.
Kreymer A.
Lang K.
Ling J.
Litchfield P.J.
Lucas P.
Mann W.A.
Marshak M.L.
Mayer N.
McGivern C.
Medeiros M.M.
Mehdiyev R.
Meier J.R.
Messier M.D.
Miller W.H.
Mishra S.R.
Moed Sher S.
Moore C.D.
Mualem L.
Musser J.
Naples D.
Nelson J.K.
Newman H.B.
Nichol R.J.
Nowak J.A.
O'Connor J.
Orchanian M.
Pahlka R.B.
Paley J.
Patterson R.B.
Pawloski G.
Perch A.
Pfützner M.M.
Phan D.D.
Phan-Budd S.
Plunkett R.K.
Poonthottathil N.
Qiu X.
Radovic A.
Rebel B.
Rosenfeld C.
Rubin H.A.
Sail P.
Sanchez M.C.
Schneps J.
Schreckenberger A.
Schreiner P.
Sharma R.
Sousa A.
Tagg N.
Universidade Federal de Goiás
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
We report results of a search for oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino over distances of 1.04 and 735 km in a νμ-dominated beam with a peak energy of 3 GeV. The data, from an exposure of 10.56×1020 protons on target, are analyzed using a phenomenological model with one sterile neutrino. We constrain the mixing parameters θ24 and Δm412 and set limits on parameters of the four-dimensional Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix, |Uμ4|2 and |Uτ4|2, under the assumption that mixing between νe and νs is negligible (|Ue4|2=0). No evidence for νμ→νs transitions is found and we set a world-leading limit on θ24 for values of Δm4121 eV2.
Volume
117
Issue
15
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84992092218
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
Science and Technology Facilities Council MINOS/MINOS+, PP/E000398/1, ST/H000887/1, ST/H000887/2, ST/I002626/1, ST/K000640/1, ST/K001329/1, ST/K001426/1, ST/M000028/1, ST/N000307/1, ST/N000404/1, ST/N000447/1, ST/N000285/1 STFC
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