Title
Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS experiment
Date Issued
16 December 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 new constraints on the size of large extra dimensions from data collected by the MINOS experiment between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis employs a model in which sterile neutrinos arise as Kaluza-Klein states in large extra dimensions and thus modify the neutrino oscillation probabilities due to mixing between active and sterile neutrino states. Using Fermilab's Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam exposure of 10.56×1020 protons on target, we combine muon neutrino charged current and neutral current data sets from the Near and Far Detectors and observe no evidence for deviations from standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations. The ratios of reconstructed energy spectra in the two detectors constrain the size of large extra dimensions to be smaller than 0.45 μm at 90% C.L. in the limit of a vanishing lightest active neutrino mass. Stronger limits are obtained for nonvanishing masses.
Volume
94
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física nuclear Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85021685915
Source
Physical Review D
ISSN of the container
24700010
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation 1506309 NSF Science and Technology Facilities Council MINOS/MINOS+, PP/E000398/1, ST/H000887/1, ST/H000887/2, ST/K000640/1, ST/K001329/1, ST/K001426/1, ST/N000285/1, ST/N000307/1, ST/N000404/1
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