Title
Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit
Date Issued
06 March 2019
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.
Koerner L.W.
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.
Universidade Federal de Goiás
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
A search for mixing between active neutrinos and light sterile neutrinos has been performed by looking for muon neutrino disappearance in two detectors at baselines of 1.04 and 735 km, using a combined MINOS and MINOS+ exposure of 16.36×1020 protons on target. A simultaneous fit to the charged-current muon neutrino and neutral-current neutrino energy spectra in the two detectors yields no evidence for sterile neutrino mixing using a 3+1 model. The most stringent limit to date is set on the mixing parameter sin2θ24 for most values of the sterile neutrino mass splitting Δm412>10-4 eV2.
Volume
122
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85062946871
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
This document was prepared by the MINOS/MINOS+ Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. DOE; the United Kingdom STFC; the U.S. NSF; the State and University of Minnesota; and Brazil’s FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES. We thank the personnel of Fermilab’s Accelerator and Scientific Computing Divisions and the crew of the Soudan Underground Laboratory for their effort and dedication. We thank the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin for the provision of computing resources. We acknowledge fruitful cooperation with Minnesota DNR.
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