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Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS.

Authors :
Adamson P
Auty DJ
Ayres DS
Backhouse C
Barr G
Bishai M
Blake A
Bock GJ
Boehnlein DJ
Bogert D
Cavanaugh S
Cherdack D
Childress S
Coelho JA
Coleman SJ
Corwin L
Cronin-Hennessy D
Danko IZ
de Jong JK
Devenish NE
Diwan MV
Dorman M
Escobar CO
Evans JJ
Falk E
Feldman GJ
Frohne MV
Gallagher HR
Gomes RA
Goodman MC
Gouffon P
Graf N
Gran R
Grant N
Grzelak K
Habig A
Harris D
Hartnell J
Hatcher R
Himmel A
Holin A
Huang X
Hylen J
Ilic J
Irwin GM
Isvan Z
Jaffe DE
James C
Jensen D
Kafka T
Kasahara SM
Koizumi G
Kopp S
Kordosky M
Kreymer A
Lang K
Lefeuvre G
Ling J
Litchfield PJ
Loiacono L
Lucas P
Mann WA
Marshak ML
Mayer N
McGowan AM
Mehdiyev R
Meier JR
Messier MD
Miller WH
Mishra SR
Mitchell J
Moore CD
Morfín J
Mualem L
Mufson S
Musser J
Naples D
Nelson JK
Newman HB
Nichol RJ
Nicholls TC
Nowak JA
Oliver WP
Orchanian M
Paley J
Patterson RB
Pawloski G
Pearce GF
Petyt DA
Phan-Budd S
Pittam R
Plunkett RK
Qiu X
Ratchford J
Raufer TM
Rebel B
Rodrigues PA
Rosenfeld C
Rubin HA
Sanchez MC
Schneps J
Schreiner P
Sharma R
Shanahan P
Sousa A
Stamoulis P
Strait M
Tagg N
Talaga RL
Tetteh-Lartey E
Thomas J
Thomson MA
Tinti G
Toner R
Torretta D
Tzanakos G
Urheim J
Vahle P
Viren B
Walding JJ
Weber A
Webb RC
White C
Whitehead L
Wojcicki SG
Zwaska R
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2011 Jul 01; Vol. 107 (1), pp. 011802. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Jun 30.
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interactions, from an exposure to the NuMI neutrino beam of 7.07×10(20) protons on target. A total of 802 neutral-current event candidates is observed in the Far Detector, compared to an expected number of 754 ± 28(stat) ± 37(syst) for oscillations among three active flavors. The fraction f(s) of disappearing ν(μ) that may transition to ν(s) is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
107
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
21797535
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.011802