Active to Sterile Neutrino Mixing Limits from Neutral-Current Interactions in MINOS

Autoria(s): ADAMSON, P.; AUTY, D. J.; AYRES, D. S.; BACKHOUSE, C.; BARR, G.; BISHAI, M.; BLAKE, A.; BOCK, G. J.; BOEHNLEIN, D. J.; BOGERT, D.; CAVANAUGH, S.; CHERDACK, D.; CHILDRESS, S.; COELHO, J. A. B.; COLEMAN, S. J.; CORWIN, L.; CRONIN-HENNESSY, D.; DANKO, I. Z.; JONG, J. K. de; DEVENISH, N. E.; DIWAN, M. V.; DORMAN, M.; ESCOBAR, C. O.; EVANS, J. J.; FALK, E.; FELDMAN, G. J.; FROHNE, M. V.; GALLAGHER, H. R.; GOMES, R. A.; GOODMAN, M. C.; Gouffon, Philippe; 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, G. M.; ISVAN, Z.; JAFFE, D. E.; JAMES, C.; JENSEN, D.; KAFKA, T.; KASAHARA, S. M. S.; KOIZUMI, G.; KOPP, S.; KORDOSKY, M.; KREYMER, A.; LANG, K.; LEFEUVRE, G.; LING, J.; LITCHFIELD, P. J.; LOIACONO, L.; LUCAS, P.; MANN, W. A.; MARSHAK, M. L.; MAYER, N.; MCGOWAN, A. M.; MEHDIYEV, R.; MEIER, J. R.; MESSIER, M. D.; MILLER, W. H.; MISHRA, S. R.; MITCHELL, J.; MOORE, C. D.; MORFIN, J.; MUALEM, L.; MUFSON, S.; MUSSER, J.; NAPLES, D.; NELSON, J. K.; NEWMAN, H. B.; NICHOL, R. J.; NICHOLLS, T. C.; NOWAK, J. A.; OLIVER, W. P.; ORCHANIAN, M.; PALEY, J.; PATTERSON, R. B.; PAWLOSKI, G.; PEARCE, G. F.; PETYT, D. A.; PHAN-BUDD, S.; PITTAM, R.; PLUNKETT, R. K.; QIU, X.; RATCHFORD, J.; RAUFER, T. M.; REBEL, B.; RODRIGUES, P. A.; ROSENFELD, C.; RUBIN, H. A.; SANCHEZ, M. C.; SCHNEPS, J.; SCHREINER, P.; SHARMA, R.; SHANAHAN, P.; SOUSA, A.; STAMOULIS, P.; STRAIT, M.; TAGG, N.; TALAGA, R. L.; TETTEH-LARTEY, E.; THOMAS, J.; THOMSON, M. A.; TINTI, G.; TONER, R.; TORRETTA, D.; TZANAKOS, G.; URHEIM, J.; VAHLE, P.; VIREN, B.; WALDING, J. J.; WEBER, A.; WEBB, R. C.; WHITE, C.; WHITEHEAD, L.; WOJCICKI, S. G.; ZWASKA, R.
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
Data(s)

18/04/2012

18/04/2012

2011
Resumo

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 x 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 nu(mu) that may transition to nu(s) is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L.

U.S. DOE

UK STFC

U.S. NSF National Science Foundation

State and University of Minnesota

University of Athens, Greece

Brazil's FAPESP

CNPq

Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
Identificador

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, v.107, n.1, 2011

0031-9007

http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/16034

10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.011802

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.011802
Idioma(s)

eng
Publicador

AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Relação

Physical Review Letters
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Palavras-Chave #MUON NEUTRINO #OSCILLATIONS #SEARCH #Physics, Multidisciplinary
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