First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA

This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of νμ disappearance in a νμ beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of 2.74×10 20 protons-on-target from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Assuming the normal neutrino mass hierarchy, we measure Δm232=(2.52+0.20−0.18)×10−3eV2 and...

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Glavni autori: Adamson, P, Ader, C, Andrews, M, Anfimov, N, Anghel, I, Arms, K, Arrieta-Diaz, E, Aurisano, A, Ayres, DS, Backhouse, C, Baird, M, Bambah, BA, Bays, K, Bernstein, R, Betancourt, M, Bhatnagar, V, Bhuyan, B, Bian, J, Biery, K, Blackburn, T, Bocean, V, Bogert, D, Bolshakova, A, Bowden, M, Bower, C, Broemmelsiek, D, Bromberg, C, Brunetti, G, Bu, X, Butkevich, A, Capista, D, Catano-Mur, E, Chase, TR, Childress, S, Choudhary, BC, Chowdhury, B, Coan, TE, Coelho, JAB, Colo, M, Cooper, J, Corwin, L, Cronin-Hennessy, D, Cunningham, A, Davies, GS, Davies, JP, Del Tutto, M, Derwent, PF, Deepthi, KN, Demuth, D, Desai, S, Deuerling, G, Devan, A, Dey, J, Dharmapalan, R, Ding, P, Dixon, S, Djurcic, Z, Dukes, EC, Duyang, H, Ehrlich, R, Feldman, GJ, Felt, N, Fenyves, EJ, Flumerfelt, E, Foulkes, S, Frank, MJ, Freeman, W, Gabrielyan, M, Gallagher, HR, Gebhard, M, Ghosh, T, Gilbert, W, Giri, A, Goadhouse, S, Gomes, RA, Goodenough, L, Goodman, MC, Grichine, V, Grossman, N, Group, R, Grudzinski, J, Guarino, V, Guo, B, Habig, A, Handler, T, Hartnell, J, Hatcher, R, Hatzikoutelis, A, Heller, K, Howcroft, C, Huang, J, Huang, X, Hylen, J, Ishitsuka, M, Jediny, F, Jensen, C, Jensen, D, Johnson, C, Jostlein, H, Kafka, GK, Kamyshkov, Y, Kasahara, SMS, Kasetti, S, Kephart, K, Koizumi, G, Kotelnikov, S, Kourbanis, I, Krahn, Z, Kravtsov, V, Kreymer, A, Kulenberg, C, Kumar, A, Kutnink, T, Kwarciancy, R, Kwong, J, Lang, K, Lee, A, Lee, WM, Lee, K, Lein, S, Liu, J, Lokajicek, M, Lozier, J, Lu, Q, Lucas, P, Luchuk, S, Lukens, P, Lukhanin, G, Magill, S, Maan, K, Mann, WA, Marshak, ML, Martens, M, Martincik, J, Mason, P, Matera, K, Mathis, M, Matveev, V, Mayer, N, McCluskey, E, Mehdiyev, R, Merritt, H, Messier, MD, Meyer, H, Miao, T, Michael, D, Mikheyev, SP, Miller, WH, Mishra, SR, Mohanta, R, Moren, A, Mualem, L, Muether, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Newman, HB, Nelson, JK, Niner, E, Norman, A, Nowak, J, Oksuzian, Y, Olshevskiy, A, Oliver, J, Olson, T, Paley, J, Pandey, P, Para, A, Patterson, RB, Pawloski, G, Pearson, N, Perevalov, D, Pershey, D, Peterson, E, Petti, R, Phan-Budd, S, Piccoli, L, Pla-Dalmau, A, Plunkett, RK, Poling, R, Potukuchi, B, Psihas, F, Pushka, D, Qiu, X, Raddatz, N, Radovic, A, Rameika, RA, Ray, R, Rebel, B, Rechenmacher, R, Reed, B, Reilly, R, Rocco, D, Rodkin, D, Ruddick, K, Rusack, R, Ryabov, V, Sachdev, K, Sahijpal, S, Sahoo, H, Samoylov, O, Sanchez, MC, Saoulidou, N, Schlabach, P, Schneps, J, Schroeter, R, Sepulveda-Quiroz, J, Shanahan, P, Sherwood, B, Sheshukov, A, Singh, J, Singh, V, Smith, A, Smith, D, Smolik, J, Solomey, N, Sotnikov, A, Sousa, A, Soustruznik, K, Stenkin, Y, Strait, M, Suter, L, Talaga, RL, Tamsett, MC, Tariq, S, Tas, P, Tesarek, RJ, Thayyullathil, RB, Thomsen, K, Tian, X, Tognini, SC, Toner, R, Trevor, J, Tzanakos, G, Urheim, J, Vahle, P, Valerio, L, Vinton, L, Vrba, T, Waldron, AV, Wang, B, Wang, Z, Weber, A, Wehmann, A, Whittington, D, Wilcer, N, Wildberger, R, Wildman, D, Williams, K, Wojcicki, SG, Wood, K, Xiao, M, Xin, T, Yadav, N, Yang, S, Zadorozhnyy, S, Zalesak, J, Zamorano, B, Zhao, A, Zirnstein, J, Zwaska, R
Format: Journal article
Izdano: American Physical Society 2016