Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment.
We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site would indicate mixing between nu(mu) and a sterile particle. No anomalous depletion in the reconstructed energy spectr...
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| author | Adamson, P Andreopoulos, C Arms, K Armstrong, R Auty, D Ayres, D Backhouse, C Baller, B Barr, G Barrett, W Becker, B Belias, A Bernstein, R Bhattacharya, D Bishai, M Blake, A Bock, G Boehm, J Boehnlein, D Bogert, D Bower, C Buckley-Geer, E Cavanaugh, S Chapman, J Cherdack, D |
| author_facet | Adamson, P Andreopoulos, C Arms, K Armstrong, R Auty, D Ayres, D Backhouse, C Baller, B Barr, G Barrett, W Becker, B Belias, A Bernstein, R Bhattacharya, D Bishai, M Blake, A Bock, G Boehm, J Boehnlein, D Bogert, D Bower, C Buckley-Geer, E Cavanaugh, S Chapman, J Cherdack, D |
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| description | We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site would indicate mixing between nu(mu) and a sterile particle. No anomalous depletion in the reconstructed energy spectrum is observed. Assuming oscillations occur at a single mass-squared splitting, a fit to the neutral- and charged-current energy spectra limits the fraction of nu(mu) oscillating to a sterile neutrino to be below 0.68 at 90% confidence level. A less stringent limit due to a possible contribution to the measured neutral-current event rate at the far site from nu(e) appearance at the current experimental limit is also presented. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0cbc64ac-4b14-4b42-ae8f-18d475d529c62022-03-26T09:36:38ZSearch for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0cbc64ac-4b14-4b42-ae8f-18d475d529c6EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Adamson, PAndreopoulos, CArms, KArmstrong, RAuty, DAyres, DBackhouse, CBaller, BBarr, GBarrett, WBecker, BBelias, ABernstein, RBhattacharya, DBishai, MBlake, ABock, GBoehm, JBoehnlein, DBogert, DBower, CBuckley-Geer, ECavanaugh, SChapman, JCherdack, DWe report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site would indicate mixing between nu(mu) and a sterile particle. No anomalous depletion in the reconstructed energy spectrum is observed. Assuming oscillations occur at a single mass-squared splitting, a fit to the neutral- and charged-current energy spectra limits the fraction of nu(mu) oscillating to a sterile neutrino to be below 0.68 at 90% confidence level. A less stringent limit due to a possible contribution to the measured neutral-current event rate at the far site from nu(e) appearance at the current experimental limit is also presented. |
| spellingShingle | Adamson, P Andreopoulos, C Arms, K Armstrong, R Auty, D Ayres, D Backhouse, C Baller, B Barr, G Barrett, W Becker, B Belias, A Bernstein, R Bhattacharya, D Bishai, M Blake, A Bock, G Boehm, J Boehnlein, D Bogert, D Bower, C Buckley-Geer, E Cavanaugh, S Chapman, J Cherdack, D Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment. |
| title | Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment. |
| title_full | Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment. |
| title_fullStr | Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment. |
| title_short | Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment. |
| title_sort | search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral current interactions in the minos long baseline experiment |
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