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Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS
Arts & Sciences Articles
  • P. Adamson
  • I. Anghel
  • A. Aurisano
  • G. Barr
  • M. Bishai
  • A. Blake
  • G. J. Bock
  • D. Bogert
  • S. V. Cao
  • T. J. Carroll
  • C. M. Castromonte
  • R. Chen
  • S. Childress
  • J. A. B. Coelho
  • L. Corwin
  • D. Cronin-Hennessy
  • J. K. de Jong
  • S. De Rijck
  • A. V. Devan, William & Mary
  • N. E. Devenish
  • M. V. Diwan
  • Michael A. Kordosky, William & Mary
  • Jeffrey K Nelson, William & Mary
  • A. Radovic, William & Mary
  • Patricia Vahle, William & Mary
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Pub Date
10-7-2016
Place of Publication
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Abstract

We report results of a search for oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino over distances of 1.04 and 735 km in a nu(mu)-dominated beam with a peak energy of 3 GeV. The data, from an exposure of 10.56 x 10(20) protons on target, are analyzed using a phenomenological model with one sterile neutrino. We constrain the mixing parameters theta(24) and Delta m(41)(2) and set limits on parameters of the four-dimensional Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix, vertical bar U-mu 4 vertical bar(2) and vertical bar U-tau 4 vertical bar(2), under the assumption that mixing between nu(e) and nu(s) is negligible (vertical bar U-e4 vertical bar(2) = 0). No evidence for nu(mu) -> nu(s) transitions is found and we set a world-leading limit on theta(24) for values of Delta m(41)(2) less than or similar to 1 eV(2).

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151803
Citation Information
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano, G. Barr, et al.. "Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS" Vol. 117 Iss. 15 (2016)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey-nelson/19/