Published July 1, 2011
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Journal article
Active to Sterile Neutrino Mixing Limits from Neutral-Current Interactions in MINOS
Creators
- 1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
Description
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 7.07x1020 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 fs of disappearing νμ that may transition to νs is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.011802;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1104.3922v4;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 107
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 011802-011802.5
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- Syrian Arab Republic
- INIS RN
- 43045921
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FLAVOR MODEL; MUON NEUTRINOS; NEUTRAL CURRENTS; NEUTRAL-CURRENT INTERACTIONS; NEUTRINO BEAMS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; OSCILLATIONS; PROTONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS; BARYONS; BEAMS; COMPOSITE MODELS; CURRENTS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics
- Collaborations
- MINOS Collaboration