Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit

(MINOS+ Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.091803

Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit

(MINOS+ Collaboration)

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A search for mixing between active neutrinos and light sterile neutrinos has been performed by looking for muon neutrino disappearance in two detectors at baselines of 1.04 and 735 km, using a combined MINOS and MINOS+ exposure of 16.36×10^{20} protons on target. A simultaneous fit to the charged-current muon neutrino and neutral-current neutrino energy spectra in the two detectors yields no evidence for sterile neutrino mixing using a 3+1 model. The most stringent limit to date is set on the mixing parameter sin^{2}θ_{24} for most values of the sterile neutrino mass splitting Δm_{41}^{2}>10^{-4} eV^{2}.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	091803
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	122
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.091803
State	Published - Mar 6 2019

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This document was prepared by the MINOS/MINOS+ Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. DOE; the United Kingdom STFC; the U.S. NSF; the State and University of Minnesota; and Brazil’s FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES. We thank the personnel of Fermilab’s Accelerator and Scientific Computing Divisions and the crew of the Soudan Underground Laboratory for their effort and dedication. We thank the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin for the provision of computing resources. We acknowledge fruitful cooperation with Minnesota DNR.

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