Abstract
We report the final measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters Δm322 and sin2θ23 using all data from the MINOS and MINOS+ experiments. These data were collected using a total exposure of 23.76×1020 protons on target producing ν and ν beams and 60.75 kt yr exposure to atmospheric neutrinos. The measurement of the disappearance of ν and the appearance of νe events between the Near and Far detectors yields |Δm322|=2.40-0.09+0.08(2.45-0.08+0.07)×10-3 eV2 and sin2θ23=0.43-0.04+0.20(0.42-0.03+0.07) at 68% C.L. for normal (inverted) hierarchy.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 131802 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 125 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported by the U.S. DOE; the United Kingdom STFC, part of UKRI; the U.S. NSF; the State and University of Minnesota; and Brazil’s FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES. We are grateful to Fermilab and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the personnel of the Soudan Laboratory. We thank the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin for the provision of computing resources.