Search for flavor-changing nonstandard neutrino interactions using νe appearance in MINOS

(MINOS Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.012005

Search for flavor-changing nonstandard neutrino interactions using νe appearance in MINOS

(MINOS Collaboration)

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Abstract

We report new constraints on flavor-changing nonstandard neutrino interactions from the MINOS long-baseline experiment using νe and νe appearance candidate events from predominantly νμ and νμ beams. We used a statistical selection algorithm to separate νe candidates from background events, enabling an analysis of the combined MINOS neutrino and antineutrino data. We observe no deviations from standard neutrino mixing, and thus place constraints on the nonstandard interaction matter effect, | μeτ|, and phase, (δCP+δeτ), using a 30-bin likelihood fit.

Original language	English
Article number	012005
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	95
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.012005
State	Published - Jan 9 2017
Externally published	Yes

Funding

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 are grateful to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the crew of the Soudan Underground Lab, and the personnel of Fermilab for their contribution to this effort.

Funders	Funder number
U.S. DOE
National Science Foundation
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
University of Minnesota
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/N000404/1, PP/E000398/1, ST/N000307/1, ST/K000640/1, ST/H000887/1, ST/K001329/1, ST/M000028/1, ST/H000887/2
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

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