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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Abstract

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 16.36×1020 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 sin2θ24 for most values of the sterile neutrino mass splitting Δm412>10-4 eV2.

Original language	English
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
Externally published	Yes

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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.

Funders	Funder number
Not added	ST/M000028/1, ST/N000285/1
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	DE-AC02-07CH11359
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
University of Minnesota
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/N000447/1, MINOS/MINOS+
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

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

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