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. 2011 May 6;106(18):181801.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.181801. Epub 2011 May 2.

Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS

P Adamson  1 , C Andreopoulos, R Armstrong, D J Auty, D S Ayres, C Backhouse, G Barr, M Bishai, A Blake, G J Bock, D J Boehnlein, D Bogert, S Cavanaugh, D Cherdack, S Childress, B C Choudhary, J A B Coelho, S J Coleman, L Corwin, D Cronin-Hennessy, I Z Danko, J K de Jong, N E Devenish, M V Diwan, M Dorman, C O Escobar, J J Evans, E Falk, G J Feldman, M V Frohne, H R Gallagher, R A Gomes, M C Goodman, P Gouffon, N Graf, R Gran, N Grant, K Grzelak, A Habig, D Harris, J Hartnell, R Hatcher, A Himmel, A Holin, X Huang, J Hylen, J Ilic, G M Irwin, Z Isvan, D E Jaffe, C James, D Jensen, T Kafka, S M S Kasahara, G Koizumi, S Kopp, M Kordosky, A Kreymer, K Lang, G Lefeuvre, J Ling, P J Litchfield, R P Litchfield, L Loiacono, P Lucas, W A Mann, M L Marshak, N Mayer, A M McGowan, R Mehdiyev, J R Meier, M D Messier, D G Michael, W H Miller, S R Mishra, J Mitchell, C D Moore, J Morfín, L Mualem, S Mufson, J Musser, D Naples, J K Nelson, H B Newman, R J Nichol, J A Nowak, W P Oliver, M Orchanian, R Ospanov, J Paley, R B Patterson, G Pawloski, G F Pearce, D A Petyt, S Phan-Budd, R K Plunkett, X Qiu, J Ratchford, T M Raufer, B Rebel, P A Rodrigues, C Rosenfeld, H A Rubin, M C Sanchez, J Schneps, P Schreiner, P Shanahan, C Smith, A Sousa, P Stamoulis, M Strait, N Tagg, R L Talaga, J Thomas, M A Thomson, G Tinti, R Toner, G Tzanakos, J Urheim, P Vahle, B Viren, A Weber, R C Webb, C White, L Whitehead, S G Wojcicki, T Yang, R Zwaska; MINOS Collaboration
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Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS

P Adamson et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

Measurements of neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam as observed by the two MINOS detectors are reported. New analysis methods have been applied to an enlarged data sample from an exposure of 7.25×10(20) protons on target. A fit to neutrino oscillations yields values of |Δm(2)|=(2.32(-0.08)(+0.12))×10(-3) eV(2) for the atmospheric mass splitting and sin(2)(2θ)>0.90 (90% C.L.) for the mixing angle. Pure neutrino decay and quantum decoherence hypotheses are excluded at 7 and 9 standard deviations, respectively.

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