Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS

P Adamson¹, I Anghel^{2

3}, A Aurisano⁴, G Barr⁵, M Bishai⁶, A Blake^{7

8}, G J Bock¹, D Bogert¹, S V Cao⁹, T J Carroll⁹, C M Castromonte¹⁰, R Chen¹¹, S Childress¹, J A B Coelho¹², L Corwin¹³, D Cronin-Hennessy¹⁴, J K de Jong⁵, S De Rijck⁹, A V Devan¹⁵, N E Devenish¹⁶, M V Diwan⁶, C O Escobar¹⁷, J J Evans¹¹, E Falk¹⁶, G J Feldman¹⁸, W Flanagan⁹, M V Frohne¹⁹, M Gabrielyan¹⁴, H R Gallagher¹², S Germani²⁰, R A Gomes¹⁰, M C Goodman², P Gouffon²¹, N Graf²², R Gran²³, K Grzelak²⁴, A Habig²³, S R Hahn¹, J Hartnell¹⁶, R Hatcher¹, A Holin²⁰, J Huang⁹, J Hylen¹, G M Irwin²⁵, Z Isvan⁶, C James¹, D Jensen¹, T Kafka¹², S M S Kasahara¹⁴, G Koizumi¹, M Kordosky¹⁵, A Kreymer¹, K Lang⁹, J Ling⁶, P J Litchfield^{14

26}, P Lucas¹, W A Mann¹², M L Marshak¹⁴, N Mayer¹², C McGivern²², M M Medeiros¹⁰, R Mehdiyev⁹, J R Meier¹⁴, M D Messier¹³, W H Miller¹⁴, S R Mishra²⁷, S Moed Sher¹, C D Moore¹, L Mualem²⁸, J Musser¹³, D Naples²², J K Nelson¹⁵, H B Newman²⁸, R J Nichol²⁰, J A Nowak¹⁴, J O'Connor²⁰, M Orchanian²⁸, R B Pahlka¹, J Paley², R B Patterson²⁸, G Pawloski¹⁴, A Perch²⁰, M M Pfützner²⁰, D D Phan⁹, S Phan-Budd², R K Plunkett¹, N Poonthottathil¹, X Qiu²⁵, A Radovic¹⁵, B Rebel¹, C Rosenfeld²⁷, H A Rubin²⁹, P Sail⁹, M C Sanchez^{2

3}, J Schneps¹², A Schreckenberger⁹, P Schreiner², R Sharma¹, A Sousa⁴, N Tagg³⁰, R L Talaga², J Thomas²⁰, M A Thomson⁷, X Tian²⁷, A Timmons¹¹, J Todd⁴, S C Tognini¹⁰, R Toner¹⁸, D Torretta¹, G Tzanakos³¹, J Urheim¹³, P Vahle¹⁵, B Viren⁶, A Weber^{5

26}, R C Webb³², C White²⁹, L Whitehead³³, L H Whitehead²⁰, S G Wojcicki²⁵, R Zwaska¹; MINOS Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
² Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA.
⁴ Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
⁵ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁶ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
⁷ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
⁸ Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
¹⁰ Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
¹¹ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
¹² Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
¹³ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
¹⁴ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, CP 6165, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁸ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁹ Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
²⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
²¹ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
²² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²³ Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA.
²⁴ Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
²⁵ Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
²⁶ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
²⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
²⁸ Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
²⁹ Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³⁰ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.
³¹ Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece.
³² Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
³³ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.

PMID: 27768323
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151803

Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS

P Adamson et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2016.

. 2016 Oct 7;117(15):151803.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151803. Epub 2016 Oct 7.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
² Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA.
⁴ Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
⁵ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁶ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
⁷ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
⁸ Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
¹⁰ Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
¹¹ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
¹² Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
¹³ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
¹⁴ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, CP 6165, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁸ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁹ Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
²⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
²¹ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
²² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²³ Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA.
²⁴ Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
²⁵ Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
²⁶ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
²⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
²⁸ Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
²⁹ Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³⁰ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.
³¹ Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece.
³² Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
³³ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.

PMID: 27768323
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151803

Abstract

We report results of a search for oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino over distances of 1.04 and 735 km in a ν_{μ}-dominated beam with a peak energy of 3 GeV. The data, from an exposure of 10.56×10^{20} protons on target, are analyzed using a phenomenological model with one sterile neutrino. We constrain the mixing parameters θ_{24} and Δm_{41}^{2} and set limits on parameters of the four-dimensional Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix, |U_{μ4}|^{2} and |U_{τ4}|^{2}, under the assumption that mixing between ν_{e} and ν_{s} is negligible (|U_{e4}|^{2}=0). No evidence for ν_{μ}→ν_{s} transitions is found and we set a world-leading limit on θ_{24} for values of Δm_{41}^{2}≲1 eV^{2}.

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