Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P Adamson¹, F P An², I Anghel^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
² Institute of Modern Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA.
⁴ Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
⁵ Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
⁶ Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁸ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁹ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹⁰ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.
¹² Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
¹³ National United University, Miao-Li.
¹⁴ Nanjing University, Nanjing.
¹⁵ Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing.
¹⁶ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
¹⁷ Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
¹⁸ Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
¹⁹ Institute of Physics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu.
²⁰ Shandong University, Jinan.
²¹ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
²² Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
²³ Shenzhen University, Shenzhen.
²⁴ North China Electric Power University, Beijing.
²⁵ Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou.
²⁶ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region.
²⁷ Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
²⁸ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
²⁹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
³⁰ Siena College, Loudonville, New York 12211, USA.
³¹ Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³² Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
³³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.
³⁴ Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
³⁵ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA.
³⁶ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, CP 6165, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
³⁷ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
³⁸ Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
³⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
⁴⁰ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁴¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
⁴² Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA.
⁴³ Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai.
⁴⁵ Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
⁴⁷ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
⁴⁸ China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing.
⁴⁹ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
⁵¹ School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin.
⁵² Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan.
⁵³ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
⁵⁵ Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁵⁶ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
⁵⁷ Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
⁵⁸ Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an.
⁵⁹ Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁶⁰ Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
⁶¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
⁶² Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
⁶³ Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
⁶⁴ China General Nuclear Power Group.
⁶⁵ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece.
⁶⁷ College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha.
⁶⁸ Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
⁶⁹ Chongqing University, Chongqing.

PMID: 27768356
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801

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Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P Adamson et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2016.

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. 2016 Oct 7;117(15):151801.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801. Epub 2016 Oct 7.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
² Institute of Modern Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA.
⁴ Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
⁵ Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
⁶ Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁸ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁹ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹⁰ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.
¹² Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
¹³ National United University, Miao-Li.
¹⁴ Nanjing University, Nanjing.
¹⁵ Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing.
¹⁶ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
¹⁷ Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
¹⁸ Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
¹⁹ Institute of Physics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu.
²⁰ Shandong University, Jinan.
²¹ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
²² Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
²³ Shenzhen University, Shenzhen.
²⁴ North China Electric Power University, Beijing.
²⁵ Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou.
²⁶ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region.
²⁷ Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
²⁸ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
²⁹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
³⁰ Siena College, Loudonville, New York 12211, USA.
³¹ Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³² Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
³³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.
³⁴ Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
³⁵ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA.
³⁶ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, CP 6165, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
³⁷ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
³⁸ Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
³⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
⁴⁰ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁴¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
⁴² Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA.
⁴³ Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai.
⁴⁵ Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
⁴⁷ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
⁴⁸ China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing.
⁴⁹ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
⁵¹ School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin.
⁵² Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan.
⁵³ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
⁵⁵ Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁵⁶ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
⁵⁷ Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
⁵⁸ Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an.
⁵⁹ Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁶⁰ Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
⁶¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
⁶² Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
⁶³ Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
⁶⁴ China General Nuclear Power Group.
⁶⁵ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece.
⁶⁷ College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha.
⁶⁸ Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
⁶⁹ Chongqing University, Chongqing.

PMID: 27768356
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801

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Publisher's Note: Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151801 (2016)].
Adamson P, Anonymous; Daya Bay Collaboration; MINOS Collaboration. Adamson P, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Nov 11;117(20):209901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.209901. Epub 2016 Nov 10. Phys Rev Lett. 2016. PMID: 27886500

Abstract

Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappearance channels, respectively. In this Letter, results from both experiments are combined with those from the Bugey-3 reactor neutrino experiment to constrain oscillations into light sterile neutrinos. The three experiments are sensitive to complementary regions of parameter space, enabling the combined analysis to probe regions allowed by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooNE experiments in a minimally extended four-neutrino flavor framework. Stringent limits on sin^{2}2θ_{μe} are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2}. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δm_{41}^{2}<0.8 eV^{2} at 95% CL_{s}.

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