Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

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19}, Y X Chen²⁰, J Cheng¹², Z K Cheng¹⁹, J J Cherwinka⁵, S Childress¹, M C Chu²¹, A Chukanov²², J A B Coelho²³, J P Cummings²⁴, N Dash¹², S De Rijck¹³, F S Deng²⁵, Y Y Ding¹², M V Diwan⁸, T Dohnal²⁶, D Dolzhikov²², J Dove²⁷, M Dvořák¹², D A Dwyer²⁸, J J Evans¹⁶, G J Feldman²⁹, W Flanagan^{13

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48}, A Kreymer¹, K Lang¹³, T J Langford⁶, J Lee²⁸, J H C Lee⁵⁰, R T Lei⁴⁷, R Leitner²⁶, J K C Leung⁵⁰, F Li¹², H L Li¹², J J Li¹⁷, Q J Li¹², S Li⁴⁷, S C Li⁴⁴, S J Li¹⁹, W D Li¹², X N Li¹², X Q Li⁵¹, Y F Li¹², Z B Li¹⁹, H Liang²⁵, C J Lin²⁸, G L Lin⁴⁵, S Lin⁴⁷, J J Ling¹⁹, J M Link⁴⁴, L Littenberg⁸, B R Littlejohn³², J C Liu¹², J L Liu⁵², Y Liu⁴³, Y H Liu⁵³, C Lu⁵⁴, H Q Lu¹², J S Lu¹², P Lucas¹, K B Luk^{28

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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 Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
⁵ Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁶ Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁷ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁸ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
⁹ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
¹² Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing.
¹³ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
¹⁴ Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900, Goiánia, Goias, Brazil.
¹⁵ National United University, Miao-Li.
¹⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
¹⁸ Shenzhen University, Shenzhen.
¹⁹ Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou.
²⁰ North China Electric Power University, Beijing.
²¹ Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
²² Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia.
²³ Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
²⁴ Siena College, Loudonville, New York 12211, USA.
²⁵ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.
²⁶ Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
²⁷ Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
²⁸ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA.
²⁹ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
³⁰ Department of Physics, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas 75062, USA.
³¹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
³² Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
³⁴ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
³⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
³⁶ Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
³⁷ Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
³⁸ Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an.
³⁹ Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.
⁴¹ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
⁴² China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing.
⁴³ Shandong University, Jinan.
⁴⁴ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
⁴⁵ Institute of Physics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
⁴⁷ Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
⁵¹ School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin.
⁵² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai.
⁵³ Nanjing University, Nanjing.
⁵⁴ Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
⁵⁵ Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
⁵⁶ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
⁵⁷ Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁵⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
⁶⁰ China General Nuclear Power Group, Shenzhen.
⁶¹ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.
⁶² College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha.
⁶³ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
⁶⁴ Chongqing University, Chongqing.

PMID: 32857527
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.071801

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Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P Adamson et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2020.

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. 2020 Aug 14;125(7):071801.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.071801.

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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 Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
⁵ Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁶ Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁷ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁸ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
⁹ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
¹² Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing.
¹³ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
¹⁴ Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900, Goiánia, Goias, Brazil.
¹⁵ National United University, Miao-Li.
¹⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
¹⁸ Shenzhen University, Shenzhen.
¹⁹ Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou.
²⁰ North China Electric Power University, Beijing.
²¹ Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
²² Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia.
²³ Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
²⁴ Siena College, Loudonville, New York 12211, USA.
²⁵ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.
²⁶ Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
²⁷ Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
²⁸ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA.
²⁹ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
³⁰ Department of Physics, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas 75062, USA.
³¹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
³² Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
³⁴ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
³⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
³⁶ Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
³⁷ Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
³⁸ Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an.
³⁹ Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.
⁴¹ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
⁴² China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing.
⁴³ Shandong University, Jinan.
⁴⁴ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
⁴⁵ Institute of Physics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
⁴⁷ Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
⁵¹ School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin.
⁵² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai.
⁵³ Nanjing University, Nanjing.
⁵⁴ Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
⁵⁵ Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
⁵⁶ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
⁵⁷ Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁵⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
⁶⁰ China General Nuclear Power Group, Shenzhen.
⁶¹ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.
⁶² College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha.
⁶³ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
⁶⁴ Chongqing University, Chongqing.

PMID: 32857527
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.071801

Abstract

Searches for electron antineutrino, muon neutrino, and muon antineutrino disappearance driven by sterile neutrino mixing have been carried out by the Daya Bay and MINOS+ collaborations. This Letter presents the combined results of these searches, along with exclusion results from the Bugey-3 reactor experiment, framed in a minimally extended four-neutrino scenario. Significantly improved constraints on the θ_{μe} mixing angle are derived that constitute the most constraining limits to date over five orders of magnitude in the mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2}, excluding the 90% C.L. sterile-neutrino parameter space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE observations at 90% CL_{s} for Δm_{41}^{2}<13 eV^{2}. Furthermore, the LSND and MiniBooNE 99% C.L. allowed regions are excluded at 99% CL_{s} for Δm_{41}^{2}<1.6 eV^{2}.

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Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

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Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

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