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Search for Active Neutrino Disappearance Using Neutral-Current Interactions in the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment

Adamson, P; Andreopoulos, C; Arms, KE; Armstrong, R; Auty, DJ; Ayres, DS; Backhouse, C; ... MINOS Collaboration; + view all (2008) Search for Active Neutrino Disappearance Using Neutral-Current Interactions in the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment. PHYS REV LETT , 101 (22) , Article 221804. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.221804. Green open access

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Abstract

We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site would indicate mixing between nu(mu) and a sterile particle. No anomalous depletion in the reconstructed energy spectrum is observed. Assuming oscillations occur at a single mass-squared splitting, a fit to the neutral- and charged-current energy spectra limits the fraction of nu(mu) oscillating to a sterile neutrino to be below 0.68 at 90% confidence level. A less stringent limit due to a possible contribution to the measured neutral-current event rate at the far site from nu(e) appearance at the current experimental limit is also presented.

Type: Article
Title: Search for Active Neutrino Disappearance Using Neutral-Current Interactions in the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.221804
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.221804
Language: English
Additional information: © 2008 The American Physical Society
Keywords: SINGLE-PHOTON PRODUCTION, ATMOSPHERIC-NU, R-PROCESS, OSCILLATIONS, KAMIOKANDE, RESONANCE
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/148302
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