Adamson, P;
An, FP;
Anghel, I;
Aurisano, A;
Balantekin, AB;
Band, HR;
Barr, G;
... Zou, JH; + view all
(2016)
Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments.
Physical Review Letters
, 117
(15)
, Article 151801. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801.
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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 sin22θμe are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δm241. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δm241<0.8 eV2 at 95% CLs.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 American Physical Society. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Physics, reactor, spectrum |
| 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/1529390 |
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