Adamson, P;
Anghel, I;
Aurisano, A;
Barr, G;
Bishai, M;
Blake, A;
Bock, GJ;
... Zwaska, R; + view all
(2016)
Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS experiment.
Physical Review D
, 94
(11)
, Article 111101(R). 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.111101.
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Abstract
We report new constraints on the size of large extra dimensions from data collected by the MINOS experiment between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis employs a model in which sterile neutrinos arise as Kaluza-Klein states in large extra dimensions and thus modify the neutrino oscillation probabilities due to mixing between active and sterile neutrino states. Using Fermilab’s Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam exposure of 10.56×1020 protons on target, we combine muon neutrino charged current and neutral current data sets from the Near and Far Detectors and observe no evidence for deviations from standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations. The ratios of reconstructed energy spectra in the two detectors constrain the size of large extra dimensions to be smaller than 0.45 μm at 90% C.L. in the limit of a vanishing lightest active neutrino mass. Stronger limits are obtained for nonvanishing masses.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS experiment |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.111101 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.111101 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 American Physical Society. |
Keywords: | science & technology, physical sciences, astronomy & astrophysics, physics, particles & fields, physics, neutrino oscillations, lepton charge, matter, mass |
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/1536134 |
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