1. Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Beam
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Morfin, J., Sousa, A., Bower, C., Holin, A., Marshall, J. S., Gallagher, H. R., Barr, G., Wojcicki, S. G., Hylen, J., Mayer, N., Meier, J. R., Merzon, G. I., Nichol, R. J., Watabe, M., Evans, J. J., Bhattacharya, D., Mufson, S., Miller, J. L., Rebel, B., Murgia, S., Stamoulis, P., Blake, A., Shanahan, P., Himmel, A., Talaga, R. L., Rodrigues, P. A., Baller, B., Kordosky, M., Koizumi, G., Becker, B. R., Reichenbacher, J., Vahle, P., Kotelnikov, S. K., Strait, M., Petyt, D. A., Litchfield, P. J., Viren, B., Childress, S., Ochoa-Ricoux, J. P., Peterson, E. A., Ma, J., Thomas, J., Raufer, T. M., Cobb, J. H., Gran, R., Cherdack, D., Zhang, K., Harris, P. G., Trostin, I., Seun, S. M., Ward, D. R., Peck, C. W., Coleman, S. J., Dytman, S. A., Heller, K., Chapman, J. D., Bock, G. J., Pearce, G. F., Kasahara, S. M. S., Symes, P., Pavlovic, Z., Bogert, D., Paolone, V., Lucas, P., Smith, C., Marchionni, A., Ward, C. P., Marshak, M. L., Feldman, Gary, Nelson, J. K., Arms, K. E., Armstrong, R., Mishra, S. R., Thompson, J., Zwaska, R., Irwin, G. M., McGowan, A. M., Newman, H. B., Boehm, J., Kim, J. J., Culling, A. J., Lang, K., Messier, M. D., Oliver, W. P., Weber, A., Schreiner, P., Grossman, N., Ling, J., Kafka, T., Mann, W. A., Belias, A., Thron, J. L., Tagg, N., Zois, M., Moore, C. D., Ruddick, K., Auty, D. J., Pittam, R., Diwan, M. V., Saoulidou, N., Loiacono, L., James, C., Dorman, M., Kopp, S., de Jong, J. K., Thomson, M. A., Rosenfeld, C., Kim, M. S., Webb, R. C., Smart, W., Nicholls, T. C., Jaffe, D. E., Wehmann, A., Hartnell, J., Para, A., Miller, W. H., Litchfield, R. P., Dierckxsens, M., Metelko, C. J., Grashorn, E. W., West, N., Musser, J., Ishitsuka, M., Grzelak, K., Bernstein, R. H., Godley, A., Jensen, D., Sanchez, M. C., Pawloski, G., Naples, D., Goodman, M. C., Escobar, C. O., Speakman, B., Boehnlein, D. J., Rahaman, A., Koskinen, D. J., Wright, D. M., Adamson, P., Harris, D., Ayres, D. S., Ospanov, R., Hatcher, R., Habig, A., Falk Harris, E., Barnes Jr., P. D., Kreymer, A., Andreopoulos, C., Tavera, M. A., Cavanaugh, S., Tsarev, V. A., Rubin, H. A., Paley, J., Bishai, M., Frohne, M. V., Patzak, T., Michael, D. G., Schneps, J., Barrett, W. L., Plunkett, R. K., Choudhary, B. C., Gouffon, P., Ryabov, V. A., Yang, T., Kumaratunga, S., Rameika, R. A., Tzanakos, G., White, C., Mualem, L., Buckley-Geer, E., Tinti, G., and Urheim, J.
- Abstract
(G. J. Feldman is the Harvard author) This Letter reports new results from the MINOS experiment based on a two-year exposure to muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Our data are consistent with quantum-mechanical oscillations of neutrino flavor with mass splitting |delta m^2|=(2.43±0.13)×10^-3 eV^2 (68% C.L.) and mixing angle (sin(2*theta))^2>0.90 (90% C.L.). Our data disfavor two alternative explanations for the disappearance of neutrinos in flight: namely, neutrino decays into lighter particles and quantum decoherence of neutrinos, at the 3.7 and 5.7 standard-deviation levels, respectively., Physics, Accepted Manuscript
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- 2008
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