1. Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+ , Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
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J. L. Sun, E. T. Worcester, F. Z. Qi, Jingyuan Guo, X. H. Guo, M. Dvořák, C. H. Wang, Feiyang Zhang, Richard Rosero, Jen-Chieh Peng, X. L. Ji, J. Park, J. H. C. Lee, J. P. Gallo, Miao He, A. E. Kreymer, S. V. Cao, J. Dove, Yuda Zeng, P. Lucas, Marvin L Marshak, Shanfeng Li, Chun S. J. Pun, Zhuojun Hu, D. C. Jones, Li Zhou, Christopher L. Marshall, J. F. Chang, A. B. Balantekin, Diru Wu, N. Poonthottathil, Yunzhe Liu, D. M. Xia, Shaomin Chen, Jun Cao, R. Chen, N. Graf, Y. Y. Ding, S. Hans, C. Lu, J. L. Xu, Rakesh Sharma, R. W. Hackenburg, S. R. Hahn, Haifeng Yao, S. Childress, S. H. Kettell, X. B. Ma, A. Aurisano, Honghan Gong, Maxim Gonchar, Xinglong Li, Z. Wang, S. F. Li, R. A. Johnson, H. H. Zhang, Jiawen Zhang, Fengpeng An, Yuhang Guo, Alexander Olshevskiy, Siew Cheng Wong, H. R. Band, Guey-Lin Lin, Jonathan S. Lu, Dmitry V. Naumov, Lin Yang, J. K. Nelson, D. E. Jaffe, H. Liang, Yixue Chen, G. B. Mills, Z. Y. Yu, Z. K. Cheng, K. Whisnant, J. J. Ling, Karol Lang, Z. P. Zhang, J. R. Meier, Jinmei Liu, Simon Blyth, J. Cheng, M. Kordosky, Jing Zhao, S. Li, X. Y. Ma, R. Mehdiyev, S. J. Patton, J. Schneps, Andrew Blake, M. Z. Wang, Ming Chung Chu, Zhangquan Xie, H. L. Zhuang, Michael Kramer, I. Anghel, A. Timmons, C. Morales Reveco, F. L. Wu, Y. X. Zhang, M. M. Pfützner, R. K. Plunkett, Yufeng Li, K. L. Jen, Ž. Pavlović, W. J. Wu, Vit Vorobel, R. D. McKeown, Wei Li, Artem Chukanov, N. Dash, Yue Meng, P. Sail, M. V. Diwan, Zhiyong Zhang, B. Roskovec, John Evans, X. Q. Li, M. Qi, M. Bishai, Tadeas Dohnal, Hongzhao Yu, Jing Wang, A. Schreckenberger, Nasir Shaheed, Hanxiong Huang, Z. B. Li, Y. Z. Yang, L. Kang, Qingmin Zhang, J. K. C. Leung, Gregory J Pawloski, R. T. Lei, Hongliang Li, P. Gouffon, X. Qiu, M. Ye, W. Wang, B. Z. Hu, N. Y. Wang, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, B. Viren, Jianrun Hu, Stanley G. Wojcicki, L. Guo, Zhijian Zhang, Jiachen Li, J. O'Connor, Alec Habig, Y. B. Hsiung, Chao Zhang, K. Grzelak, J. J. Cherwinka, Xiaolu Ji, Liangjian Wen, D. D. Phan, Guofu Cao, L. H. Wei, K. Treskov, N. Raper, Jinjuan Ren, Q. J. Li, W. A. Mann, R. Hatcher, R. A. Gomes, Jim Napolitano, N. Tagg, A. Radovic, Qinglong Wu, G.D. Barr, Junwei Huang, Kam Biu Luk, G. J. Feldman, Yinhong Zhang, Z. Guo, Tian Xue, A. Holin, Juergen Thomas, Y. K. Heng, K. T. McDonald, J. Todd, Yanhui Liu, A. C. Weber, A. Perch, X. C. Ruan, Xin Qian, Guanghua Gong, Joao A B Coelho, Chi Lin, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, L. Mora Lepin, A. Higuera, X. T. Huang, C. G. Yang, H. R. Pan, Zhi-zhong Xing, S. De Rijck, C. E. Tull, D. Torretta, J. Lee, H. Y. Wei, H. L. H. Wong, J. Hartnell, H. S. Chen, T. J. Carroll, P. Adamson, Y. K. Hor, Jianglai Liu, L. W. Koerner, X. Wang, Haoqi Lu, Y. F. Wang, W. Flanagan, T. Tmej, S. Kohn, S. Germani, Warner A. Miller, R. Toner, E. Naumova, D. A. Dwyer, T. J. Langford, A. Sousa, Yuman Wang, S. Zeng, W. Q. Gu, H. M. Steiner, P. Vahle, Y. Q. Ma, F. S. Deng, Bing-Lin Young, B. R. Littlejohn, Yaoyu Zhang, Y. B. Huang, Patrick Huber, Y. H. Chang, X. T. Zhang, Shengxin Lin, C. M. Castromonte, T. Hu, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, Minfang Yeh, Yongzhu Chen, Baobiao Yue, F. Li, R. G. Wang, W. H. Tse, R. J. Nichol, N. Mayer, Liang Zhan, K. M. Heeger, Christopher G. White, S. C. Tognini, Rupert Leitner, D. Dolzhikov, T. Xu, J. M. Link, J. P. Cummings, mrow, Leigh H. Whitehead, M. Y. Gabrielyan, L. S. Littenberg, M. C. Sanchez, R. B. Pahlka, and Z. M. Wang
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Sterile neutrino ,Muon ,General Physics and Astronomy ,01 natural sciences ,MiniBooNE ,MINOS ,0103 physical sciences ,Muon neutrino ,Neutron ,010306 general physics ,Electron neutrino ,Mixing (physics) - 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}
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- 2020
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