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Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
- Source :
- BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, Daya Bay Collaboration, MINOS Collaboration, Adamson, P, An, F P, Anghel, I M, Aurisano, A, Balantekin, A B, Band, H R, Barr, G, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Blyth, S, Bock, G J, Bogert, D, Cao, D, Cao, G, Cao, J & Cao, S V 2016, ' Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments ', Physical Review Letters, vol. 117, 151801 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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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 LSND and MiniBooNE experiments in a minimally extended four-neutrino flavor framework. Stringent limits on $\sin^2 2\theta_{\mu e}$ are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting $\Delta m^2_{41}$. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for $\Delta m^2_{41} < 0.8$ eV$^2$ at 95% CL$_s$.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, published in Physical Review Letters. Data release found at http://www-numi.fnal.gov/PublicInfo/forscientists.html and at https://wiki.bnl.gov/dayabay/index.php?title=Daya_Bay%27s_Sterile_Neutrino_Results_in_2016
- Subjects :
- Physics
Particle physics
Sterile neutrino
Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
High Energy Physics::Phenomenology
General Physics and Astronomy
FOS: Physical sciences
01 natural sciences
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear physics
MiniBooNE
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
MINOS
0103 physical sciences
Measurements of neutrino speed
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Neutrino
010306 general physics
Neutrino oscillation
Electron neutrino
QC
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00319007
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, Daya Bay Collaboration, MINOS Collaboration, Adamson, P, An, F P, Anghel, I M, Aurisano, A, Balantekin, A B, Band, H R, Barr, G, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Blyth, S, Bock, G J, Bogert, D, Cao, D, Cao, G, Cao, J & Cao, S V 2016, ' Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments ', Physical Review Letters, vol. 117, 151801 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....89a6569842a14920597de804e966804b
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151801