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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

Authors :
Rakesh Sharma
S. Childress
Wenju Huo
H. H. Zhang
D. Cao
A. Schreckenberger
N. Graf
C. D. Moore
R. Gran
Carlos Escobar
Simon Blyth
R. K. Plunkett
X. L. Ji
S. Moed Sher
Haosheng Chen
M. Z. Wang
Ming Chung Chu
D. Torretta
W. Hu
G. J. Bock
J. M. Link
N. Poonthottathil
Jen-Chieh Peng
J. K. Xia
J. Lee
R. W. Hackenburg
S. Zeng
X. Qiu
M. Dolgareva
Carl White
Z. Wang
J. Dove
Chun S. J. Pun
C. M. Castromonte
J. Joshi
J. P. Cummings
M. M. Medeiros
Michael Kramer
L. Corwin
W. J. Wu
R. D. McKeown
P. Sail
Shaomin Chen
Jun Cao
Xuefeng Ding
Z. K. Cheng
Z. P. Zhang
H. L. H. Wong
Y. X. Zhang
X. P. Ji
J. Hartnell
P. Lucas
Hanxiong Huang
S. C. Tognini
Rupert Leitner
M. Qi
Changjian Lin
Gregory J Pawloski
J. Park
L. Kang
J. K. C. Leung
Li Zhou
R. Mehdiyev
K. L. Jen
S. H. Kettell
Yaping Cheng
T. Hu
X. B. Ma
R. B. Patterson
Zhijian Zhang
T. Wise
A. B. Balantekin
S. F. Li
C. Li
Lin Yang
S. R. Mishra
C. James
Yanchu Wang
C. Rosenfeld
X. T. Zhang
M. Mooney
Vit Vorobel
K. Treskov
Dmitry V. Naumov
M. Orchanian
H. Y. Ngai
R. L. Gill
Marco Grassi
Miao He
A. E. Kreymer
D. D. Phan
N. Viaux
S. R. Hahn
Kwong Lau
P. Schreiner
Y. L. Chan
R. Toner
B. Z. Hu
R. Hatcher
D. Cronin-Hennessy
G. X. Sun
B. Rebel
H. A. Rubin
S. K. Lin
J. H. C. Lee
T. Kafka
Jinmei Liu
Jing Zhao
Alec Habig
K. Grzelak
Z. Isvan
L. Mualem
X. Y. Ma
J. Y. Xu
Wei Li
W. A. Mann
F. P. An
T. J. Carroll
P. Adamson
Yanfeng Zhang
S. J. Patton
W. Q. Gu
Y. C. Lin
Mengsu Yang
H. R. Gallagher
Maxim Gonchar
D. W. Liu
Minfang Yeh
Y. Malyshkin
A. Perch
A. Radovic
J. Schneps
I. Mitchell
Harvey B Newman
W. Tang
S. M. S. Kasahara
Marvin L Marshak
X. Wang
P. Gouffon
Liangjian Wen
S. De Rijck
R. A. Johnson
A. Holin
Guofu Cao
Guanghua Gong
X. Tian
Alexander Olshevskiy
M. Bishai
K. T. McDonald
S. Jetter
Haoqi Lu
Dejun Li
W. Flanagan
Wei Wang
B. Roskovec
Jiawen Zhang
Zengcai V. Guo
Y. K. Hor
L. Guo
J. Cheng
Chao Zhang
Jianglai Liu
E. T. Worcester
Z. Lv
F. Z. Qi
H. L. Zhuang
E. Falk
Haijun Yang
J. de Arcos
J. Urheim
Guisen Li
J. J. Cherwinka
G. M. Irwin
Zhiyong Zhang
Honghan Gong
Z. Y. Deng
C. E. Tull
N. Y. Wang
Jinjuan Ren
B. Viren
J. H. Cheng
G. J. Feldman
L. S. Littenberg
C. H. Wu
Zhi Ning
I. Anghel
M. A. Thomson
D. Naples
Stanley G. Wojcicki
Li Chang
Y. Xu
E. C. Huang
Karol Lang
Q. W. Zhao
F. Li
B. R. Littlejohn
H. Y. Wei
Yi-Fang Zhao
G. Koizumi
Qingming Ma
V. Pec
R. L. Talaga
J. J. Ling
Yufeng Li
J. O'Connor
J. Hylen
Y. B. Hsiung
R. J. Nichol
W. L. Zhong
M. C. Goodman
M. V. Frohne
T. Kwok
N. Tagg
N. Mayer
J. B. Jiao
R. A. Gomes
M. C. Sanchez
M. V. Diwan
Guey-Lin Lin
Jonathan S. Lu
Z. Ye
R. B. Pahlka
Qinglong Wu
G.D. Barr
Junwei Huang
Leigh H. Whitehead
Kam Biu Luk
Chunjie Wang
M. Y. Gabrielyan
Siew Cheng Wong
Tian Xue
W. R. Cen
R. T. Lei
K. M. Heeger
J. R. Meier
Xin Qian
Juergen Thomas
Y. K. Heng
Z. M. Wang
Q. J. Li
S. V. Cao
J. A. Nowak
Ran Han
Jiaheng Zou
S. Hans
Mengyun Guan
J. A. Musser
Xiao-yan Li
A. Higuera
X. T. Huang
J. M. Paley
K. Whisnant
Zhi-zhong Xing
Joao A B Coelho
Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux
H. R. Band
K. V. Tsang
H. Liang
Yixue Chen
M. Kordosky
Andrew Blake
J. L. Sun
Artem Chukanov
Lawrence Pinsky
A. Timmons
N. Raper
Richard Rosero
J. F. Chang
Changgen Yang
C. Lu
J. L. Xu
L. H. Whitehead
Ning Zhou
Y. Chang
Shanfeng Li
J. J. Evans
M. M. Pfützner
D. E. Jaffe
Y. Nakajima
Yi Chen
R. C. Webb
M. W. Kwok
L. Lebanowski
Y. Y. Ding
D. M. Xia
J. K. De Jong
S. Phan-Budd
A. Sousa
K. K. Kwan
N. E. Devenish
P. J. Litchfield
R. P. Guo
G. Tzanakos
C. L. McGivern
S. Kohn
S. Germani
Warner A. Miller
A. V. Devan
Bing-Lin Young
D. Bogert
A. Aurisano
W. R. Edwards
E. Naumova
D. A. Dwyer
T. J. Langford
H. M. Steiner
P. Vahle
Y. Q. Ma
Patrick Huber
Shengxin Lin
D. A. Martinez Caicedo
J. K. Nelson
R. G. Wang
D. A. Jensen
Liang Zhan
M. D. Messier
A. C. Weber
X. C. Ruan
Qingmin Zhang
Q. Y. Chen
Jim Napolitano
Xiaohu Guo
M. T. Yang
Hao Pan
C. W. Loh
Z. Y. Yu
Zhibing Li
M. Ye
D. Taychenachev
G. Hussain
J. Todd
P. Jaffke
R. Chen
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

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

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