Adamson, P, Auty, D J, Ayres, D S, Backhouse, C, Barr, G, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bock, G J, Boehnlein, D J, Bogert, D, Devenish, N E, Falk, E, Hartnell, J, Lefeuvre, G and et al, (2011) Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam. Physical Review D, D84. 071103. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We report constraints on muon antineutrino oscillation parameters that were obtained by using the two MINOS detectors to measure the 7% antineutrino component of the NuMI neutrino beam. In the Far Detector, we select 130 events in the charged-current muon antineutrino sample, compared to a prediction of 136.4 +/- 11.7(stat) ^{+10.2}_{-8.9}(syst) events under the assumption |dm2bar|=2.32x10^-3 eV^2, snthetabar=1.0. A fit to the two-flavor oscillation approximation constrains |dm2bar|<3.37x10^-3 eV^2 at the 90% confidence level with snthetabar=1.0.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User:	David Auty
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 19:56
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2019 01:20
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/23149

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