Adamson, P, Anghel, I, Aurisano, A, Barr, G, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Block, G J, Devenish, N E, Falk, E, Hartnell, J, MINOS+ Collaboration, and others, (2019) Search for sterile neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ using a two-detector fit. Physical Review Letters, 122 (9). 091803 1-8. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

A search for mixing between active neutrinos and light sterile neutrinos has been performed by looking for muon neutrino disappearance in two detectors at baselines of 1.04km and 735km, using a combined MINOS and MINOS+ exposure of 16.36×10 20 protons-on-target. A simultaneous fit to the charged-current muon neutrino and neutral-current neutrino energy spectra in the two detectors yields no evidence for sterile neutrino mixing using a 3+1 model. The most stringent limit to date is set on the mixing parameter sin 2 θ 24 for most values of the sterile neutrino mass-splitting Δm 2 41 >10 −4 eV 2.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Alice Jackson
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2019 12:31
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2019 19:15
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/82400

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