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Search for Active Neutrino Disappearance Using Neutral-Current Interactions in the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment (2008) |
- Adamson, P.,
- Andreopoulos, C.,
- Arms, K. E.,
- Armstrong, R.,
- Auty, D. J.,
- Ayres, D. S.,
- Backhouse, C.,
- Baller, B.,
- Barr, G.,
- Barrett, W. L.,
- Becker, B. R.,
- Belias, A.,
- Bernstein, R. H.,
- Bhattacharya, D.,
- Bishai, M.,
- Blake, A.,
- Bock, G. J.,
- Boehm, J.,
- Boehnlein, D. J.,
- Bogert, D.,
- Bower, C.,
- Buckley-Geer, E.,
- Cavanaugh, S.,
- Chapman, J. D.,
- Cherdack, D.,
- Childress, S.,
- Choudhary, B. C.,
- Cobb, J. H.,
- Coleman, S. J.,
- Culling, A. J.,
- De Jong, J. K.,
- Dierckxsens, M.,
- Diwan, M. V.,
- Dorman, M.,
- Dytman, S. A.,
- Escobar, C. O.,
- Evans, J. J.,
- Harris, E. Falk,
- Feldman, G. J.,
- Frohne, M. V.,
- Gallagher, H. R.,
- Godley, A.,
- Goodman, M. C.,
- Gouffon, P.,
- Gran, R.,
- Grashorn, E. W.,
- Grossman, N.,
- Grzelak, K.,
- Habig, A.,
- Harris, D.,
- Harris, P. G.,
- Hartnell, J.,
- Hatcher, R.,
- Heller, K.,
- Himmel, A.,
- Holin, A.,
- Hsu, L.,
- Hylen, J.,
- Irwin, G. M.,
- Ishitsuka, M.,
- Jaffe, D. E.,
- James, C.,
- Jensen, D.,
- Kafka, T.,
- Kasahara, S. M. S.,
- Kim, J. J.,
- Kim, M. S.,
- Koizumi, G.,
- Kopp, S.,
- Kordosky, M.,
- Koskinen, D. J.,
- Kotelnikov, S. K.,
- Kreymer, A.,
- Kumaratunga, S.,
- Lang, K.,
- Ling, J.,
- Litchfield, P. J.,
- Litchfield, R. P.,
- Loiacono, L.,
- Lucas, P.,
- Ma, J.,
- Mann, W. A.,
- Marchionni, A.,
- Marshak, M. L.,
- Marshall, J. S.,
- Mayer, N.,
- McGowan, A. M.,
- Meier, J. R.,
- Messier, M. D.,
- Metelko, C. J.,
- Michael, D. G.,
- Miller, W. H.,
- Mishra, S. R.,
- Moore, C. D.,
- Morfín, J.,
- Mualem, L.,
- Mufson, S.,
- Murgia, S.,
- Musser, J.,
- Naples, D.,
- Nelson, J. K.,
- Newman, H. B.,
- Nichol, R. J.,
- Nicholls, T. C.,
- Ochoa-Ricoux, J. P.,
- Oliver, W. P.,
- Ospanov, R.,
- Paley, J.,
- Paolone, V.,
- Para, A.,
- Patzak, T.,
- Pavlović, Ž.,
- Pawloski, G.,
- Pearce, G. F.,
- Peck, C. W.,
- Petyt, D. A.,
- Pittam, R.,
- Plunkett, R. K.,
- Rahaman, A.,
- Rameika, R. A.,
- Raufer, T. M.,
- Rebel, B.,
- Reichenbacher, J.,
- Rodrigues, P. A.,
- Rosenfeld, C.,
- Rubin, H. A.,
- Ryabov, V. A.,
- Sanchez, M. C.,
- Saoulidou, N.,
- Schneps, J.,
- Schreiner, P.,
- Shanahan, P.,
- Smart, W.,
- Smith, C.,
- Sousa, A.,
- Speakman, B.,
- Stamoulis, P.,
- Strait, M.,
- Tagg, N.,
- Talaga, R. L.,
- Tavera, M. A.,
- Thomas, J.,
- Thomson, M. A.,
- Thron, J. L.,
- Tinti, G.,
- Trostin, I.,
- Tsarev, V. A.,
- Tzanakos, G.,
- Urheim, J.,
- Vahle, P.,
- Viren, B.,
- Ward, D. R.,
- Watabe, M.,
- Weber, A.,
- Webb, R. C.,
- Wehmann, A.,
- West, N.,
- White, C.,
- Wojcicki, S. G.,
- Wright, D. M.,
- Yang, T.,
- Zhang, K.,
- Zwaska, R.
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We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site would indicate mixing between vµ and a sterile particle. No anomalous depletion in the reconstructed energy spectrum is observed. Assuming oscillations occur at a single mass-squared splitting, a fit to the neutral- and charged-current energy spectra limits the fraction of vµ oscillating to a sterile neutrino to be below 0.68 at 90% confidence level. A less stringent limit due to a possible contribution to the measured neutral-current event rate at the far site from ve appearance at the current experimental limit is also presented. |
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