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Title: Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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Previously, 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 Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooNE experiments in a minimally extended four-neutrino flavor framework. Stringent limits on sin 2 2 θ μ e are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δ m 41 2 . The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δ m 41 2 < 0.8 eV 2 at 95 % CL s .

Research Organization:
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Contributing Organization:
Daya Bay Collaboration; MINOS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009973; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-07CH11359; SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1594542
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1328231; OSTI ID: 1329059; OSTI ID: 1338601; OSTI ID: 1820117
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-16-234-ND; arXiv:1607.01177; BNL-113263-2016-JA; PRLTAO; TRN: US2101465
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 15; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 72 works
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