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

Journal Article · · Phys.Rev.Lett.
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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 sin22θμe are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δm412. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δm412<0.8  eV2 at 95%  CLs.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Athens U.; Beijing Normal U.; Beijing, Inst. Atomic Energy; Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.; Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); CGNPC, Shenzhen; Caltech; Cambridge U.; Campinas State U.; Charles U.; Chile U., Catolica; Chongqing U.; Cincinnati U.; DongGuan U. Technol.; Dubna, JINR; East China U. Sci. Tech., Shanghai; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Goias U.; Harvard U.; Hefei, CUST; Holy Cross Coll., Notre Dame; Hong Kong U.; Hong Kong, Chinese U.; Houston U.; IIT, Chicago; Illinois U., Urbana; Indiana U.; Iowa State U.; Lancaster U.; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Manchester U.; Minnesota U.; Minnesota U., Duluth; Nanjing U.; Nankai U.; Natl. U. Defense Tech., Hunan; Natl. United U., Taiwan; Otterbein Coll.; Oxford U.; Peking U.; Pittsburgh U.; Princeton U.; Rensselaer Poly.; Rutherford; Sao Paulo U.; Shandong U.; Shanghai Jiao Tong U.; Shenzhen U.; Siena Coll., Loudonville; South Carolina U.; Stanford U., Phys. Dept.; Sussex U.; Taiwan, Natl. Chiao Tung U.; Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Temple U.; Texas A-M; Texas U.; Tsinghua U., Beijing; Tufts U.; UC, Berkeley; University Coll. London; Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Virginia Tech.; Warsaw U.; William-Mary Coll.; Wisconsin U., Madison; Xian Jiaotong U.; Yale U.; Zhongshan U.
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); US Department of Energy; USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Contributing Organization:
Daya Bay Collaboration; MINOS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-07CH11359; SC0009973
OSTI ID:
1329059
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1328231
OSTI ID: 1820117
OSTI ID: 1338601
OSTI ID: 1594542
Report Number(s):
BNL--113263-2016-JA; FERMILAB-PUB-16-234-ND; oai:inspirehep.net:1473826; arXiv:1607.01177
Journal Information:
Phys.Rev.Lett., Journal Name: Phys.Rev.Lett. Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 117
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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