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Title: Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS Experiment

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States). et al.

Here, we report new constraints on the size of large extra dimensions from data collected by the MINOS experiment between 2005 and 2012. This analysis employs a model in which sterile neutrinos arise as Kaluza-Klein states in large extra dimensions and thus modify the neutrino oscillation probabilities due to mixing between active and sterile neutrino states. Using Fermilab’s Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam exposure of 10.56 × 1020 protons on target, we combine muon neutrino charged current and neutral current data sets from the Near and Far Detectors and observe no evidence for deviations from standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations. The ratios of reconstructed energy spectra in the two detectors constrain the size of large extra dimensions to be smaller than 0.45 μ m at 90% C.L. in the limit of a vanishing lightest active neutrino mass. Furthermore, we obtained stronger limits for nonvanishing masses.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
MINOS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1345641
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1336869; OSTI ID: 1345753
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-16-172-ND; arXiv:1608.06964; BNL-113607-2017-JA; 1483162; TRN: US1701133
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 11; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 9 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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