Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions from the MINOS Experiment

Journal Article · Fri Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Phys.Rev.D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.111101· OSTI ID:1345641

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1. Fermilab
2. Argonne; Iowa State U.
3. Texas A-M
4. Oxford U.
5. Brookhaven
6. Cambridge U.
7. Texas U.
8. Goias U.
9. Manchester U.
10. Campinas State U.; Tufts U.
11. Indiana U.
12. Minnesota U.
13. William-Mary Coll.
14. Sussex U.
15. Campinas State U.
16. Harvard U., Phys. Dept.
17. Notre Dame U.
18. Tufts U.
19. University Coll. London
20. Argonne
21. Sao Paulo U.
22. Pittsburgh U.
23. Minnesota U., Duluth
24. Warsaw U.
25. Stanford U., Phys. Dept.
26. Brookhaven; Pittsburgh U.
27. Minnesota U.; Rutherford
28. Indiana U.; Tufts U.
29. Harvard U., Phys. Dept.; Indiana U.
30. Chicago U., EFI
31. South Carolina U.
32. Caltech
33. Minnesota U.; Stanford U., Phys. Dept.
34. IIT, Chicago
35. Minnesota U.; Texas U.
36. Cincinnati U.; Harvard U., Phys. Dept.
37. Otterbein Coll.
38. Cincinnati U.
39. Athens U.
40. Oxford U.; Rutherford
41. NIKHEF, Amsterdam
42. Houston U.

We report new constraints on the size of large extra dimensions from data collected by the MINOS experiment between 2005 and 2012. Our 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  μm at 90% C.L. in the limit of a vanishing lightest active neutrino mass. Stronger limits are obtained for nonvanishing masses.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Athens U.; Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Caltech; Cambridge U.; Campinas State U.; Chicago U., EFI; Cincinnati U.; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Goias U.; Harvard U., Phys. Dept.; Houston U.; IIT, Chicago; Indiana U.; Iowa State U.; Manchester U.; Minnesota U.; Minnesota U., Duluth; NIKHEF, Amsterdam; Notre Dame U.; Otterbein Coll.; Oxford U.; Pittsburgh U.; Rutherford; Sao Paulo U.; South Carolina U.; Stanford U., Phys. Dept.; Sussex U.; Texas A-M; Texas U.; Tufts U.; University Coll. London; Warsaw U.; William-Mary Coll.
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy; USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• Contributing Organization: MINOS Collaboration
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1345641
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1336869; OSTI ID: 1345753
• Report Number(s): BNL--113607-2017-JA; FERMILAB-PUB-16-172-ND; oai:inspirehep.net:1483162; arXiv:1608.06964
• Journal Information: Phys.Rev.D, Journal Name: Phys.Rev.D Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 94
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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