Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS Experiment

Adamson, P.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.111101

Title: Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS Experiment

Journal Article · 16 December 2016 · Physical Review D

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

Adamson, P. ^[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.

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Research Organization:: 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); USDOE

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

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