Searching for Sterile Neutrinos with MINOS
- Manchester U.
This document presents the latest results for a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using the $$10.56 \times 10^{20}$$ protons-on-target data set taken from 2005 - 2012. By searching for oscillations driven by a large mass splitting, MINOS is sensitive to the existence of sterile neutrinos through any energy dependent deviations using a charged current sample, as well as looking at any relative deficit between neutral current events between the far and near detectors. This document will discuss the novel analysis that enabled a search for sterile neutrinos setting a limit in the previously unexplored regions in the parameter space $$\{\Delta m^{2}_{41}, \sin^2\theta_{24}\}$$. The results presented can be compared to the parameter space suggested by LSND and MiniBooNE and complements other previous experimental searches for sterile neutrinos in the electron neutrino appearance channel.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- MINOS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1409843
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1605.04544; FERMILAB-CONF-16-716-E; 1459052
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 51st Rencontres de Moriond on EW Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, Italy, 03/12-03/19/2016
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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