Search for sterile neutrino mixing in the MINOS long-baseline experiment

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A search for depletion of the combined flux of active neutrino species over a 735 km baseline is reported using neutral-current interaction data recorded by the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam. Such a depletion is not expected according to conventional interpretations of neutrino oscillation data involving the three known neutrino flavors. A depletion would be a signature of oscillations or decay to postulated noninteracting sterile neutrinos, scenarios not ruled out by existing dat...

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Authors: Adamson, P; Andreopoulos, C; Auty, D; Ayres, D; Backhouse, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Physical Review D
• Volume: 81
• Issue: 5
• Publication date: 2010-03-01
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.052004
• EISSN: 1550-2368
• ISSN: 1550-7998
• Language: English