Combined analysis of disappearance and e appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report on a new analysis of neutrino oscillations in MINOS using the complete set of accelerator and atmospheric data. The analysis combines the () disappearance and (e) appearance data using the three-flavor formalism. We measure |m(32)(2)| = [2.28-2.46] 10(-3) eV(2) (68% C.L.) and sin(2)(23) = 0.35-0.65 (90% C.L.) in the normal hierarchy, and |m(32)(2)| = [2.32-2.53] 10(-3) eV(2) (68% C.L.) and sin(2)(23) = 0.34-0.67 (90% C.L.) in the inverted hierarchy. The data also constrain (CP), the (23} octant degeneracy and the mass hierarchy; we disfavor 36% (11%) of this three-parameter space at 68% (90%) C.L.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 7.8

author list (cited authors)

  • Adamson, P., Anghel, I., Aurisano, A., Barr, G., Bishai, M., Blake, A., ... Zwaska, R.

citation count

  • 167

complete list of authors

  • Adamson, P||Anghel, I||Aurisano, A||Barr, G||Bishai, M||Blake, A||Bock, GJ||Bogert, D||Cao, SV||Castromonte, CM||Cherdack, D||Childress, S||Coelho, JAB||Corwin, L||Cronin-Hennessy, D||de Jong, JK||Devan, AV||Devenish, NE||Diwan, MV||Escobar, CO||Evans, JJ||Falk, E||Feldman, GJ||Frohne, MV||Gallagher, HR||Gomes, RA||Goodman, MC||Gouffon, P||Graf, N||Gran, R||Grzelak, K||Habig, A||Hahn, SR||Hartnell, J||Hatcher, R||Himmel, A||Holin, A||Huang, J||Hylen, J||Irwin, GM||Isvan, Z||James, C||Jensen, D||Kafka, T||Kasahara, SMS||Koizumi, G||Kordosky, M||Kreymer, A||Lang, K||Ling, J||Litchfield, PJ||Lucas, P||Mann, WA||Marshak, ML||Mayer, N||McGivern, C||Medeiros, MM||Mehdiyev, R||Meier, JR||Messier, MD||Michael, DG||Miller, WH||Mishra, SR||Moed Sher, S||Moore, CD||Mualem, L||Musser, J||Naples, D||Nelson, JK||Newman, HB||Nichol, RJ||Nowak, JA||O'Connor, J||Orchanian, M||Pahlka, RB||Paley, J||Patterson, RB||Pawloski, G||Perch, A||Phan-Budd, S||Plunkett, RK||Poonthottathil, N||Qiu, X||Radovic, A||Rebel, B||Rosenfeld, C||Rubin, HA||Sanchez, MC||Schneps, J||Schreckenberger, A||Schreiner, P||Sharma, R||Sousa, A||Tagg, N||Talaga, RL||Thomas, J||Thomson, MA||Tian, X||Timmons, A||Tognini, SC||Toner, R||Torretta, D||Tzanakos, G||Urheim, J||Vahle, P||Viren, B||Weber, A||Webb, RC||White, C||Whitehead, L||Whitehead, LH||Wojcicki, SG||Zwaska, R

publication date

  • May 2014