Search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This Letter reports on a search for nu(mu) --> nu(e) transitions by the MINOS experiment based on a 3.14x10(20) protons-on-target exposure in the Fermilab NuMI beam. We observe 35 events in the Far Detector with a background of 27+/-5(stat)+/-2(syst) events predicted by the measurements in the Near Detector. If interpreted in terms of nu(mu) --> nu(e) oscillations, this 1.5sigma excess of events is consistent with sin2(2theta(13)) comparable to the CHOOZ limit when |Delta m2|=2.43x10(-3) eV2 and sin2(2theta(23))=1.0 are assumed.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Adamson, P., Andreopoulos, C., Arms, K. E., Armstrong, R., Auty, D. J., Ayres, D. S., ... MINOS Collaboration.

citation count

  • 40

complete list of authors

  • Adamson, P||Andreopoulos, C||Arms, KE||Armstrong, R||Auty, DJ||Ayres, DS||Backhouse, C||Barnes, PD||Barr, G||Barrett, WL||Becker, BR||Belias, A||Bernstein, RH||Betancourt, M||Bhattacharya, D||Bishai, M||Blake, A||Bock, GJ||Boehm, J||Boehnlein, DJ||Bogert, D||Bower, C||Cavanaugh, S||Chapman, JD||Cherdack, D||Childress, S||Choudhary, BC||Cobb, JH||Coelho, JAB||Coleman, SJ||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Culling, AJ||Danko, IZ||de Jong, JK||Devenish, NE||Diwan, MV||Dorman, M||Erwin, AR||Escobar, CO||Evans, JJ||Falk, E||Feldman, GJ||Frohne, MV||Gallagher, HR||Godley, A||Goodman, MC||Gouffon, P||Gran, R||Grashorn, EW||Grzelak, K||Habig, A||Harris, D||Harris, PG||Hartnell, J||Hatcher, R||Heller, K||Himmel, A||Holin, A||Howcroft, C||Huang, X||Hylen, J||Irwin, GM||Isvan, Z||Jaffe, DE||James, C||Jensen, D||Kafka, T||Kasahara, SMS||Koizumi, G||Kopp, S||Kordosky, M||Koskinen, DJ||Krahn, Z||Kreymer, A||Lang, K||Ling, J||Litchfield, PJ||Litchfield, RP||Loiacono, L||Lucas, P||Ma, J||Mann, WA||Marshak, ML||Marshall, JS||Mayer, N||McGowan, AM||Mehdiyev, R||Meier, JR||Messier, MD||Metelko, CJ||Michael, DG||Miller, WH||Mishra, SR||Mitchell, J||Moore, CD||Morfín, J||Mualem, L||Mufson, S||Musser, J||Naples, D||Nelson, JK||Newman, HB||Nichol, RJ||Nicholls, TC||Ochoa-Ricoux, JP||Oliver, WP||Ospanov, R||Paley, J||Para, A||Patterson, RB||Patzak, T||Pavlović, Z||Pawloski, G||Pearce, GF||Petyt, DA||Pittam, R||Plunkett, RK||Rahaman, A||Rameika, RA||Raufer, TM||Rebel, B||Reichenbacher, J||Rodrigues, PA||Rosenfeld, C||Rubin, HA||Ryabov, VA||Sanchez, MC||Saoulidou, N||Schneps, J||Schreiner, P||Shanahan, P||Smart, W||Smith, C||Sousa, A||Speakman, B||Stamoulis, P||Strait, M||Tagg, N||Talaga, RL||Thomas, J||Thomson, MA||Thron, JL||Tinti, G||Toner, R||Tsarev, VA||Tzanakos, G||Urheim, J||Vahle, P||Viren, B||Ward, DR||Watabe, M||Weber, A||Webb, RC||West, N||White, C||Whitehead, L||Wojcicki, SG||Wright, DM||Yang, T||Zhang, K||Zheng, H||Zois, M||Zwaska, R

publication date

  • December 2009