Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Measurements of neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam as observed by the two MINOS detectors are reported. New analysis methods have been applied to an enlarged data sample from an exposure of 7.2510(20) protons on target. A fit to neutrino oscillations yields values of |m(2)|=(2.32(-0.08)(+0.12))10(-3) eV(2) for the atmospheric mass splitting and sin(2)(2)>0.90 (90% C.L.) for the mixing angle. Pure neutrino decay and quantum decoherence hypotheses are excluded at 7 and 9 standard deviations, respectively.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

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

citation count

  • 181

complete list of authors

  • Adamson, P||Andreopoulos, C||Armstrong, R||Auty, DJ||Ayres, DS||Backhouse, C||Barr, G||Bishai, M||Blake, A||Bock, GJ||Boehnlein, DJ||Bogert, D||Cavanaugh, S||Cherdack, D||Childress, S||Choudhary, BC||Coelho, JAB||Coleman, SJ||Corwin, L||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Danko, IZ||de Jong, JK||Devenish, NE||Diwan, MV||Dorman, M||Escobar, CO||Evans, JJ||Falk, E||Feldman, GJ||Frohne, MV||Gallagher, HR||Gomes, RA||Goodman, MC||Gouffon, P||Graf, N||Gran, R||Grant, N||Grzelak, K||Habig, A||Harris, D||Hartnell, J||Hatcher, R||Himmel, A||Holin, A||Huang, X||Hylen, J||Ilic, J||Irwin, GM||Isvan, Z||Jaffe, DE||James, C||Jensen, D||Kafka, T||Kasahara, SMS||Koizumi, G||Kopp, S||Kordosky, M||Kreymer, A||Lang, K||Lefeuvre, G||Ling, J||Litchfield, PJ||Litchfield, RP||Loiacono, L||Lucas, P||Mann, WA||Marshak, ML||Mayer, N||McGowan, AM||Mehdiyev, R||Meier, JR||Messier, MD||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||Nowak, JA||Oliver, WP||Orchanian, M||Ospanov, R||Paley, J||Patterson, RB||Pawloski, G||Pearce, GF||Petyt, DA||Phan-Budd, S||Plunkett, RK||Qiu, X||Ratchford, J||Raufer, TM||Rebel, B||Rodrigues, PA||Rosenfeld, C||Rubin, HA||Sanchez, MC||Schneps, J||Schreiner, P||Shanahan, P||Smith, C||Sousa, A||Stamoulis, P||Strait, M||Tagg, N||Talaga, RL||Thomas, J||Thomson, MA||Tinti, G||Toner, R||Tzanakos, G||Urheim, J||Vahle, P||Viren, B||Weber, A||Webb, RC||White, C||Whitehead, L||Wojcicki, SG||Yang, T||Zwaska, R

publication date

  • May 2011