Search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS

Adamson, P; Andreopoulos, C; Arms, K.E; Armstrong, R; Auty, D J; Ayres, D.S; Backhouse, C; Barnes, P.D; Barr, G; Barrett, W. L.; Devenish, N E; Falk, Elisabeth; Harris, Philip; Hartnell, Jeff; et al,

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Search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS

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posted on 2023-06-07, 22:02 authored by P Adamson, C Andreopoulos, K.E Arms, R Armstrong, D J Auty, D.S Ayres, C Backhouse, P.D Barnes, G Barr, W. L. Barrett, N E Devenish, Elisabeth FalkElisabeth Falk, Philip Harris, Jeff HartnellJeff Hartnell, et al

This Letter reports on a search for e transitions by the MINOS experiment based on a 3.141020 protons-on-target exposure in the Fermilab NuMI beam. We observe 35 events in the Far Detector with a background of 275(stat)2(syst) events predicted by the measurements in the Near Detector. If interpreted in terms of e oscillations, this 1.5s excess of events is consistent with sin2(213) comparable to the CHOOZ limit when |m2|=2.4310-3eV2 and sin2(223)=1.0 are assumed

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Physical Review Letters

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American Physical Society

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.261802

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26

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103

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261802

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5.0

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2012-02-06

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2016-03-22

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2016-11-03

Search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS

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