Adamson, P. and Backhouse, C. and Bays, K. and Lozier, J. and Mualem, L. and Patterson, R. B. and Pershey, D. (2017) Search for active-sterile neutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions in NOvA. Physical Review D, 96 (7). Art. No. 072006. ISSN 2470-0010. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20171031-111855130
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Abstract
We report results from the first search for sterile neutrinos mixing with active neutrinos through a reduction in the rate of neutral-current interactions over a baseline of 810 km between the NOvA detectors. Analyzing a 14-kton detector equivalent exposure of 6.05×10^(20) protons-on-target in the NuMI beam at Fermilab, we observe 95 neutral-current candidates at the Far Detector compared with 83.5 ± 9.7(stat) ± 9.4(syst) events predicted assuming mixing only occurs between active neutrino species. No evidence for ν_μ→ν_s transitions is found. Interpreting these results within a 3+1 model, we place constraints on the mixing angles θ_(24) < 20.8° and θ_(34_ < 31.2° at the 90% C.L. for 0.05 eV^2 ≤ Δm^2_(41) ≤ 0.5 eV2, the range of mass splittings that produce no significant oscillations over the Near Detector baseline.
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Additional Information: | © 2017 American Physical Society. Received 16 June 2017; published 30 October 2017. The NOvA collaboration uses the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RMES, and RFBR, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; and the State and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staff at Fermilab and the NOvA Far Detector Laboratory. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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