Seasonal Variation of Multiple-Muon Cosmic Ray Air Showers Observed in the NOvA Detector on the Surface

Autor: Acero, M. A., Adamson, P., Aliaga, L., Anfimov, N., Antoshkin, A., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Asquith, L., Aurisano, A., Back, A., Backhouse, C., Baird, M., Balashov, N., Baldi, P., Bambah, B. A., Bashar, S., Bays, K., Bernstein, R., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Blair, J., Booth, A. C., Bowles, R., Bromberg, C., Buchanan, N., Butkevich, A., Calvez, S., Carroll, T. J., Catano-Mur, E., Choudhary, B. C., Christensen, A., Coan, T. E., Colo, M., Cremonesi, L., Davies, G. S., Derwent, P. F., Ding, P., Djurcic, Z., Dolce, M., Doyle, D., Tonguino, D. Dueñas, Dukes, E. C., Duyang, H., Edayath, S., Ehrlich, R., Elkins, M., Ewart, E., Feldman, G. J., Filip, P., Franc, J., Frank, M. J., Gallagher, H. R., Gandrajula, R., Gao, F., Giri, A., Gomes, R. A., Goodman, M. C., Grichine, V., Groh, M., Group, R., Guo, B., Habig, A., Hakl, F., Hall, A., Hartnell, J., Hatcher, R., Hausner, H., Heller, K., Hewes, V, Himmel, A., Holin, A., Jargowsky, B., Jarosz, J., Jediny, F., Johnson, C., Judah, M., Kakorin, I., Kalra, D., Kaplan, D. M., Kalitkina, A., Keloth, R., Klimov, O., Koerner, L. W., Kolupaeva, L., Kotelnikov, S., Kralik, R., Kullenberg, Ch., Kubu, M., Kumar, A., Kuruppu, C. D., Kus, V., Lackey, T., Lang, K., Lasorak, P., Lesmeister, J., Lin, S., Lister, A., Liu, J., Lokajicek, M., Magill, S., Plata, M. Manrique, Mann, W. A., Marshak, M. L., Martinez-Casales, M., Matveev, V., Mayes, B., Messier, M. D., Meyer, H., Miao, T., Miller, W. H., Mishra, S. R., Mislivec, A., Mohanta, R., Moren, A., Morozova, A., Mu, W., Mualem, L., Muether, M., Mulder, K., Naples, D., Nayak, N., Nelson, J. K., Nichol, R., Niner, E., Norman, A., Norrick, A., Nosek, T., Oh, H., Olshevskiy, A., Olson, T., Ott, J., Paley, J., Patterson, R. B., Pawloski, G., Petrov, O., Petti, R., Phan, D. D., Plunkett, R. K., Porter, J. C. C., Rafique, A., Raj, V., Rajaoalisoa, M., Ramson, B., Rebel, B., Rojas, P., Ryabov, V., Samoylov, O., Sanchez, M. C., Falero, S. Sánchez, Shanahan, P., Sheshukov, A., Singh, P., Singh, V., Smith, E., Smolik, J., Snopok, P., Solomey, N., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Strait, M., Suter, L., Sutton, A., Swain, S., Sweeney, C., Oregui, B. Tapia, Tas, P., Thakore, T., Thayyullathil, R. B., Thomas, J., Tiras, E., Tognini, S. C., Tripathi, J., Trokan-Tenorio, J., Torun, Y., Urheim, J., Vahle, P., Vallari, Z., Vasel, J., Vokac, P., Vrba, T., Wallbank, M., Warburton, T. K., Wetstein, M., Whittington, D., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wojcicki, S. G., Wolcott, J., Wu, W., Xiao, Y., Dombara, A. Yallappa, Yonehara, K., Yu, S., Yu, Y., Zadorozhnyy, S., Zalesak, J., Zhang, Y., Zwaska, R.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. D 104, 012014 (2021)

We report the rate of cosmic ray air showers with multiplicities exceeding 15 muon tracks recorded in the NOvA Far Detector between May 2016 and May 2018. The detector is located on the surface under an overburden of 3.6 meters water equivalent. We o

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03848

Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

Autor: Bay, Daya, Collaborations, MINOS, Adamson, P., An, F. P., Anghel, I., Aurisano, A., Balantekin, A. B., Band, H. R., Barr, G., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Blyth, S., Cao, G. F., Cao, J., Cao, S. V., Carroll, T. J., Castromonte, C. M., Chang, J. F., Chang, Y., Chen, H. S., Chen, R., Chen, S. M., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. X., Cheng, J., Cheng, Z. K., Cherwinka, J. J., Childress, S., Chu, M. C., Chukanov, A., Coelho, J. A. B., Cummings, J. P., Dash, N., De Rijck, S., Deng, F. S., Ding, Y. Y., Diwan, M. V., Dohnal, T., Dolzhikov, D., Dove, J., Dvořák, M., Dwyer, D. A., Evans, J. J., Feldman, G. J., Flanagan, W., Gabrielyan, M., Gallo, J. P., Germani, S., Gomes, R. A., Gonchar, M., Gong, G. H., Gong, H., Gouffon, P., Graf, N., Grzelak, K., Gu, W. Q., Guo, J. Y., Guo, L., Guo, X. H., Guo, Y. H., Guo, Z., Habig, A., Hackenburg, R. W., Hahn, S. R., Hans, S., Hartnell, J., Hatcher, R., He, M., Heeger, K. M., Heng, Y. K., Higuera, A., Holin, A., Hor, Y. K., Hsiung, Y. B., Hu, B. Z., Hu, J. R., Hu, T., Hu, Z. J., Huang, H. X., Huang, J., Huang, X. T., Huang, Y. B., Huber, P., Jaffe, D. E., Jen, K. L., Ji, X. L., Ji, X. P., Johnson, R. A., Jones, D., Kang, L., Kettell, S. H., Koerner, L. W., Kohn, S., Kordosky, M., Kramer, M., Kreymer, A., Lang, K., Langford, T. J., Lee, J., Lee, J. H. C., Lei, R. T., Leitner, R., Leung, J. K. C., Li, F., Li, H. L., Li, J. J., Li, Q. J., Li, S., Li, S. C., Li, S. J., Li, W. D., Li, X. N., Li, X. Q., Li, Y. F., Li, Z. B., Liang, H., Lin, C. J., Lin, G. L., Lin, S., Ling, J. J., Link, J. M., Littenberg, L., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, J. C., Liu, J. L., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. H., Lu, C., Lu, H. Q., Lu, J. S., Lucas, P., Luk, K. B., Ma, X. B., Ma, X. Y., Ma, Y. Q., Mann, W. A., Marshak, M. L., Marshall, C., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mayer, N., McDonald, K. T., McKeown, R. D., Mehdiyev, R., Meier, J. R., Meng, Y., Miller, W. H., Mills, G., Lepin, L. Mora, Naples, D., Napolitano, J., Naumov, D., Naumova, E., Nelson, J. K., Nichol, R. J., O'Connor, J., Ochoa-Ricoux, J. P., Olshevskiy, A., Pahlka, R. B., Pan, H. -R., Park, J., Patton, S., Pavlović, Z., Pawloski, G., Peng, J. C., Perch, A., Pfützner, M. M., Phan, D. D., Plunkett, R. K., Poonthottathil, N., Pun, C. S. J., Qi, F. Z., Qi, M., Qian, X., Qiu, X., Radovic, A., Raper, N., Ren, J., Reveco, C. Morales, Rosero, R., Roskovec, B., Ruan, X. C., Sail, P., Sanchez, M. C., Schneps, J., Schreckenberger, A., Shaheed, N., Sharma, R., Sousa, A., Steiner, H., Sun, J. L., Tagg, N., Thomas, J., Thomson, M. A., Timmons, A., Tmej, T., Todd, J., Tognini, S. C., Toner, R., Torretta, D., Treskov, K., Tse, W. -H., Tull, C. E., Vahle, P., Viren, B., Vorobel, V., Wang, C. H., Wang, J., Wang, M., Wang, N. Y., Wang, R. G., Wang, W., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. F., Wang, Z., Wang, Z. M., Weber, A., Wei, H. Y., Wei, L. H., Wen, L. J., Whisnant, K., White, C., Whitehead, L. H., Wojcicki, S. G., Wong, H. L. H., Wong, S. C. F., Worcester, E., Wu, D. R., Wu, F. L., Wu, Q., Wu, W. J., Xia, D. M., Xie, Z. Q., Xing, Z. Z., Xu, J. L., Xu, T., Xue, T., Yang, C. G., Yang, L., Yang, Y. Z., Yao, H. F., Ye, M., Yeh, M., Young, B. L., Yu, H. Z., Yu, Z. Y., Yue, B. B., Zeng, S., Zeng, Y., Zhan, L., Zhang, C., Zhang, F. Y., Zhang, H. H., Zhang, J. W., Zhang, Q. M., Zhang, X. T., Zhang, Y. M., Zhang, Y. X., Zhang, Y. Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z. P., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, J., Zhou, L., Zhuang, H. L.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 071801 (2020)

Searches for electron antineutrino, muon neutrino, and muon antineutrino disappearance driven by sterile neutrino mixing have been carried out by the Daya Bay and MINOS+ collaborations. This Letter presents the combined results of these searches, alo

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00301

New constraints on oscillation parameters from $\nu_e$ appearance and $\nu_\mu$ disappearance in the NOvA experiment

Autor: Acero, M. A., Adamson, P., Alion, L. Aliaga T., Allakhverdian, V., Antoshkin, N. Anfimov A., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Back, A. Aurisano A., Backhouse, C., Balashov, M. Baird N., Bambah, B. A., Behera, K. Bays B., Bending, S., Bhatnagar, R. Bernstein V., Bhuyan, B., Blackburn, J. Bian T., Blair, J., Bour, A. Bolshakova P., Bromberg, C., Buchanan, J. Brown N., Butkevich, A., Campbell, V. Bychkov M., Carroll, T. J., Cedeno, E. Catano-Mur A., Childress, S., Chowdhury, B. C. Choudhary B., Coan, T. E., Cooper, M. Colo J., Corwin, L., Cronin-Hennessy, L. Cremonesi D., Davies, G. S., De Rijck, J. P. Davies S., Derwent, P. F., Ding, R. Dharmapalan P., Djurcic, Z., Dung, E. C. Dukes P., Duyang, H., Ehrlich, S. Edayath R., Feldman, G. J., Gallagher, M. J. Frank H. R., Gandrajula, R., Germani, F. Gao S., Giri, A., Goodman, R. A. Gomes M. C., Grichine, V., Group, M. Groh R., Grover, D., Habig, B. Guo A., Hakl, F., Hatcher, J. Hartnell R., Hatzikoutelis, A., Himmel, K. Heller A., Holin, A., Huang, B. Howard J., Hylen, J., Judah, F. Jediny M., Kakorin, I., Kaplan, D. Kalra D. M., Keloth, R., Koerner, O. Klimov L. W., Kolupaeva, L., Kourbanis, S. Kotelnikov I., Kreymer, A., Kumar, Ch. Kulenberg A., Kuruppu, C., Lackey, V. Kus T., Lang, K., Lokajicek, S. Lin M., Lozier, J., Maan, S. Luchuk K., Magill, S., Marshak, W. A. Mann M. L., Matveev, V., Messier, D. P. Méndez M. D., Meyer, H., Miller, T. Miao W. H., Mishra, S. R., Mohanta, A. Mislivec R., Moren, A., Muether, L. Mualem M., Mufson, S., Musser, R. Murphy J., Naples, D., Nelson, N. Nayak J. K., Nichol, R., Norman, E. Niner A., Nosek, T., Olshevskiy, Y. Oksuzian A., Olson, T., Patterson, J. Paley R. B., Pawloski, G., Petrova, D. Pershey O., Petti, R., Plunkett, S. Phan-Budd R. K., Potukuchi, B., Psihas, C. Principato F., Radovic, A., Rebel, R. A. Rameika B., Rojas, P., Sachdev, V. Ryabov K., Samoylov, O., Sepulveda-Quiroz, M. C. Sanchez J., Shanahan, P., Singh, A. Sheshukov P., Singh, V., Smolik, E. Smith J., Snopok, P., Song, N. Solomey E., Sousa, A., Strait, K. Soustruznik M., Suter, L., Tas, R. L. Talaga P., Thayyullathil, R. B., Tiras, J. Thomas E., Tognini, S. C., Tripathi, D. Torbunov J., Tsaris, A., Urheim, Y. Torun J., Vahle, P., Vinton, J. Vasel L., Vokac, P., Vrba, A. Vold T., Wang, B., Wetstein, T. K. Warburton M., Whittington, D., Wolcott, S. G. Wojcicki J., Yang, S., Zalesak, S. Yu J., Zamorano, B., Zwaska, R.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. D 98, 032012 (2018)

We present updated results from the NOvA experiment for $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\mu$ and $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_e$ oscillations from an exposure of $8.85\times10^{20}$ protons on target, which represents an increase of 46% compared to our previous pub

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00096

Search for active-sterile neutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions in NOvA

Autor: NOvA Collaboration, Adamson, P., Aliaga, L., Ambrose, D., Anfimov, N., Antoshkin, A., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Augsten, K., Aurisano, A., Backhouse, C., Baird, M., Bambah, B. A., Bays, K., Behera, B., Bending, S., Bernstein, R., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Blackburn, T., Bolshakova, A., Bromberg, C., Brown, J., Brunetti, G., Buchanan, N., Butkevich, A., Bychkov, V., Campbell, M., Catano-Mur, E., Childress, S., Choudhary, B. C., Chowdhury, B., Coan, T. E., Coelho, J. A. B., Colo, M., Cooper, J., Corwin, L., Cremonesi, L., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Davies, G. S., Davies, J. P., Derwent, P. F., Dharmapalan, R., Ding, P., Djurcic, Z., Dukes, E. C., Duyang, H., Edayath, S., Ehrlich, R., Feldman, G. J., Frank, M. J., Gabrielyan, M., Gallagher, H. R., Germani, S., Ghosh, T., Giri, A., Gomes, R. A., Goodman, M. C., Grichine, V., Groh, M., Group, R., Grover, D., Guo, B., Habig, A., Hartnell, J., Hatcher, R., Hatzikoutelis, A., Heller, K., Himmel, A., Holin, A., Howard, B., Hylen, J., Jediny, F., Judah, M., Kafka, G. K., Kalra, D., Kasahara, S. M. S., Kasetti, S., Keloth, R., Kolupaeva, L., Kotelnikov, S., Kourbanis, I., Kreymer, A., Kumar, A., Kurbanov, S., Lackey, T., Lang, K., Lee, W. M., Lin, S., Lokajicek, M., Lozier, J., Luchuk, S., Maan, K., Magill, S., Mann, W. A., Marshak, M. L., Matera, K., Matveev, V., Méndez, D. P., Messier, M. D., Meyer, H., Miao, T., Miller, W. H., Mishra, S. R., Mohanta, R., Moren, A., Mualem, L., Muether, M., Mufson, S., Murphy, R., Musser, J., Nelson, J. K., Nichol, R., Niner, E., Norman, A., Nosek, T., Oksuzian, Y., Olshevskiy, A., Olson, T., Paley, J., Patterson, R. B., Pawloski, G., Pershey, D., Petrova, O., Petti, R., Phan-Budd, S., Plunkett, R. K., Poling, R., Potukuchi, B., Principato, C., Psihas, F., Radovic, A., Rameika, R. A., Rebel, B., Reed, B., Rocco, D., Rojas, P., Ryabov, V., Sachdev, K., Sail, P., Samoylov, O., Sanchez, M. C., Schroeter, R., Sepulveda-Quiroz, J., Shanahan, P., Sheshukov, A., Singh, J., Singh, P., Singh, V., Smolik, J., Solomey, N., Song, E., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Strait, M., Suter, L., Talaga, R. L., Tas, P., Thayyullathil, R. B., Thomas, J., Tian, X., Tognini, S. C., Tripathi, J., Tsaris, A., Urheim, J., Vahle, P., Vasel, J., Vinton, L., Vold, A., Vrba, T., Wang, B., Wetstein, M., Whittington, D., Wojcicki, S. G., Wolcott, J., Yadav, N., Yang, S., Zalesak, J., Zamorano, B., Zwaska, R.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. D 96, 072006 (2017)

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

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04592

Measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{23}$ in NOvA

Autor: The NOvA Collaboration, Adamson, P., Aliaga, L., Ambrose, D., Anfimov, N., Antoshkin, A., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Augsten, K., Aurisano, A., Backhouse, C., Baird, M., Bambah, B. A., Bays, K., Behera, B., Bending, S., Bernstein, R., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Blackburn, T., Bolshakova, A., Bromberg, C., Brown, J., Brunetti, G., Buchanan, N., Butkevich, A., Bychkov, V., Campbell, M., Catano-Mur, E., Childress, S., Choudhary, B. C., Chowdhury, B., Coan, T. E., Coelho, J. A. B., Colo, M., Cooper, J., Corwin, L., Cremonesi, L., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Davies, G. S., Davies, J. P., Derwent, P. F., Desai, S., Dharmapalan, R., Ding, P., Djurcic, Z., Dukes, E. C., Duyang, H., Edayath, S., Ehrlich, R., Feldman, G. J., Gabrielyan, M., Gallagher, H. R., Germani, S., Ghosh, T., Giri, A., Gomes, R. A., Goodman, M. C., Grichine, V., Group, R., Grover, D., Guo, B., Habig, A., Hartnell, J., Hatcher, R., Hatzikoutelis, A., Heller, K., Himmel, A., Holin, A., Hylen, J., Jediny, F., Judah, M., Kafka, G. K., Kalra, D., Kasahara, S. M. S., Kasetti, S., Keloth, R., Kolupaeva, L., Kotelnikov, S., Kourbanis, I., Kreymer, A., Kumar, A., Kurbanov, S., Lang, K., Lee, W. M., Lin, S., Liu, J., Lokajicek, M., Lozier, J., Luchuk, S., Maan, K., Magill, S., Mann, W. A., Marshak, M. L., Matera, K., Matveev, V., Méndez, D. P., Messier, M. D., Meyer, H., Miao, T., Miller, W. H., Mishra, S. R., Mohanta, R., Moren, A., Mualem, L., Muether, M., Mufson, S., Murphy, R., Musser, J., Nelson, J. K., Nichol, R., Niner, E., Norman, A., Nosek, T., Oksuzian, Y., Olshevskiy, A., Olson, T., Paley, J., Pandey, P., Patterson, R. B., Pawloski, G., Pershey, D., Petrova, O., Petti, R., Phan-Budd, S., Plunkett, R. K., Poling, R., Potukuchi, B., Principato, C., Psihas, F., Radovic, A., Rameika, R. A., Rebel, B., Reed, B., Rocco, D., Rojas, P., Ryabov, V., Sachdev, K., Sail, P., Samoylov, O., Sanchez, M. C., Schroeter, R., Sepulveda-Quiroz, J., Shanahan, P., Sheshukov, A., Singh, J., Singh, P., Singh, V., Smolik, J., Solomey, N., Song, E., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Strait, M., Suter, L., Talaga, R. L., Tamsett, M. C., Tas, P., Thayyullathil, R. B., Thomas, J., Tian, X., Tognini, S. C., Tripathi, J., Tsaris, A., Urheim, J., Vahle, P., Vasel, J., Vinton, L., Vold, A., Vrba, T., Wang, B., Wetstein, M., Whittington, D., Wojcicki, S. G., Wolcott, J., Yadav, N., Yang, S., Zalesak, J., Zamorano, B., Zwaska, R.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151802 (2017)

This Letter reports new results on muon neutrino disappearance from NOvA, using a 14 kton detector equivalent exposure of $6.05\times10^{20}$ protons-on-target from the NuMI beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The measurement probes th

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05891