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

Autor: Adamson P; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA., An FP; Institute of Modern Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai., Anghel I; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA., Aurisano A; Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA., Balantekin AB; Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA., Band HR; Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA., Barr G; Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom., Bishai M; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA., Blake A; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.; Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom., Blyth S; Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei., Cao GF; Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing., Cao J; 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Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2020 Aug 14; Vol. 125 (7), pp. 071801.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.071801
Abstrakt: 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, along with exclusion results from the Bugey-3 reactor experiment, framed in a minimally extended four-neutrino scenario. Significantly improved constraints on the θ_{μe} mixing angle are derived that constitute the most constraining limits to date over five orders of magnitude in the mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2}, excluding the 90% C.L. sterile-neutrino parameter space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE observations at 90% CL_{s} for Δm_{41}^{2}<13  eV^{2}. Furthermore, the LSND and MiniBooNE 99% C.L. allowed regions are excluded at 99% CL_{s} for Δm_{41}^{2}<1.6 eV^{2}.
Databáze: MEDLINE