Measurement of the Neutrino Mass Splitting and Flavor Mixing by MINOS

Creators: Adamson, P.; Himmel, A.; Michael, D. G.; Mualem, L.; Newman, H. B.; Orchanian, M.; Patterson, R. B.; MINOS Collaboration

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 7.25×10^(20) protons on target. A fit to neutrino oscillations yields values of |Δm^2|=(2.32_(-0.08)^(+0.12))×10^(-3) eV^2 for the atmospheric mass splitting and sin^2(2θ)>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.

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© 2011 American Physical Society. Received 2 March 2011; published 2 May 2011. This work was supported by the U.S. DOE, the UK STFC, the U.S. NSF, the State and University of Minnesota, the University of Athens, Greece, and Brazil's FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES. We are grateful to the Minnesota DNR, the crew of the Soudan Underground Laboratory, and the personnel of Fermilab for their contributions to this effort.

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