Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam

UNSPECIFIED (2011) Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam. Physical Review D – Particles and Fields, 84 (7): 071103. ISSN 1550-2368

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Abstract

We report constraints on antineutrino oscillation parameters that were obtained by using the two MINOS detectors to measure the 7% muon antineutrino component of the NuMI neutrino beam. In the Far Detector, we select 130 events in the charged-current muon antineutrino sample, compared to a prediction of 136.4±11.7(stat)-8.9+10.2(syst) events under the assumption |Δm̅ 2|=2.32×10-3  eV2, sin⁡2(2θ̅ )=1.0. Assuming no oscillations occur at the Near Detector baseline, a fit to the two-flavor oscillation approximation constrains |Δm̅ 2|<3.37×10-3  eV2 at the 90% confidence level with sin⁡2(2θ̅ )=1.0.

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Journal Article
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Physical Review D – Particles and Fields
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© 2011 American Physical Society
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66771
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26 Sep 2013 10:35
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