Dual baseline search for muon antineutrino disappearance at 0.1eV2<Δm2<100eV2

Authors

G. Cheng, Columbia University
W. Huelsnitz, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
J. L. Alcaraz-Aunion, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
S. J. Brice, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. C. Brown, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
L. Bugel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Catala-Perez, Universitat de València
E. D. Church, Yale University
J. M. Conrad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R. Dharmapalan, The University of Alabama
Z. Djurcic, Argonne National Laboratory
U. Dore, Sapienza Università di Roma
D. A. Finley, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
R. Ford, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A. J. Franke, Columbia University
F. G. Garcia, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G. T. Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
C. Giganti, Sapienza Università di Roma
J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, Universitat de València
J. Grange, University of Florida
P. Guzowski, Imperial College London
A. Hanson, Indiana University Bloomington
Y. Hayato, Tokyô Toritsu University
K. Hiraide, Kyoto University
C. Ignarra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R. Imlay, Louisiana State University
R. A. Johnson, University of Cincinnati
B. J.P. Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
G. Jover-Manas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
G. Karagiorgi, Columbia University
T. Katori, Indiana University Bloomington
Y. K. Kobayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-25-2012

Abstract

The MiniBooNE and SciBooNE collaborations report the results of a joint search for short baseline disappearance of ν ̄μ at Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beamline. The MiniBooNE Cherenkov detector and the SciBooNE tracking detector observe antineutrinos from the same beam, therefore the combined analysis of their data sets serves to partially constrain some of the flux and cross section uncertainties. Uncertainties in the ν μ background were constrained by neutrino flux and cross section measurements performed in both detectors. A likelihood ratio method was used to set a 90% confidence level upper limit on ν ̄μ disappearance that dramatically improves upon prior limits in the Δm2=0.1-100eV2 region. © 2012 American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Recommended Citation

Cheng, G., Huelsnitz, W., Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Alcaraz-Aunion, J., Brice, S., Brown, B., Bugel, L., Catala-Perez, J., Church, E., Conrad, J., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Dore, U., Finley, D., Ford, R., Franke, A., Garcia, F., Garvey, G., Giganti, C., Gomez-Cadenas, J., Grange, J., Guzowski, P., Hanson, A., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R., Jones, B., Jover-Manas, G., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., & Kobayashi, Y. (2012). Dual baseline search for muon antineutrino disappearance at 0.1eV2<Δm2<100eV2. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86 (5) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.052009