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Sterile Neutrino Fits to Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Measurements

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Conrad, Janet; Ignarra, Christina; Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios; Shaevitz, M. H.; Spitz, Joshua B.
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This paper reviews short-baseline oscillation experiments as interpreted within the context of one, two, and three sterile neutrino models associated with additional neutrino mass states in the ~1 eV range. Appearance and disappearance signals and limits are considered. We show that fitting short-baseline datasets to a 3 + 3 (3 + 2) model, defined by three active and three (two) sterile neutrinos, results in an overall goodness of fit of 67% (69%) and good compatibility between data sets—to be compared to a 3 + 1 model with a 55% goodness of fit. While the (3 + 3) fit yields the highest quality overall, it still finds inconsistencies with the MiniBooNE appearance datasets; in particular, the global fit fails to account for the observed MiniBooNE low-energy excess. Given the overall improvement, we recommend using the results of (3 + 2) and (3 + 3) fits, rather than (3 + 1) fits, for future neutrino oscillation phenomenology. These results motivate the pursuit of further short-baseline experiments, such as those reviewed in this paper.
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2013
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79073
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Journal
Advances in High Energy Physics
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Conrad, J. M., C. M. Ignarra, G. Karagiorgi, M. H. Shaevitz, and J. Spitz. 2013 "Sterile Neutrino Fits to Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Measurements."Advances in High Energy Physics 2013: 1–26.
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1687-7357
1687-7365

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