Dual baseline search for muon antineutrino disappearance at 0.1 eV[superscript 2]<Δm[superscript 2]<100 eV[superscript 2]
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Bugel, Leonard G.; Conrad, Janet; Ignarra, Christina; Jones, Benjamin James Poyner; Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios; Katori, Teppei; Spitz, Joshua B.; Tanaka, H. K.; McGary, Van Thanh; ... Show more Show less
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The MiniBooNE and SciBooNE collaborations report the results of a joint search for short baseline disappearance of ν̅[subscript 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[subscript 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 ν̅[subscript μ] disappearance that dramatically improves upon prior limits in the Δm[superscript 2]=0.1–100 eV[superscript 2] region.
Date issued
2012-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Cheng, G. et al. “Dual baseline search for muon antineutrino disappearance at 0.1 eV[superscript 2]<Δm[superscript 2]<100 eV[superscript 2].” Physical Review D 86.5 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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1550-7998
1089-4918