Paper

Precision constraints for three-flavor neutrino oscillations from the full MINOS+ and MINOS data set

Flanagan, W, Torretta, D, Graf, N, Thomson, M A, Kreymer, A, Phan, D D, Gabrielyan, M, Sail, P, Toner, R, Nichol, R J, Wojcicki, S G, Germani, S, Hatcher, R, Lang, K, Hartnell, J, Nelson, J K, Weber, A, Hahn, S R, Blake, A, Sousa, A, Vahle, P, Mehdiyev, R, Pahlka, R B, Kordosky, M, Miller, W H, Sanchez, M C, Whitehead, L H, Carroll, T J, Grzelak, K, Mills, G, M M Pfutzner, Timmons, A, Qiu, X, Perch, A, Marshak, M L, Adamson, P, Sharma, R, Todd, J, Schneps, J, Naples, D, Koerner, L W, Barr, G, Poonthottathil, N, MINOS+ Collaboration, Castromonte, C M, Chen, R, Schreckenberger, A, O'Connor, J, Cao, S V, Pawloski, G, Mann, W A, De Rijck, S, Aurisano, A, Coelho, J A B, Radovic, A, Anghel, I, Gouffon, P, Mayer, N, Lucas, P, Meier, J R, Tagg, N, Evans, J J, Pavlovic, Z, Habig, A, Feldman, G J, Holin, A, Plunkett, R K, Childress, S, Gomes, R A, Huang, J, Tognini, S C, Thomas, J

2020

Overview

We report the final measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters \\(\\Delta m^2_{32}\\) and \\(\\sin^2\\theta_{23}\\) using all data from the MINOS and MINOS+ experiments. These data were collected using a total exposure of \\(23.76 \\times 10^{20}\\) protons on target producing \\(\\nu_{mu}\\) and \\(\\overline{\\nu_\\mu}\\) beams and 60.75 kt\\(\\cdot\\)yr exposure to atmospheric neutrinos. The measurement of the disappearance of \\(\\nu_{\\mu}\\) and the appearance of \\(\\nu_e\\) events between the Near and Far detectors yields \\(|\\Delta m^2_{32}|=2.40^{+0.08}_{-0.09}~(2.45^{+0.07}_{-0.08}) \\times 10^{-3}\\) eV\\(^2\\) and \\(\\sin^2\\theta_{23} = 0.43^{+0.20}_{-0.04} ~(0.42^{+0.07}_{-0.03})\\) at 68% C.L. for Normal (Inverted) Hierarchy.

• Publisher: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
• Subject: Neutrinos