학술논문

A search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions using $\nu_{e}$ appearance in MINOS
Document Type
Working Paper
Author
Adamson, P.Anghel, I.Aurisano, A.Barr, G.Bishai, M.Blake, A.Bock, G. J.Bogert, D.Cao, S. V.Carroll, T. J.Castromonte, C. M.Chen, R.Childress, S.Coelho, J. A. B.Corwin, L.Cronin-Hennessy, D.de Jong, J. K.de Rijck, S.Devan, A. V.Devenish, N. E.Diwan, M. V.Escobar, C. O.Evans, J. J.Falk, E.Feldman, G. J.Flanagan, W.Frohne, M. V.Gabrielyan, M.Gallagher, H. R.Germani, S.Gomes, R. A.Goodman, M. C.Gouffon, P.Graf, N.Gran, R.Grzelak, K.Habig, A.Hahn, S. R.Hartnell, J.Hatcher, R.Holin, A.Huang, J.Hylen, J.Irwin, G. M.Isvan, Z.James, C.Jensen, D.Kafka, T.Kasahara, S. M. S.Koizumi, G.Kordosky, M.Kreymer, A.Lang, K.Ling, J.Litchfield, P. J.Lucas, P.Mann, W. A.Marshak, M. L.Mayer, N.McGivern, C.Medeiros, M. M.Mehdiyev, R.Meier, J. R.Messier, M. D.Miller, W. H.Mishra, S. R.Sher, S. MoedMoore, C. D.Mualem, L.Musser, J.Naples, D.Nelson, J. K.Newman, H. B.Nichol, R. J.Nowak, J. A.O'Connor, J.Orchanian, M.Pahlka, R. B.Paley, J.Patterson, R. B.Pawloski, G.Perch, A.Pfützner, M. M.Phan, D. D.Phan-Budd, S.Plunkett, R. K.Poonthottathil, N.Qiu, X.Radovic, A.Rebel, B.Rosenfeld, C.Rubin, H. A.Sail, P.Sanchez, M. C.Schneps, J.Schreckenberger, A.Schreiner, P.Sharma, R.Sousa, A.Tagg, N.Talaga, R. L.Thomas, J.Thomson, M. A.Tian, X.Timmons, A.Todd, J.Tognini, S. C.Toner, R.Torretta, D.Tzanakos, G.Urheim, J.Vahle, P.Viren, B.Weber, A.Webb, R. C.White, C.Whitehead, L.Whitehead, L. H.Wojcicki, S. G.Zwaska, R.
Source
Phys. Rev. D 95, 012005 (2017)
Subject
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Language
Abstract
We report new constraints on flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions from the MINOS long-baseline experiment using $\nu_{e}$ and $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ appearance candidate events from predominantly $\nu_{\mu}$ and $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ beams. We used a statistical selection algorithm to separate $\nu_{e}$ candidates from background events, enabling an analysis of the combined MINOS neutrino and antineutrino data. We observe no deviations from standard neutrino mixing, and thus place constraints on the non-standard interaction matter effect, $|\varepsilon_{e\tau}|$, and phase, $(\delta_{CP}+\delta_{e\tau})$, using a thirty-bin likelihood fit.
Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures v2: References added, caption and probability calculation clarified. Result unchanged