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Search for active-sterile neutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions in NOvA
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Adamson, P; Aliaga, L; Ambrose, D; Anfimov, N; Antoshkin, A; Arrieta-Diaz, E; Augsten, K; Aurisano, A; Backhouse, C; Baird, M; Bambah, BA; Bays, K; Behera, B; Bending, S; Bernstein, R; Bhatnagar, V; Bhuyan, B; Bian, J; Blackburn, T; Bolshakova, A; Bromberg, C; Brown, J; Brunetti, G; Buchanan, N; Butkevich, A; Bychkov, V; Campbell, M; Catano-Mur, E; Childress, S; Choudhary, BC; Chowdhury, B; Coan, TE; Coelho, JAB; Colo, M; Cooper, J; Corwin, L; Cremonesi, L; Cronin-Hennessy, D; Davies, GS; Davies, JP; Derwent, PF; Dharmapalan, R; Ding, P; Djurcic, Z; Dukes, EC; Duyang, H; Edayath, S; Ehrlich, R; Feldman, GJ; Frank, MJ; Gabrielyan, M; Gallagher, HR; Germani, S; Ghosh, T; Giri, A; Gomes, RA; Goodman, MC; Grichine, V; Groh, M; Group, R; Grover, D; Guo, B; Habig, A; Hartnell, J; Hatcher, R; Hatzikoutelis, A; Heller, K; Himmel, A; Holin, A; Howard, B; Hylen, J; Jediny, F; Judah, M; Kafka, GK; Kalra, D; Kasahara, SMS; Kasetti, S; Keloth, R; Kolupaeva, L; Kotelnikov, S; Kourbanis, I; Kreymer, A; Kumar, A; Kurbanov, S; Lackey, T; Lang, K; Lee, WM; Lin, S; Lokajicek, M; Lozier, J; Luchuk, S; Maan, K; Magill, S; Mann, WA; Marshak, ML; Matera, K; Matveev, V; Méndez, DP; Messier, MD; Meyer, H
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Physical Review D. 96(7)
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Abstract
We report results from the first search for sterile neutrinos mixing with active neutrinos through a reduction in the rate of neutral-current interactions over a baseline of 810 km between the NOvA detectors. Analyzing a 14-kton detector equivalent exposure of 6.05×1020 protons-on-target in the NuMI beam at Fermilab, we observe 95 neutral-current candidates at the Far Detector compared with 83.5±9.7(stat)±9.4(syst) events predicted assuming mixing only occurs between active neutrino species. No evidence for νμ→νs transitions is found. Interpreting these results within a 3+1 model, we place constraints on the mixing angles θ24