A search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions using \(\nu_{e}\) appearance in MINOS

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 sep...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2016-12
Main Authors: Adamson, P, Anghel, I, Aurisano, A, Barr, G, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bock, G J, Bogert, D, Carroll, T J, Childress, S, Corwin, L, de Jong, J K, de Rijck, S, Devan, A V, Devenish, N E, Diwan, M V, Escobar, C O, Evans, J J, 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, Hartnell, J, Hatcher, R, Huang, J, Irwin, G M, Isvan, Z, James, C, Kafka, T, Kasahara, S M S, Koizumi, G, Kordosky, M, Kreymer, A, 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, Mishra, S R, S Moed Sher, Mualem, L, Musser, J, Naples, D, Nelson, J K, Newman, H B, Nichol, R J, O'Connor, J, Orchanian, M, Pahlka, R B, Paley, J, Patterson, R B, Pawloski, G, Perch, A, 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, Tagg, N, Talaga, R L, Thomas, J, 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 H, Wojcicki, S G
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1605.06169