Combined analysis of νμ disappearance and νμ→νe appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos

P Adamson; I Anghel; A Aurisano; G Barr; M Bishai; A Blake; G J Bock; D Bogert; S V Cao; C M Castromonte; D Cherdack; S Childress; J A B Coelho; L Corwin; D Cronin-Hennessy; J K de Jong; A V Devan; N E Devenish; M V Diwan; C O Escobar; J J Evans; E Falk; G J Feldman; M V Frohne; H R Gallagher; R A Gomes; M C Goodman; P Gouffon; N Graf; R Gran; K Grzelak; A Habig; S R Hahn; J Hartnell; R Hatcher; A Himmel; A Holin; J Huang; J Hylen; G M Irwin; Z Isvan; C James; D Jensen; T Kafka; S M S Kasahara; G Koizumi; M Kordosky; A Kreymer; K Lang; J Ling; P J Litchfield; P Lucas; W A Mann; M L Marshak; N Mayer; C McGivern; M M Medeiros; R Mehdiyev; J R Meier; M D Messier; D G Michael; W H Miller; S R Mishra; S Moed Sher; C D Moore; L Mualem; J Musser; D Naples; J K Nelson; H B Newman; R J Nichol; J A Nowak; J O'Connor; M Orchanian; R B Pahlka; J Paley; R B Patterson; G Pawloski; A Perch; S Phan-Budd; R K Plunkett; N Poonthottathil; X Qiu; A Radovic; B Rebel; C Rosenfeld; H A Rubin; M C Sanchez; J Schneps; A Schreckenberger; P Schreiner; R Sharma; A Sousa; N Tagg; R L Talaga; J Thomas; M A Thomson; X Tian; A Timmons; S C Tognini; R Toner; D Torretta; G Tzanakos; J Urheim; P Vahle; B Viren; A Weber; R C Webb; C White; L Whitehead; L H Whitehead; S G Wojcicki; R Zwaska

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.191801

Combined analysis of νμ disappearance and νμ→νe appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 May 16;112(19):191801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.191801. Epub 2014 May 12.

Authors

P Adamson¹, I Anghel², A Aurisano³, G Barr⁴, M Bishai⁵, A Blake⁶, G J Bock¹, D Bogert¹, S V Cao⁷, C M Castromonte⁸, D Cherdack⁹, S Childress¹, J A B Coelho¹⁰, L Corwin¹¹, D Cronin-Hennessy¹², J K de Jong⁴, A V Devan¹³, N E Devenish¹⁴, M V Diwan⁵, C O Escobar¹⁵, J J Evans¹⁶, E Falk¹⁴, G J Feldman¹⁷, M V Frohne¹⁸, H R Gallagher⁹, R A Gomes⁸, M C Goodman¹⁹, P Gouffon²⁰, N Graf²¹, R Gran²², K Grzelak²³, A Habig²², S R Hahn¹, J Hartnell¹⁴, R Hatcher¹, A Himmel²⁴, A Holin²⁵, J Huang⁷, J Hylen¹, G M Irwin²⁶, Z Isvan²⁷, C James¹, D Jensen¹, T Kafka⁹, S M S Kasahara¹², G Koizumi¹, M Kordosky¹³, A Kreymer¹, K Lang⁷, J Ling⁵, P J Litchfield²⁸, P Lucas¹, W A Mann⁹, M L Marshak¹², N Mayer²⁹, C McGivern³⁰, M M Medeiros⁸, R Mehdiyev⁷, J R Meier¹², M D Messier¹¹, D G Michael²⁴, W H Miller¹², S R Mishra³¹, S Moed Sher¹, C D Moore¹, L Mualem²⁴, J Musser¹¹, D Naples³⁰, J K Nelson¹³, H B Newman²⁴, R J Nichol²⁵, J A Nowak¹², J O'Connor²⁵, M Orchanian²⁴, R B Pahlka¹, J Paley¹⁹, R B Patterson²⁴, G Pawloski³², A Perch²⁵, S Phan-Budd¹⁹, R K Plunkett¹, N Poonthottathil¹, X Qiu²⁶, A Radovic³³, B Rebel¹, C Rosenfeld³¹, H A Rubin³⁴, M C Sanchez², J Schneps⁹, A Schreckenberger³⁵, P Schreiner¹⁹, R Sharma¹, A Sousa³⁶, N Tagg³⁷, R L Talaga¹⁹, J Thomas²⁵, M A Thomson⁶, X Tian³¹, A Timmons¹⁶, S C Tognini⁸, R Toner³⁸, D Torretta¹, G Tzanakos³⁹, J Urheim¹¹, P Vahle¹³, B Viren⁵, A Weber⁴⁰, R C Webb⁴¹, C White³⁴, L Whitehead⁴², L H Whitehead²⁵, S G Wojcicki²⁶, R Zwaska¹

Affiliations

¹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
² Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA.
³ Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
⁴ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁵ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
⁶ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
⁸ Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74001-970 Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
⁹ Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
¹⁰ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW-UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil and Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
¹¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
¹² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
¹³ Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.
¹⁵ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW-UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil.
¹⁶ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁸ Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
¹⁹ Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
²⁰ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
²¹ Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²² Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA.
²³ Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoża 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland.
²⁴ Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
²⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
²⁶ Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
²⁷ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²⁸ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technologies Facilities Council, Didcot OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
²⁹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA and Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
³⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
³¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
³² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA and Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
³³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom and Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
³⁴ Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³⁵ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA and Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
³⁶ Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
³⁷ Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.
³⁸ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
³⁹ Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece.
⁴⁰ Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technologies Facilities Council, Didcot OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
⁴¹ Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
⁴² Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.

PMID: 24877929
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.191801

Abstract

We report on a new analysis of neutrino oscillations in MINOS using the complete set of accelerator and atmospheric data. The analysis combines the ν(μ) disappearance and ν(e) appearance data using the three-flavor formalism. We measure |Δm(32)(2)| = [2.28-2.46] × 10(-3) eV(2) (68% C.L.) and sin(2)θ(23) = 0.35-0.65 (90% C.L.) in the normal hierarchy, and |Δm(32)(2)| = [2.32-2.53] × 10(-3) eV(2) (68% C.L.) and sin(2)θ(23) = 0.34-0.67 (90% C.L.) in the inverted hierarchy. The data also constrain δ(CP), the θ(23} octant degeneracy and the mass hierarchy; we disfavor 36% (11%) of this three-parameter space at 68% (90%) C.L.