Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Jul 1;107(1):011802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.011802. Epub 2011 Jun 30.
Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interactions, from an exposure to the NuMI neutrino beam of 7.07×10(20) protons on target. A total of 802 neutral-current event candidates is observed in the Far Detector, compared to an expected number of 754 ± 28(stat) ± 37(syst) for oscillations among three active flavors. The fraction f(s) of disappearing ν(μ) that may transition to ν(s) is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L.
结果来自 MINOS 长基线实验中对活跃到惰性中微子振荡的搜索,该实验基于对来自 NuMI 中微子束的 7.07×10(20)个质子靶的中性电流中微子相互作用的观测。在远探测器中观察到总共 802 个中性电流事件候选者,而对于三个活跃味道之间的振荡,预期的数量为 754 ± 28(stat) ± 37(syst)。消失的 ν(μ)可能跃迁到 ν(s)的分数 f(s)被发现小于 90%置信度水平下的 22%。