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Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Aug 07;103(6):061802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.061802. Epub 2009 Aug 04.

Search for muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance in MiniBooNE.

Physical review letters

A A Aguilar-Arevalo, C E Anderson, A O Bazarko, S J Brice, B C Brown, L Bugel, J Cao, L Coney, J M Conrad, D C Cox, A Curioni, Z Djurcic, D A Finley, B T Fleming, R Ford, F G Garcia, G T Garvey, J Grange, C Green, J A Green, T L Hart, E Hawker, R Imlay, R A Johnson, G Karagiorgi, P Kasper, T Katori, T Kobilarcik, I Kourbanis, S Koutsoliotas, E M Laird, S K Linden, J M Link, Y Liu, Y Liu, W C Louis, K B M Mahn, W Marsh, C Mauger, V T McGary, G McGregor, W Metcalf, P D Meyers, F Mills, G B Mills, J Monroe, C D Moore, J Mousseau, R H Nelson, P Nienaber, J A Nowak, B Osmanov, S Ouedraogo, R B Patterson, Z Pavlovic, D Perevalov, C C Polly, E Prebys, J L Raaf, H Ray, B P Roe, A D Russell, V Sandberg, R Schirato, D Schmitz, M H Shaevitz, F C Shoemaker, D Smith, M Soderberg, M Sorel, P Spentzouris, J Spitz, I Stancu, R J Stefanski, M Sung, H A Tanaka, R Tayloe, M Tzanov, R G Van de Water, M O Wascko, D H White, M J Wilking, H J Yang, G P Zeller, E D Zimmerman,

Affiliations

  1. Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

PMID: 19792551 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.061802

Abstract

The MiniBooNE Collaboration reports a search for nu_{micro} and nu[over]_{micro} disappearance in the Deltam;{2} region of 0.5-40 eV;{2}. These measurements are important for constraining models with extra types of neutrinos, extra dimensions, and CPT violation. Fits to the shape of the nu_{micro} and nu[over]_{micro} energy spectra reveal no evidence for disappearance at the 90% confidence level (C.L.) in either mode. The test of nu[over]_{micro} disappearance probes a region below Deltam;{2} = 40 eV;{2} never explored before.

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