Search for Muon Neutrino and Antineutrino Disappearance in MiniBooNE

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

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“…1 This assumption is justified by the lack of any indication of ! e transitions in the MiniBooNE experiment [12,16] and the limits on shortbaseline muon neutrino disappearance found in the CDHSW [24], CCFR [25], and MiniBooNE [26] experiments. We do not consider the MiniBooNE antineutrino data [27], which have at present statistical uncertainties which are too large to constrain new physics [15].…”

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Short-baseline electron neutrino disappearance, tritium beta decay, and neutrinoless double-beta decay

Giunti

Laveder

2010

Phys. Rev. D

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We consider the interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy anomaly and the gallium radioactive source experiments anomaly in terms of short-baseline electron neutrino disappearance in the framework of 3 + 1 four-neutrino mixing schemes. The separate fits of MiniBooNE and gallium data are highly compatible, with close best-fit values of the effective oscillation parameters Delta m(2) and sin(2)upsilon. The combined fit gives Delta m(2) greater than or similar to 0.1 eV(2) and 0.11 less than or similar to sin(2)2 upsilon less than or similar to 0.48 at 2 sigma. We consider also the data of the Bugey and Chooz reactor antineutrino oscillation experiments and the limits on the effective electron antineutrino mass in beta decay obtained in the Mainz and Troitsk tritium experiments. The fit of the data of these experiments limits the value of sin(2)2 upsilon below 0.10 at 2 sigma. Considering the tension between the neutrino MiniBooNE and gallium data and the antineutrino reactor and tritium data as a statistical fluctuation, we perform a combined fit which gives Delta m(2) similar or equal to 2 eV and 0.01 less than or similar to sin(2)2 upsilon less than or similar to 0.13 at 2 sigma. Assuming a hierarchy of masses m1, m2, m3 << m4, the predicted contributions of m4 to the effective neutrino masses in beta decay and neutrinoless double-beta decay are, respectively, between about 0.06 and 0.49 and between about 0.003 and 0.07 eV at 2 sigma. We also consider the possibility of reconciling the tension between the neutrino MiniBooNE and gallium data and the antineutrino reactor and tritium data with different mixings in the neutrino and antineutrino sectors. We find a 2.6 sigma indication of a mixing angle asymmetry

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Short-baseline electron neutrino disappearance, tritium beta decay, and neutrinoless double-beta decay

Giunti

Laveder

2010

Phys. Rev. D

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“…Finally, no deviation from the three neutrino framework has been observed in the νµ disappearance data sets. Here, the constraints on |Uµ4| 2 are driven by MINOS/MINOS+ (43), the IceCube atmospheric neutrino sample (44), CDHS (45), and the MiniBooNE/SciBooNE disappearance analyses (46,47). MINOS/MINOS+ performs a fit to their near (∼1 km) and far (∼735 km) detector data in a broad band beam with neutrino energies from 1-40 GeV, thus constraining a large region in ∆m 2 .…”

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The Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab

Machado

Palamara

Schmitz

2019

Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci.

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The Short-Baseline Neutrino, or SBN, program consists of three liquid argon time projection chamber detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Its main goals include searches for new physics -particularly eV-scale sterile neutrinos, detailed studies of neutrino-nucleus interactions at the GeV energy scale, and the advancement of the liquid argon detector technology that will also be used in the DUNE/LBNF long-baseline neutrino experiment in the next decade. Here we review these science goals and the current experimental status of SBN.

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“…The operators that couple to neutrinos in SME affect neutrino oscillations, neutrinos velocity and the electron spectra in beta and double-beta decays [5][6][7][8][9]. Effects of LIV have been searched in many neutrino oscillation experiments as Double-Chooz [10], MiniBooNE [11], IceCube [12], MINOS [13], SuperKamiokande [14] which obtained constraints on the corresponding coefficients. However, LIV in the neutrino sector can also be induced by a Lorentz-violating operator in SME, called countershaded operator, which does not affect the neutrino oscillations and which also breaks the CPT symmetry.…”

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