Measurement of neutrino oscillations with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI beam

被引：216

作者：

Adamson, P. ^{[9
]}

Andreopoulos, C. ^{[22
]}

Arms, K. E. ^{[18
]}

Armstrong, R. ^{[12
]}

Auty, D. J. ^{[26
]}

Ayres, D. S. ^{[1
]}

Baller, B. ^{[9
]}

Barnes, P. D., Jr. ^{[16
]}

Barr, G. ^{[20
]}

Barrett, W. L. ^{[31
]}

Becker, B. R. ^{[18
]}

Belias, A. ^{[9
,22
]}

Bernstein, R. H. ^{[9
]}

Bhattacharya, D. ^{[21
]}

Bishai, M. ^{[4
]}

Blake, A. ^{[6
]}

Bock, G. J. ^{[9
]}

Boehm, J. ^{[10
]}

Boehnlein, D. J. ^{[9
]}

Bogert, D. ^{[9
]}

Bower, C. ^{[12
]}

Buckley-Geer, E. ^{[9
]}

Cavanaugh, S. ^{[10
]}

Chapman, J. D.

Cherdack, D. ^{[29
]}

Childress, S. ^{[9
]}

Choudhary, B. C. ^{[9
]}

Cobb, J. H. ^{[6
,20
]}

Coleman, S. J. ^{[32
]}

Culling, A. J. ^{[6
]}

de Jong, J. K. ^{[11
]}

Dierckxsens, M. ^{[4
]}

Diwan, M. V. ^{[4
]}

Dorman, M. ^{[17
,22
]}

Dytman, S. A. ^{[21
]}

Escobar, C. O. ^{[7
]}

Evans, J. J. ^{[17
,20
]}

Harris, E. Falk ^{[26
]}

Feldman, G. J. ^{[10
]}

Frohne, M. V. ^{[3
]}

Gallagher, H. R. ^{[29
]}

Godley, A. ^{[24
]}

Goodman, M. C. ^{[1
]}

Gouffon, P. ^{[23
]}

Gran, R. ^{[19
]}

Grashorn, E. W. ^{[18
]}

Grossman, N. ^{[9
]}

Grzelak, K. ^{[20
,30
]}

Habig, A. ^{[19
]}

Harris, D. ^{[9
]}

机构：

[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA

[2] Univ Athens, Dept Phys, GR-15771 Athens, Greece

[3] Benedictine Univ, Dept Phys, Lisle, IL 60532 USA

[4] Assoc Univ Inc, Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA

[5] CALTECH, Lauritsen Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[6] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England

[7] Univ Estadual Campinas, IF UNICAMP, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP, Brazil

[8] Univ Paris 07, APC, Paris 13, France

[9] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[10] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[11] IIT, Div Phys, Chicago, IL 60616 USA

[12] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[13] ITEP, High Energy Expt Phys Dept, Moscow 117218, Russia

[14] James Madison Univ, Dept Phys, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA

[15] Lebedev Phys Inst, Dept Nucl Phys, Moscow 119991, Russia

[16] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

[17] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England

[18] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA

[19] Univ Minnesota, Dept Phys, Duluth, MN 55812 USA

[20] Univ Oxford, Subdept Particle Phys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England

[21] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

[22] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England

[23] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil

[24] Univ S Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC 29208 USA

[25] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[26] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England

[27] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys, College Stn, TX 77843 USA

[28] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[29] Tufts Univ, Dept Phys, Medford, MA 02155 USA

[30] Warsaw Univ, Dept Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland

[31] Western Washington Univ, Dept Phys, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA

[32] Coll William & Mary, Dept Phys, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2008年 / 101卷 / 13期

基金：

英国科学技术设施理事会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.131802

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

This Letter reports new results from the MINOS experiment based on a two-year exposure to muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Our data are consistent with quantum-mechanical oscillations of neutrino flavor with mass splitting vertical bar Delta m(2)vertical bar = (2.43 +/- 0.13) x 10(-3) eV(2) (68% C.L.) and mixing angle sin(2)(2 theta) > 0.90 (90% C.L.). Our data disfavor two alternative explanations for the disappearance of neutrinos in flight: namely, neutrino decays into lighter particles and quantum decoherence of neutrinos, at the 3.7 and 5.7 standard-deviation levels, respectively.

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