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Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments.
- Author(s): Adamson, P
- An, FP
- Anghel, I
- Aurisano, A
- Balantekin, AB
- Band, HR
- Barr, G
- Bishai, M
- Blake, A
- Blyth, S
- Cao, GF
- Cao, J
- Cao, SV
- Carroll, TJ
- Castromonte, CM
- Chang, JF
- Chang, Y
- Chen, HS
- Chen, R
- Chen, SM
- Chen, Y
- Chen, YX
- Cheng, J
- Cheng, ZK
- Cherwinka, JJ
- Childress, S
- Chu, MC
- Chukanov, A
- Coelho, JAB
- Cummings, JP
- Dash, N
- De Rijck, S
- Deng, FS
- Ding, YY
- Diwan, MV
- Dohnal, T
- Dolzhikov, D
- Dove, J
- Dvořák, M
- Dwyer, DA
- Evans, JJ
- Feldman, GJ
- Flanagan, W
- Gabrielyan, M
- Gallo, JP
- Germani, S
- Gomes, RA
- Gonchar, M
- Gong, GH
- Gong, H
- Gouffon, P
- Graf, N
- Grzelak, K
- Gu, WQ
- Guo, JY
- Guo, L
- Guo, XH
- Guo, YH
- Guo, Z
- Habig, A
- Hackenburg, RW
- Hahn, SR
- Hans, S
- Hartnell, J
- Hatcher, R
- He, M
- Heeger, KM
- Heng, YK
- Higuera, A
- Holin, A
- Hor, YK
- Hsiung, YB
- Hu, BZ
- Hu, JR
- Hu, T
- Hu, ZJ
- Huang, HX
- Huang, J
- Huang, XT
- Huang, YB
- Huber, P
- Jaffe, DE
- Jen, KL
- Ji, XL
- Ji, XP
- Johnson, RA
- Jones, D
- Kang, L
- Kettell, SH
- Koerner, LW
- Kohn, S
- Kordosky, M
- Kramer, M
- Kreymer, A
- Lang, K
- Langford, TJ
- Lee, J
- Lee, JHC
- Lei, RT
- Leitner, R
- Leung, JKC
- Li, F
- Li, HL
- Li, JJ
- Li, QJ
- Li, S
- Li, SC
- Li, SJ
- Li, WD
- Li, XN
- Li, XQ
- Li, YF
- Li, ZB
- Liang, H
- Lin, CJ
- Lin, GL
- Lin, S
- Ling, JJ
- Link, JM
- Littenberg, L
- Littlejohn, BR
- Liu, JC
- Liu, JL
- Liu, Y
- Liu, YH
- Lu, C
- Lu, HQ
- Lu, JS
- Lucas, P
- Luk, KB
- Ma, XB
- Ma, XY
- Ma, YQ
- Mann, WA
- Marshak, ML
- Marshall, C
- Martinez Caicedo, DA
- Mayer, N
- McDonald, KT
- McKeown, RD
- Mehdiyev, R
- Meier, JR
- Meng, Y
- Miller, WH
- Mills, G
- Mora Lepin, L
- Naples, D
- Napolitano, J
- Naumov, D
- Naumova, E
- Nelson, JK
- Nichol, RJ
- O'Connor, J
- Ochoa-Ricoux, JP
- Olshevskiy, A
- Pahlka, RB
- Pan, H-R
- Park, J
- Patton, S
- Pavlović, Ž
- Pawloski, G
- Peng, JC
- Perch, A
- Pfützner, MM
- Phan, DD
- Plunkett, RK
- Poonthottathil, N
- Pun, CSJ
- Qi, FZ
- Qi, M
- Qian, X
- Qiu, X
- Radovic, A
- Raper, N
- Ren, J
- Reveco, C Morales
- Rosero, R
- Roskovec, B
- Ruan, XC
- Sail, P
- Sanchez, MC
- Schneps, J
- Schreckenberger, A
- Shaheed, N
- Sharma, R
- Sousa, A
- Steiner, H
- Sun, JL
- Tagg, N
- Thomas, J
- Thomson, MA
- Timmons, A
- Tmej, T
- Todd, J
- Tognini, SC
- Toner, R
- Torretta, D
- Treskov, K
- Tse, W-H
- Tull, CE
- Vahle, P
- Viren, B
- Vorobel, V
- Wang, CH
- Wang, J
- Wang, M
- Wang, NY
- Wang, RG
- Wang, W
- Wang, W
- Wang, X
- Wang, Y
- Wang, YF
- Wang, Z
- Wang, Z
- Wang, ZM
- Weber, A
- Wei, HY
- Wei, LH
- Wen, LJ
- Whisnant, K
- White, C
- Whitehead, LH
- Wojcicki, SG
- Wong, HLH
- Wong, SCF
- Worcester, E
- Wu, DR
- Wu, FL
- Wu, Q
- Wu, WJ
- Xia, DM
- Xie, ZQ
- Xing, ZZ
- Xu, JL
- Xu, T
- Xue, T
- Yang, CG
- Yang, L
- Yang, YZ
- Yao, HF
- Ye, M
- Yeh, M
- Young, BL
- Yu, HZ
- Yu, ZY
- Yue, BB
- Zeng, S
- Zeng, Y
- Zhan, L
- Zhang, C
- Zhang, FY
- Zhang, HH
- Zhang, JW
- Zhang, QM
- Zhang, XT
- Zhang, YM
- Zhang, YX
- Zhang, YY
- Zhang, ZJ
- Zhang, ZP
- Zhang, ZY
- Zhao, J
- Zhou, L
- Zhuang, HL
- Daya Bay Collaboration
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Abstract
Searches for electron antineutrino, muon neutrino, and muon antineutrino disappearance driven by sterile neutrino mixing have been carried out by the Daya Bay and MINOS+ collaborations. This Letter presents the combined results of these searches, along with exclusion results from the Bugey-3 reactor experiment, framed in a minimally extended four-neutrino scenario. Significantly improved constraints on the θ_{μe} mixing angle are derived that constitute the most constraining limits to date over five orders of magnitude in the mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2}, excluding the 90% C.L. sterile-neutrino parameter space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE observations at 90% CL_{s} for Δm_{41}^{2}<13 eV^{2}. Furthermore, the LSND and MiniBooNE 99% C.L. allowed regions are excluded at 99% CL_{s} for Δm_{41}^{2}<1.6 eV^{2}.
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