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T1 - Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS
AU - Adamson, P.
AU - Andreopoulos, C.
AU - Armstrong, R.
AU - Auty, D. J.
AU - Ayres, D. S.
AU - Backhouse, C.
AU - Barr, G.
AU - Bishai, M.
AU - Blake, A.
AU - Bock, G. J.
AU - Boehnlein, D. J.
AU - Bogert, D.
AU - Cavanaugh, S.
AU - Cherdack, D.
AU - Childress, S.
AU - Choudhary, B. C.
AU - Coelho, J. A. B.
AU - Coleman, S. J.
AU - Corwin, L.
AU - Cronin-hennessy, D.
AU - Danko, I. Z.
AU - De Jong, J. K.
AU - Devenish, N. E.
AU - Diwan, M. V.
AU - Dorman, M.
AU - Escobar, C. O.
AU - Evans, J. J.
AU - Falk, E.
AU - Feldman, G. J.
AU - Frohne, M. V.
AU - Gallagher, H. R.
AU - Gomes, R. A.
AU - Goodman, M. C.
AU - Gouffon, P.
AU - Graf, N.
AU - Gran, R.
AU - Grant, N.
AU - Grzelak, K.
AU - Habig, A.
AU - Harris, D.
AU - Hartnell, J.
AU - Hatcher, R.
AU - Himmel, A.
AU - Holin, A.
AU - Huang, X.
AU - Hylen, J.
AU - Ilic, J.
AU - Irwin, G. M.
AU - Isvan, Z.
AU - Nowak, J. A.
AU - MINOS Collaboration
N1 - © 2011 American Physical Society
PY - 2011/5/2
Y1 - 2011/5/2
N2 - Measurements of neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam as observed by the two MINOS detectors are reported. New analysis methods have been applied to an enlarged data sample from an exposure of 7.25×1020 protons on target. A fit to neutrino oscillations yields values of |Δm2|=(2.32-0.08+0.12)×10-3 eV2 for the atmospheric mass splitting and sin2(2θ)>0.90 (90% C.L.) for the mixing angle. Pure neutrino decay and quantum decoherence hypotheses are excluded at 7 and 9 standard deviations, respectively.
AB - Measurements of neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam as observed by the two MINOS detectors are reported. New analysis methods have been applied to an enlarged data sample from an exposure of 7.25×1020 protons on target. A fit to neutrino oscillations yields values of |Δm2|=(2.32-0.08+0.12)×10-3 eV2 for the atmospheric mass splitting and sin2(2θ)>0.90 (90% C.L.) for the mixing angle. Pure neutrino decay and quantum decoherence hypotheses are excluded at 7 and 9 standard deviations, respectively.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.181801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.181801
M3 - Journal article
VL - 106
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 18
M1 - 181801
ER -