Search for light sterile neutrinos with the T2K far detector Super-Kamiokande at a baseline of 295 km

We perform a search for light sterile neutrinos using the data from the T2K far detector at a baseline of 295 km, with an exposure of 14.7 (7.6)\(\times 10^{20}\) protons on target in neutrino (antineutrino) mode. A selection of neutral current interaction samples are also used to enhance the sensit...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2019-06
Hauptverfasser: Abe, K, Ali, A, Antonova, M, Aoki, S, Ariga, A, Barbi, M, Barr, G, Berns, L, Bienstock, S, Boyd, S B, Calcutt, J, Checchia, C, Cherdack, D, Collazuol, G, Coplowe, D, Denner, P F, F Di Lodovico, Drapier, O, Duffy, K E, Ereditato, A, Fujita, R, Gizzarelli, F, Haigh, J T, Hiramoto, A, Hogan, M, N T Hong Van, Hosomi, F, Iacob, F, Inoue, T, Intonti, R A, Ishida, T, Ishii, T, Ishitsuka, M, Jesus, C, Jonsson, P, Kabirnezhad, M, Kaboth, A C, Kakuno, H, Kameda, J, Karlen, D, Khabibullin, M, Koch, L, Konaka, A, Kormos, L L, Kowalik, K, Kuze, M, Lamoureux, M, Lindner, T, Longhin, A, Lux, T, Malek, M, Matsubara, T, Mavrokoridis, K, McCarthy, M, McFarland, K S, Metelko, C, Mezzetto, M, Mineev, O, Miura, M, L Molina Bueno, Morrison, J, Nagai, Y, Nakahata, M, Nakajima, Y, Nakamura, K, Nakaya, T, Nishikawa, K, Novella, P, Owen, R A, Paolone, V, Paudyal, P, Ratoff, P N, Riccio, C, Rossi, B, Rubbia, A, Ruggeri, A C, Sekiguchi, T, Sgalaberna, D, Shah, R, Shaykina, A, Sobel, H, Sonoda, Y, Suzuki, A, Suzuki, S Y, Sztuc, A A, Tada, M, Takeda, A, Thompson, L F, Uchida, Y, Vagins, M, Vallari, Z, Volkov, V V, Wascko, M O, Weber, A, Yamada, Y, Yanagisawa, C, Yershov, N, Zarnecki, G, Zimmerman, E D, Zito, M
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Zusammenfassung:We perform a search for light sterile neutrinos using the data from the T2K far detector at a baseline of 295 km, with an exposure of 14.7 (7.6)\(\times 10^{20}\) protons on target in neutrino (antineutrino) mode. A selection of neutral current interaction samples are also used to enhance the sensitivity to sterile mixing. No evidence of sterile neutrino mixing in the 3+1 model was found from a simultaneous fit to the charged-current muon, electron and neutral current neutrino samples. We set the most stringent limit on the sterile oscillation amplitude \(\sin^2\theta_{24}\) for the sterile neutrino mass splitting \(\Delta m^2_{41}
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1902.06529