Publications (49)
A search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions by MINOS
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, G. Barr +100
We report new constraints on flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) using data from the MINOS experiment. We analyzed a combined set of beam neutrino and antineut…
The MINOS Light Injection Calibration System
P. Adamson, J. Alner, B. Anderson +14
A description is given of the light-injection calibration system that has been developed for the MINOS long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The system is based upon pulse…
Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +117
We report the results of a search for appearance in a beam in the MINOS long-baseline neutrino experiment. With an improved analysis and an increased exposure of $…
Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the MINOS Near and Far Detectors
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +107
We report the first observation of seasonal modulations in the rates of cosmic ray multiple-muon events at two underground sites, the MINOS Near Detector with an overburden of 225…
Electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance in the full MINOS data sample
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, C. Backhouse +106
We report on and appearance in and beams using the full MINOS data sample. The comparison of these and appearance data at a…
A Search for Lorentz Invariance and CPT Violation with the MINOS Far Detector
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +130
We searched for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS far detector neutrino rate. Such a signal would be a consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as described by the Standard-Model…
Measurement of the B Solar Neutrino Flux Using the Full SNO+ Water Phase Dataset
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +109
The SNO+ detector operated initially as a water Cherenkov detector. The implementation of a sealed covergas system midway through water data taking resulted in a significant reduct…
Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +117
We report results of a search for oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino over distances of 1.04 and in a -dominated beam with a peak energy of $3…
Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, N. Ashby +120
We report a two-detector measurement of the propagation speed of neutrinos over a baseline of 734 km. The measurement was made with the NuMI beam at Fermilab between the near and f…
Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS
The MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, C. Andreopoulos +126
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 analys…
Cosmogenic Neutron Production in Water at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +112
Accurate measurement of the cosmogenic muon-induced neutron yield is crucial for constraining a significant background in a wide range of low-energy physics searches. Although prev…
Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS Near Detector
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +109
A sample of 1.5310 cosmic-ray-induced single muon events has been recorded at 225 meters-water-equivalent using the MINOS Near Detector. The underground muon rate is…
Event-by-Event Direction Reconstruction of Solar Neutrinos in a High Light-Yield Liquid Scintillator
A. Allega, M. R. Anderson, S. Andringa +116
The direction of individual B solar neutrinos has been reconstructed using the SNO+ liquid scintillator detector. Prompt, directional Cherenkov light was separated from the slo…
Search for sterile neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ using a two-detector fit
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +117
A search for mixing between active neutrinos and light sterile neutrinos has been performed by looking for muon neutrino disappearance in two detectors at baselines of 1.04 km and…
Optical calibration of the SNO+ detector in the water phase with deployed sources
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +120
SNO+ is a large-scale liquid scintillator experiment with the primary goal of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, and is located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB,…
The SNO+ Experiment
SNO+ Collaboration, :, V. Albanese +251
The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta () decay will be conducted using 780 ton…
Search for time-independent Lorentz violation using muon neutrino to muon antineutrino transitions in MINOS
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +117
Data from the MINOS experiment has been used to search for mixing between muon neutrinos and muon antineutrinos using a time-independent Lorentz-violating formalism derived from th…
Measurement of single production by coherent neutral-current Fe interactions in the MINOS Near Detector
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +119
Forward single production by coherent neutral-current interactions, , is investigated using a 2.8 protons-on-target exp…
Study of quasielastic scattering using charged-current nu_mu-iron interactions in the MINOS Near Detector
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +108
Kinematic distributions from an inclusive sample of 1.41 x 10^6 charged-current nu_mu interactions on iron, obtained using the MINOS Near Detector exposed to a wide-band beam with…
A search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions using appearance in MINOS
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +117
We report new constraints on flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions from the MINOS long-baseline experiment using and appearance candidate events…
The calibration system for the photomultiplier array of the SNO+ experiment
R. Alves, S. Andringa, S. Bradbury +20
A light injection system using LEDs and optical fibres was designed for the calibration and monitoring of the photomultiplier array of the SNO+ experiment at SNOLAB. Large volume,…
Comparisons of the MINOS Near and Far Detector Readout Systems at a Test Beam
A. Cabrera, P. Adamson, M. Barker +28
MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that uses two detectors separated by 734 km. The readout systems used for the two detectors are different and have to be in…
Initial measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +119
The SNO+ collaboration reports its first spectral analysis of long-baseline reactor antineutrino oscillation using 114 tonne-years of data. Fitting the neutrino oscillation probabi…
Combined analysis of disappearance and appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, I. Anghel +111
We report on a new analysis of neutrino oscillations in MINOS using the complete set of accelerator and atmospheric data. The analysis combines the disappearance and $ν_{e…
Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +223
A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is…
Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +195
This paper reports results from a search for nucleon decay through 'invisible' modes, where no visible energy is directly deposited during the decay itself, during the initial wate…
An improved measurement of muon antineutrino disappearance in MINOS
P. Adamson, D. S. Ayres, C. Backhouse +109
We report an improved measurement of muon anti-neutrino disappearance over a distance of 735km using the MINOS detectors and the Fermilab Main Injector neutrino beam in a muon anti…
Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +130
The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV produced by neutron capture on hyd…
Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations Using Beam and Atmospheric Data in MINOS
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, I. Anghel +108
We report measurements of oscillation parameters from and disappearance using beam and atmospheric data from MINOS. The data comprise exposures of \unit[$10.7…
The NuMI Neutrino Beam
P. Adamson, K. Anderson, M. Andrews +187
This paper describes the hardware and operations of the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. It elaborates on the design considerations for the beam as a whole a…
Measurement of the B Solar Neutrino Flux in SNO+ with Very Low Backgrounds
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +120
A measurement of the B solar neutrino flux has been made using a 69.2 kt-day dataset acquired with the SNO+ detector during its water commissioning phase. At energies above 6 M…
Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with muon antineutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector
P. Adamson, D. S. Ayres, G. Barr +106
We have searched for sidereal variations in the rate of antineutrino interactions in the MINOS Near Detector. Using antineutrinos produced by the NuMI beam, we find no statisticall…
Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
Daya Bay, MINOS Collaborations, : +329
Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappeara…
Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos in the Double Chooz experiment
Y. Abe, C. Aberle, T. Akiri +182
The Double Chooz Experiment presents an indication of reactor electron antineutrino disappearance consistent with neutrino oscillations. A ratio of 0.944 0.016 (stat) 0…
A laserball calibration device for the SNO+ scintillator phase
S. Valder, A. Gibson-Foster, E. Falk +5
Located 2 km underground in SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada, SNO+ is a large scale liquid scintillator experiment that primarily aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Whilst S…
Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +116
This paper reports results from a search for single and multi-nucleon disappearance from the O nucleus in water within the \snoplus{} detector using all of the available dat…
Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions from the MINOS Experiment
P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +117
We report new constraints on the size of large extra dimensions from data collected by the MINOS experiment between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis employs a model in which sterile neu…
The Double Chooz antineutrino detectors
Double Chooz Collaboration, H. de Kerret, Y. Abe +247
This article describes the setup and performance of the near and far detectors in the Double Chooz experiment. The electron antineutrinos of the Chooz nuclear power plant were meas…
Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors using Pure Water at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +114
The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of reactor antineutrinos in a Cherenkov detector. The nearest nuclear reactors are located 240~km away in Ontario, Canada. This an…
First Evidence of Solar Neutrino Interactions on C
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +111
The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of solar neutrinos interacting on nuclei. The charged current interaction proceeds through $^{13}\t…
Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +122
We report constraints on antineutrino oscillation parameters that were obtained by using the two MINOS detectors to measure the 7% muon antineutrino component of the NuMI neutrino…
Measurements of atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos in the MINOS Far Detector
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, C. Backhouse +110
This paper reports measurements of atmospheric neutrino and antineutrino interactions in the MINOS Far Detector, based on 2553 live-days (37.9 kton-years) of data. A total of 2072…
Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment
SNO+ Collaboration, :, S. Andringa +155
SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12m di…
Commissioning of ELLIE for SNO+
E. Falk, J. Lidgard, M. I. Stringer +1
SNO+ is a neutrinoless double beta decay and low energy neutrino experiment located in Sudbury, Canada. To improve our understanding of the detector energy resolution and systemati…
First direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance
MINOS collaboration, P. Adamson, C. Andreopoulos +126
This letter reports the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance. The MINOS experiment has taken data with an accelerator beam optimized for muon antineutrino pr…
Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +298
The SNO+ collaboration reports its second spectral analysis of reactor antineutrino oscillation using 286 tonne-years of new data. The measured energies of reactor antineutrino can…
Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillations with 1.46 ktonne-years of data at SNO+
M. Abreu, A. Allega, M. R. Anderson +108
The SNO+ Collaboration reports new results on reactor antineutrino oscillations using data acquired from May 2022 through July 2025. The spectral analysis of a flux dominated by nu…
Measurement of the Multiple-Muon Charge Ratio in the MINOS Far Detector
Minos Collaboration, P. Adamson, I. Anghel +118
The charge ratio, , for cosmogenic multiple-muon events observed at an under- ground depth of 2070 mwe has been measured using the magnetized MINOS Far Det…
Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +123
Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interacti…