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Publications (32)

hep-ex2013

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…

hep-ex2011

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 $…

hep-ex2014

Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay

F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +230

A search for light sterile neutrino mixing was performed with the first 217 days of data from the Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment. The experiment's unique configuration of…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2013

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…

hep-ex2010

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…

hep-ex2012

Improved Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay

Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, Q. An +227

We report an improved measurement of the neutrino mixing angle from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. We exclude a zero value for with a signific…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2011

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2020

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…

hep-ex2012

Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay

F. P. An, J. Z. Bai, A. B. Balantekin +264

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured a non-zero value for the neutrino mixing angle with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from si…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2014

Spectral measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation amplitude and frequency at Daya Bay

Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +235

A measurement of the energy dependence of antineutrino disappearance at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is reported. Electron antineutrinos () from six $2…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2012

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…

hep-ex2013

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…

physics.ins-det2016

The Detector System of The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

F. P. An, J. Z. Bai, A. B. Balantekin +330

The Daya Bay experiment was the first to report simultaneous measurements of reactor antineutrinos at multiple baselines leading to the discovery of oscillations over km…

physics.acc-ph2015

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…

hep-ex2012

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2011

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…

hep-ex2014

Independent Measurement of Theta13 via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay

Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +230

A new measurement of the mixing angle has been obtained at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment via the detection of inverse beta decays tagged by neutron capture on…

hep-ex2012

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…

hep-ex2011

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2011

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…