Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS

Abstract

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 interactions, from an exposure to the NuMI neutrino beam of $7.07\times 10^{20}$ protons on target. A total of 802 neutral-current event candidates is observed in the Far Detector, compared to an expected number of $754\pm 28(stat.)\pm 37(syst.)$ for oscillations among three active flavors. The fraction $f_s$ of disappearing \numu that may transition to ${\nu }_s$ is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L.

5 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures. Published in Physical Review Letters

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