The Results of MINOS and the Future with MINOS+

Abstract

The MINOS experiment took data from 2005 up until 2012. This was superseded by MINOS+, the continuation of the two-detector, on-axis, long-baseline experiment based at Fermilab, and at the Soudan Underground Laboratory in northern Minnesota. By searching for the deficit of muon neutrinos at the Far Detector, MINOS/MINOS+ is sensitive to the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta m_{32}^2$ and ${\theta }_{23}$. By using the full MINOS data set looking at both \numu disappearance and \nue appearance in both neutrino and anti-neutrino configurations at the NuMI beam along with atmospheric neutrino data recorded at the FD, MINOS has made the most precise measurement of $\Delta m_{32}^2$. Using a full three-flavour framework and searching for \nue appearance MINOS/MINOS+ gains sensitivity to ${\theta }_{13}$, the mass hierarchy and the octant of ${\theta }_{23}$. Exotic phenomenon is also explored with the MINOS detectors looking for non-standard interactions and sterile neutrinos. The current MINOS+ era goals are to build on the previous MINOS results improving the precision on the three-flavour oscillation parameter measurements and strengthening the constraints placed on the sterile neutrino parameter space.

Review for Advances in High Energy Physics. The special issue for which the paper is being processed is "Neutrino Masses and Oscillations 2015"

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