First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA

P, Adamson and Giri, Anjan Kumar and et al, . (2016) First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93 (5). 051104(R). ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of νμ disappearance in a νμ beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of 2.74×1020 protons-on-target from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Assuming the normal neutrino mass hierarchy, we measure Δm232=(2.52+0.20−0.18)×10−3  eV2 and sin2θ23 in the range 0.38–0.65, both at the 68% confidence level, with two statistically degenerate best-fit points at sin2θ23=0.43 and 0.60. Results for the inverted mass hierarchy are also presented.

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Giri, Anjan KumarUNSPECIFIED
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: LEPTON CHARGE; BEAM
Subjects: Physics
Divisions: Department of Physics
Depositing User: Team Library
Date Deposited: 25 Apr 2016 05:00
Last Modified: 11 Sep 2017 10:36
URI: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/2291
Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.051104
OA policy: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1550-7998/
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