Recent Results from the MINOS experiment

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dc.creatorDiwan, Milind V.
dc.date2009-04-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:17:04Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:17:04Z
dc.descriptionMINOS is an accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. An intense high energy neutrino beam is produced at Fermilab and sent to a near detector on the Fermilab site and also to a 5 kTon far detector 735 km away in the Soudan mine in northern Minnesota. The experiment has now had several years of running with millions of events in the near detector and hundreds of events recorded in the far detector. I will report on the recent results from this experiment which include precise measurement of $|Δm^2_{32}|$, ~analysis of neutral current data to limit the component of sterile neutrinos, and the search for $ν_μ\to ν_e$ conversion. The focus will be on the analysis of data for $ν_μ\to ν_e$ conversion. Using data from an exposure of $3.14\times 10^{20}$ protons on target, we have selected electron type events in both the near and the far detector. The near detector is used to measure the background which is extrapolated to the far detector. We have found 35 events in the signal region with a background expectation of $27\pm 5(stat)\pm 2(syst)$. Using this observation we set a 90% C.L. limit of $\sin^2 2 θ_{13} < 0.29$ for $δ_{cp} = 0$ and normal mass hierarchy. Further analysis is under way to reduce backgrounds and improve sensitivity.
dc.descriptionThis was prepared for the proceedings of the XIII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice, Italy held on March 10-13, 2009. The presentation was on behalf of the MINOS collaboration
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3706
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3706
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/230992
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleRecent Results from the MINOS experiment
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