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    Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Appearance in the Full MINOS Data Sample

    P. Adamson8, I. Anghel1,15, C. Backhouse21, G. Barr21, M. Bishai3, A. Blake5, G. J. Bock8, D. Bogert8, S. V. Cao29 et al. (MINOS Collaboration)

    S. V. Cao29, D. Cherdack30, S. Childress8, J. A. B. Coelho30,6, L. Corwin14, D. Cronin-Hennessy18, J. K. de Jong21, A. V. Devan32, N. E. Devenish27, M. V. Diwan3, C. O. Escobar6, J. J. Evans17,16, E. Falk27, G. J. Feldman10, M. V. Frohne11, H. R. Gallagher30, R. A. Gomes9, M. C. Goodman1, P. Gouffon24, N. Graf13, R. Gran19, K. Grzelak31, A. Habig19, S. R. Hahn8, J. Hartnell27, R. Hatcher8, A. Himmel4, A. Holin16, J. Hylen8, G. M. Irwin26, Z. Isvan3,22, D. E. Jaffe3, C. James8, D. Jensen8, T. Kafka30, S. M. S. Kasahara18, G. Koizumi8, M. Kordosky32, A. Kreymer8, K. Lang29, J. Ling3, P. J. Litchfield18,23, P. Lucas8, W. A. Mann30, M. L. Marshak18, M. Mathis32, N. Mayer30,14, M. M. Medeiros9, R. Mehdiyev29, J. R. Meier18, M. D. Messier14, D. G. Michael4,*, W. H. Miller18, S. R. Mishra25, S. Moed Sher8, C. D. Moore8, L. Mualem4, J. Musser14, D. Naples22, J. K. Nelson32, H. B. Newman4, R. J. Nichol16, J. A. Nowak18, J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux4, J. O’Connor16, W. P. Oliver30, M. Orchanian4, R. B. Pahlka8, J. Paley1, R. B. Patterson4, G. Pawloski18,26, S. Phan-Budd1, R. K. Plunkett8, X. Qiu26, A. Radovic16, B. Rebel8, C. Rosenfeld25, H. A. Rubin13, M. C. Sanchez15,1, J. Schneps30, A. Schreckenberger18, P. Schreiner1, R. Sharma8, A. Sousa7,10, N. Tagg20, R. L. Talaga1, J. Thomas16, M. A. Thomson5, G. Tinti21, R. Toner10,5, D. Torretta8, G. Tzanakos2, J. Urheim14, P. Vahle32, B. Viren3, A. Weber21,23, R. C. Webb28, C. White13, L. Whitehead12,3, S. G. Wojcicki26, T. Yang26, and R. Zwaska8 (MINOS Collaboration)

    • 1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
    • 2Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
    • 3Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
    • 4Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
    • 5Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
    • 6Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW-UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
    • 7Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
    • 8Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
    • 9Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74001-970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
    • 10Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    • 11Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
    • 12Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
    • 13Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA
    • 14Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
    • 15Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
    • 16Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
    • 17School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
    • 18University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
    • 19Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA
    • 20Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA
    • 21Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
    • 22Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
    • 23Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technologies Facilities Council, Harwell, Didcot OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
    • 24Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
    • 25Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
    • 26Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
    • 27Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
    • 28Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
    • 29Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
    • 30Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
    • 31Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoża 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland
    • 32Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA

    • *Deceased.
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    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 171801 – Published 22 April, 2013

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.171801

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    We report on νe and ν¯e appearance in νμ and ν¯μ beams using the full MINOS data sample. The comparison of these νe and ν¯e appearance data at a 735 km baseline with θ13 measurements by reactor experiments probes δ, the θ23 octant degeneracy, and the mass hierarchy. This analysis is the first use of this technique and includes the first accelerator long-baseline search for ν¯μ→ν¯e. Our data disfavor 31% (5%) of the three-parameter space defined by δ, the octant of the θ23, and the mass hierarchy at the 68% (90%) C.L. We measure a value of 2sin2(2θ13)sin2(θ23) that is consistent with reactor experiments.

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    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 171801– Published 22 April, 2013
    • Received 22 January 2013

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