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Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P. Adamson, Fengpeng An, I. M. Anghel, Adam Aurisano, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band, Giles Barr, M. Bishai, A. Blake, S. Blyth, G. J. Bock, D. Bogert, Dao Thép Cao, G. F. Cao, Jun Cao, S. Cao, Timothy J. Carroll, C. M. Castromonte, W. R. Cen, Y. L. Chan, J. F. Chang, Ling-Hua Chang, Yunjia Chang, H.S. Chen, Q. Y. Chen, R. Chen, Shaomin Chen, Y. Chen, Y. X. Chen, Jie Hong Cheng, Jie Hong Cheng, Yaping Cheng, Zhaokan Cheng, J. J. Cherwinka, S. Childress, M. C. Chu, A. Chukanov, J. A. B. Coelho, L. A. Corwin, D. Cronin-Hennessy, J. P. Cummings, Jose de Arcos, S. De Rijck, Z. Y. Deng, A. V. Devan, N. E. Devenish, Xuefeng Ding, Ying Ding, Milind Vaman Diwan, M. Dolgareva, J. Dove, D. A. Dwyer, William R. Edwards, Carlos O. Escobar, Justin J. Evans, E. Falk, G. J. Feldman, W. Flanagan, M. V. Frohne, M. Gabrielyan, Hugh R. Gallagher, S. Germani, R. Gill, Ricardo Avelino Gomes, Maxim O. Gonchar, G. Gong, Haipeng Gong, M. C. Goodman, P. Gouffon, N. Graf, Richard Gran, M. Grassi, K. Grzelak, W. Gu, Mengyun Guan, Lei Guo, R. P. Guo, Xin-Heng Guo, Ziyi Guo, Alec Habig, R. Hackenburg, S. R. Hahn, Ran Han, Sunej K. Hans, J. Hartnell, R. W. Hatcher, Mengxuan He, Karsten M. Heeger, Y. K. Heng, A. Higuera, A. Holin, Y. K. Hor, Yee Bob Hsiung, Beibei Hu, T. Hu, W. Hu, E.-C. Huang, H. X. Huang, J. Huang, X. T. Huang, Patrick J. Huber, W. Huo, Ghulam Hussain, J. Hylen, G. M. Irwin, Z. Isvan, D. E. Jaffe, Patrick Jaffke, Clancy W. James, K. L. Jen, D. Jensen, S. Jetter, X. L. Ji, X. Ji, J. B. Jiao, Rob Johnson, J. K. de Jong, J. Joshi, T. Kafka, Li-Wei Kang, S. M. S. Kasahara, S. H. Kettell, S. Kohn, G. Koizumi, M. Kordosky, M. Krämer, Arthur Kreymer, K. K. Kwan, M. W. Kwok, Talent Kwok, Kaixiang Lang, T. J. Langford, K. Lau, Logan Lebanowski, J. Lee, J. H. C. Lee, R. T. Lei, R. Leitner, J. K. C. Leung, C. Li, D. J. Li, F. Li, G. S. Li, Q. J. Li, Shengchao Li, S. C. Li, W. D. Li, X. N. Li, Yufeng Li, Zhibing Li, Han Liang, C.-J. Lin, G. L. Lin, Shengxin Lin, S. Lin, Y. C. Lin, J. J. Ling, J. M. Link, P. J. Litchfield, L. Littenberg, B. R. Littlejohn, D. W. Liu, J. C. Liu, J. L. Liu, C. W. Loh, C. Lü, H. Q. Lu, J. S. Lu, P. Lucas, X.-G. Lu, Zhipeng Lv, Q. M., X. B. Ma, X. Y., Y. Q., Yury Malyshkin, W. A. Mann, M. L. Marshak, D. A. Martínez Caicedo, N. Mayer, Kirk T. McDonald, C. L. McGivern, R. D. McKeown, M. M. Medeiros, R. Mehdiyev, J. R. Meier, M. D. Messier, W. H. Miller, S. R. Mishra, Ian V. Mitchell, Michael R Mooney, C. D. Moore, Leon Mualem, James A. Musser, Y. Nakajima, D. Naples, J. Napolitano, Dmitry V. Naumov, E. Naumova, J. K. Nelson, H. B. Newman, H. Y. Ngai, Ryan James Nichol, Zhe Ning, J. Nowak, J. Michael O’Connor, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Alexander G. Olshevskiy, M. Orchanian, R. B. Pahlka, Jonathan M. Paley, H.-R. Pan, J. Park, Ryan B. Patterson, S. Patton, Gregory J. Pawloski, V. Pec, J. C. Peng, A. Perch, M. M. Pfützner, D. D. Phan, S. Phan-Budd, Lawrence S. Pinsky, Robert K. Plunkett, N. Poonthottathil, C. S. J. Pun, F. Z. Qi, M. Qi, X. Qian, X. Qiu, Aleksandar Radovic, N. Raper, B. Rebel, J. Ren, Carlos Luis Rosenfeld, R. Rosero, B. Roskovec, Xichao Ruan, Howard A. Rubin, P. Sail, Mayly C. Sanchez, J. Schneps, A. Schreckenberger, P. A. Schreiner, R. Sharma, S. Moed Sher, A. Sousa, H. Steiner, G. X. Sun, Jian Sun, N. Tagg, R. L. Talaga, Wei Tang, D. Taychenachev, Jennifer Thomas, M. A. Thomson, X. C. Tian, Ashley Michael Timmons, J. Todd, S. C. Tognini, R. Toner, D. Torretta, Konstantin Treskov, Ka Vang Tsang, Craig E. Tull, G. Tzanakos, Jon Urheim, P. Vahle, N. Viaux Maira, Brett Viren, V. Vorobel, C. H. Wang, M. Wang, N. Y. Wang, R. G. Wang, Xiang-Gao Wang, Xiang-Gao Wang, Y. F. Wang, Z. Wang, Zhimin Wang, R. Webb, Alfons Weber, H. Wei, Liangjian Wen, Kody G. Whisnant, Christopher G. White, Leigh Howard Whitehead, Leigh Howard Whitehead, Tom Wise, S. G. Wojcicki, H. L. H. Wong, S. C. F. Wong, E. Worcester, Chengxin Wu, Q. Wu, Wenjie Wu, D. M. Xia, J. K. Xia, Z. Z. Xing, Jilei Xu, Jing Xu, Y. Xu, T. Xue, Changgen Yang, Haowen Yang, Luying Yang, M. Yang, Madeleine Yang, M. Ye, Ziping Ye, M. Yeh, B. L. Young, Zeyuan Yu, Shanting Zeng, Liang Zhan, Chenmeng Zhang, H. H. Zhang, J. W. Zhang, Qingmin Zhang, X. T. Zhang, Y. M. Zhang, Y. X. Zhang, Z. J. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang, J. Y. Zhao, Q. W. Zhao, Y. B. Zhao, W. Zhong, L. Zhou, Nan Zhou, H.L. Zhuang, J. H. Zou

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Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappearance channels, respectively. In this Letter, results from both experiments are combined with those from the Bugey-3 reactor neutrino experiment to constrain oscillations into light sterile neutrinos. The three experiments are sensitive to complementary regions of parameter space, enabling the combined analysis to probe regions allowed by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooNE experiments in a minimally extended four-neutrino flavor framework. Stringent limits on sin^{2}2θ_{μe} are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2}. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δm_{41}^{2}<0.8 eV^{2} at 95% CL_{s}.

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Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappearance channels, respectively. In this Letter, results from both experiments are combined with those from the Bugey-3 reactor neutrino experiment to constrain oscillations into light sterile neutrinos. The three experiments are sensitive to complementary regions of parameter space, enabling the combined analysis to probe regions allowed by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooNE experiments in a minimally extended four-neutrino flavor framework. Stringent limits on sin^{2}2θ_{μe} are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2}. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δm_{41}^{2}<0.8 eV^{2} at 95% CL_{s}.

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Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappearance channels, respectively. In this Letter, results from both experiments are combined with those from the Bugey-3 reactor neutrino experiment to constrain oscillations into light sterile neutrinos. The three experiments are sensitive to complementary regions of parameter space, enabling the combined analysis to probe regions allowed by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooNE experiments in a minimally extended four-neutrino flavor framework. Stringent limits on sin^{2}2θ_{μe} are set over 6 orders of magnitude in the sterile mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2}. The sterile-neutrino mixing phase space allowed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded for Δm_{41}^{2}<0.8 eV^{2} at 95% CL_{s}.

Key concepts: MiniBooNE, MINOS, Sterile neutrino, Physics, Particle physics, Neutrino oscillation, Electron neutrino, Nuclear physics

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