Search for light sterile neutrinos with the T2K far detector Super-Kamiokande at a baseline of 295 km
Abstract
We perform a search for light sterile neutrinos using the data from the T2K far detector at a baseline of 295 km, with an exposure of 14.7 (7.6 )×1020 protons on target in neutrino (antineutrino) mode. A selection of neutral-current interaction samples is also used to enhance the sensitivity to sterile mixing. No evidence of sterile neutrino mixing in the 3 +1 model was found from a simultaneous fit to the charged-current muon, electron and neutral-current neutrino samples. We set the most stringent limit on the sterile oscillation amplitude sin2θ24 for the sterile neutrino mass splitting Δ m412<3 ×10-3 eV2/c4 .
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1902.06529
- Bibcode:
- 2019PhRvD..99g1103A
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 4 figures