Authors
P Adamson, C Andreopoulos, KE Arms, R Armstrong, DJ Auty, DS Ayres, B Baller, PD Barnes Jr, G Barr, WL Barrett, BR Becker, A Belias, RH Bernstein, D Bhattacharya, M Bishai, A Blake, GJ Bock, J Boehm, DJ Boehnlein, D Bogert, C Bower, E Buckley-Geer, S Cavanaugh, JD Chapman, D Cherdack, S Childress, BC Choudhary, JH Cobb, SJ Coleman, AJ Culling, JK De Jong, M Dierckxsens, MV Diwan, M Dorman, SA Dytman, CO Escobar, JJ Evans, E Falk Harris, GJ Feldman, MV Frohne, HR Gallagher, A Godley, MC Goodman, P Gouffon, R Gran, EW Grashorn, N Grossman, K Grzelak, A Habig, D Harris, PG Harris, J Hartnell, R Hatcher, K Heller, A Himmel, A Holin, J Hylen, GM Irwin, Masaki Ishitsuka, DE Jaffe, C James, D Jensen, T Kafka, SMS Kasahara, JJ Kim, MS Kim, G Koizumi, S Kopp, M Kordosky, DJ Koskinen, SK Kotelnikov, A Kreymer, S Kumaratunga, K Lang, J Ling, PJ Litchfield, RP Litchfield, L Loiacono, P Lucas, J Ma, WA Mann, Marchionni
Publication date
2008/9/26
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
101
Issue
13
Pages
131802
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
This Letter reports new results from the MINOS experiment based on a two-year exposure to muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Our data are consistent with quantum-mechanical oscillations of neutrino flavor with mass splitting (68% C.L.) and mixing angle sin2(2θ)>0.90 (90% C.L.). Our data disfavor two alternative explanations for the disappearance of neutrinos in flight: namely, neutrino decays into lighter particles and quantum decoherence of neutrinos, at the 3.7 and 5.7 standard-deviation levels, respectively.
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