Precision Constraints for Three-Flavor Neutrino Oscillations from the Full <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>MINOS</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math> and MINOS Dataset
P. Adamson, I. M. Anghel, A. Aurisano, G. Barr, A. Blake, S. Cao, Timothy J. Carroll, C. M. Castromonte, R. Chen, S. Childress, J. A. B. Coelho, S. De Rijck, J. J. Evans, G. J. Feldman, W. Flanagan, M. Gabrielyan, S. Germani, R. A. Gomes, P. Gouffon, N. Graf, K. Grzelak, A. Habig, S. R. Hahn, J. Hartnell, R. Hatcher, A. Holin, J. Huang, L. W. Koerner, M. Kordosky, A. Kreymer, K. Lang, P. Lucas, W. A. Mann, Marvin L. Marshak, N. Mayer, R. Mehdiyev, J. R. Meier, William H. Miller, G.B. Mills, D. Naples, J. K. Nelson, R. J. Nichol, J. Michael O’Connor, R. B. Pahlka, Ž. Pavlović, G. Pawloski, A. Perch, M. M. Pfützner, D. D. Phan, R. Plunkett, N. Poonthottathil, X. Qiu, A. Radovic, P. Sail, M. C. Sánchez, J. Schneps, A. Schreckenberger, R. Sharma, A. Sousa, N. Tagg, J. Thomas, M. Thomson, A. Timmons, J. Todd, S. C. Tognini, R. Toner, D. Torretta, P. Vahle, A. Weber, L. Whitehead, S. G. Wojcicki
Abstract
We report the final measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{m}_{32}^{2}$ and ${\mathrm{sin}}^{2}{\ensuremath{\theta}}_{23}$ using all data from the MINOS and $\mathrm{MINOS}+$ experiments. These data were collected using a total exposure of $23.76\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{20}$ protons on target producing ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$ and ${\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$ beams and 60.75 kt yr exposure to atmospheric neutrinos. The measurement of the disappearance of ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$ and the appearance of ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{e}$ events between the Near and Far detectors yields $|\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{m}_{32}^{2}|=2.4{0}_{\ensuremath{-}0.09}^{+0.08}(2.4{5}_{\ensuremath{-}0.08}^{+0.07})\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}3}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{eV}}^{2}$ and ${\mathrm{sin}}^{2}{\ensuremath{\theta}}_{23}=0.4{3}_{\ensuremath{-}0.04}^{+0.20}(0.4{2}_{\ensuremath{-}0.03}^{+0.07})$ at 68% C.L. for normal (inverted) hierarchy.