Tuesday, January 22, 2013

1301.4684 (B. Rebel et al.)

The Search for Neutrino-Antineutrino Mixing Resulting from Lorentz
Invariance Violation using neutrino interactions in MINOS
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B. Rebel, S. Mufson
We searched for a sidereal modulation in the rate of neutrinos produced by the NuMI beam and observed by the MINOS far detector. The detection of such harmonic signals could be a signature of neutrino-antineutrino mixing due to Lorentz and CPT violation as described by the Standard Model Extension framework. We found no evidence for these sidereal signals and we placed limits on the coefficients in this theory describing the effect. This is the first report of limits on these neutrino-antineutrino mixing coefficients.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4684

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