Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam

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作者
Adamson, P. [10 ,19 ]
Andreopoulos, C. [24 ]
Arms, K. E. [20 ]
Armstrong, R. [13 ]
Auty, D. J. [28 ]
Avvakumov, S. [27 ]
Ayres, D. S. [2 ]
Baller, B. [10 ]
Barish, B. [6 ]
Barnes, P. D., Jr. [18 ]
Barr, G.
Barrett, W. L. [32 ]
Beall, E. [2 ,20 ]
Becker, B. R. [20 ]
Belias, A. [24 ]
Bergfeld, T. [26 ]
Bernstein, R. H.
Bhattacharya, D.
Bishai, M. [5 ]
Blake, A. [7 ]
Bock, B. [21 ]
Bock, G. J.
Boehm, J. [11 ]
Boehnlein, D. J.
Bogert, D.
Border, P. M. [20 ]
Bower, C. [13 ]
Buckley-Geer, E.
Cabrera, A. [22 ]
Chapman, J. D. [7 ]
Cherdack, D. [1 ,31 ]
Childress, S.
Choudhary, B. C.
Cobb, J. H. [22 ]
Coleman, S. J. [33 ]
Culling, A. J. [7 ]
De Jong, J. K. [12 ]
De Santo, A.
Dierckxsens, M. [5 ]
Diwan, M. V. [5 ]
Dorman, M. [19 ,24 ]
Drakoulakos, D. [3 ]
Durkin, T.
Erwin, A. R.
Escobar, C. O. [8 ]
Evans, J. J. [22 ]
Harris, E. Falk [28 ]
Feldman, G. J. [11 ]
Fields, T. H. [2 ]
Fitzpatrick, T.
机构
[1] Tufts Univ, Dept Phys, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Univ Athens, Dept Phys, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
[4] Benedictine Univ, Dept Phys, Lisle, IL 60532 USA
[5] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[6] CALTECH, Lauritsen Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Univ Cambridge, Cavevdish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[8] Univ Estadual Campinas, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
[9] Univ Paris 07, APC, F-75205 Paris, France
[10] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[11] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[12] IIT, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
[13] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[14] Inst High Energy Phys, RU-140284 Moscow, Russia
[15] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, High Energy Expt Phys Dept, Moscow 117218, Russia
[16] James Madison Univ, Dept Phys, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA
[17] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Dept Nucl Phys, Moscow 117924, Russia
[18] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[19] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England
[20] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[21] Univ Minnesota, Dept Phys, Duluth, MN 55812 USA
[22] Univ Oxford, Subdept Particle Phys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[23] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[24] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[25] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[26] Univ S Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[27] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[28] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England
[29] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[30] Univ Texas, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[31] Tufts Univ, Dept Phys, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[32] Western Washington Univ, Dept Phys, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA
[33] Coll William & Mary, Dept Phys, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[34] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2007年 / 76卷 / 07期
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.072005
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The velocity of a similar to 3 GeV neutrino beam is measured by comparing detection times at the near and far detectors of the MINOS experiment, separated by 734 km. A total of 473 far detector neutrino events was used to measure (nu - c)/c=5.1 +/- 2.9 x 10(-5) (at 68% C.L.). By correlating the measured energies of 258 charged-current neutrino events to their arrival times at the far detector, a limit is imposed on the neutrino mass of m(nu)50 MeV/c(2) (99% C.L.).
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