Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Presents an analysis of the world’s leading limit on sterile neutrinos mixing with muon neutrinos
- Offers the most rigorous statistical treatment ever made of a search for sterile neutrinos
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This thesis highlights data from MINOS, a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment, and details one of the most sensitive searches for the sterile neutrino ever made. Further, it presents a new analysis paradigm to enable this measurement and a comprehensive study of the myriad systematic uncertainties involved in a search for a few-percent effect, while also rigorously investigating the statistical interpretation of the findings in the context of a sterile neutrino model.
Among the scientific community, this analysis was quickly recognized as a foundational measurement in light of which all previous evidence for the sterile neutrino must now be (re)interpreted. The existence of sterile neutrinos has long been one of the key questions in the field. Not only are they a central component in many theories of new physics, but a number of past experiments have yielded results consistent with their existence. Nonetheless, they remain controversial: the interpretation of the data showing evidence for these sterile neutrinos is hotly debated.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Search for Sterile Neutrinos with the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment
Authors: Ashley Michael Timmons
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63769-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63768-6Published: 29 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87630-6Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63769-3Published: 10 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 162
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 111 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Astrophysics and Astroparticles