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Register a new userSome conclusive considerations on the comparison of the ICARUS nu_mu to nu_e oscillation search with the MiniBooNE low-energy event excess
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Francesco Pietropaolo
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2015
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A sensitive search for anomalous LSND-like nu_mu to nu_e oscillations has been performed by the ICARUS Collaboration exposing the T600 LAr-TPC to the CERN to Gran Sasso (CNGS) neutrino beam. The result is compatible with the absence of additional anomalous contributions giving a limit to oscillation probability of 3.4E-3 and 7.6E-3 at 90% and 99% confidence levels respectively showing a tension between these new limits and the low-energy event excess (200 < E_nu QE < 475 MeV) reported by MiniBooNE Collaboration. A more detailed comparison of the ICARUS data with the MiniBooNE low-energy excess has been performed, including the energy resolution as obtained from the official MiniBooNE data release. As a result the previously reported tension is confirmed at 90% C.L., suggesting an unexplained nature or an otherwise instrumental effect for the MiniBooNE low energy event excess
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We present the results of a new analysis of the data of the MiniBooNE experiment taking into account the additional background of photons from $Delta^{+/0}$ decay proposed in arXiv:1909.08571 and additional contributions due to coherent photon emission, incoherent production of higher mass resonances, and incoherent non-resonant nucleon production. We show that the new background can explain part of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess and the statistical significance of the MiniBooNE indication in favor of short-baseline neutrino oscillation decreases from $5.1sigma$ to $3.6sigma$. We also consider the implications for short-baseline neutrino oscillations in the 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing framework. We show that the new analysis of the MiniBooNE data indicates smaller active-sterile neutrino mixing and may lead us towards a solution of the appearance-disappearance tension in the global fit of short-baseline neutrino oscillation data.
The MiniBooNE experiment is a $ u_muto u_e$ and $bar u_mutobar u_e$ appearance neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. The neutrino mode oscillation analysis shows an excess of $ u_e$ candidate events in the low-energy region. These events are analyzed under the SME formalism, utilizing the short baseline approximation. The preliminary result shows the time independent solution is favored. The relationship with the SME parameters extracted from the LSND experiment is discussed. The systematic error analysis and antineutrino mode analysis are outlined.
Multiring signatures of the oscillation nu_mu --> nu_e are formulated for a water Cherenkov detector. These are appropriate for relatively high neutrino energies (over 2 GeV) that emphasize the matter effect and, therefore, may allow to measure the sign of the atmospheric mass-squared difference.
Using a cleanly tagged data sample of $ u_mu$ charged current events, it is demonstrated that the rate at which such events are mis-identified as $ u_e$s is accurately simulated in the MiniBooNE $ u_mu to u_e$ analysis. Such mis-identification, which could arise from muon internal bremsstrahlung, is decisively ruled out as a source of the low energy electron-like events reported in the MiniBooNE search for $ u_mu to u_e$ oscillations. This refutes the conclusions of a recent paper which postulates that hard bremsstrahlung could form a substantial background to the MiniBooNE $ u_e$ sample.
The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from a search for $bar u_mu rightarrow bar u_e$ oscillations, using a data sample corresponding to $5.66 times 10^{20}$ protons on target. An excess of $20.9 pm 14.0$ events is observed in the energy range $475<E_ u^{QE}<1250$ MeV, which, when constrained by the observed $bar u_mu$ events, has a probability for consistency with the background-only hypothesis of 0.5%. On the other hand, fitting for $bar{ u}_{mu}rightarrowbar{ u}_e$ oscillations, the best-fit point has a $chi^2$-probability of 8.7%. The data are consistent with $bar u_mu rightarrow bar u_e$ oscillations in the 0.1 to 1.0 eV$^2$ $Delta m^2$ range and with the evidence for antineutrino oscillations from the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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