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Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science, 2011.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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9 pages : digital, PDF file
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The MINOS Collaboration continues its search for ν{sub e} appearance in the NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam at Fermilab. Neutrinos in the beam interact in the Near Detector, located 1 km from the beam source, allowing us to characterize the backgrounds present in our analysis. In particular, we can estimate the number of ν{sub e} candidate events we expect to see in the Far Detector (735 km away, in the Soudan mine in northern Minnesota) in the presence or absence of ν{sub μ} → ν{sub e} oscillation. Recent efforts to improve the sensitivity of the analysis, including upgrades to the event identification algorithm and fitting procedure, are discussed, and the latest results from the search are presented.
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E 1.99:fermilab-conf-11-510-e
fermilab-conf-11-510-e
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Published through SciTech Connect.
09/01/2011.
"fermilab-conf-11-510-e"
"arXiv eprint number arXiv:1109.6795"
Prepared for DPF 2011, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 9-13 Aug 2011.
Orchanian, Mhair.
Funding Information
AC02-07CH11359
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