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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.
Report Numbers:
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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