New Constraints on Sterile Neutrinos with MINOS/MINOS+ and Daya Bay

TL;DR

This paper reports on new constraints on sterile neutrinos from MINOS/MINOS+ and Daya Bay experiments, combining their results to explore parameter space relevant to LSND and MiniBooNE anomalies.

Contribution

It introduces combined analyses of MINOS and Daya Bay data to set novel limits on sterile neutrino oscillations in previously unexplored parameter regions.

Findings

Constraints on sterile neutrino mixing parameters.

No evidence found for sterile neutrinos in the analyzed data.

Enhanced limits compared to previous searches.

Abstract

I describe two new searches for sterile neutrino oscillations from the MINOS and Daya Bay experiments. MINOS looked for evidence through muon neutrino disappearance with data collected from the NuMI neutrino beam. Daya Bay searched for evidence through electron antineutrino disappearance using data collected from nuclear reactors. I explain how the MINOS and Daya Bay searches were combined to produce constraints on the same phase space as LSND and MiniBooNE. Finally, I present the status of the sterile neutrino search using data from MINOS+.