Speaker
Junting Huang
(University of Texas at Austin)
Description
We present the sensitivity of MINOS/MINOS+ to large extra dimensions using muon neutrino disappearance in the NuMI beam. Employing a model in which sterile neutrinos can propagate in a large compactified extra dimension while standard model left-handed neutrinos are confined to a 4-dimensional brane (e.g., Machado et al., Phys.Rev.D84:013003, 2011), we constrain the size of large extra dimensions as a function of the lightest neutrino mass. Mixing between active and sterile neutrinos occurring in the MINOS/MINOS+ baseline is treated as a perturbation to the standard oscillation scenario.
Primary author
Junting Huang
(University of Texas at Austin)