Search for Sterile Neutrinos with the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment

Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Presents an analysis of the world's leading limit on sterile neutrinos mixing with muon neutrinos

Offers the most rigorous statistical treatment ever made of a search for sterile neutrinos

Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Presents an analysis of the world's leading limit on sterile neutrinos mixing with muon neutrinos Offers the most rigorous statistical treatment ever made of a search for sterile neutrinos Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction.- Neutrino Physics.- The MINOS and MINOS+ Experiments.- Calibration and Reconstruction.- Event Selection.- Systematic Uncertainties.- The MINOS Sterile Neutrino Analysis.- Feldman-Cousins Condence Intervals.- Near Detector Data Quality Monitoring.- Conclusions and Future Outlook.