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Published September 1, 2015 | Version Published + Submitted
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Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors

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Abstract

We report a two-detector measurement of the propagation speed of neutrinos over a baseline of 734 km. The measurement was made with the NuMI beam at Fermilab between the near and far MINOS detectors. The fractional difference between the neutrino speed and the speed of light is determined to be (v/c−1)=(1.0±1.1)×10^(−6), consistent with relativistic neutrinos.

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© 2015 American Physical Society. Received 15 July 2015; published 17 September 2015. This work was supported by the U.S. DOE; the United Kingdom STFC; the U.S. NSF; the State and University of Minnesota; Brazil's FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES. We are grateful to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the personnel of the Soudan Laboratory, Fermilab, and USNO. We thank the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin for the provision of computing resources. Fermilab is operated by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. De-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy.

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04328 (URL)

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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
NSF
State of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-AC02-07CH11359

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2015-10-13
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