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Unpaywalled https://escholarship.org/content/qt496002sb/qt496002sb.pdf https://escholarship.org/content/qt496002sb/qt496002sb.pdf I don't have the background t

Unpaywalled https://escholarship.org/content/qt496002sb/qt496002sb.pdf https://escholarship.org/content/qt496002sb/qt496002sb.pdf I don't have the background to interpret these figures, and based on a quick search for MiniBooNE mentions in the paper, the authors don't seem to say that MiniBooNE is an outlier relative to all the other experiments. Where does the paper talk about the tension? EDIT: based on the comments below, it sounds like the tension is between appearance-based and disappearance-based experiments, and isn't necessarily about a single experiment being an outlier relative to others?

bazzargh 5y ago
They do mention it, it's at the end of their conclusions: "The results explicitly show the strong tension between null results from disappearance searches and appearance-based indications for the existence of light sterile neutrinos." p7 So yes they are saying there is tension between disappearance and appearance experiments, which is which? "In this analysis, the measurement of muon (anti)neutrino disappearance by the MINOS experiment is combined with electron antineutrino disappearance measurements from the Daya Bay and Bugey-3 [16] experiments using the signal confi- dence level (CLs) method [17, 18]. The combined results are analyzed in light of the muon (anti)neutrino to electron (anti)neutrino appearance indications from the LSND [8] and MiniBooNE [9] experiments." p3 So yes they are saying there is tension between MiniBooNE results and MINOS, Bugey-3. I've no insight into the results either but GP's characterization of this paper was accurate.
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SiempreViernes 5y ago
uh,they do say "Regions of parameter space to the right of the red contour are excluded." you can see for yourself where mosto of the miniBoone resylts lie. By the way, why not link the preprint? https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01177 https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01177 The existence of a contradiction with other experiments was also something that was reported at the time: > Despite the affirmation of LSND’s 20-year-old results, physicists have not concluded that there is a fourth neutrino species. The findings directly contradict those by a diverse set of experiments, including the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20180614a/full/ https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.2018061...

bazzargh 5y ago

They do mention it, it's at the end of their conclusions: "The results explicitly show the strong tension between null results from disappearance searches and appearance-based indications for the existence of light sterile neutrinos." p7 So yes they are saying there is tension between disappearance and appearance experiments, which is which? "In this analysis, the measurement of muon (anti)neutrino disappearance by the MINOS experiment is combined with electron antineutrino disappearance measurements from the Daya Bay and Bugey-3 [16] experiments using the signal confi- dence level (CLs) method [17, 18]. The combined results are analyzed in light of the muon (anti)neutrino to electron (anti)neutrino appearance indications from the LSND [8] and MiniBooNE [9] experiments." p3 So yes they are saying there is tension between MiniBooNE results and MINOS, Bugey-3. I've no insight into the results either but GP's characterization of this paper was accurate.

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SiempreViernes 5y ago

uh,they do say "Regions of parameter space to the right of the red contour are excluded." you can see for yourself where mosto of the miniBoone resylts lie. By the way, why not link the preprint? https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01177 https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01177 The existence of a contradiction with other experiments was also something that was reported at the time: > Despite the affirmation of LSND’s 20-year-old results, physicists have not concluded that there is a fourth neutrino species. The findings directly contradict those by a diverse set of experiments, including the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20180614a/full/ https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.2018061...