Using MiniBooNE NCEL and CCQE cross section results to constrain 3+1 sterile neutrino models

Abstract

The MiniBooNE NCEL and CCQE cross-section measurements (neutrino running) are used to set limits in the $\Delta m^2-{\sin }^2{\vartheta }_{\mu s}$ plane for a 3+1 sterile neutrino model with a mass splitting $0.1\le \Delta m^2\le 10.0$ eV${}^2$. GENIE is used, with a relativistic Fermi gas model, to relate $E_{\nu }$ and the reconstructed quantities measured. The issue of uncertainty in the underlying cross-section model and its effect on the sterile neutrino limits is explored, and robust sterile neutrino limits are produced by fitting the sterile parameters and the axial-mass cross-section parameter simultaneously.

Comments: Contribution to the Proceedings of the NuPhys2013 Conference: Prospects in Neutrino Physics, 19-20 December 2013, IOP, London