LSND experiments observed oscillation between ordinary and sterile
neutrinos. Does the Mini-Boone result confirm LSND data ?
This 2007 report may be obsolete - http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200706/miniboone.cfm.
Also see more recent research papers: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3011 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6494 - which suggests that the two experiments produce complementary results...
MiniBooNE has an anomaly of well over 3 standard deviations which seems
to confirm LSND. However, it is less than the 5 standard deviation value
which is now taken for full confirmation. For both LSND and MiniBooNE,
the evidence can be best described as "evidence for", not "observation of".
@Byron, Thanks a lot. I needed this input very much.
Also during the Higgs discovery scientists waited till
the effect was 5 sigma. If statistics is increased can
MiniBooNE reach the required 5 sigma level ? or
does one need a separate experiemnt ?
Observation of a Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
MiniBooNE Collaboration (May 2018)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.12028.pdf
Results for 2002-2017 that is 15 years of running is reported. In a two neutrino oscillation mode νμ → νe mass square difference is of the order of 0.1 ev2 and mixing angle sin22θ of the order of 0.1 to 0.5 is possible. Details of results and plots of allowed parameter regions are given in the paper. These results are very much consistent with LSND results.
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