FERMILAB-PUB-09-650-E, hep-ex 1001.0336 Search for sterile neutrino mixing in the MINOS long-baseline experiment arXiv:1001.0336v3 [hep-ex] 11 Mar 2010 $^{1}$Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA $^{2}$Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece $^{3}$Physics Department, Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois 60532, USA $^{4}$Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA $^{5}$Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA $^{6}$Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom $^{7}$Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW-UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil $^{8}$Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA $^{9}$Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA $^{10}$Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA $^{11}$Physics Division, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA $^{12}$Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA $^{13}$Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA $^{14}$Nuclear Physics Department, Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospect 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia $^{15}$Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA $^{16}$Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom $^{17}$University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA $^{18}$Department of Physics, University of Minnesota – Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA $^{19}$Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA $^{20}$Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom $^{21}$Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA $^{22}$Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technologies Facilities Council, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom $^{23}$Instituto de F´ısica, Universidade de S˜ ao Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, S˜ ao Paulo, SP, Brazil $^{24}$Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA $^{25}$Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA $^{26}$Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom $^{27}$Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA $^{28}$Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712, USA $^{29}$Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA $^{30}$Department of Physics, Warsaw University, Ho˙za 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland $^{31}$Physics Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA $^{32}$Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA $^{33}$Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA P. 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