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This chapter gives an overview of the MINOS and MINOS+ experiments followed by descriptions of the NuMI beam-line, the NuMI targets and the MINOS detectors.
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Timmons, A.M. (2017). The MINOS and MINOS+ Experiments. In: Search for Sterile Neutrinos with the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63769-3_2
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