EV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Search Using Eight Years of Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

(IceCube Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.141801

EV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Search Using Eight Years of Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

(IceCube Collaboration)

Physics and Astronomy

University of Canterbury
Loyola University Chicago
German Electron Synchrotron
Université libre de Bruxelles
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Oskar Klein Centre
University of Geneva
University of Delaware
Marquette University
Pennsylvania State University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Kansas
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Uppsala University

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The results of a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using eight years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory are presented. A total of 305 735 muon neutrino events are analyzed in reconstructed energy-zenith space to test for signatures of a matter-enhanced oscillation that would occur given a sterile neutrino state with a mass-squared differences between 0.01 and 100 eV2. The best-fit point is found to be at sin2(2θ24)=0.10 and Δm412=4.5 eV2, which is consistent with the no sterile neutrino hypothesis with a p value of 8.0%.

Original language	English
Article number	141801
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	125
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.141801
State	Published - Sep 2020

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EV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Search Using Eight Years of Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

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