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

ContributorsIceCube Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 125, no. 14, 141801
Publication date2020
First online date2020-09-30
Abstract

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%.

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Keywords
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • Neutrino: sterile
  • Muon: atmosphere
  • Observatory
  • IceCube
  • Neutrino: oscillation
  • Neutrino: mixing angle
  • Neutrino: mass difference
  • Signature
  • Statistical analysis
  • Data analysis method
  • Experimental results
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IceCube Collaboration. eV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Search Using Eight Years of Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. In: Physical review letters, 2020, vol. 125, n° 14, p. 141801. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.141801
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