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Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale 𝜈𝜇 Disappearance at IceCube

ContributorsIceCube Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 129, no. 1
Publication date2022
First online date2022-06-29
Abstract

We report a search for nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By reconstructing incident energies and zenith angles for atmospheric neutrino events, this analysis presents unified confidence intervals for the NSI parameter ε_{μτ}. The best-fit value is consistent with no NSI at a p value of 25.2%. With a 90% confidence interval of -0.0041≤ε_{μτ}≤0.0031 along the real axis and similar strength in the complex plane, this result is the strongest constraint on any NSI parameter from any oscillation channel to date.

Keywords
  • Scale: TeV
  • Neutrino: interaction
  • Neutrino/mu: atmosphere
  • IceCube
  • Observatory
  • Neutrino: oscillation
  • Statistical analysis
  • Data analysis method
  • Experimental results
Citation (ISO format)
IceCube Collaboration. Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale 𝜈𝜇 Disappearance at IceCube. In: Physical review letters, 2022, vol. 129, n° 1. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.011804
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