- Main
Searches for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector
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- Sandrock, A;
- Sandroos, J;
- Sarkar, S;
- Satalecka, K;
- Schlunder, P;
- Schmidt, T;
- Schöneberg, S;
- Schönwald, A;
- Seckel, D;
- Seunarine, S;
- Soldin, D;
- Song, M;
- Spiczak, GM;
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- Stanev, T;
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- Stezelberger, T;
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- Strotjohann, NL;
- Sullivan, GW;
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- Tešić, G;
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- Toale, PA;
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- Vallecorsa, S;
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- Wissing, H;
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- Woolsey, E;
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- Xu, DL;
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- Yanez, JP;
- Yodh, G;
- Yoshida, S;
- Zoll, M
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Published Web Location
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.071801Abstract
The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy in the approximate 320 GeV to 20 TeV range, to search for the oscillation signatures of light sterile neutrinos. No evidence for anomalous ν_{μ} or ν[over ¯]_{μ} disappearance is observed in either of two independently developed analyses, each using one year of atmospheric neutrino data. New exclusion limits are placed on the parameter space of the 3+1 model, in which muon antineutrinos experience a strong Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein-resonant oscillation. The exclusion limits extend to sin^{2}2θ_{24}≤0.02 at Δm^{2}∼0.3 eV^{2} at the 90% confidence level. The allowed region from global analysis of appearance experiments, including LSND and MiniBooNE, is excluded at approximately the 99% confidence level for the global best-fit value of |U_{e4}|^{2}.
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