Search for a light sterile neutrino with 7.5 years of IceCube DeepCore data

Abbasi R, Ackermann M, Adams J, Agarwalla SK, Aguilar JA, Ahlers M, Alameddine JM, Amin NM, Andeen K, Argüelles C, Ashida Y, Athanasiadou S, Ausborm L, Axani SN, Bai X, Balagopal V A, Baricevic M, Barwick SW, Bash S, Basu V, Bay R, Beatty JJ, Becker Tjus J, Beise J, Bellenghi C, Benning C, Benzvi S, Berley D, Bernardini E, Besson DZ, Blaufuss E, Bloom L, Blot S, Bontempo F, Book Motzkin JY, Boscolo Meneguolo C, Böser S, Botner O, Böttcher J, Bourbeau E, Braun J, Brinson B, Brostean-Kaiser J, Brusa L, Burley RT, Butterfield D, Campana MA, Caracas I, Carloni K, Carpio J, Chattopadhyay S, Chau N, Chen Z, Chirkin D, Choi S, Clark BA, Coleman A, Collin GH, Connolly A, Conrad JM, Corley R, Cowen DF, Dave P, De Clercq C, Delaunay JJ, Delgado D, Deng S, Desai A, Desiati P, De Vries KD, De Wasseige G, Deyoung T, Diaz A, Díaz-Vélez JC, Dierichs P, Dittmer M, Domi A, Draper L, Dujmovic H, Durnford D, Dutta K, Duvernois MA, Ehrhardt T, Eidenschink L, Eimer A, Eller P, Ellinger E, El Mentawi S, Elsässer D, Engel R, Erpenbeck H, Evans J, Evenson PA, Fan KL, Fang K, Farrag K, Fazely AR, Fedynitch A, Feigl N, Fiedlschuster S, Finley C, Fischer L, Fox D, Franckowiak A, Fukami S, Fürst P, Gallagher J, Ganster E, Garcia A, Garcia M, Garg G, Genton E, Gerhardt L, Ghadimi A, Girard-Carillo C, Glaser C, Glüsenkamp T, Gonzalez JG, Goswami S, Granados A, Grant D, Gray SJ, Gries O, Griffin S, Griswold S, Groth KM, Guevel D, Günther C, Gutjahr P, Ha C, Haack C, Hallgren A, Halve L, Halzen F, Hamdaoui H, Ha Minh M, Handt M, Hanson K, Hardin J, Harnisch AA, Hatch P, Haungs A, Häußler J, Helbing K, Hellrung J, Hermannsgabner J, Heuermann L, Heyer N, Hickford S, Hidvegi A, Hignight J, Hill C, Hill GC, Hoffman KD, Hori S, Hoshina K, Hostert M, Hou W, Huber T, Hultqvist K, Hünnefeld M, Hussain R, Hymon K, Ishihara A, Iwakiri W, Jacquart M, Jain S, Janik O, Jansson M, Japaridze GS, Jeong M, Jin M, Jones BJ, Kamp N, Kang D, Kang W, Kang X, Kappes A, Kappesser D, Kardum L, Karg T, Karl M, Karle A, Katil A, Katz U, Kauer M, Kelley JL, Khanal M, Khatee Zathul A, Kheirandish A, Kiryluk J, Klein SR, Kochocki A, Koirala R, Kolanoski H, Kontrimas T, Köpke L, Kopper C, Koskinen DJ, Koundal P, Kovacevich M, Kowalski M, Kozynets T, Krishnamoorthi J, Kruiswijk K, Krupczak E, Kumar A, Kun E, Kurahashi N, Lad N, Lagunas Gualda C, Lamoureux M, Larson MJ, Latseva S, Lauber F, Lazar JP, Lee JW, Leonard Deholton K, Leszczyńska A, Liao J, Lincetto M, Liu YT, Liubarska M, Love C, Lu L, Lucarelli F, Luszczak W, Lyu Y, Ma WY, Madsen J, Magnus E, Mahn KB, Makino Y, Manao E, Mancina S, Marie Sainte W, Mariş IC, Marka S, Marka Z, Marsee M, Martinez-Soler I, Maruyama R, Mayhew F, McNally F, Mead JV, Meagher K, Mechbal S, Medina A, Meier M, Merckx Y, Merten L, Micallef J, Mitchell J, Montaruli T, Moore RW, Morii Y, Morse R, Moulai M, Mukherjee T, Naab R, Nagai R, Nakos M, Naumann U, Necker J, Negi A, Neste L, Neumann M, Niederhausen H, Nisa MU, Noda K, Noell A, Novikov A, Obertacke Pollmann A, O'Dell V, Oeyen B, Olivas A, Orsoe R, Osborn J, O'Sullivan E, Palusova V, Pandya H, Park N, Parker GK, Paudel EN, Paul L, Pérez De Los Heros C, Pernice T, Peterson J, Pizzuto A, Plum M, Pontén A, Popovych Y, Prado Rodriguez M, Pries B, Procter-Murphy R, Przybylski GT, Raab C, Rack-Helleis J, Ravn M, Rawlins K, Rechav Z, Rehman A, Reichherzer P, Resconi E, Reusch S, Rhode W, Riedel B, Rifaie A, Roberts EJ, Robertson S, Rodan S, Roellinghoff G, Rongen M, Rosted A, Rott C, Ruhe T, Ruohan L, Ryckbosch D, Safa I, Saffer J, Salazar-Gallegos D, Sampathkumar P, Sandrock A, Santander M, Sarkar S, Sarkar S, Savelberg J, Savina P, Schaile P, Schaufel M, Schieler H, Schindler S, Schlickmann L, Schlüter B, Schlüter F, Schmeisser N, Schmidt T, Schneider J, Schröder FG, Schumacher L, Sclafani S, Seckel D, Seikh M, Seo M, Seunarine S, Sevle Myhr P, Shah R, Shefali S, Shimizu N, Silva M, Skrzypek B, Smithers B, Snihur R, Soedingrekso J, Søgaard A, Soldin D, Soldin P, Sommani G, Spannfellner C, Spiczak GM, Spiering C, Stamatikos M, Stanev T, Stezelberger T, Stürwald T, Stuttard T, Sullivan GW, Taboada I, Ter-Antonyan S, Terliuk A, Thiesmeyer M, Thompson WG, Thwaites J, Tilav S, Tollefson K, Tönnis C, Toscano S, Tosi D, Trettin A, Turcotte R, Twagirayezu JP, Unland Elorrieta MA, Upadhyay AK, Upshaw K, Vaidyanathan A, Valtonen-Mattila N, Vandenbroucke J, Van Eijndhoven N, Vannerom D, Van Santen J, Vara J, Varsi F, Veitch-Michaelis J, Venugopal M, Vereecken M, Vergara Carrasco S, Verpoest S, Veske D, Vijai A, Walck C, Wang A, Weaver C, Weigel P, Weindl A, Weldert J, Wen AY, Wendt C, Werthebach J, Weyrauch M, Whitehorn N, Wiebusch CH, Williams DR, Witthaus L, Wolf A, Wolf M, Wrede G, Xu XW, Yanez JP, Yildizci E, Yoshida S, Young R, Yu S, Yuan T, Zhang Z, Zhelnin P, Zilberman P, Zimmerman M (2024)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Book Volume: 110

Article Number: 072007

Journal Issue: 7

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.072007

Abstract

We present a search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using 7.5 years of data from the IceCube DeepCore detector. The analysis uses a sample of 21,914 events with energies between 5 and 150 GeV to search for sterile neutrinos through atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance. Improvements in event selection and treatment of systematic uncertainties provide greater statistical power compared to previous DeepCore sterile neutrino searches. Our results are compatible with the absence of mixing between active and sterile neutrino states, and we place constraints on the mixing matrix elements |Uμ4|2<0.0534 and |Uτ4|2<0.0574 at 90% CL under the assumption that Δm412≥1 eV2. These null results add to the growing tension between anomalous appearance results and constraints from disappearance searches in the 3+1 sterile neutrino landscape.

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Abbasi, R., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Agarwalla, S.K., Aguilar, J.A., Ahlers, M.,... Zimmerman, M. (2024). Search for a light sterile neutrino with 7.5 years of IceCube DeepCore data. Physical Review D, 110(7). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.072007

MLA:

Abbasi, R., et al. "Search for a light sterile neutrino with 7.5 years of IceCube DeepCore data." Physical Review D 110.7 (2024).

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