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

M G Aartsen¹, R Abbasi², M Ackermann³, J Adams¹, J A Aguilar⁴, M Ahlers⁵, M Ahrens⁶, C Alispach⁷, N M Amin⁸, K Andeen⁹, T Anderson¹⁰, I Ansseau⁴, G Anton¹¹, C Argüelles¹², J Auffenberg¹³, S Axani¹², H Bagherpour¹, X Bai¹⁴, A Balagopal¹⁵, A Barbano⁷, S W Barwick¹⁶, B Bastian³, V Basu¹⁷, V Baum¹⁸, S Baur⁴, R Bay¹⁹, J J Beatty^{20

21}, K-H Becker²², J Becker Tjus²³, S BenZvi²⁴, D Berley²⁵, E Bernardini³, D Z Besson²⁶, G Binder^{19

27}, D Bindig²², E Blaufuss²⁵, S Blot³, C Bohm⁶, S Böser¹⁸, O Botner²⁸, J Böttcher¹³, E Bourbeau⁵, J Bourbeau¹⁷, F Bradascio³, J Braun¹⁷, S Bron⁷, J Brostean-Kaiser³, A Burgman²⁸, J Buscher¹³, R S Busse²⁹, T Carver⁷, C Chen³⁰, E Cheung²⁵, D Chirkin¹⁷, S Choi³¹, B A Clark³², K Clark³³, L Classen²⁹, A Coleman⁸, G H Collin¹², J M Conrad¹², P Coppin³⁴, P Correa³⁴, D F Cowen^{35

10}, R Cross²⁴, P Dave³⁰, C De Clercq³⁴, J J DeLaunay¹⁰, H Dembinski⁸, K Deoskar⁶, S De Ridder³⁶, A Desai¹⁷, P Desiati¹⁷, K D de Vries³⁴, G de Wasseige³⁴, M de With³⁷, T DeYoung³², S Dharani¹³, A Diaz¹², J C Díaz-Vélez¹⁷, H Dujmovic¹⁵, M Dunkman¹⁰, M A DuVernois¹⁷, E Dvorak¹⁴, T Ehrhardt¹⁸, P Eller¹⁰, R Engel¹⁵, P A Evenson⁸, S Fahey¹⁷, A R Fazely³⁸, A Fedynitch³⁹, J Felde²⁵, A T Fienberg³⁵, K Filimonov¹⁹, C Finley⁶, D Fox³⁵, A Franckowiak³, E Friedman²⁵, A Fritz¹⁸, T K Gaisser⁸, J Gallagher⁴⁰, E Ganster¹³, S Garrappa³, L Gerhardt²⁷, T Glauch⁴¹, T Glüsenkamp¹¹, A Goldschmidt²⁷, J G Gonzalez⁸, D Grant³², T Grégoire¹⁰, Z Griffith¹⁷, S Griswold²⁴, M Günder¹³, M Gündüz²³, C Haack¹³, A Hallgren²⁸, R Halliday³², L Halve¹³, F Halzen¹⁷, K Hanson¹⁷, J Hardin¹⁷, A Haungs¹⁵, S Hauser¹³, D Hebecker³⁷, D Heereman⁴, P Heix¹³, K Helbing²², R Hellauer²⁵, F Henningsen⁴¹, S Hickford²², J Hignight⁴², G C Hill⁴³, K D Hoffman²⁵, R Hoffmann²², T Hoinka⁴⁴, B Hokanson-Fasig¹⁷, K Hoshina¹⁷, F Huang¹⁰, M Huber⁴¹, T Huber^{15

3}, K Hultqvist⁶, M Hünnefeld⁴⁴, R Hussain¹⁷, S In³¹, N Iovine⁴, A Ishihara⁴⁵, M Jansson⁶, G S Japaridze⁴⁶, M Jeong³¹, B J P Jones⁴⁷, F Jonske¹³, R Joppe¹³, D Kang¹⁵, W Kang³¹, A Kappes²⁹, D Kappesser¹⁸, T Karg³, M Karl⁴¹, A Karle¹⁷, U Katz¹¹, M Kauer¹⁷, M Kellermann¹³, J L Kelley¹⁷, A Kheirandish¹⁰, J Kim³¹, T Kintscher³, J Kiryluk⁴⁸, T Kittler¹¹, S R Klein^{19

27}, R Koirala⁸, H Kolanoski³⁷, L Köpke¹⁸, C Kopper³², S Kopper⁴⁹, D J Koskinen⁵, P Koundal¹⁵, M Kowalski^{37

3}, K Krings⁴¹, G Krückl¹⁸, N Kulacz⁴², N Kurahashi⁵⁰, A Kyriacou⁴³, J L Lanfranchi¹⁰, M J Larson²⁵, F Lauber²², J P Lazar¹⁷, K Leonard¹⁷, A Leszczyńska¹⁵, Y Li¹⁰, Q R Liu¹⁷, E Lohfink¹⁸, C J Lozano Mariscal²⁹, L Lu⁴⁵, F Lucarelli⁷, A Ludwig⁵¹, J Lünemann³⁴, W Luszczak¹⁷, Y Lyu^{19

27}, W Y Ma³, J Madsen⁵², G Maggi³⁴, K B M Mahn³², Y Makino¹⁷, P Mallik¹³, S Mancina¹⁷, I C Mariş⁴, R Maruyama⁵³, K Mase⁴⁵, R Maunu²⁵, F McNally⁵⁴, K Meagher¹⁷, M Medici⁵, A Medina²¹, M Meier⁴⁴, S Meighen-Berger⁴¹, J Merz¹³, T Meures⁴, J Micallef³², D Mockler⁴, G Momenté¹⁸, T Montaruli⁷, R W Moore⁴², R Morse¹⁷, M Moulai¹², P Muth¹³, R Nagai⁴⁵, U Naumann²², G Neer³², L V Nguyen³², H Niederhausen⁴¹, M U Nisa³², S C Nowicki³², D R Nygren²⁷, A Obertacke Pollmann²², M Oehler¹⁵, A Olivas²⁵, A O'Murchadha⁴, E O'Sullivan⁶, T Palczewski^{19

27}, H Pandya⁸, D V Pankova¹⁰, N Park¹⁷, G K Parker⁴⁷, E N Paudel⁸, P Peiffer¹⁸, C Pérez de Los Heros²⁸, S Philippen¹³, D Pieloth⁴⁴, S Pieper²², E Pinat⁴, A Pizzuto¹⁷, M Plum⁹, Y Popovych¹³, A Porcelli³⁶, M Prado Rodriguez¹⁷, P B Price¹⁹, G T Przybylski²⁷, C Raab⁴, A Raissi¹, M Rameez⁵, L Rauch³, K Rawlins⁵⁵, I C Rea⁴¹, A Rehman⁸, R Reimann¹³, B Relethford⁵⁰, M Renschler¹⁵, G Renzi⁴, E Resconi⁴¹, W Rhode⁴⁴, M Richman⁵⁰, B Riedel¹⁷, S Robertson²⁷, M Rongen¹³, C Rott³¹, T Ruhe⁴⁴, D Ryckbosch³⁶, D Rysewyk Cantu³², I Safa¹⁷, S E Sanchez Herrera³², A Sandrock⁴⁴, J Sandroos¹⁸, M Santander⁴⁹, S Sarkar⁵⁶, S Sarkar⁴², K Satalecka³, M Scharf¹³, M Schaufel¹³, H Schieler¹⁵, P Schlunder⁴⁴, T Schmidt²⁵, A Schneider¹⁷, J Schneider¹¹, F G Schröder^{15

8}, L Schumacher¹³, S Sclafani⁵⁰, D Seckel⁸, S Seunarine⁵², S Shefali¹³, M Silva¹⁷, B Smithers⁴⁷, R Snihur¹⁷, J Soedingrekso⁴⁴, D Soldin⁸, M Song²⁵, G M Spiczak⁵², C Spiering³, J Stachurska³, M Stamatikos²¹, T Stanev⁸, R Stein³, J Stettner¹³, A Steuer¹⁸, T Stezelberger²⁷, R G Stokstad²⁷, A Stößl⁴⁵, N L Strotjohann³, T Stürwald¹³, T Stuttard⁵, G W Sullivan²⁵, I Taboada³⁰, F Tenholt²³, S Ter-Antonyan³⁸, A Terliuk³, S Tilav⁸, K Tollefson³², L Tomankova²³, C Tönnis⁵⁷, S Toscano⁴, D Tosi¹⁷, A Trettin³, M Tselengidou¹¹, C F Tung³⁰, A Turcati⁴¹, R Turcotte¹⁵, C F Turley¹⁰, B Ty¹⁷, E Unger²⁸, M A Unland Elorrieta²⁹, M Usner³, J Vandenbroucke¹⁷, W Van Driessche³⁶, D van Eijk¹⁷, N van Eijndhoven³⁴, D Vannerom¹², J van Santen³, S Verpoest³⁶, M Vraeghe³⁶, C Walck⁶, A Wallace⁴³, M Wallraff¹³, T B Watson⁴⁷, C Weaver⁴², A Weindl¹⁵, M J Weiss¹⁰, J Weldert¹⁸, C Wendt¹⁷, J Werthebach⁴⁴, B J Whelan⁴³, N Whitehorn⁵¹, K Wiebe¹⁸, C H Wiebusch¹³, D R Williams⁴⁹, L Wills⁵⁰, M Wolf⁴¹, T R Wood⁴², K Woschnagg¹⁹, G Wrede¹¹, J Wulff²³, X W Xu³⁸, Y Xu⁴⁸, J P Yanez⁴², G Yodh¹⁶, S Yoshida⁴⁵, T Yuan¹⁷, Z Zhang⁴⁸, M Zöcklein¹³; IceCube Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
² Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA.
³ DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
⁴ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
⁸ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
⁹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹¹ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
¹² Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹³ III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
¹⁴ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹⁵ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
¹⁸ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
¹⁹ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁰ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²¹ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²² Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
²³ Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²⁵ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
²⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
²⁷ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
²⁹ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
³⁰ School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
³¹ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.
³² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
³³ SNOLAB, 1039 Regional Road 24, Creighton Mine 9, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada.
³⁴ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
³⁵ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
³⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
³⁷ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
³⁸ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana 70813, USA.
³⁹ Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan.
⁴⁰ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁴¹ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
⁴² Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada.
⁴³ Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
⁴⁵ Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
⁴⁶ CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
⁵² Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
⁵³ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia 31207-0001, USA.
⁵⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
⁵⁷ Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.

PMID: 33064514
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.141801

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

M G Aartsen et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2020.

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. 2020 Oct 2;125(14):141801.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.141801.

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¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
² Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA.
³ DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
⁴ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
⁸ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
⁹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹¹ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
¹² Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹³ III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
¹⁴ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹⁵ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
¹⁸ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
¹⁹ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁰ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²¹ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²² Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
²³ Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²⁵ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
²⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
²⁷ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
²⁹ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
³⁰ School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
³¹ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.
³² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
³³ SNOLAB, 1039 Regional Road 24, Creighton Mine 9, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada.
³⁴ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
³⁵ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
³⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
³⁷ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
³⁸ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana 70813, USA.
³⁹ Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan.
⁴⁰ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁴¹ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
⁴² Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada.
⁴³ Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
⁴⁵ Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
⁴⁶ CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
⁵² Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
⁵³ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia 31207-0001, USA.
⁵⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
⁵⁷ Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.

PMID: 33064514
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.141801

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 eV^{2}. The best-fit point is found to be at sin^{2}(2θ_{24})=0.10 and Δm_{41}^{2}=4.5 eV^{2}, which is consistent with the no sterile neutrino hypothesis with a p value of 8.0%.

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

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