Methods and stability tests associated with the sterile neutrino search using improved high-energy νμ event reconstruction in IceCube
Journal article, 2024

We provide supporting details for the search for a 3+1 sterile neutrino using data collected over 10.7 years at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The analysis uses atmospheric muon-flavored neutrinos from 0.5 to 100 TeV that traverse Earth to reach the IceCube detector and finds a best-fit point at sin2(2θ24)=0.16 and Δm412=3.5 eV2 with a goodness-of-fit p value of 12% and consistency with the null hypothesis of no oscillations to sterile neutrinos with a p value of 3.1%. Several improvements were made over past analyses, which are reviewed in this article, including upgrades to the reconstruction and the study of sources of systematic uncertainty. We provide details of the fit quality and discuss stability tests that split the data for separate samples, comparing results. We find that the fits are consistent between split datasets.

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Loyola University of Chicago

M. Ackermann

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

J. Adams

University of Canterbury

S. K. Agarwalla

University of Wisconsin Madison

J.A. Aguilar

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

M. Ahlers

Niels Bohr Institute

J. M. Alameddine

Technische Universität Dortmund

N.M. Amin

University of Delaware

K. Andeen

Marquette University

C. Argüelles

Harvard University

Y. Ashida

University of Utah

S. Athanasiadou

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

L. Ausborm

RWTH Aachen University

S. N. Axani

University of Delaware

X. Bai

South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

A. V. Balagopal

University of Wisconsin Madison

M. Baricevic

University of Wisconsin Madison

S.W. Barwick

University of California at Irvine (UCI)

S. Bash

Technical University of Munich

V. Basu

University of Wisconsin Madison

R. Bay

University of California

J.J. Beatty

Ohio State University

Julia Tjus

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

J. Beise

Uppsala University

C. Bellenghi

Technical University of Munich

C. Benning

RWTH Aachen University

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University of Rochester

D. Berley

University of Maryland

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University of Padua

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University of Kansas

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University of Maryland

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University of Alabama

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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

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Harvard University

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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

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RWTH Aachen University

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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Ohio State University

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

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University of Utah

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Pennsylvania State University

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

L. Eidenschink

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Bergische Universität Wuppertal

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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

24700010 (ISSN) 24700029 (eISSN)

Vol. 110 9 092009

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.110.092009

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