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dc.contributor.authorIceCube Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-25T18:49:10Z
dc.date.available2018-10-25T18:49:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-15
dc.identifier.citationiceCube Collaboration. "Search for sterile neutrino mixing using three years of IceCube DeepCore data”, Physical review D. (2017) 95:11. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.112002en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/27043
dc.description.abstractWe present a search for a light sterile neutrino using three years of atmospheric neutrino data from the DeepCore detector in the energy range of approximately 10–60 GeV. DeepCore is the low-energy subarray of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The standard three-neutrino paradigm can be probed by adding an additional light (Δm241∼1  eV2) sterile neutrino. Sterile neutrinos do not interact through the standard weak interaction and, therefore, cannot be directly detected. However, their mixing with the three active neutrino states leaves an imprint on the standard atmospheric neutrino oscillations for energies below 100 GeV. A search for such mixing via muon neutrino disappearance is presented here. The data are found to be consistent with the standard three-neutrino hypothesis. Therefore, we derive limits on the mixing matrix elements at the level of |Uμ4|2<0.11 and |Uτ4|2<0.15 (90% C.L.) for the sterile neutrino mass splitting Δm241=1.0  eV2.en_US
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyen_US
dc.rights© 2017 American Physical Societyen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.titleSearch for sterile neutrino mixing using three years of IceCube DeepCore dataen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorBesson, David Zeke
kusw.kudepartmentPhysics and Astronomyen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.112002en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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