Searching for sterile neutrinos in ice

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2011)084MaRDI QIDQ467251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Soebur Razzaque, A. Yu. Smirnov

Publication date 3 November 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1390

zbMATH Keywords

neutrino physicssolar and atmospheric neutrinos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: Oscillation interpretation of the results from the LSND, MiniBooNE and some other experiments requires existence of sterile neutrino with mass $sim1$ eV and mixing with the active neutrinos $|U_{mu0}{|}^{2}sim(0.02-0.04)$. It has been realized some time ago that existence of such a neutrino affects significantly the fluxes of atmospheric neutrinos in the TeV range which can be tested by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. In view of the first IceCube data release we have revisited the oscillations of high energy atmospheric neutrinos in the presence of one sterile neutrino. Properties of the oscillation probabilities are studied in details for various mixing schemes both analytically and numerically. The energy spectra and angular distributions of the $u_{m}u-$events have been computed for the simplest $u_s-$mass, and $u_s-u_{m}u$ mixing schemes and confronted with the IceCube data. An illustrative statistical analysis of the present data shows that in the $u_s-$mass mixing case the sterile neutrinos with parameters required by LSND/MiniBooNE can be excluded at about $3sigma$ level. The $u_s-u_{m}u$ mixing scheme, however, can not be ruled out with currently available IceCube data.

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