arXiv:1206.6903·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Constraining Sterile Neutrinos with AMANDA and IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data
Arman Esmaili🇧🇷 · Francis Halzen🇺🇸 · O. L. G. Peres🇧🇷
Abstract
We demonstrate that atmospheric neutrino data accumulated with the AMANDA and the partially deployed IceCube experiments constrain the allowed parameter space for a hypothesized fourth sterile neutrino beyond the reach of a combined analysis of all other experiments. We also illustrate the sensitivity of the completed IceCube detector, that is now taking data, to the parameter space of 3+1 model.
Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures; v2: discussion improved, matches the version published at JCAP