Results from the Search for eV-Sterile Neutrinos with IceCube

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy. We have performed a search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos by looking at distortion in those distributions. Such a sterile neutrino, motivated by the anomalies in short-baseline experiments, is expected to have a significant signature in the {\$}$\backslash $bar\textbraceleft $\backslash $nu\textunderscore $\backslash $mu\textbraceright {\$} survival probability due to matter induced resonant effects for energies of order 1 TeV. This effect makes this search unique and sensitive to small sterile mixings. In this talk, I will present the results of the IceCube sterile neutrino search.

Authors

  • Carlos Arguelles

    Massachusetts institute of Technology, MIT