Revisiting constraints on sterile neutrino mixing parameters using IceCube atmospheric neutrino data
2019
Sterile neutrinoswith $\sim 1$ eV mass scale can resolve anomalies reported in short-baseline
neutrino oscillationexperiments. The same
sterile neutrinoscan affect the atmospheric
neutrinofluxes at the detectors such as IceCube in the TeV energy range. Recent IceCube search results for a
sterile neutrinoresulted in stringent constraints on its mass and mixing with active
neutrinos, essentially
excludingthe
parameter spacefavored by the short-baseline experiments. In our recent reanalysis of IceCube data we show that sterile-active
neutrinomixing schemes affect interpretation of the
excludedparameter regions. We present exclusion regions in the mixing angle range $0.01 \le \sin^2\theta_{24} \le 0.1$ and mass-squared difference range $0.1~{\rm eV}^2 \le \Delta m_{42}^2 \le 10~{\rm eV}^2$ for the mass-mixing and flavor-mixing schemes. We
excludethe
parameter spacefavored by recent
MiniBooNEanalysis at $\gtrsim 2\sigma$~CL for both schemes. Furthermore, we find that a prompt atmospheric
neutrinoflux contribution can relax the constraints on the
sterile neutrinomass-squared difference for $\Delta m_{42}^2 \gtrsim 1~{\rm eV}^2$.
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