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A sterile neutrino at MiniBooNE and IceCube

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-18 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We discuss the possibility that a sterile neutrino of mass around 50 MeV slightly mixed with the muon flavor may be the origin of the MiniBooNE anomaly. We show that its production in the atmosphere in a fraction of kaon decays would imply an excess of contained showers at IceCube from down-going and near-horizontal directions.

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@article{arxiv.1402.0665,
  title  = {A sterile neutrino at MiniBooNE and IceCube},
  author = {Manuel Masip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0665},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, talk presented at II Russian-Spanish Congress: Particle and Nuclear Physics at all Scales, Saint-Petersburg, October 1-4, 2013