All-flavor constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions and generalized matter potential with three years of IceCube DeepCore data
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2021-10-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We report constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) from the observation of atmospheric neutrinos with IceCube, limiting all individual coupling strengths from a single dataset. Furthermore, IceCube is the first experiment to constrain flavor-violating and nonuniversal couplings simultaneously. Hypothetical NSI are generically expected to arise due to the exchange of a new heavy mediator particle. Neutrinos propagating in matter scatter off fermions in the forward direction with negligible momentum transfer. Hence the study of the matter effect on neutrinos propagating in the Earth is sensitive to NSI independently of the energy scale of new physics. We present constraints on NSI obtained with an all-flavor event sample of atmospheric neutrinos based on three years of IceCube DeepCore data. The analysis uses neutrinos arriving from all directions, with reconstructed energies between 5.6 GeV and 100 GeV. We report constraints on the individual NSI coupling strengths considered singly, allowing for complex phases in the case of flavor-violating couplings. This demonstrates that IceCube is sensitive to the full NSI flavor structure at a level competitive with limits from the global analysis of all other experiments. In addition, we investigate a generalized matter potential, whose overall scale and flavor structure are also constrained.
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@article{arxiv.2106.07755,
title = {All-flavor constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions and generalized matter potential with three years of IceCube DeepCore data},
author = {IceCube Collaboration and R. Abbasi and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and J. A. Aguilar and M. Ahlers and M. Ahrens and C. Alispach and A. A. Alves and N. M. Amin and R. An and K. Andeen and T. Anderson and I. Ansseau and G. Anton and C. Argüelles and Y. Ashida and S. Axani and X. Bai and A. Balagopal V. and A. Barbano and S. W. Barwick and B. Bastian and V. Basu and S. Baur and R. Bay and J. J. Beatty and K. -H. Becker and J. Becker Tjus and C. Bellenghi and S. BenZvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and D. Z. Besson and G. Binder and D. Bindig and E. Blaufuss and S. Blot and F. Bontempo and J. Borowka and S. Böser and O. Botner and J. Böttcher and E. Bourbeau and F. Bradascio and J. Braun and S. Bron and J. Brostean-Kaiser and S. Browne and A. Burgman and R. S. Busse and M. A. Campana and C. Chen and D. Chirkin and K. Choi and B. A. Clark and K. Clark and L. Classen and A. Coleman and G. H. Collin and J. M. Conrad and P. Coppin and P. Correa and D. F. Cowen and R. Cross and P. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07755},
year = {2021}
}
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22 pages, 12 figures. This submission matches the published version