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Exploring a Non-Minimal Sterile Neutrino Model Involving Decay at IceCube and Beyond

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-03-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the phenomenology of neutrino decay together with neutrino oscillations in the context of eV-scale sterile neutrinos. We review the formalism of visible neutrino decay in which one of the decay products is a neutrino that potentially can be observed. We apply the formalism developed for decay to the recent sterile neutrino search performed by IceCube with TeV neutrinos. We show that for ν4\nu_4 lifetime τ4/m41016eV1s\tau_4/m_4 \lesssim 10^{-16} {\rm eV^{-1}s}, the interpretation of the high-energy IceCube analysis can be significantly changed.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05921,
  title  = {Exploring a Non-Minimal Sterile Neutrino Model Involving Decay at IceCube and Beyond},
  author = {Zander Moss and Marjon H. Moulai and Carlos A. Argüelles and Janet M. Conrad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05921},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages, 7 figures. Find code at: https://github.com/arguelles/nuSQUIDSDecay