Methods and stability tests associated with the sterile neutrino search using improved high-energy $\nu_\mu$ event reconstruction in IceCube
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2024-11-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We provide supporting details for the search for a 3+1 sterile neutrino using data collected over eleven years at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The analysis uses atmospheric muon-flavored neutrinos from 0.5 to 100\, TeV that traverse the Earth to reach the IceCube detector, and finds a best-fit point at and eV with a goodness-of-fit p-value of 12\% and consistency with the null hypothesis of no oscillations to sterile neutrinos with a p-value of 3.1\%. Several improvements were made over past analyses, which are reviewed in this article, including upgrades to the reconstruction and the study of sources of systematic uncertainty. We provide details of the fit quality and discuss stability tests that split the data for separate samples, comparing results. We find that the fits are consistent between split data sets.
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@article{arxiv.2405.08077,
title = {Methods and stability tests associated with the sterile neutrino search using improved high-energy $\nu_\mu$ event reconstruction in IceCube},
author = {IceCube Collaboration and R. Abbasi and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and S. K. Agarwalla and J. A. Aguilar and M. Ahlers and J. M. Alameddine and N. M. Amin and K. Andeen and C. Argüelles and Y. Ashida and S. Athanasiadou and L. Ausborm and S. N. Axani and X. Bai and A. Balagopal V. and M. Baricevic and S. W. Barwick and S. Bash and V. Basu and R. Bay and J. J. Beatty and J. Becker Tjus and J. Beise and C. Bellenghi and C. Benning and S. BenZvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and D. Z. Besson and E. Blaufuss and L. Bloom and S. Blot and F. Bontempo and J. Y. Book Motzkin and C. Boscolo Meneguolo and S. Böser and O. Botner and J. Böttcher and J. Braun and B. Brinson and J. Brostean-Kaiser and L. Brusa and R. T. Burley and D. Butterfield and M. A. Campana and I. Caracas and K. Carloni and J. Carpio and S. Chattopadhyay and N. Chau and Z. Chen and D. Chirkin and S. Choi and B. A. Clark and A. Coleman and G. H. Collin and A. Connolly and J. M. Conrad and P. Coppin and R. Corley and P. Correa and D. F. Cowen and P. Dave and C. De Clercq and J. J. DeLaunay and D. Delgado and S. Deng and A. Desai and P. Desiati and K. D. de Vries and G. de Wasseige and A. Diaz and J. C. Díaz-Vélez and P. Dierichs and M. Dittmer and A. Domi and L. Draper and H. Dujmovic and K. Dutta and M. A. DuVernois and T. Ehrhardt and L. Eidenschink and A. Eimer and P. Eller and E. Ellinger and S. El Mentawi and D. Elsässer and R. Engel and H. Erpenbeck and J. Evans and P. A. Evenson and K. L. Fan and K. Fang and K. Farrag and A. R. Fazely and A. Fedynitch and N. Feigl and S. Fiedlschuster and C. Finley and L. Fischer and D. Fox and A. Franckowiak and S. Fukami and P. Fürst and J. Gallagher and E. Ganster and A. Garcia and M. Garcia and G. Garg and E. Genton and L. Gerhardt and A. Ghadimi and C. Girard-Carillo and C. Glaser and T. Glüsenkamp and J. G. Gonzalez and S. Goswami and A. Granados and D. Grant and S. J. Gray and O. Gries and S. Griffin and S. Griswold and K. M. Groth and C. Günther and P. Gutjahr and C. Ha and C. Haack and A. Hallgren and L. Halve and F. Halzen and H. Hamdaoui and M. Ha Minh and M. Handt and K. Hanson and J. Hardin and A. A. Harnisch and P. Hatch and A. Haungs and J. Häußler and K. Helbing and J. Hellrung and J. Hermannsgabner and L. Heuermann and N. Heyer and S. Hickford and A. Hidvegi and C. Hill and G. C. Hill and K. D. Hoffman and S. Hori and K. Hoshina and M. Hostert and W. Hou and T. Huber and K. Hultqvist and M. Hünnefeld and R. Hussain and K. Hymon and A. Ishihara and W. Iwakiri and M. Jacquart and O. Janik and M. Jansson and G. S. Japaridze and M. Jeong and M. Jin and B. J. P. Jones and N. Kamp and D. Kang and W. Kang and X. Kang and A. Kappes and D. Kappesser and L. Kardum and T. Karg and M. Karl and A. Karle and A. Katil and U. Katz and M. Kauer and J. L. Kelley and M. Khanal and A. Khatee Zathul and A. Kheirandish and J. Kiryluk and S. R. Klein and A. Kochocki and R. Koirala and H. Kolanoski and T. Kontrimas and L. Köpke and C. Kopper and D. J. Koskinen and P. Koundal and M. Kovacevich and M. Kowalski and T. Kozynets and J. Krishnamoorthi and K. Kruiswijk and E. Krupczak and A. Kumar and E. Kun and N. Kurahashi and N. Lad and C. Lagunas Gualda and M. Lamoureux and M. J. Larson and S. Latseva and F. Lauber and J. P. Lazar and J. W. Lee and K. Leonard DeHolton and A. Leszczyńska and J. Liao and M. Lincetto and Y. T. Liu and M. Liubarska and E. Lohfink and C. Love and C. J. Lozano Mariscal and L. Lu and F. Lucarelli and W. Luszczak and Y. Lyu and J. Madsen and E. Magnus and K. B. M. Mahn and Y. Makino and E. Manao and S. Mancina and W. Marie Sainte and I. C. Mariş and S. Marka and Z. Marka and M. Marsee and I. Martinez-Soler and R. Maruyama and F. Mayhew and F. McNally and J. V. Mead and K. Meagher and S. Mechbal and A. Medina and M. Meier and Y. Merckx and L. Merten and J. Micallef and J. Mitchell and T. Montaruli and R. W. Moore and Y. Morii and R. Morse and M. Moulai and T. Mukherjee and R. Naab and R. Nagai and M. Nakos and U. Naumann and J. Necker and A. Negi and L. Neste and M. Neumann and H. Niederhausen and M. U. Nisa and K. Noda and A. Noell and A. Novikov and A. Obertacke Pollmann and V. O'Dell and B. Oeyen and A. Olivas and R. Orsoe and J. Osborn and E. O'Sullivan and H. Pandya and N. Park and G. K. Parker and E. N. Paudel and L. Paul and C. Pérez de los Heros and T. Pernice and J. Peterson and S. Philippen and A. Pizzuto and M. Plum and A. Pontén and Y. Popovych and M. Prado Rodriguez and B. Pries and R. Procter-Murphy and G. T. Przybylski and C. Raab and J. Rack-Helleis and M. Ravn and K. Rawlins and Z. Rechav and A. Rehman and P. Reichherzer and E. Resconi and S. Reusch and W. Rhode and B. Riedel and A. Rifaie and E. J. Roberts and S. Robertson and S. Rodan and G. Roellinghoff and M. Rongen and A. Rosted and C. Rott and T. Ruhe and L. Ruohan and D. Ryckbosch and I. Safa and J. Saffer and D. Salazar-Gallegos and P. Sampathkumar and A. Sandrock and M. Santander and S. Sarkar and S. Sarkar and J. Savelberg and P. Savina and P. Schaile and M. Schaufel and H. Schieler and S. Schindler and B. Schlüter and F. Schlüter and N. Schmeisser and T. Schmidt and J. Schneider and F. G. Schröder and L. Schumacher and S. Sclafani and D. Seckel and M. Seikh and M. Seo and S. Seunarine and P. Sevle Myhr and R. Shah and S. Shefali and N. Shimizu and M. Silva and B. Skrzypek and B. Smithers and R. Snihur and J. Soedingrekso and A. Søgaard and D. Soldin and P. Soldin and G. Sommani and C. Spannfellner and G. M. Spiczak and C. Spiering and C. Sponsler and M. Stamatikos and T. Stanev and T. Stezelberger and T. Stürwald and T. Stuttard and G. W. Sullivan and I. Taboada and S. Ter-Antonyan and A. Terliuk and M. Thiesmeyer and W. G. Thompson and J. Thwaites and S. Tilav and K. Tollefson and C. Tönnis and S. Toscano and D. Tosi and A. Trettin and R. Turcotte and J. P. Twagirayezu and M. A. Unland Elorrieta and A. K. Upadhyay and K. Upshaw and A. Vaidyanathan and N. Valtonen-Mattila and J. Vandenbroucke and N. van Eijndhoven and D. Vannerom and J. van Santen and J. Vara and J. Veitch-Michaelis and M. Venugopal and M. Vereecken and S. Verpoest and D. Veske and A. Vijai and C. Walck and A. Wang and C. Weaver and P. Weigel and A. Weindl and J. Weldert and A. Y. Wen and C. Wendt and J. Werthebach and M. Weyrauch and N. Whitehorn and C. H. Wiebusch and D. R. Williams and L. Witthaus and A. Wolf and M. Wolf and G. Wrede and X. W. Xu and J. P. Yanez and E. Yildizci and S. Yoshida and R. Young and S. Yu and T. Yuan and Z. Zhang and P. Zhelnin and P. Zilberman and M. Zimmerman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08077},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
19 pages, 19 figures, 2 tables. This long-form paper is a companion to the letter "A search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using improved high-energy {\nu}{\mu} event reconstruction in IceCube." Matches published version