{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/searching-for-ev-scale-sterile-neutrinos-with","title":"Searching for eV-scale sterile neutrinos with eight years of atmospheric neutrinos at the IceCube neutrino telescope","arxiv_id":"2005.12943","date":"2020-05-26","proceeding":null,"authors":["M. G. Aartsen","R. Abbasi","M. Ackermann","J. Adams","J. A. Aguilar","M. Ahlers","M. Ahrens","C. Alispach","N. M. Amin","K. Andeen","T. Anderson","I. Ansseau","G. Anton","C. Argüelles","J. Auffenberg","S. Axani","H. Bagherpour","X. Bai","A. Balagopal V.","A. Barbano","S. W. Barwick","B. Bastian","V. 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By analyzing the reconstructed energies and zenith angles of 305,735 atmospheric $\\nu_\\mu$ and $\\bar{\\nu}_\\mu$ events we construct confidence intervals in two analysis spaces: $\\sin^2 (2\\theta_{24})$ vs. $\\Delta m^2_{41}$ under the conservative assumption $\\theta_{34}=0$; and $\\sin^2(2\\theta_{24})$ vs. $\\sin^2 (2\\theta_{34})$ given sufficiently large $\\Delta m^2_{41}$ that fast oscillation features are unresolvable. Detailed discussions of the event selection, systematic uncertainties, and fitting procedures are presented. No strong evidence for sterile neutrinos is found, and the best-fit likelihood is consistent with the no sterile neutrino hypothesis with a p-value of 8\\% in the first analysis space and 19\\% in the second.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12943v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.12943v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"searching-for-ev-scale-sterile-neutrinos-with","repo_url":"https://github.com/icecube/HE-Sterile-8year-data-release","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}