Searches for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector

Abstract

The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy in the approximate 320 GeV to 20 TeV range, to search for the oscillation signatures of light sterile neutrinos. No evidence for anomalous ${\nu }_{\mu }$ or ${\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }$ disappearance is observed in either of two independently developed analyses, each using one year of atmospheric neutrino data. New exclusion limits are placed on the parameter space of the 3+1 model, in which muon antineutrinos would experience a strong MSW-resonant oscillation. The exclusion limits extend to ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{24}\le$ 0.02 at $\Delta m^2\sim$ 0.3 ${\mathrm{eV}}^2$ at the 90\% confidence level. The allowed region from global analysis of appearance experiments, including LSND and MiniBooNE, is excluded at approximately the 99\% confidence level for the global best fit value of $|$U${}_{e4}{|}^2$.

10 pages, 5 figures

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