${\delta }_{CP}$-free constraints on NSI parameters ${\epsilon }_{e\mu }$ and ${\epsilon }_{e\tau }$ using high-purity ${\nu }_{\mu }$ CC events at IceCube DeepCore

Abstract

Atmospheric neutrinos provide a unique avenue to probe theories beyond the Standard Model (BSM) over a wide range of energies and path lengths. The theory of nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos is one of the important BSM scenarios, which can modify flavor oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos traveling through the Earth. In this work, we use a high-purity ${\nu }_{\mu }$ charged-current (CC) sample of atmospheric neutrinos from IceCube DeepCore with a livetime of 7.5 years to search for the NSI parameters ${\epsilon }_{e\mu }$, ${\epsilon }_{e\tau }$, and ${\epsilon }_{ee}-{\epsilon }_{\mu \mu }$. The ${\nu }_{\mu }$ CC events mainly come from the ${\nu }_{\mu }$ survival channel having no significant dependence on ${\delta }_{CP}$. Therefore, the constraints on ${\epsilon }_{e\mu }$ and ${\epsilon }_{e\tau }$ obtained using this ${\nu }_{\mu }$ CC sample are expected to be free from the ${\delta }_{CP}$-degeneracy. The data sample is found to be in agreement with the standard neutrino interactions. Therefore, we place bounds on these NSI parameters that are consistent with and comparable to existing experimental constraints. These ${\delta }_{CP}$-free constraints from IceCube DeepCore are complementary to those from the long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, where the appearance channel depends on ${\delta }_{CP}$.

14 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, and two appendices. A new Figure 1 and some text have been added. Matches with the published version in PRD

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