# Publications associated with Plasma Theory

## An eV-scale sterile neutrino search using eight years of atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (2020)

M Aartsen, M Ackermann, M Ahlers, M Ahrens, C Alispach, N Amin, K Andeen, T Anderson, I Ansseau, G Anton, C Argüelles, AB V, A Barbano, S Barwick, B Bastian, V Basu, V Baum, S Baur, R Bay, J Beatty, D Besson, G Binder, D Bindig, E Blaufuss, S Sarkar

The results of a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using eight years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory are presented. A total of 305,735 muon neutrino events are analyzed in reconstructed energy-zenith space to test for signatures of a matter-enhanced oscillation that would occur given a sterile neutrino state with a mass-squared differences between 0.01\,eV$^2$ and 100\,eV$^2$. The best-fit point is found to be at $\sin^2(2\theta_{24})=0.10$ and $\Delta m_{41}^2 = 4.5{\rm eV}^2$, which is consistent with the no sterile neutrino hypothesis with a p-value of 8.0\%.

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