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A search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using improved high-energy $ν_μ$ event reconstruction in IceCube
J. Adams, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, Jean-Marco Alameddine, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, C. Argüelles, Yosuke Ashida, S. Athanasiadou, L. Ausborm, Spencer Axani, X. Bai, M. Baricevic, S. W. Barwick, Simeon Bash, Vedant Basu, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Beise, C. Bellenghi, Charlotte Benning, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, E. Blaufuss, Linda B. Bloom, Summer Blot, F. Bontempo, Julia Book, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Böttcher, J. Braun, Bennett Brinson, Jannes Brostean-Kaiser, L. Brusa, R. T. Burley, Delaney Butterfield, Michael Campana, Ioana Caracas, K. Carloni, J. Graciá‐Carpio, Sharmistha Chattopadhyay, Thien Nhan Chau, Z. Chen, D. Chirkin, S. Choi, Brian Clark, A. Coleman, G. H. Collin, A. Connolly, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, Rebecca Corley, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, Pranav Dave, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, D. Delgado, S. Deng, Abhishek Desai, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, Alejandro Diaz, J. C. Díaz–Vélez, P. Dierichs, M. Dittmer, A. Domi, Lincoln Draper, Hrvoje Dujmović, Kaustav Dutta, M. A. DuVernois, T. Ehrhardt, Leonhard Eidenschink, A. Eimer, P. Eller, E. Ellinger, Sharif El Mentawi, Dominik Elsässer, R. Engel, H. Erpenbeck, John Evans, P. A. Evenson, Kwok Lung Fan, K. Fang, Kareem Ramadan Farrag, A. R. Fazely, A. Fedynitch, N. Feigl, Sebastian Fiedlschuster, C. Finley, D. Fox, A. Franckowiak, Satoshi Fukami, Philipp Fürst, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, Alfonso Garcia, M. Ramirez-García, Gaurav Garg, Eliot Genton, L. Gerhardt, A. Ghadimi, C. Girard-Carillo, T. Glüsenkamp, J. G. Gonzalez, Sreetama Goswami, Alejandra Granados, D. Grant, S. J. Gray, Oliver Gries, Sean Griffin, S. Griswold, Kathrine Mørch Groth, Christoph Günther, Pascal Gutjahr, C. Ha, Christian Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, H. Hamdaoui, Michael Handt, J. Hanson, J. Hardin, Alexander Harnisch, P. Hatch, A. Haungs, Jonas Häußler, K. Helbing, Jonas Hellrung, J. Hermannsgabner, L. Heuermann, N. Heyer, S. Hickford, A. Hidvegi, Colton Hill, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, Sam Hori, K. Hoshina, Matheus Hostert, Wenjie Hou, Thomas S. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, Karolin Hymon, A. Ishihara, W. Iwakiri, M. Jacquart, Oliver Janik, M. Jansson, G. S. Japaridze, Minjin Jeong, Miaochen Jin, B. J. P. Jones, N. Kamp, D. Kang, Woosik Kang, Xinyue Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, Leonora Kardum, T. Karg, M. Karl, A. Karle, Akanksha Katil, U. Katz, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, Manish Khanal, Ali Kheirandish, J. Kiryluk, A. Kochocki, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, Tomas Kontrimas, L. Köpke, Claudio Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, P. Koundal, M. Kovacevich, M. Kowalski, Tetiana Kozynets, J. Krishnamoorthi, Karlijn Kruiswijk, E. Krupczak, Anil Kumar, E. Kun, N. Kurahashi, Neha Navnitkumar Lad, Cristina Lagunas Gualda, M. Lamoureux, M. J. Larson, Silvia Latseva, Frederik Hermann Lauber, J. P. Lazar, J. W. Lee, A. Leszczyńska, J. Y. Liao, M. Lincetto, Yantao Liu, M. Liubarska, Elisa Lohfink, Christina Love, L. Lu, Francesco Lucarelli, William Luszczak, Y. Lyu, J. Madsen, Else Magnus, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, Elena Manao, Sarah Mancina, W. Marie Sainte, Ioana Codrina Mariş, Szabolcs Márka, Z. Marka, M. Marsee, I. Martinez-Soler, R. Maruyama, Finn Mayhew, F. McNally, J. V. Mead, K. Meagher, S. Mechbal, A. Medina, M. Meier, Yarno Merckx, Lukas Merten, J. Micallef, J. Mitchell, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, Yasutsugu Morii, R. Morse, Marjon Moulai, T. Mukherjee, R. Naab, R. Nagai, M. Nakos, U. Naumann, Jannis Necker, Akshima Negi, Ludwig Neste, M.A. Neumann, Hans Niederhausen, M. U. Nisa, K. Noda, A. Noell, Alexander S. Novikov, A. Obertacke Pollmann, V. O'Dell, B. Oeyen, A. Olivas, R. Ørsøe, J. D. Osborn, Erin O’Sullivan, Hershal Pandya, N. Park, G. K. Parker, Ek Narayan Paudel, L. Paul, Teresa Pernice, J. Peterson, S. Philippen, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, Axel Ponten, Yuriy Popovych, Maria Prado Rodriguez, B. Pries, R. Procter-Murphy, G. T. Przybylski, Clemens G. Raab, John Rack-Helleis, Martin Langgård Ravn, K. Rawlins, Z. Rechav, Abdul Rehman, Patrick Reichherzer, E. Resconi, S. Reusch, W. Rhode, Benedikt Riedel, Adam Rifaie, E. J. Roberts, S. Robertson, Steven T. Rodan, G. Roellinghoff, Martin Rongen, Aske Rosted, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, L. Ruohan, D. Ryckbosch, I. Safa, Julian Saffer, Daniel Salazar-Gallegos, P. Sampathkumar, A. Sandrock, M. Santander, Sourav Sarkar, J. Savelberg, Pierpaolo Savina, Patrick Schaile, M. Schaufel, H. Schieler, Sebastian Schindler, B. Schlüter, Felix Schlüter, Nick Schmeisser, T. Schmidt, J. Schneider, Frank Schröder, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh, Minhye Seo, S. Seunarine, P. Sevle Myhr, R. Shah, S. Shefali, N. Shimizu, M. Silva, B. Skrzypek, B. Smithers, R. Snihur, Jan Soedingrekso, A. Søgaard, Dennis Soldin, A. Stahl, Giacomo Sommani, C. Spannfellner, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, C. Sponsler, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, T. Stezelberger, T. Stürwald, Thomas Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, I. Taboada, S. Ter–Antonyan, A. Terliuk, Matthias Thiesmeyer, W. G. Thompson, Jessie Thwaites, S. Tilav, K. Tollefson, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, Alexandra Trettin, R. Turcotte, Jean Pierre Twagirayezu, Anuj Kumar Upadhyay, K. Upshaw, A. Vaidyanathan, N. Valtonen-Mattila, J. Vandenbroucke, N. van Eijndhoven, D. Vannerom, J. van Santen, J. Vara, J. Veitch-Michaelis, M. Venugopal, Matthias Vereecken, S. Verpoest, Doğa Veske, A. Vijai, C. Walck, Andrew Wang, Chris Weaver, P. Weigel, A. Weindl, J. Weldert, Alex Wen, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, Mark Weyrauch, N. Whitehorn, C. H. Wiebusch, D. R. Williams, Lucas Witthaus, A. Wolf, M. Wolf, G. Wrede, X. W. Xu, J. P. Yanez, E. Yildizci, S. Yoshida, R. Young, Shaoqing Yu, Tzu-Chiang Yuan, Z. Zhang, Pavel Zhelnin, Perri Zilberman, Melany Zimmerman, IceCube Collaboration
Bibliographic record
VenuearXiv (Cornell University) · 2024
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicParticle Detector Development and Performance
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersOffice of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive ResearchJapan Society for the Promotion of ScienceDeutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOffice of Polar ProgramsCollege of Engineering, Michigan State UniversityHelmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle PhysicsAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaChiba UniversityInstitute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba UniversityRWTH Aachen UniversityKnut och Alice Wallenbergs StiftelseVillum FondenNational Research Foundation of KoreaMarsden FundBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungNational Science FoundationBelgian Federal Science Policy OfficeDeutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftFonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRSUniversity of Texas at ArlingtonHarvard UniversityPolarforskningssekretariatetU.S. Department of EnergyUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonVetenskapsrådetMarquette UniversityWestern Canada Research GridOffice of Advanced CyberinfrastructureMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyEuropean CommissionNational Research FoundationMichigan State UniversityFonds Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekNvidia
KeywordsPhysicsEvent (particle physics)Scale (ratio)NeutrinoEvent reconstructionParticle physicsEnergy (signal processing)Sterile neutrinoHigh energyNeutrino detectorNuclear physicsAstrophysicsAstronomyNeutrino oscillationDetectorOptics
Abstract
This Letter presents the result of a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using 10.7 yr of IceCube data. We analyze atmospheric muon neutrinos that traverse the Earth with energies ranging from 0.5 to 100 TeV, incorporating significant improvements in modeling neutrino flux and detector response compared to earlier studies. Notably, for the first time, we categorize data into starting and throughgoing events, distinguishing neutrino interactions with vertices inside or outside the instrumented volume, to improve energy resolution. The best-fit point for a 3+1 model is found to be at sin2(2θ24)=0.16 and Δm412=3.5 eV2, which agrees with previous iterations of this Letter. The result is consistent with the null hypothesis of no sterile neutrinos with a p value of 3.1%.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.533
Threshold uncertainty score1.000
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.157 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".
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Published2024
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