Abstract

The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy. Using IceCubes full detector configuration we have performed searches for eV-scale sterile neutrinos. Such a sterile neutrino, motivated by the anomalies observed in short-baseline experiments, is expected to have a significant effect on survival probability due to matter-induced resonant effects for energies of order 1 TeV. This effect makes this search unique and sensitive to small sterile mixing angle values. This work comprises results obtained using up-going muon neutrinos taken with one year of full detector configuration.

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