Results from the Search for eV-Sterile Neutrinos with IceCube

by Dr Carlos Delgado (MIT)

Thursday 21 Jul 2016, 15:00 → 16:00 US/Eastern

Universe

The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy. Using IceCube’s full detector configuration we have performed a search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos. Such a sterile neutrino, motivated by the anomalies in short-baseline experiments, is expected to have a significant effect on the $\overline{{\nu }_{\mu }}$ 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 mixings. In this talk, I will present the results of the IceCube sterile neutrino search.