Exploring a nonminimal sterile neutrino model involving decay at IceCube
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Moss, Z.
Moulai, Marjon H.
Arguelles Delgado, Carlos A
Conrad, Janet Marie
Date Issued
March 2018
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Moss, Z. et al. "Exploring a nonminimal sterile neutrino model involving decay at IceCube." Physical Review D 97, 5 (March 2018): 055017
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Abstract
We study the phenomenology of neutrino decay together with neutrino oscillations in the context of eV-scale sterile neutrinos. We review the formalism of visible neutrino decay in which one of the decay products is a neutrino that potentially can be observed. We apply the formalism developed for decay to the recent sterile neutrino search performed by IceCube with TeV neutrinos. We show that for a ν₄ lifetime τ₄/m₄≲10⁻¹eV⁻¹⁶ s, the interpretation of the high-energy IceCube analysis can be significantly changed.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.055017
