eV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Search Using Eight Years of Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• ² Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA.
• ³ DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
• ⁴ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁶ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁷ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
• ¹¹ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
• ¹³ III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
• ¹⁵ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
• ¹⁸ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
• ²⁰ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
• ²¹ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
• ²² Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
• ²³ Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
• ²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
• ²⁵ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
• ²⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
• ²⁷ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
• ²⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
• ²⁹ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
• ³⁰ School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
• ³¹ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.
• ³² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
• ³³ SNOLAB, 1039 Regional Road 24, Creighton Mine 9, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada.
• ³⁴ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
• ³⁵ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
• ³⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
• ³⁷ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
• ³⁸ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana 70813, USA.
• ³⁹ Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
• ⁴¹ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
• ⁴² Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada.
• ⁴³ Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
• ⁴⁵ Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
• ⁴⁶ CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
• ⁴⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
• ⁵⁰ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
• ⁵¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
• ⁵² Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
• ⁵³ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
• ⁵⁴ Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia 31207-0001, USA.
• ⁵⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
• ⁵⁶ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
• ⁵⁷ Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.