Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale ν_{μ} Disappearance at IceCube

R Abbasi; M Ackermann; J Adams; J A Aguilar; M Ahlers; M Ahrens; J M Alameddine; C Alispach; A A Alves; N M Amin; K Andeen; T Anderson; G Anton; C Argüelles; Y Ashida; S Axani; X Bai; A Balagopal; A Barbano; S W Barwick; B Bastian; V Basu; S Baur; R Bay; J J Beatty; K-H Becker; J Becker Tjus; C Bellenghi; S Benda; S BenZvi; D Berley; E Bernardini; D Z Besson; G Binder; D Bindig; E Blaufuss; S Blot; M Boddenberg; F Bontempo; J Borowka; S Böser; O Botner; J Böttcher; E Bourbeau; F Bradascio; J Braun; B Brinson; S Bron; J Brostean-Kaiser; S Browne; A Burgman; R T Burley; R S Busse; M A Campana; E G Carnie-Bronca; C Chen; Z Chen; D Chirkin; K Choi; B A Clark; K Clark; L Classen; A Coleman; G H Collin; J M Conrad; P Coppin; P Correa; D F Cowen; R Cross; C Dappen; P Dave; C De Clercq; J J DeLaunay; D Delgado López; H Dembinski; K Deoskar; A Desai; P Desiati; K D de Vries; G de Wasseige; M de With; T DeYoung; A Diaz; J C Díaz-Vélez; M Dittmer; H Dujmovic; M Dunkman; M A DuVernois; E Dvorak; T Ehrhardt; P Eller; R Engel; H Erpenbeck; J Evans; P A Evenson; K L Fan; A R Fazely; A Fedynitch; N Feigl; S Fiedlschuster; A T Fienberg; K Filimonov; C Finley; L Fischer; D Fox; A Franckowiak; E Friedman; A Fritz; P Fürst; T K Gaisser; J Gallagher; E Ganster; A Garcia; S Garrappa; L Gerhardt; A Ghadimi; C Glaser; T Glauch; T Glüsenkamp; J G Gonzalez; S Goswami; D Grant; T Grégoire; S Griswold; C Günther; P Gutjahr; C Haack; A Hallgren; R Halliday; L Halve; F Halzen; M Ha Minh; K Hanson; J Hardin; A A Harnisch; A Haungs; D Hebecker; K Helbing; F Henningsen; E C Hettinger; S Hickford; J Hignight; C Hill; G C Hill; K D Hoffman; R Hoffmann; K Hoshina; F Huang; M Huber; T Huber; K Hultqvist; M Hünnefeld; R Hussain; K Hymon; S In; N Iovine; A Ishihara; M Jansson; G S Japaridze; M Jeong; M Jin; B J P Jones; D Kang; W Kang; X Kang; A Kappes; D Kappesser; L Kardum; T Karg; M Karl; A Karle; U Katz; M Kauer; M Kellermann; J L Kelley; A Kheirandish; K Kin; T Kintscher; J Kiryluk; S R Klein; R Koirala; H Kolanoski; T Kontrimas; L Köpke; C Kopper; S Kopper; D J Koskinen; P Koundal; M Kovacevich; M Kowalski; T Kozynets; E Kun; N Kurahashi; N Lad; C Lagunas Gualda; J L Lanfranchi; M J Larson; F Lauber; J P Lazar; J W Lee; K Leonard; A Leszczyńska; Y Li; M Lincetto; Q R Liu; M Liubarska; E Lohfink; C J Lozano Mariscal; L Lu; F Lucarelli; A Ludwig; W Luszczak; Y Lyu; W Y Ma; J Madsen; K B M Mahn; Y Makino; S Mancina; I C Mariş; I Martinez-Soler; R Maruyama; S McCarthy; T McElroy; F McNally; J V Mead; K Meagher; S Mechbal; A Medina; M Meier; S Meighen-Berger; J Micallef; D Mockler; T Montaruli; R W Moore; R Morse; M Moulai; R Naab; R Nagai; U Naumann; J Necker; L V Nguyễn; H Niederhausen; M U Nisa; S C Nowicki; A Obertacke Pollmann; M Oehler; B Oeyen; A Olivas; E O'Sullivan; H Pandya; D V Pankova; N Park; G K Parker; E N Paudel; L Paul; C Pérez de Los Heros; L Peters; J Peterson; S Philippen; S Pieper; M Pittermann; A Pizzuto; M Plum; Y Popovych; A Porcelli; M Prado Rodriguez; P B Price; B Pries; G T Przybylski; C Raab; J Rack-Helleis; A Raissi; M Rameez; K Rawlins; I C Rea; Z Rechav; A Rehman; P Reichherzer; R Reimann; G Renzi; E Resconi; S Reusch; W Rhode; M Richman; B Riedel; E J Roberts; S Robertson; G Roellinghoff; M Rongen; C Rott; T Ruhe; D Ryckbosch; D Rysewyk Cantu; I Safa; J Saffer; S E Sanchez Herrera; A Sandrock; M Santander; S Sarkar; S Sarkar; K Satalecka; M Schaufel; H Schieler; S Schindler; T Schmidt; A Schneider; J Schneider; F G Schröder; L Schumacher; G Schwefer; S Sclafani; D Seckel; S Seunarine; A Sharma; S Shefali; N Shimizu; M Silva; B Skrzypek; B Smithers; R Snihur; J Soedingrekso; D Soldin; C Spannfellner; G M Spiczak; C Spiering; J Stachurska; M Stamatikos; T Stanev; R Stein; J Stettner; T Stezelberger; T Stürwald; T Stuttard; G W Sullivan; I Taboada; S Ter-Antonyan; J Thwaites; S Tilav; F Tischbein; K Tollefson; C Tönnis; S Toscano; D Tosi; A Trettin; M Tselengidou; C F Tung; A Turcati; R Turcotte; C F Turley; J P Twagirayezu; B Ty; M A Unland Elorrieta; N Valtonen-Mattila; J Vandenbroucke; N van Eijndhoven; D Vannerom; J van Santen; J Veitch-Michaelis; S Verpoest; C Walck; W Wang; T B Watson; C Weaver; P Weigel; A Weindl; M J Weiss; J Weldert; C Wendt; J Werthebach; M Weyrauch; N Whitehorn; C H Wiebusch; D R Williams; M Wolf; K Woschnagg; G Wrede; J Wulff; X W Xu; J P Yanez; E Yildizci; S Yoshida; S Yu; T Yuan; Z Zhang; P Zhelnin; IceCube Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.011804

Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale ν_{μ} Disappearance at IceCube

Phys Rev Lett. 2022 Jul 1;129(1):011804. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.011804.

Authors

R Abbasi¹, M Ackermann², J Adams³, J A Aguilar⁴, M Ahlers⁵, M Ahrens⁶, J M Alameddine⁷, C Alispach⁸, A A Alves⁹, N M Amin¹⁰, K Andeen¹¹, T Anderson¹², G Anton¹³, C Argüelles¹⁴, Y Ashida¹⁵, S Axani¹⁶, X Bai¹⁷, A Balagopal¹⁵, A Barbano⁸, S W Barwick¹⁸, B Bastian², V Basu¹⁵, S Baur⁴, R Bay¹⁹, J J Beatty^{20

21}, K-H Becker²², J Becker Tjus²³, C Bellenghi²⁴, S Benda¹⁵, S BenZvi²⁵, D Berley²⁶, E Bernardini², D Z Besson²⁷, G Binder^{19

28}, D Bindig²², E Blaufuss²⁶, S Blot², M Boddenberg²⁹, F Bontempo⁹, J Borowka²⁹, S Böser³⁰, O Botner³¹, J Böttcher²⁹, E Bourbeau⁵, F Bradascio², J Braun¹⁵, B Brinson³², S Bron⁸, J Brostean-Kaiser², S Browne³³, A Burgman³¹, R T Burley³⁴, R S Busse³⁵, M A Campana³⁶, E G Carnie-Bronca³⁴, C Chen³², Z Chen³⁷, D Chirkin¹⁵, K Choi³⁸, B A Clark³⁹, K Clark⁴⁰, L Classen³⁵, A Coleman¹⁰, G H Collin¹⁶, J M Conrad¹⁶, P Coppin⁴¹, P Correa⁴¹, D F Cowen^{42

12}, R Cross²⁵, C Dappen²⁹, P Dave³², C De Clercq⁴¹, J J DeLaunay⁴³, D Delgado López¹⁴, H Dembinski¹⁰, K Deoskar⁶, A Desai¹⁵, P Desiati¹⁵, K D de Vries⁴¹, G de Wasseige⁴⁴, M de With⁴⁵, T DeYoung³⁹, A Diaz¹⁶, J C Díaz-Vélez¹⁵, M Dittmer³⁵, H Dujmovic⁹, M Dunkman¹², M A DuVernois¹⁵, E Dvorak¹⁷, T Ehrhardt³⁰, P Eller²⁴, R Engel^{9

33}, H Erpenbeck²⁹, J Evans²⁶, P A Evenson¹⁰, K L Fan²⁶, A R Fazely⁴⁶, A Fedynitch⁴⁷, N Feigl⁴⁵, S Fiedlschuster¹³, A T Fienberg¹², K Filimonov¹⁹, C Finley⁶, L Fischer², D Fox⁴², A Franckowiak^{23

2}, E Friedman²⁶, A Fritz³⁰, P Fürst²⁹, T K Gaisser¹⁰, J Gallagher⁴⁸, E Ganster²⁹, A Garcia¹⁴, S Garrappa², L Gerhardt²⁸, A Ghadimi⁴³, C Glaser³¹, T Glauch²⁴, T Glüsenkamp¹³, J G Gonzalez¹⁰, S Goswami⁴³, D Grant³⁹, T Grégoire¹², S Griswold²⁵, C Günther²⁹, P Gutjahr⁷, C Haack²⁴, A Hallgren³¹, R Halliday³⁹, L Halve²⁹, F Halzen¹⁵, M Ha Minh²⁴, K Hanson¹⁵, J Hardin¹⁵, A A Harnisch³⁹, A Haungs⁹, D Hebecker⁴⁵, K Helbing²², F Henningsen²⁴, E C Hettinger³⁹, S Hickford²², J Hignight⁴⁹, C Hill⁵⁰, G C Hill³⁴, K D Hoffman²⁶, R Hoffmann²², K Hoshina¹⁵, F Huang¹², M Huber²⁴, T Huber⁹, K Hultqvist⁶, M Hünnefeld⁷, R Hussain¹⁵, K Hymon⁷, S In³⁸, N Iovine⁴, A Ishihara⁵⁰, M Jansson⁶, G S Japaridze⁵¹, M Jeong³⁸, M Jin¹⁴, B J P Jones⁵², D Kang⁹, W Kang³⁸, X Kang³⁶, A Kappes³⁵, D Kappesser³⁰, L Kardum⁷, T Karg², M Karl²⁴, A Karle¹⁵, U Katz¹³, M Kauer¹⁵, M Kellermann²⁹, J L Kelley¹⁵, A Kheirandish¹², K Kin⁵⁰, T Kintscher², J Kiryluk³⁷, S R Klein^{19

28}, R Koirala¹⁰, H Kolanoski⁴⁵, T Kontrimas²⁴, L Köpke³⁰, C Kopper³⁹, S Kopper⁴³, D J Koskinen⁵, P Koundal⁹, M Kovacevich³⁶, M Kowalski^{45

2}, T Kozynets⁵, E Kun²³, N Kurahashi³⁶, N Lad², C Lagunas Gualda², J L Lanfranchi¹², M J Larson²⁶, F Lauber²², J P Lazar^{14

15}, J W Lee³⁸, K Leonard¹⁵, A Leszczyńska³³, Y Li¹², M Lincetto²³, Q R Liu¹⁵, M Liubarska⁴⁹, E Lohfink³⁰, C J Lozano Mariscal³⁵, L Lu¹⁵, F Lucarelli⁸, A Ludwig^{39

53}, W Luszczak¹⁵, Y Lyu^{19

28}, W Y Ma², J Madsen¹⁵, K B M Mahn³⁹, Y Makino¹⁵, S Mancina¹⁵, I C Mariş⁴, I Martinez-Soler¹⁴, R Maruyama⁵⁴, S McCarthy¹⁵, T McElroy⁴⁹, F McNally⁵⁵, J V Mead⁵, K Meagher¹⁵, S Mechbal², A Medina²¹, M Meier⁵⁰, S Meighen-Berger²⁴, J Micallef³⁹, D Mockler⁴, T Montaruli⁸, R W Moore⁴⁹, R Morse¹⁵, M Moulai¹⁶, R Naab², R Nagai⁵⁰, U Naumann²², J Necker², L V Nguyễn³⁹, H Niederhausen³⁹, M U Nisa³⁹, S C Nowicki³⁹, A Obertacke Pollmann²², M Oehler⁹, B Oeyen⁵⁶, A Olivas²⁶, E O'Sullivan³¹, H Pandya¹⁰, D V Pankova¹², N Park⁴⁰, G K Parker⁵², E N Paudel¹⁰, L Paul¹¹, C Pérez de Los Heros³¹, L Peters²⁹, J Peterson¹⁵, S Philippen²⁹, S Pieper²², M Pittermann³³, A Pizzuto¹⁵, M Plum¹¹, Y Popovych³⁰, A Porcelli⁵⁶, M Prado Rodriguez¹⁵, P B Price¹⁹, B Pries³⁹, G T Przybylski²⁸, C Raab⁴, J Rack-Helleis³⁰, A Raissi³, M Rameez⁵, K Rawlins⁵⁷, I C Rea²⁴, Z Rechav¹⁵, A Rehman¹⁰, P Reichherzer²³, R Reimann²⁹, G Renzi⁴, E Resconi²⁴, S Reusch², W Rhode⁷, M Richman³⁶, B Riedel¹⁵, E J Roberts³⁴, S Robertson^{19

28}, G Roellinghoff³⁸, M Rongen³⁰, C Rott^{58

38}, T Ruhe⁷, D Ryckbosch⁵⁶, D Rysewyk Cantu³⁹, I Safa^{14

15}, J Saffer³³, S E Sanchez Herrera³⁹, A Sandrock⁷, M Santander⁴³, S Sarkar⁵⁹, S Sarkar⁴⁹, K Satalecka², M Schaufel²⁹, H Schieler⁹, S Schindler¹³, T Schmidt²⁶, A Schneider¹⁵, J Schneider¹³, F G Schröder^{9

10}, L Schumacher²⁴, G Schwefer²⁹, S Sclafani³⁶, D Seckel¹⁰, S Seunarine⁶⁰, A Sharma³¹, S Shefali³³, N Shimizu⁵⁰, M Silva¹⁵, B Skrzypek¹⁴, B Smithers⁵², R Snihur¹⁵, J Soedingrekso⁷, D Soldin¹⁰, C Spannfellner²⁴, G M Spiczak⁶⁰, C Spiering², J Stachurska², M Stamatikos²¹, T Stanev¹⁰, R Stein², J Stettner²⁹, T Stezelberger²⁸, T Stürwald²², T Stuttard⁵, G W Sullivan²⁶, I Taboada³², S Ter-Antonyan⁴⁶, J Thwaites¹⁵, S Tilav¹⁰, F Tischbein²⁹, K Tollefson³⁹, C Tönnis⁶¹, S Toscano⁴, D Tosi¹⁵, A Trettin², M Tselengidou¹³, C F Tung³², A Turcati²⁴, R Turcotte⁹, C F Turley¹², J P Twagirayezu³⁹, B Ty¹⁵, M A Unland Elorrieta³⁵, N Valtonen-Mattila³¹, J Vandenbroucke¹⁵, N van Eijndhoven⁴¹, D Vannerom¹⁶, J van Santen², J Veitch-Michaelis¹⁵, S Verpoest⁵⁶, C Walck⁶, W Wang¹⁵, T B Watson⁵², C Weaver³⁹, P Weigel¹⁶, A Weindl⁹, M J Weiss¹², J Weldert³⁰, C Wendt¹⁵, J Werthebach⁷, M Weyrauch³³, N Whitehorn^{39

53}, C H Wiebusch²⁹, D R Williams⁴³, M Wolf¹⁵, K Woschnagg¹⁹, G Wrede¹³, J Wulff²³, X W Xu⁴⁶, J P Yanez⁴⁹, E Yildizci¹⁵, S Yoshida⁵⁰, S Yu³⁹, T Yuan¹⁵, Z Zhang³⁷, P Zhelnin¹⁴; IceCube Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA.
² DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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 Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
⁸ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
⁹ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
¹⁰ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
¹¹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
¹² Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹³ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
¹⁴ Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹⁷ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
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 Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
²⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²⁶ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
²⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
²⁸ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁹ III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
³⁰ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
³¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
³² School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
³³ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
³⁴ Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
³⁵ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
³⁶ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
³⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
³⁸ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.
³⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
⁴¹ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁴² Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
⁴³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁴⁴ Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology-CP3, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
⁴⁵ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
⁴⁷ Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
⁴⁸ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics and The International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
⁵¹ CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
⁵² Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates St., Science Hall Rm 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁵³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁵⁵ Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia 31207-0001, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
⁵⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
⁶⁰ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
⁶¹ Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.

PMID: 35841552
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.011804

Abstract

We report a search for nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By reconstructing incident energies and zenith angles for atmospheric neutrino events, this analysis presents unified confidence intervals for the NSI parameter ε_{μτ}. The best-fit value is consistent with no NSI at a p value of 25.2%. With a 90% confidence interval of -0.0041≤ε_{μτ}≤0.0031 along the real axis and similar strength in the complex plane, this result is the strongest constraint on any NSI parameter from any oscillation channel to date.