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Author (up) Coloma, P.
Title Icecube/DeepCore tests for novel explanations of the MiniBooNE anomaly Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication European Physical Journal C Abbreviated Journal Eur. Phys. J. C
Volume 79 Issue 9 Pages 748 - 7pp
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Abstract While the low-energy excess observed at MiniBooNE remains unchallenged, it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile it with the results from other sterile neutrino searches and cosmology. Recently, it has been shown that non-minimal models with new particles in a hidden sector could provide a better fit to the data. As their main ingredients they require a GeV-scale kinetically mixed with the photon, and an unstable heavy neutrino with a mass in the 150 MeV range that mixes with the light neutrinos. In this letter we point out that atmospheric neutrino experiments (and, in particular, IceCube/DeepCore) could probe a significant fraction of the parameter space of such models by looking for an excess of “double-bang” events at low energies, as proposed in our previous work (Coloma et al., Phys Rev Lett 119(20):201804, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.20180, 2017). Such a search would probe exactly the same production and decay mechanisms required to explain the anomaly.
Address [Coloma, Pilar] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: pilar.coloma@ific.uv.es
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN 1434-6044 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000487367200001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4153
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