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Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 82, Issue 11, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.112003

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  1. U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs
  2. U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division
  3. University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
  4. Grid Laboratory Of Wisconsin (GLOW) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  5. Open Science Grid (OSG)
  6. U.S. Department of Energy, and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
  7. Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)
  8. National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  9. Swedish Research Council
  10. German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
  11. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  12. Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions (Bochum), Germany
  13. Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO)
  14. FWO Odysseus programme
  15. Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT)
  16. Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo)
  17. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  18. Marsden Fund, New Zealand
  19. Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  20. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
  21. EU
  22. Capes Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil
  23. Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
  24. Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)
  25. Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden
  26. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  27. Division Of Physics [0969661] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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A search for sidereal modulation in the flux of atmospheric muon neutrinos in IceCube was performed. Such a signal could be an indication of Lorentz-violating physics. Neutrino oscillation models, derivable from extensions to the standard model, allow for neutrino oscillations that depend on the neutrino's direction of propagation. No such direction-dependent variation was found. A discrete Fourier transform method was used to constrain the Lorentz and CPT-violating coefficients in one of these models. Because of the unique high energy reach of IceCube, it was possible to improve constraints on certain Lorentz-violating oscillations by 3 orders of magnitude with respect to limits set by other experiments.

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