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Recent IceCube search results for sterile neutrino increased tension between the combined appearance and disappearance experiments. On the other hand, MiniBooNE latest data confirms at 4.9σ CL the short-baseline oscillation anomaly. We analyze published IceCube data based on two different active-sterile mixing schemes using one additional sterile neutrino flavor. We present exclusion regions in the parameter ranges 0.01 ≤ sin2θ24 ≤ 0.1 and 0.1 eV2 ≤ Δm 242 ≤ 10 eV2 for the mass-mixing and flavor-mixing schemes. Under the more conservative mass-mixing scheme, 3σ CL allowed regions for the appearance experiment and MiniBooNE latest result are excluded at ≳ 3σ CL. In case of less-restrictive flavor-mixing scheme, results from the appearance experiments are excluded at ≳ 2σ CL. We also find that including prompt component of the atmospheric neutrino flux relaxes constraints on sterile mixing for Δm 242 ≳ 1 eV2.
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Miranda, L.S., Razzaque, S. Revisiting constraints on 3 + 1 active-sterile neutrino mixing using IceCube data. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 203 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2019)203
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