# IceCube Sterile Neutrino Searches

## TL;DR

This paper reviews IceCube's efforts to detect sterile neutrinos, focusing on muon neutrino disappearance searches that test anomalies suggesting additional neutrino states, and discusses ongoing improvements for future high-statistics analyses.

## Contribution

It summarizes IceCube's current sterile neutrino search results and details ongoing work to improve sensitivity and statistical power in future analyses.

## Key findings

- IceCube sets strong limits on sterile neutrino mixing angles.
- Current analyses have not observed the expected disappearance signature.
- Ongoing work aims to enhance detection sensitivity with higher statistics.

## Abstract

Anomalies in short baseline experiments have been interpreted as evidence for additional neutrino mass states with large mass splittings from the known, active flavors. This explanation mandates a corresponding signature in the muon neutrino disappearance channel, which has yet to be observed. Searches for muon neutrino disappearance at the IceCube neutrino telescope presently provide the strongest limits in the space of mixing angles for eV-scale sterile neutrinos. This proceeding for the Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes (VLVnT) Workshop summarizes the IceCube analyses that have searched for sterile neutrinos and describes ongoing work toward enhanced, high-statistics sterile neutrino searches.