Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions in the mu-tau sector

Understand

We discuss the effects of non-standard neutrino interactions on muon rates in high statistics atmospheric neutrino oscillation experiments like IceCube DeepCore.

• We concentrate on the mu-tau sector, which is presently the least constrained.
• It is shown that the magnitude of the effects depends strongly on the sign of the Epsilon_MuTau parameter describing this non-standard interactions.
• A simple analytic model is used to understand the parameter space where differences between the two signs are maximized.