Exploring a Non-Minimal Sterile Neutrino Model Involving Decay at IceCube and Beyond

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We study the phenomenology of neutrino decay together with neutrino oscillations in the context of eV-scale sterile neutrinos.

• We review the formalism of visible neutrino decay in which one of the decay products is a neutrino that potentially can be observed.
• We apply the formalism developed for decay to the recent sterile neutrino search performed by IceCube with TeV neutrinos.
• We show that for $\nu_4$ lifetime $\tau_4/m_4 \lesssim 10^{-16} {\rm eV^{-1}s}$, the interpretation of the high-energy IceCube analysis can be significantly changed.