An eV-scale sterile neutrino search using eight years of atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

1III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

2Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia

3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage,

3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA

4Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington,

502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA

5CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA

6School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA

7Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana 70813, USA

8Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

9Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

10Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

11Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

12Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

13Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium