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1. Erratum to: Search for non-relativistic magnetic monopoles with IceCube

Author: M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, D. Altmann, C. Arguelles, T. C. Arlen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai, M. Baker, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K. -H. Becker, M. L. Benabderrahmane, S. BenZvi, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, A. Bernhard, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, E. Blaufuss, J. Blumenthal, D. J. Boersma, C. Bohm, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, L. Brayeur, H. -P. Bretz, A. M. Brown, R. Bruijn, J. Casey, M. Casier, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, B. Christy, K. Clark, L. Classen, F. Clevermann, S. Coenders, S. Cohen, D. F. Cowen, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Danninger, J. Daughhetee, J. C. Davis, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, M. Dunkman, R. Eagan, B. Eberhardt, B. Eichmann, J. Eisch, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, A. R. Fazely, A. Fedynitch, J. Feintzeig, T. Feusels, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, T. Fischer-Wasels, S. Flis, A. Franckowiak, K. Frantzen, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, L. Gladstone, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, G. Golup, J. G. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, D. Góra, D. T. Grandmont, D. Grant, P. Gretskov, J. C. Groh, A. Groß, C. Ha, C. Haack, A. Haj Ismail, P. Hallen, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, D. Heinen, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, A. Homeier, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, W. Huelsnitz, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hussain, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, J. Jacobsen, K. Jagielski, G. S. Japaridze, K. Jero, O. Jlelati, B. Kaminsky, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, J. Kiryluk, J. Kläs, S. R. Klein, J. -H. Köhne, G. Kohnen, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, M. Krasberg, A. Kriesten, K. Krings, G. Kroll, J. Kunnen, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, M. Labare, H. Landsman, M. J. Larson, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, J. Leute, J. Lünemann, O. Macías, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, F. McNally, K. Meagher, A. Meli, M. Merck, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, E. Middell, N. Milke, J. Miller, L. Mohrmann, T. Montaruli, R. Morse, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke, S. Odrowski, A. Olivas, A. Omairat, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, L. Paul, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, C. Pfendner, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, J. Posselt, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, M. Quinnan, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, P. Redl, R. Reimann, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, J. P. Rodrigues, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, B. Ruzybayev, D. Ryckbosch, S. M. Saba, H. -G. Sander, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Schatto, F. Scheriau, T. Schmidt, M. Schmitz, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, A. Schönwald, A. Schukraft, L. Schulte, O. Schulz, D. Seckel, Y. Sestayo, S. Seunarine, R. Shanidze, C. Sheremata, M. W. E. Smith, D. Soldin, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, N. A. Stanisha, A. Stasik, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, E. A. Strahler, R. Ström, N. L. Strotjohann, G. W. Sullivan, H. Taavola, I. Taboada, A. Tamburro, A. Tepe, S. Ter-Antonyan, G. Tešić, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, S. Toscano, M. Tselengidou, E. Unger, M. Usner, S. Vallecorsa, N. van Eijndhoven, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, M. Voge, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, M. Wallraff, Ch. Weaver, M. Wellons, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, D. R. Williams, H. Wissing, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, P. Zarzhitsky, J. Ziemann, S. Zierke, and M. Zoll
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: In the analyses, published in Ref. [1], the exclusion limits are calculated in dependence of the mean free path of the magnetic monopole - nucleon catalysis interaction.
Published: 2019
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2. COHERENT constraint on leptophobic dark matter using CsI data

Author: D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe, P. S. Barbeau, B. Becker, V. Belov, I. Bernardi, M. A. Blackston, C. Bock, A. Bolozdynya, R. Bouabid, J. Browning, B. Cabrera-Palmer, D. Chernyak, E. Conley, J. Daughhetee, J. Detwiler, K. Ding, M. R. Durand, Y. Efremenko, S. R. Elliott, L. Fabris, M. Febbraro, A. Gallo Rosso, A. Galindo-Uribarri, M. P. Green, M. R. Heath, S. Hedges, D. Hoang, M. Hughes, B. A. Johnson, T. Johnson, A. Khromov, A. Konovalov, E. Kozlova, A. Kumpan, L. Li, J. M. Link, J. Liu, A. Major, K. Mann, D. M. Markoff, J. Mastroberti, J. Mattingly, P. E. Mueller, J. Newby, D. S. Parno, S. I. Penttila, D. Pershey, C. Prior, R. Rapp, H. Ray, O. Razuvaeva, D. Reyna, G. C. Rich, J. Ross, D. Rudik, J. Runge, D. J. Salvat, A. M. Salyapongse, J. Sander, K. Scholberg, A. Shakirov, G. Simakov, W. M. Snow, V. Sosnovstsev, B. Suh, R. Tayloe, K. Tellez-Giron-Flores, I. Tolstukhin, E. Ujah, J. Vanderwerp, R. L. Varner, C. J. Virtue, G. Visser, T. Wongjirad, Y.-R. Yen, J. Yoo, C.-H. Yu, and J. Zettlemoyer
Abstract: We use data from the COHERENT CsI[Na] scintillation detector to constrain sub-GeV leptophobic dark matter models. This detector was built to observe low-energy nuclear recoils from coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. These capabilities enable searches for dark matter particles produced at the Spallation Neutron Source mediated by a vector portal particle with masses between 2 and 400 MeV/c2. No evidence for dark matter is observed and a limit on the mediator coupling to quarks is placed. This constraint improves upon previous results by two orders of magnitude. This newly explored parameter space probes the region where the dark matter relic abundance is explained by leptophobic dark matter when the mediator mass is roughly twice the dark matter mass. COHERENT sets the best constraint on leptophobic dark matter at these masses.
Published: 2022

3. The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary Systems

Author: N. Ackerman, J. Albert, M. Auger, D.J. Auty, I. Badhrees, P.S. Barbeau, L. Bartoszek, E. Baussan, V. Belov, C. Benitez-Medina, T. Bhatta, M. Breidenbach, T. Brunner, G.F. Cao, W.R. Cen, C. Chambers, B. Cleveland, R. Conley, S. Cook, M. Coon, W. Craddock, A. Craycraft, W. Cree, T. Daniels, L. Darroch, S.J. Daugherty, J. Daughhetee, C.G. Davis, J. Davis, S. Delaquis, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, R. deVoe, T. Didberidze, J. Dilling, A. Dobi, A.G. Dolgolenko, M.J. Dolinski, M. Dunford, J. Echevers, L. Espic, W. Fairbank, D. Fairbank, J. Farine, W. Feldmeier, S. Feyzbakhsh, P. Fierlinger, K. Fouts, D. Franco, D. Freytag, D. Fudenberg, P. Gautam, G. Giroux, R. Gornea, K. Graham, G. Gratta, C. Hagemann, C. Hall, K. Hall, G. Haller, E.V. Hansen, C. Hargrove, R. Herbst, S. Herrin, J. Hodgson, M. Hughes, A. Iverson, A. Jamil, C. Jessiman, M.J. Jewell, A. Johnson, T.N. Johnson, S. Johnston, A. Karelin, L.J. Kaufman, R. Killick, T. Koffas, S. Kravitz, R. Krücken, A. Kuchenkov, K.S. Kumar, Y. Lan, A. Larson, D.S. Leonard, F. Leonard, F. LePort, G.S. Li, S. Li, Z. Li, C. Licciardi, Y.H. Lin, D. Mackay, R. MacLellan, M. Marino, J.-M. Martin, Y. Martin, T. McElroy, K. McFarlane, T. Michel, B. Mong, D.C. Moore, K. Murray, R. Neilson, R. Nelson, O. Njoya, O. Nusair, K. O'Sullivan, A. Odian, I. Ostrovskiy, C. Ouellet, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, C.Y. Prescott, K. Pushkin, F. Retiere, A. Rivas, A.L. Robinson, E. Rollin, P.C. Rowson, M.P. Rozo, J. Runge, J.J. Russell, S. Schmidt, A. Schubert, D. Sinclair, K. Skarpaas, S. Slutsky, E. Smith, A.K. Soma, V. Stekhanov, V. Strickland, M. Swift, M. Tarka, J. Todd, T. Tolba, D. Tosi, T.I. Totev, R. Tsang, K. Twelker, B. Veenstra, V. Veeraraghavan, J.-L. Vuilleumier, J.-M. Vuilleumier, M. Wagenpfeil, A. Waite, J. Walton, T. Walton, K. Wamba, J. Watkins, M. Weber, L.J. Wen, U. Wichoski, M. Wittgen, J. Wodin, J. Wood, G. Wrede, S.X. Wu, Q. Xia, L. Yang, Y.-R. Yen, O.Ya. Zeldovich, and T. Ziegler
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Instrumentation, Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The EXO-200 experiment searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with a single-phase liquid xenon detector. It used an active mass of 110 kg of 80.6%-enriched liquid xenon in an ultra-low background time projection chamber with ionization and scintillation detection and readout. This paper describes the design and performance of the various support systems necessary for detector operation, including cryogenics, xenon handling, and controls. Novel features of the system were driven by the need to protect the thin-walled detector chamber containing the liquid xenon, to achieve high chemical purity of the Xe, and to maintain thermal uniformity across the detector., Manuscript updated in response to JINST reviewer comments
Published: 2021

4. Imaging individual barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO

Author: X. S. Jiang, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, T. Tolba, S. Rescia, D. Fairbank, A. Piepke, Y. Y. Ding, O. Zeldovich, D. Kodroff, T. Daniels, J. Echevers, R. DeVoe, M. Hughes, Simon Johnston, R. Saldanha, O. Nusair, R. Krücken, Alexis G. Schubert, R. MacLellan, G. St-Hilaire, C. Chambers, I. J. Arnquist, Lorenzo Fabris, J.-L. Vuilleumier, N. Roy, Yuehe Lin, U. Wichoski, L. Cao, David Moore, B. T. Cleveland, John L. Orrell, S. Kravitz, F. Nolet, Veljko Radeka, Jens Dilling, B. Mong, M. Wagenpfeil, J. Dalmasson, T. Ziegler, J. P. Brodsky, T. Bhatta, P. C. Rowson, A.C. Odian, I. Badhrees, M. Heffner, Z. Li, Gerrit Wrede, D. Fudenberg, S. X. Wu, M. Tarka, F. Vachon, G. Li, Douglas H Beck, L. J. Wen, S. Parent, Samuele Sangiorgio, A. House, David Leonard, W. Cree, L. Darroch, J. Todd, G. Gallina, Y-R Yen, Thomas Koffas, W. M. Fairbank, I. Ostrovskiy, K. S. Kumar, D. A. Harris, X.L. Sun, J. B. Zhao, S. Delaquis, T. Stiegler, A. Kuchenkov, M. J. Dolinski, X. F. Wu, A. Larson, Yunyan Zhou, O. Njoya, E. V. Hansen, Giorgio Gratta, K. Skarpaas, Ethan Brown, A. Iverson, Triveni Rao, M. Weber, Shu Li, A. Karelin, P. Hufschmidt, David A. Sinclair, Wei Wu, R.J. Newby, T. Rossignol, M. J. Jewell, Qun-Yao Wang, Zhijun Ning, Y. Ito, L. J. Kaufman, Wei Wei, Rejean Fontaine, S. J. Daugherty, F. Bourque, Y. Lan, Liang Yang, R. Tsang, A. Jamil, S. Feyzbakhsh, C. Licciardi, W. R. Cen, R. Gornea, Guofu Cao, E. Raguzin, J. Farine, Eric W. Hoppe, Gerard Visser, A. Burenkov, T. Brunner, Arun Kumar Soma, Justin Albert, J. Watkins, V.N. Stekhanov, M. Coon, A. Pocar, Cory T. Overman, T. Tsang, A. Craycraft, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, F. Retiere, Angelo Dragone, Jochen M. Schneider, Qing Xia, X. Zhang, M. Chiu, J. Hößl, P. S. Barbeau, G. S. Ortega, Jean-Francois Pratte, V. A. Belov, M. Oriunno, Serge A. Charlebois, T. I. Totev, K. Murray, Gisela Anton, T. Walton, J. Daughhetee, A. E. Robinson, K. Odgers, M. Côté, Thilo Michel, and Gabriele Giacomini
Subjects: Physics, Sapphire window, Multidisciplinary, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Analytical chemistry, chemistry.chemical_element, Barium, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Background level, Xenon, chemistry, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Atom, Neutrino, 010306 general physics
Abstract: Author(s): Chambers, C; Walton, T; Fairbank, D; Craycraft, A; Yahne, DR; Todd, J; Iverson, A; Fairbank, W; Alamare, A; Albert, JB; Anton, G; Arnquist, IJ; Badhrees, I; Barbeau, PS; Beck, D; Belov, V; Bhatta, T; Bourque, F; Brodsky, JP; Brown, E; Brunner, T; Burenkov, A; Cao, GF; Cao, L; Cen, WR; Charlebois, SA; Chiu, M; Cleveland, B; Coon, M; Cree, W; Cote, M; Dalmasson, J; Daniels, T; Darroch, L; Daugherty, SJ; Daughhetee, J; Delaquis, S; Mesrobian-Kabakian, A Der; DeVoe, R; Dilling, J; Ding, YY; Dolinski, MJ; Dragone, A; Echevers, J; Fabris, L; Farine, J; Feyzbakhsh, S; Fontaine, R; Fudenberg, D; Giacomini, G; Gornea, R; Gratta, G; Hansen, EV; Heffner, M; Hoppe, EW; Hosl, J; House, A; Hufschmidt, P; Hughes, M; Ito, Y; Jamil, A; Jessiman, C; Jewell, MJ; Jiang, XS; Karelin, A; Kaufman, LJ; Kodroff, D; Koffas, T; Kravitz, S; Krucken, R; Kuchenkov, A; Kumar, KS; Lan, Y; Larson, A; Leonard, DS; Li, G; Li, S; Li, Z; Licciardi, C; Lin, YH; Lv, P; MacLellan, R; Michel, T; Mong, B; Moore, DC | Abstract: The search for neutrinoless double beta decay probes the fundamental properties of neutrinos, including whether or not the neutrino and antineutrino are distinct. Double beta detectors are large and expensive, so background reduction is essential for extracting the highest sensitivity. The identification, or 'tagging', of the $^{136}$Ba daughter atom from double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe provides a technique for eliminating backgrounds in the nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment. The tagging scheme studied in this work utilizes a cryogenic probe to trap the barium atom in solid xenon, where the barium atom is tagged via fluorescence imaging in the solid xenon matrix. Here we demonstrate imaging and counting of individual atoms of barium in solid xenon by scanning a focused laser across a solid xenon matrix deposited on a sapphire window. When the laser sits on an individual atom, the fluorescence persists for $\sim$30~s before dropping abruptly to the background level, a clear confirmation of one-atom imaging. No barium fluorescence persists following evaporation of a barium deposit to a limit of $\leq$0.16\%. This is the first time that single atoms have been imaged in solid noble element. It establishes the basic principle of a barium tagging technique for nEXO.
Published: 2019

5. A D$_{2}$O detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source

Author: G.C. Rich, R. Rapp, J. Daughhetee, D Hoang, G. Sinev, C. J. Virtue, A. Gallo Rosso, S. R. Elliott, Seppo Penttila, K. Mann, T. Wongjirad, M.R. Heath, P. S. Barbeau, P. An, J Ross, Kate Scholberg, S. Hedges, V. Sosnovstsev, A. V. Kumpan, Belkis Cabrera-Palmer, Diana Parno, D. Akimov, E. Day, E. Conley, J Mastroberti, I. Bernardi, P. E. Mueller, W. M. Snow, E.M. Ward, Michael Febbraro, E Ujah, A.V. Khromov, J. Zettlemoyer, Gerard Visser, V. Belov, E. S. Kozlova, Matthew A Blackston, J. Koros, O. Razuvaeva, J. M. Link, J. Vanderwerp, B. Becker, C.-H. Yu, K. Tellez-Giron-Flores, D. M. Markoff, A. Konovalov, H. Ray, Yu. Efremenko, B. Suh, A. Galindo-Uribarri, Lorenzo Fabris, AM Salyapongse, Tyler Johnson, C. Wiseman, J. Runge, D.J. Salvat, C. Awe, A. Shakirov, Rex Tayloe, G. Simakov, Liang Li, Jing Liu, D. Rudik, J. A. Detwiler, Jason Newby, J. Raybern, Y.-R. Yen, K Ding, D. Pershey, M.R. Durand, M. P. Green, Alexander Bolozdynya, R. L. Varner, Jaeun Yoo, I. Tolstukhin, D. Chernyak, David Reyna, and M. Hughes
Subjects: Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pion, Neutrino detector, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Spallation Neutron Source
Abstract: We report on the technical design and expected performance of a 592 kg heavy-water-Cherenkov detector to measure the absolute neutrino flux from the pion-decay-at-rest neutrino source at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The detector will be located roughly 20 m from the SNS target and will measure the neutrino flux with better than 5% statistical uncertainty in 2 years. This heavy-water detector will serve as the first module of a two-module detector system to ultimately measure the neutrino flux to 2-3% at both the First Target Station and the planned Second Target Station of the SNS. This detector will significantly reduce a dominant systematic uncertainty for neutrino cross-section measurements at the SNS, increasing the sensitivity of searches for new physics., Comment: As accepted to JINST
Published: 2021
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6. Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, T. Anderson, C. Arguelles, T. C. Arlen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, A. Bernhard, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, E. Blaufuss, J. Blumenthal, D. J. Boersma, C. Bohm, F. Bos, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, L. Brayeur, H.-P. Bretz, A. M. Brown, J. Casey, M. Casier, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, B. Christy, K. Clark, L. Classen, F. Clevermann, S. Coenders, D. F. Cowen, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Danninger, J. Daughhetee, J. C. Davis, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, M. Dunkman, R. Eagan, B. Eberhardt, B. Eichmann, J. Eisch, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, A. R. Fazely, A. Fedynitch, J. Feintzeig, J. Felde, T. Feusels, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, T. Fischer-Wasels, S. Flis, A. Franckowiak, K. Frantzen, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, D. Gier, L. Gladstone, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, G. Golup, J. G. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, D. Góra, D. T. Grandmont, D. Grant, P. Gretskov, J. C. Groh, A. Groß, C. Ha, C. Haack, A. Haj Ismail, P. Hallen, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, D. Heinen, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, D. Hellwig, S. Hickford, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, A. Homeier, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, W. Huelsnitz, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hussain, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, J. Jacobsen, K. Jagielski, G. S. Japaridze, K. Jero, O. Jlelati, M. Jurkovic, B. Kaminsky, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kiryluk, J. Kläs, S. R. Klein, J.-H. Köhne, G. Kohnen, H. Kolanoski, A. Koob, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, A. Kriesten, K. Krings, G. Kroll, M. Kroll, J. Kunnen, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, M. Labare, D. T. Larsen, M. J. Larson, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, J. Leute, J. Lünemann, O. Macías, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, A. Meli, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, E. Middell, E. Middlemas, N. Milke, J. Miller, L. Mohrmann, T. Montaruli, R. Morse, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke, S. Odrowski, A. Olivas, A. Omairat, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, L. Paul, Ö. Penek, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, C. Pfendner, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, J. Posselt, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, J. Pütz, M. Quinnan, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, P. Redl, I. Rees, R. Reimann, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, J. P. Rodrigues, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, B. Ruzybayev, D. Ryckbosch, S. M. Saba, H.-G. Sander, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Schatto, F. Scheriau, T. Schmidt, M. Schmitz, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, A. Schönwald, A. Schukraft, L. Schulte, O. Schulz, D. Seckel, Y. Sestayo, S. 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S. Kissel, S. Klimenko, J. Kline, S. Koehlenbeck, K. Kokeyama, V. Kondrashov, S. Koranda, W. Z. Korth, I. Kowalska, D. B. Kozak, V. Kringel, A. Królak, G. Kuehn, A. Kumar, D. Nanda Kumar, P. Kumar, R. Kumar, L. Kuo, A. Kutynia, P. K. Lam, M. Landry, B. Lantz, S. Larson, P. D. Lasky, A. Lazzarini, C. Lazzaro, P. Leaci, S. Leavey, E. O. Lebigot, C. H. Lee, H. K. Lee, H. M. Lee, J. Lee, P. J. Lee, M. Leonardi, J. R. Leong, A. Le Roux, N. Leroy, N. Letendre, Y. Levin, B. Levine, J. Lewis, T. G. F. Li, K. Libbrecht, A. Libson, A. C. Lin, T. B. Littenberg, N. A. Lockerbie, V. Lockett, D. Lodhia, K. Loew, J. Logue, A. L. Lombardi, E. Lopez, M. Lorenzini, V. Loriette, M. Lormand, G. Losurdo, J. Lough, M. J. Lubinski, H. Lück, A. P. Lundgren, Y. Ma, E. P. Macdonald, T. MacDonald, B. Machenschalk, M. MacInnis, D. M. Macleod, F. Magaña-Sandoval, R. Magee, M. Mageswaran, C. Maglione, K. Mailand, E. Majorana, I. Maksimovic, V. Malvezzi, N. Man, G. M. Manca, I. Mandel, V. Mandic, V. Mangano, N. M. Mangini, G. Mansell, M. Mantovani, F. Marchesoni, F. Marion, S. Márka, Z. Márka, A. Markosyan, E. Maros, J. Marque, F. Martelli, I. W. Martin, R. M. Martin, L. Martinelli, D. Martynov, J. N. Marx, K. Mason, A. Masserot, T. J. Massinger, F. Matichard, L. Matone, N. Mavalvala, G. May, N. Mazumder, G. Mazzolo, R. McCarthy, D. E. McClelland, S. C. McGuire, G. McIntyre, J. McIver, K. McLin, D. Meacher, G. D. Meadors, M. Mehmet, J. Meidam, M. Meinders, A. Melatos, G. Mendell, R. A. Mercer, S. Meshkov, C. Messenger, M. S. Meyer, P. M. Meyers, F. Mezzani, H. Miao, C. Michel, E. E. Mikhailov, L. Milano, Y. Minenkov, C. M. F. Mingarelli, C. Mishra, S. Mitra, V. P. Mitrofanov, G. Mitselmakher, R. Mittleman, B. Moe, A. Moggi, M. Mohan, S. R. P. Mohapatra, D. Moraru, G. Moreno, N. Morgado, S. R. Morriss, K. Mossavi, B. Mours, C. M. Mow-Lowry, C. L. Mueller, G. Mueller, S. Mukherjee, A. Mullavey, J. Munch, D. Murphy, P. G. Murray, A. Mytidis, M. F. Nagy, I. Nardecchia, L. Naticchioni, R. K. Nayak, V. Necula, G. Nelemans, I. Neri, M. Neri, G. Newton, T. Nguyen, A. B. Nielsen, S. Nissanke, A. H. Nitz, F. Nocera, D. Nolting, M. E. N. Normandin, L. K. Nuttall, E. Ochsner, J. O’Dell, E. Oelker, J. J. Oh, S. H. Oh, F. Ohme, S. Omar, P. Oppermann, R. Oram, B. O’Reilly, W. Ortega, R. O’Shaughnessy, C. Osthelder, D. J. Ottaway, R. S. Ottens, H. Overmier, B. J. Owen, C. Padilla, A. Pai, O. Palashov, C. Palomba, H. Pan, Y. Pan, C. Pankow, F. Paoletti, M. A. Papa, H. Paris, A. Pasqualetti, R. Passaquieti, D. Passuello, M. Pedraza, A. Pele, S. Penn, A. Perreca, M. Phelps, M. Pichot, M. Pickenpack, F. Piergiovanni, V. Pierro, L. Pinard, I. M. Pinto, M. Pitkin, J. Poeld, R. Poggiani, A. Poteomkin, J. Powell, J. Prasad, V. Predoi, S. Premachandra, T. Prestegard, L. R. Price, M. Prijatelj, S. Privitera, G. A. Prodi, L. Prokhorov, O. Puncken, M. Punturo, P. Puppo, M. Pürrer, J. Qin, V. Quetschke, E. Quintero, R. Quitzow-James, F. J. Raab, D. S. Rabeling, I. Rácz, H. Radkins, P. Raffai, S. 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Venkateswara, D. Verkindt, F. Vetrano, A. Viceré, R. Vincent-Finley, J.-Y. Vinet, S. Vitale, T. Vo, H. Vocca, C. Vorvick, W. D. Vousden, S. P. Vyachanin, A. R. Wade, L. Wade, M. Wade, M. Walker, L. Wallace, S. Walsh, M. Wang, X. Wang, R. L. Ward, M. Was, B. Weaver, L.-W. Wei, M. Weinert, A. J. Weinstein, R. Weiss, T. Welborn, L. Wen, P. Wessels, M. West, T. Westphal, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, D. J. White, B. F. Whiting, K. Wiesner, C. Wilkinson, K. Williams, L. Williams, R. Williams, T. D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, A. G. Wiseman, H. Wittel, G. Woan, N. Wolovick, J. Worden, Y. Wu, J. Yablon, I. Yakushin, W. Yam, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, H. Yang, M. Yvert, A. Zadrożny, M. Zanolin, J.-P. Zendri, Fan Zhang, L. Zhang, C. Zhao, H. Zhu, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, S. Zuraw, and J. Zweizig
Published: 2014
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7. First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon

Author: D. Rudik, T. Wongjirad, J. Raybern, J. T. Librande, Belkis Cabrera-Palmer, Y.-R. Yen, J. Yoo, C. J. Virtue, G.C. Rich, S. I. Penttilä, D. Chernyak, D. C. Radford, M. P. Green, A. Kumpan, A. Konovalov, Yu. Efremenko, Kathryn Mann, P. S. Barbeau, M. del Valle Coello, B. Suh, David Reyna, E. Kozlova, R. L. Cooper, J. M. Link, B. Becker, A. Shakirov, M.R. Heath, Gerard Visser, Rex Tayloe, J. B. Albert, J. Daughhetee, D. M. Markoff, C.-H. Yu, M. Hughes, D. Akimov, V. Belov, Diana Parno, O. Razuvaeva, I. Bernardi, J. A. Detwiler, Jason Newby, L. Blokland, Tyler Johnson, R. L. Varner, H. Ray, G. Sinev, Alexander Bolozdynya, W. Fox, A. Khromov, K. S. Hansen, Liang Li, S. Hedges, J. Yang, P. An, E. Conley, R. T. Thornton, C. Wiseman, K. Tellez-Giron-Flores, Lorenzo Fabris, C. Awe, Jing Liu, Michael Febbraro, D. Pershey, W. M. Snow, Matthew A Blackston, H. Moreno, A. Galindo-Uribarri, V. Sosnovtsev, O. McGoldrick, Kate Scholberg, J. Zettlemoyer, J. Runge, M.R. Durand, D.J. Salvat, N. Chen, P. E. Mueller, J. Vanderwerp, M. Kaemingk, L. J. Kaufman, S. R. Elliott, G. Simakov, I. Tolstukhin, R. Rapp, and A. Gallo Rosso
Subjects: Physics, Argon, Scattering, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Cross section (physics), chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Spallation Neutron Source
Abstract: We report the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (\cevns) on argon using a liquid argon detector at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source. Two independent analyses prefer \cevns over the background-only null hypothesis with greater than $3\sigma$ significance. The measured cross section, averaged over the incident neutrino flux, is (2.2 $\pm$ 0.7) $\times$10$^{-39}$ cm$^2$ -- consistent with the standard model prediction. The neutron-number dependence of this result, together with that from our previous measurement on CsI, confirms the existence of the \cevns process and provides improved constraints on non-standard neutrino interactions., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures with 2 pages, 6 figures supplementary material V3: fixes to figs 3,4 V4: fix typo in table 1, V5: replaced missing appendix, V6: fix Eq 1, new fig 3, V7 final version, updated with final revisions
Published: 2020

8. Development of a $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr source for the calibration of the CENNS-10 Liquid Argon Detector

Author: K. Mann, Michael Febbraro, Matthew A Blackston, V.V. Sosnovtsev, A. Shakirov, J. Daughhetee, A.V. Khromov, R. T. Thornton, L. Blokland, Liang Li, O. Razuvaeva, P. An, D. M. Markoff, S. Hedges, C.-H. Yu, P. E. Mueller, J. Zettlemoyer, G. Simakov, R. L. Varner, J. Vanderwerp, N. Chen, Seppo Penttila, T. Wongjirad, Gerard Visser, Alexander Bolozdynya, M.R. Heath, W. M. Snow, R. Venkataraman, D. G. Rudik, A. V. Kumpan, S. R. Elliott, Lorenzo Fabris, Kate Scholberg, Diana Parno, J. Runge, C. J. Virtue, A. Galindo-Uribarri, G.C. Rich, I. Bernardi, E. S. Kozlova, V. Belov, Belkis Cabrera-Palmer, A. Konovalov, Yu. Efremenko, O. McGoldrick, Tyler Johnson, D.J. Salvat, H. Ray, E. Conley, B. Suh, C. Wiseman, D. C. Radford, G. Sinev, J. Raybern, Jaeun Yoo, K. S. Hansen, I. Tolstukhin, Y.-R. Yen, J. Yang, M. del Valle Coello, D. Chernyak, David Reyna, Rex Tayloe, M. Hughes, P. S. Barbeau, M. P. Green, W. Fox, J. T. Librande, J. M. Link, B. Becker, J. A. Detwiler, K. Tellez-Giron-Flores, Jason Newby, A. Gallo Rosso, R. Rapp, D. Akimov, D. Pershey, M.R. Durand, C. Awe, and Jing Liu
Subjects: Materials science, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Optics, Double phase, Neutrino detector, Ionization, Liquid argon, Calibration, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), business, Instrumentation, Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics
Abstract: We report on the preparation of and calibration measurements with a $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr source for the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr atoms generated in the decay of a $^{83}$Rb source were introduced into the detector via injection into the Ar circulation loop. Scintillation light arising from the 9.4 keV and 32.1 keV conversion electrons in the decay of $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr in the detector volume were then observed. This calibration source allows the characterization of the low-energy response of the CENNS-10 detector and is applicable to other low-energy-threshold detectors. The energy resolution of the detector was measured to be 9$\%$ at the total $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr decay energy of 41.5 keV. We performed an analysis to separately calibrate the detector using the two conversion electrons at 9.4 keV and 32.1 keV, Comment: v2: As accepted to JINST
Published: 2020
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9. Measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum with IceTop-73

Author: J. Blumenthal, D. L. Xu, J. Kiryluk, K. Clark, N. Van Eijndhoven, Rasha Abbasi, C. Finley, T. Fuchs, D. Soldin, T. Schmidt, M. Zoll, Stephanie Hickford, K. Jero, M. Labare, Sofia Vallecorsa, K. Hoshina, Segev BenZvi, G. Tešić, S. Schöneberg, E. Unger, D. Heinen, S. Ter-Antonyan, J. P. Rodrigues, M. Wallraff, X. W. Xu, J. Daughhetee, B. Ruzybayev, A. Tamburro, Hermann Kolanoski, Subir Sarkar, Olga Botner, Y. Sestayo, M. Ribordy, Markus Ahlers, D. Heereman, M. Wolf, J. Feintzeig, O. Schulz, G. S. Japaridze, Chun Xu, C. Pfendner, A. Haj Ismail, C. De Clercq, L. Rädel, A. Groß, A. Schukraft, D. J. Boersma, S. Cohen, A. Schönwald, M. Vehring, G. C. Hill, K. Wiebe, J. Van Santen, G. Golup, L. Paul, P. O. Hulth, Kael Hanson, L. Köpke, M. Krasberg, K. D. de Vries, A. Obertacke, K. D. Hoffman, H. Taavola, S. Hussain, D. Bose, S. R. Klein, G. M. Spiczak, H. Landsman, M. Rameez, K. H. Becker, C. Sheremata, Steven W. Barwick, M. G. Aartsen, J. Leute, M. L. Benabderrahmane, P. A. Evenson, K. Rawlins, J. Miller, A. M. Brown, K. Hultqvist, A. Christov, S. Böser, C. Walck, A. Fedynitch, K. Jagielski, L. Gerhardt, D. Grant, C. Wendt, S. Zierke, M. Usner, R. G. Stokstad, K. Krings, J. L. Kelley, L. Gladstone, J. A. Goodman, Tyce DeYoung, T. Feusels, R. Eagan, A. H. Cruz Silva, Carsten Rott, H. Wissing, S. Flis, B. Kaminsky, C. Bohm, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, Juanan Aguilar, P. Redl, J. Becker Tjus, T. Stezelberger, P. B. Price, B. Riedel, R. Bruijn, L. Brayeur, H. Niederhausen, G. W. Sullivan, C. Pérez De Los Heros, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, E. Pinat, P. Zarzhitsky, Thomas Meures, Teresa Montaruli, G. Kroll, T. Salameh, D. F. Cowen, J. Lünemann, Marcos Santander, X. Bai, G. T. Przybylski, D. R. Nygren, J. Auffenberg, K. Mase, Wolfgang Rhode, S. Kopper, W. Huelsnitz, U. Naumann, R. Hellauer, H. S. Matis, S. Yoshida, D. Bindig, J. Kläs, P. Berghaus, Elisa Bernardini, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, T. Fischer-Wasels, R. Reimann, A. Karle, D. J. Koskinen, S. C. Nowicki, T. Kuwabara, A. Stasik, Francis Halzen, Jenni Adams, R. W. Ellsworth, M. Baker, T. Glüsenkamp, M. Vraeghe, E. Blaufuss, N. Kurahashi, R. C. Bay, J. Casey, I. Taboada, D. R. Williams, M. Dunkman, C. Kopper, J. Jacobsen, G. Binder, D. Chirkin, Rezo Shanidze, J. J. Beatty, S. Coenders, D. Pieloth, Alexander Kappes, L. Schulte, K. Schatto, A. Homeier, M. Bissok, D. Ryckbosch, H. P. Bretz, M. W.E. Smith, A. Stößl, J. Madsen, S. Bechet, Reina H. Maruyama, P. A. Toale, K. Woschnagg, F. Clevermann, D. Z. Besson, G. Yodh, T. Ruhe, S. De Ridder, J. H. Köhne, O. Fadiran, B. Eberhardt, B. Christy, J. Ziemann, M. J. Larson, R. Nahnhauer, M. J. Carson, A. R. Fazely, T. Waldenmaier, N. Whitehorn, S. Toscano, A. Olivas, S. Schoenen, M. Richman, Y. Abdou, M. Casier, D. Seckel, D. Bertrand, J. Eisch, S. Odrowski, K. Helbing, O. Jlelati, A. Bernhard, A. Tepe, J. Kunnen, M. Leuermann, F. McNally, R. Ström, V. Baum, J. S. Gallagher, M. Merck, E. Jacobi, Jürgen Brunner, L. Mohrmann, T. Karg, C. H. Wiebusch, Allan Hallgren, A. Ishihara, G. Kohnen, R. Hoffmann, Christian Spiering, S. Tilav, D. Berley, S. M. Saba, J. Posselt, Elisa Resconi, J. C. Davis, T. R. Wood, A. Omairat, P. Hallen, M. Voge, M. Danninger, M. Stamatikos, D. Altmann, E. A. Strahler, J. P. Yanez, P. Desiati, S. Westerhoff, C. Ha, E. Middell, Todor Stanev, J. A. Pepper, O. Macíias, H. G. Sander, Thomas K. Gaisser, S. Euler, S. Seunarine, Giorgio Maggi, Ch Weaver, M. Kowalski, A. Franckowiak, Markus Ackermann, S. Bohaichuk, K. Meagher, K. Filimonov, A. O'Murchadha, N. Milke, R. Morse, A. Van Overloop, K. Frantzen, F. Scheriau, M. Schmitz, S. Miarecki, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, D. T. Grandmont, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Christov, Asen, Montaruli, Teresa, Rameez, Mohamed, and Vallecorsa, Sofia
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, ICECUBE, IceCube, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Air shower, Physics and Astronomy, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Energy spectrum, ARRAY, ddc:530, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010306 general physics, physics
Abstract: Physical review / D 88(4), 042004 (2013). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.042004, We report on the measurement of the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum with the IceTop air shower array in the energy range from 1.58 PeV to 1.26 EeV. The IceTop air shower array is the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographical South Pole. The analysis was performed using only information from IceTop. The data used in this work were taken from June 1, 2010 to May 13, 2011. During that period the IceTop array consisted of 73 stations, compared to 81 in its final configuration. The measured spectrum exhibits a clear deviation from a single power law above the knee around 4 PeV and below 1 EeV. We observe spectral hardening around 18 PeV and steepening around 130 PeV., Published by Soc., [S.l.]
Published: 2019

10. Deep Neural Networks for Energy and Position Reconstruction in EXO-200

Author: P. C. Rowson, Y.-R. Yen, A. Pocar, Douglas H Beck, J. C. Davis, W. Cree, T. Richards, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, S. Delaquis, P. Hufschmidt, R. Krücken, M. Hughes, A. P. Waite, A. Karelin, Thomas Koffas, David Moore, W. M. Fairbank, Arun Kumar Soma, P. S. Barbeau, D. Fudenberg, A. Piepke, A. Craycraft, David A. Sinclair, M. J. Dolinski, Yuehe Lin, R. Bayerlein, Martin Breidenbach, G. S. Li, S. J. Daugherty, J. Dalmasson, V.N. Stekhanov, G. Wrede, K. S. Kumar, Stefan Schmidt, M. Tarka, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, D. A. Harris, B. Mong, T. Daniels, C. R. Hall, Y. Lan, R. DeVoe, C. Chambers, J. Farine, Giorgio Gratta, Mikhail Danilov, U. Wichoski, A. S. Johnson, J. Todd, B. T. Cleveland, W. R. Cen, A. Kuchenkov, T. Ziegler, T. Tolba, A. Robinson, M. Wagenpfeil, R. MacLellan, M. Coon, J. L. Vuilleumier, E. V. Hansen, M. J. Jewell, J. Watkins, Liang Yang, D. S. Leonard, A. Jamil, S. Feyzbakhsh, Thilo Michel, Qing Xia, P. Fierlinger, C. Licciardi, Liangjian Wen, Guofu Cao, K. Murray, Gisela Anton, T. Brunner, L. J. Kaufman, O. Ya. Zeldovich, A. Dolgolenko, J. Hoessl, A. Schubert, Marc Weber, J. Daughhetee, F. Retière, J. B. Albert, V. A. Belov, R. Gornea, I. Ostrovskiy, O. Njoya, A. Iverson, Shu Li, Jens Dilling, I. Badhrees, A. Odian, and S. Kravitz
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Artificial neural network, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Computer science, Calibration (statistics), Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Position (vector), 0103 physical sciences, Pattern recognition (psychology), Waveform, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Algorithm, Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics, Energy (signal processing), Event reconstruction
Abstract: We apply deep neural networks (DNN) to data from the EXO-200 experiment. In the studied cases, the DNN is able to reconstruct the relevant parameters - total energy and position - directly from raw digitized waveforms, with minimal exceptions. For the first time, the developed algorithms are evaluated on real detector calibration data. The accuracy of reconstruction either reaches or exceeds what was achieved by the conventional approaches developed by EXO-200 over the course of the experiment. Most existing DNN approaches to event reconstruction and classification in particle physics are trained on Monte Carlo simulated events. Such algorithms are inherently limited by the accuracy of the simulation. We describe a unique approach that, in an experiment such as EXO-200, allows to successfully perform certain reconstruction and analysis tasks by training the network on waveforms from experimental data, either reducing or eliminating the reliance on the Monte Carlo., Accepted version. 33 pages, 28 figures
Published: 2018

11. Search for nucleon decays with EXO-200

Author: M. Hughes, E. V. Hansen, A. P. Waite, Simon Johnston, T. Tolba, A.C. Odian, Liang Yang, A. Jamil, C. R. Hall, David Moore, O. Ya. Zeldovich, G. S. Li, T. Didberidze, B. T. Cleveland, L. J. Kaufman, Martin Breidenbach, R. MacLellan, M. Coon, S. J. Daugherty, R. DeVoe, R. H. Nelson, A. Pocar, U. Wichoski, Arun Kumar Soma, C. Chambers, P. C. Rowson, Petr Vogel, P. S. Barbeau, Guofu Cao, M. Danilov, M. J. Jewell, T. Ziegler, W. Cree, Yuehe Lin, David Leonard, V. A. Belov, Thomas Koffas, W. M. Fairbank, S. Delaquis, F. Retiere, K. S. Kumar, J. Zettlemoyer, S. Feyzbakhsh, V.N. Stekhanov, Douglas H Beck, J. C. Davis, Y-R Yen, A. Craycraft, B. Mong, D. Fudenberg, Samuel Homiller, J. Daughhetee, A. Piepke, K. Graham, M. J. Dolinski, C. Licciardi, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, Peter Fierlinger, R. Bayerlein, Gerrit Wrede, A. Johnson, Thilo Michel, A. Karelin, Giorgio Gratta, M. Tarka, J. Farine, A. Dolgolenko, K. Murray, Y. Lan, J. Hoessl, P. Hufschmidt, M. Wagenpfeil, David A. Sinclair, Gisela Anton, A. Robinson, T. Walton, T. Brunner, Alexis G. Schubert, A. Kuchenkov, Justin Albert, R. Tsang, W. R. Cen, R. Gornea, L. J. Wen, Marc Weber, R. Krücken, Jens Dilling, I. Badhrees, T. Daniels, J.-L. Vuilleumier, S. Kravitz, I. Ostrovskiy, O. Njoya, Shu Li, and S. Schmidt
Subjects: Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Elementary particle, nucl-ex, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Particle decay, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Isotopes of xenon, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det, Physics, Quantum Physics, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, Molecular, Fermion, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, ddc, Baryon, Nucleon, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: A search for instability of nucleons bound in Xe136 nuclei is reported with 223 kg·yr exposure of Xe136 in the EXO-200 experiment. Lifetime limits of 3.3×1023 and 1.9×1023 yr are established for nucleon decay to Sb133 and Te133, respectively. These are the most stringent to date, exceeding the prior decay limits by a factor of 9 and 7, respectively.
Published: 2018

12. VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO

Author: A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt, G. Li, L. Lupin-Jimenez, T. Michel, I. Ostrovskiy, F. Retiere, J. Schneider, M. Wagenpfeil, A. Alamre, J. B. Albert, G. Anton, I. J. Arnquist, I. Badhrees, P. S. Barbeau, D. Beck, V. Belov, T. Bhatta, F. Bourque, J. P. Brodsky, E. Brown, T. Brunner, A. Burenkov, G. F. Cao, L. Cao, W. R. Cen, C. Chambers, S. A. Charlebois, M. Chiu, B. Cleveland, M. Coon, M. Cote, A. Craycraft, W. Cree, J. Dalmasson, T. Daniels, L. Darroch, S. J. Daugherty, J. Daughhetee, S. Delaquis, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, R. DeVoe, J. Dilling, Y. Y. Ding, M. J. Dolinski, A. Dragone, J. Echevers, L. Fabris, D. Fairbank, W. Fairbank, J. Farine, S. Feyzbakhsh, R. Fontaine, D. Fudenberg, G. Gallina, G. Giacomini, R. Gornea, G. Gratta, E. V. Hansen, D. Harris, M. Hasan, M. Heffner, J. HoBl, E. W. Hoppe, A. House, M. Hughes, Y. Ito, A. Iverson, C. Jessiman, M. J. Jewell, X. S. Jiang, A. Karelin, L. J. Kaufman, T. Koffas, S. Kravitz, R. Krucken, A. Kuchenkov, K. S. Kumar, Y. Lan, A. Larson, D. S. Leonard, S. Li, Z. Li, C. Licciardi, Y. H. Lin, P. Lv, R. MacLellan, B. Mong, D. C. Moore, K. Murray, R. J. Newby, Z. Ning, O. Njoya, F. Nolet, O. Nusair, K. Odgers, A. Odian, M. Oriunno, J. L. Orrell, G. S. Ortega, C. T. Overman, S. Parent, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, J.-F. Pratte, D. Qiu, V. Radeka, E. Raguzin, T. Rao, S. Rescia, A. Robinson, T. Rossignol, P. C. Rowson, N. Roy, R. Saldanha, S. Sangiorgio, S. Schmidt, A. Schubert, D. Sinclair, K. Skarpaas, A. K. Soma, G. St-Hilaire, V. Stekhanov, T. Stiegler, X. L. Sun, M. Tarka, J. Todd, T. Tolba, T. I. Totev, R. Tsang, T. Tsang, F. Vachon, B. Veenstra, V. Veeraraghavan, G. Visser, J.-L. Vuilleumier, Q. Wang, J. Watkins, M. Weber, W. Wei, L. J. Wen, U. Wichoski, G. Wrede, S. X. Wu, W. H. Wu, Q. Xia, L. Yang, Y.-R. Yen, O. Zeldovich, X. Zhang, J. Zhao, and Y. Zhou
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Scintillation, Time projection chamber, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Noble gas, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Avalanche photodiode, 01 natural sciences, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Xenon, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, chemistry, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, business
Abstract: Future tonne-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the VUV range. In the past years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid alternative to standard photomultiplier tubes or large area avalanche photodiodes. The next generation double beta decay experiment, nEXO, with a 5 tonne liquid xenon time projection chamber, will use SiPMs for detecting the $178\,\text{nm}$ xenon scintillation light, in order to achieve an energy resolution of $\sigma / Q_{\beta\beta} = 1\, \%$. This paper presents recent measurements of the VUV-HD generation SiPMs from Fondazione Bruno Kessler in two complementary setups. It includes measurements of the photon detection efficiency with gaseous xenon scintillation light in a vacuum setup and dark measurements in a dry nitrogen gas setup. We report improved photon detection efficiency at $175\,\text{nm}$ compared to previous generation devices, that would meet the criteria of nEXO. Furthermore, we present the projected nEXO detector light collection and energy resolution that could be achieved by using these SiPMs., Comment: 11 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2018
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13. Searches for double beta decay of Xe134 with EXO-200

Author: L. J. Kaufman, Yuehe Lin, J. J. Russell, K. S. Kumar, T. Michel, Douglas H Beck, T. Daniels, Y-R Yen, J. Walton, M. Danilov, M. J. Jewell, I. Ostrovskiy, C. R. Hall, Y. Lan, David Leonard, A. S. Johnson, P. C. Rowson, J. Daughhetee, R. DeVoe, J. B. Albert, Petr Vogel, O. Ya. Zeldovich, A. Schubert, R. MacLellan, W. Cree, Thomas Koffas, W. M. Fairbank, J. Hoessl, O. Njoya, S. Delaquis, A.C. Odian, F. Retiere, P. Hufschmidt, Shu Li, R. Krücken, M. Hughes, Peter Fierlinger, S. Feyzbakhsh, J. Zettlemoyer, A. P. Waite, David A. Sinclair, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, J. L. Vuilleumier, C. Licciardi, M. Tarka, P. S. Barbeau, A. Craycraft, K. Graham, Jens Dilling, I. Badhrees, C. Chambers, E. Smith, Martin Breidenbach, R. Bayerlein, A. Piepke, A. Karelin, Michael G. Marino, S. J. Daugherty, K. Murray, S. Johnston, David Moore, T. Didberidze, R. H. Nelson, B. T. Cleveland, Gisela Anton, T. Walton, A. Kuchenkov, J. Davis, M. Wagenpfeil, Guofu Cao, U. Wichoski, A. Dolgolenko, B. Mong, Giorgio Gratta, T. Ziegler, T. Tolba, L. J. Wen, Marc Weber, D. Fudenberg, M. J. Dolinski, S. Kravitz, Liang Yang, A. Jamil, R. Tsang, W. R. Cen, R. Gornea, M. Coon, A. Pocar, J. Farine, V. Belov, V.N. Stekhanov, and T. Brunner
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, Beta decay, Particle detector, 3. Good health, Nuclear physics, Xenon, chemistry, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Isotopes of xenon, Nuclear astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Radioactive decay
Abstract: Searches for double beta decay of ^(134)Xe were performed with EXO-200, a single-phase liquid xenon detector designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^(136)Xe. Using an exposure of 29.6 kg⋅yr, the lower limits of T^(2νββ_+(1/2) > 8.7×10^(20) yr and T^(0νββ)_(1/2) > 1.1×10^(23) yr at 90% confidence level were derived, with corresponding half-life sensitivities of 1.2×10^(21) yr and 1.9×10^(23) yr. These limits exceed those in the literature for ^(134)Xe, improving by factors of nearly 105 and 2 for the two antineutrino and neutrinoless modes, respectively.
Published: 2017

14. Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double beta decay

Author: J. L. Vuilleumier, B. Mong, M. Wagenpfeil, J. Dalmasson, A. Piepke, J. Todd, Y. Y. Ding, M. Heffner, Yuehe Lin, John L. Orrell, E. Raguzin, X.L. Sun, J. B. Zhao, C. T. Overman, R. Krücken, D. Qiu, Z. Li, Giorgio Gratta, A. Burenkov, M. Hasan, Arun Kumar Soma, L. J. Kaufman, R. DeVoe, S. J. Daugherty, Samuele Sangiorgio, M. Hughes, K. S. Kumar, V. Veeraraghavan, Y. Lan, Wei Wei, Petr Vogel, Rejean Fontaine, J. Daughhetee, A. Craycraft, U. Wichoski, Ethan Brown, F. Bourque, M. J. Jewell, M. Coon, D. Harris, Yu-Guang Zhou, T. Ziegler, T. Tolba, G. St-Hilaire, T. Tsang, Qun-Yao Wang, T. Stiegler, M. Chiu, J. P. Brodsky, David Moore, F. Retiere, Y. Ito, J. Zettlemoyer, Douglas H Beck, M. Oriunno, Zhijun Ning, S. Johnston, O. Zeldovich, G. Visser, A. Karelin, J. Hößl, A. Pocar, R. Tsang, T. Didberidze, S. Kravitz, Guofu Cao, T. N. Johnson, J. Schneider, P. Hufschmidt, E. V. Hansen, Y-R Yen, David A. Sinclair, F. Vachon, Ryan Killick, David Leonard, K. Murray, Liang Yang, R. J. Newby, Thomas Koffas, A. Jamil, D. Fudenberg, W. M. Fairbank, Gisela Anton, M. Côté, P. C. Rowson, T. Daniels, K. Graham, G. S. Ortega, B. T. Cleveland, M. J. Dolinski, V.N. Stekhanov, K. Odgers, Angelo Dragone, A. House, S. Rescia, A. Kuchenkov, W. Cree, Jean-Francois Pratte, Veljko Radeka, T. Rossignol, S. Feyzbakhsh, R. Saldanha, S. Delaquis, T. Brunner, W. R. Cen, Serge A. Charlebois, C. Licciardi, G. S. Li, R. Gornea, K. Skarpaas, G. Wrede, I. J. Arnquist, M. Tarka, Wei Wu, X. S. Jiang, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, C. Chambers, A.C. Odian, G. Giacomini, A. Schubert, S. Parent, J. Farine, V. Belov, A. Robinson, L. Cao, F. Nolet, L. J. Wen, Marc Weber, S. X. Wu, Lorenzo Fabris, J. B. Albert, R. MacLellan, Thilo Michel, P. S. Barbeau, Jens Dilling, Xuan Zhang, I. Badhrees, I. Ostrovskiy, O. Njoya, A. Iverson, Shu Li, S. Schmidt, T. Rao, N. Roy, and E. W. Hoppe
Subjects: Physics, Time projection chamber, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Active medium, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, 3. Good health, Nuclear physics, Homogeneous, 0103 physical sciences, Sensitivity (control systems), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Enriched Xenon Observatory, Nuclear Experiment, Order of magnitude
Abstract: The next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{136}$Xe with a target half-life sensitivity of approximately $10^{28}$ years using $5\times10^3$ kg of isotopically enriched liquid-xenon in a time projection chamber. This improvement of two orders of magnitude in sensitivity over current limits is obtained by a significant increase of the $^{136}$Xe mass, the monolithic and homogeneous configuration of the active medium, and the multi-parameter measurements of the interactions enabled by the time projection chamber. The detector concept and anticipated performance are presented based upon demonstrated realizable background rates., Comment: v2 as published
Published: 2017

15. Searches for small-scale anisotropies from neutrino point sources with three years of IceCube data

Author: H.-P. Bretz, Frank McNally, Jenni Adams, P. B. Price, M. Stamatikos, S. Schoenen, T. O. B. Schmidt, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Thorsten Glusenkamp, T. R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, K. Hoshina, W. Huelsnitz, S. Hickford, Glenn Spiczak, K. Helbing, R. G. Stokstad, J. C. Groh, C. Pérez de los Heros, Dmitry Chirkin, Matthias Vraeghe, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, A. Goldschmidt, Elisa Resconi, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, Matthias Wolf, Alexander Kappes, Björn Eichmann, U. Naumann, Mohamed Rameez, A. Bernhard, E. Unger, B. Ruzybayev, Anatoli Fedynitch, A. Koob, Timo Karg, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, A. O'Murchadha, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, L. Schulte, M. Kroll, B. J. Whelan, K. D. de Vries, M. Day, A. Tepe, T. Feusels, R. Maunu, S. Hussain, O. Jlelati, R. Ström, Daniel Bindig, J. C. Gallagher, M. Leuermann, S. Zierke, A. Omairat, F. Bos, Allan Hallgren, M. Relich, D. J. Koskinen, K. Clark, M. Kowalski, Sandro Kopper, T. Kuwabara, J. E. Jacobsen, S. Tilav, P. Hallen, Marcos Santander, Joshua Pepper, A. Tamburro, K. Hultqvist, R. Nahnhauer, E. A. Strahler, M. Danninger, Darren Grant, K. Wiebe, R. Gaior, N. van Eijndhoven, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Sarah Nowicki, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, L. Gerhardt, L. Mohrmann, J. Felde, Benedikt Riedel, A. Stasik, Maria Tselengidou, Ö. Penek, S. Schöneberg, X. Bai, A. Haj Ismail, Carsten Rott, Hermann Kolanoski, L. Rädel, Thomas Meures, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, C. Wendt, K. Rawlins, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, K.-H. Becker, M. Usner, N. L. Strotjohann, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, E. Middlemas, G. Kroll, M. Bissok, Matt Dunkman, Tyce DeYoung, J. Kiryluk, I. Rees, T. Fischer-Wasels, R. Hoffmann, A. R. Fazely, Gerald Przybylski, P. A. Toale, A. Schukraft, J. Pütz, James Madsen, M. Zoll, Martin Rongen, J. van Santen, J. A. Goodman, E. Pinat, D. T. Larsen, J. J. Beatty, E. Cheung, M. J. Larson, Xianwu Xu, Sofia Vallecorsa, M. Quinnan, C. Walck, R. Eagan, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, A. Kriesten, Dirk Ryckbosch, D. Hellwig, D. R. Nygren, S. Euler, C. Pfendner, Mike Richman, D. Z. Besson, K. Krings, J. P. A. M. de André, A. Homeier, Donglian Xu, A. Terliuk, S. Westerhoff, Ch. Weaver, Christopher Wiebusch, Hans Niederhausen, C. Bohm, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, M. N. Tobin, Kael Hanson, Nathan Whitehorn, Naoko Kurahashi, O. Schulz, J. Auffenberg, A. Olivas, J. Daughhetee, Gary Binder, Teresa Montaruli, A. Obertacke, A. Franckowiak, Axel Groß, Christian Spiering, K. Frantzen, K. Mase, S. Odrowski, J. Blumenthal, Javier Gonzalez, Subir Sarkar, J. Casey, Chad Finley, J. Posselt, Justin Vandenbroucke, J. Ziemann, P. Gretskov, C. Haack, A. Christov, Giorgio Maggi, C. De Clercq, F. Huang, S. Böser, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, Dennis Soldin, Joakim Sandroos, F. Clevermann, H. Taavola, Paolo Desiati, René Reimann, Y. Sestayo, Olga Botner, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, L. Classen, Carlos Arguelles, H. G. Sander, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, J. Becker Tjus, V. Baum, J. P. Yanez, G. Tešić, A. Stößl, J. P. Rodrigues, M. W. E. Smith, T. C. Arlen, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, G. W. Sullivan, R. Hellauer, K. Jagielski, Reina H. Maruyama, B. Kaminsky, R. Morse, M. Jurkovic, L. Brayeur, S. Yoshida, Sally Robertson, Tim Ruhe, E. Jacobi, I. Taboada, Dustin Hebecker, S. Flis, M. Casier, J. Lünemann, S. De Ridder, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Rezo Shanidze, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Labare, J. Feintzeig, Maryon Ahrens, M. Medici, C. Kopper, G. Golup, S. Coenders, Surujhdeo Seunarine, J. Miller, Juanan Aguilar, B. Christy, A. Ishihara, J. Leute, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, H. S. Matis, Albrecht Karle, A. Schönwald, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, D. Heereman, M. Kauer, D. Gier, D. Bose, T. Palczewski, C. Wichary, B. Eberhardt, Delia Tosi, M. G. Aartsen, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, Kara Hoffman, A. H. Cruz Silva, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, N. A. Stanisha, T. Anderson, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, Kirill Filimonov, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, J. Kunnen, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, A. M. Brown, T. Fuchs, L. Köpke, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: J.2, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Scale (descriptive set theory), Astrophysics, IceCube, law.invention, Telescope, law, Point (geometry), Anisotropy, astro-ph.HE, 2pt-correlation, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysical neutrinos, Extraterrestrial neutrinos, Multipole analysis, Point sources, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3. Good health, 85-05, ddc:540, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Multipole expansion, Gamma-ray burst
Abstract: Recently, IceCube found evidence for a diffuse signal of astrophysical neutrinos in an energy range of $60\,\mathrm{TeV}$ to the $\mathrm{PeV}$-scale. The origin of those events, being a key to understanding the origin of cosmic rays, is still an unsolved question. So far, analyses have not succeeded to resolve the diffuse signal into point-like sources. Searches including a maximum-likelihood-ratio test, based on the reconstructed directions and energies of the detected down- and up-going neutrino candidates, were also performed on IceCube data leading to the exclusion of bright point sources. In this paper, we present two methods to search for faint neutrino point sources in three years of IceCube data, taken between 2008 and 2011. The first method is an autocorrelation test, applied separately to the northern and southern sky. The second method is a multipole analysis, which expands the measured data in the northern hemisphere into spherical harmonics and uses the resulting expansion coefficients to separate signal from background. With both methods, the results are consistent with the background expectation with a slightly more sparse spatial distribution, corresponding to an underfluctuation. Depending on the assumed number of sources, the resulting upper limit on the flux per source in the northern hemisphere for an $E^{-2}$ energy spectrum ranges from $1.5 \cdot 10^{-8}\,\mathrm{GeV}/(\mathrm{cm}^2 \mathrm{s})$, in the case of one assumed source, to $4 \cdot 10^{-10} \,\mathrm{GeV}/(\mathrm{cm}^2 \mathrm{s})$, in the case of $3500$ assumed sources., Comment: 35 pages, 16 figures, 1 table
Published: 2015

16. Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the Upgraded EXO-200 Detector

Author: M. Wagenpfeil, S. Feyzbakhsh, S. Johnston, Martin Breidenbach, M. Coon, P. Fierlinger, Liangjian Wen, S. J. Daugherty, Guofu Cao, K. Graham, C. Licciardi, S. Kravitz, O. Ya. Zeldovich, R. Bayerlein, A. Piepke, R. H. Nelson, A. Schubert, U. Wichoski, Marc Weber, B. T. Cleveland, E. V. Hansen, B. Mong, P. C. Rowson, Giorgio Gratta, A. Kuchenkov, T. Ziegler, P. S. Barbeau, W. Cree, J. Davis, R. Krücken, S. Delaquis, K. Murray, David Leonard, R. Tsang, M. J. Jewell, A. Karelin, V. A. Belov, Gisela Anton, Liang Yang, A. Jamil, J. J. Russell, J. Farine, J. B. Albert, T. Walton, Thomas Koffas, W. M. Fairbank, M. Danilov, W. R. Cen, R. Gornea, J. Hoessl, Y. Lan, P. Hufschmidt, R. DeVoe, L. J. Kaufman, Douglas H Beck, J. Zettlemoyer, David A. Sinclair, Y-R Yen, J. Daughhetee, Yuehe Lin, C. Chambers, J. L. Vuilleumier, C. R. Hall, R. MacLellan, K. S. Kumar, A. Craycraft, T. Tolba, Thilo Michel, T. Brunner, A. S. Johnson, A. Dolgolenko, V.N. Stekhanov, A. Pocar, D. Fudenberg, M. Hughes, A. P. Waite, David Moore, T. Didberidze, Petr Vogel, F. Retiere, G. S. Li, M. J. Dolinski, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, I. Ostrovskiy, O. Njoya, Shu Li, S. Schmidt, Jens Dilling, I. Badhrees, A. Odian, Gerrit Wrede, M. Tarka, and T. Daniels
Subjects: Cryostat, Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Radon, 01 natural sciences, Confidence interval, High Energy Physics - Experiment, ddc, Nuclear physics, Lead shielding, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Upgrade, chemistry, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Results from a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay $0\nu\beta\beta$ of $^{136}$Xe are presented using the first year of data taken with the upgraded EXO-200 detector. Relative to previous searches by EXO-200, the energy resolution of the detector has been improved to $\sigma/E$=1.23%, the electric field in the drift region has been raised by 50%, and a system to suppress radon in the volume between the cryostat and lead shielding has been implemented. In addition, analysis techniques that improve topological discrimination between $0\nu\beta\beta$ and background events have been developed. Incorporating these hardware and analysis improvements, the median 90% confidence level $0\nu\beta\beta$ half-life sensitivity after combining with the full data set acquired before the upgrade has increased 2-fold to $3.7 \times 10^{25}$ yr. No statistically significant evidence for $0\nu\beta\beta$ is observed, leading to a lower limit on the $0\nu\beta\beta$ half-life of $1.8\times10^{25}$ yr at the 90% confidence level., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, final version submitted to PRL
Published: 2017
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17. Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO

Author: T. Stiegler, Douglas H Beck, R. Tsang, K. Murray, Gisela Anton, D. Fudenberg, R. Saldanha, Angelo Dragone, J. Todd, Y. Y. Ding, R. Krücken, Jochen M. Schneider, Y-R Yen, Jean-Francois Pratte, P. C. Rowson, K. Skarpaas, S. Kravitz, E. V. Hansen, Liang Yang, S. Feyzbakhsh, A. House, V. Veeraraghavan, R. J. Newby, A. Jamil, Ethan Brown, M. Chiu, W. Cree, A. Burenkov, S. Delaquis, M. Hughes, M. Côté, T. Daniels, Gabriele Giacomini, A. Pocar, Maulik R. Patel, M. Hasan, J. Farine, A. Karelin, R. DeVoe, Jens Dilling, Arun Kumar Soma, Zhijun Ning, T. Tolba, M. J. Jewell, I. Badhrees, David Moore, A. Robinson, T. Didberidze, B. Mong, M. Wagenpfeil, J. Dalmasson, I. J. Arnquist, Xiaoshan Jiang, Yuehe Lin, Veljko Radeka, A. Piepke, Gerrit Wrede, V.N. Stekhanov, J. B. Zhao, S. Parent, U. Wichoski, M. Oriunno, W. R. Cen, C. Chambers, R. Gornea, M. Heffner, A. Odian, D. Qiu, M. Tarka, S. Johnston, T. Ziegler, I. Ostrovskiy, John L. Orrell, E. Raguzin, Z. Li, T. Brunner, S. Rescia, S. X. Wu, Eric W. Hoppe, M. Coon, S. J. Daugherty, A. Schubert, O. Zeldovich, Cory T. Overman, G. Visser, Wei Wu, O. Njoya, A. Iverson, Triveni Rao, Y. Lan, Thomas Tsang, Shu Li, S. Schmidt, J. Daughhetee, Qian Wang, David Leonard, G. S. Ortega, Thomas Koffas, W. M. Fairbank, Samuele Sangiorgio, Giorgio Gratta, J. L. Vuilleumier, B. T. Cleveland, K. Odgers, Serge A. Charlebois, R. MacLellan, Yumei Zhou, Wei Wei, K. S. Kumar, Rejean Fontaine, A. Kuchenkov, P. Hufschmidt, David A. Sinclair, F. Bourque, J. P. Brodsky, G. St-Hilaire, D. Harris, Y. Ito, L. J. Kaufman, M. J. Dolinski, A. Craycraft, Liangjian Wen, Guofu Cao, G. S. Li, Thilo Michel, T. Rossignol, Xiaoyang Sun, C. Licciardi, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, N. Roy, L. Cao, F. Nolet, F. Vachon, Marc Weber, F. Retière, J. B. Albert, X. Zhang, J. Hößl, P. S. Barbeau, V. A. Belov, and Lorenzo Fabris
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, STRIPS, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, Xenon, law, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Wafer, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Anode, chemistry, visual_art, visual_art.visual_art_medium, Tile, business
Abstract: A new design for the anode of a time projection chamber, consisting of a charge-detecting "tile", is investigated for use in large scale liquid xenon detectors. The tile is produced by depositing 60 orthogonal metal charge-collecting strips, 3~mm wide, on a 10~\si{\cm} $\times$ 10~\si{\cm} fused-silica wafer. These charge tiles may be employed by large detectors, such as the proposed tonne-scale nEXO experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Modular by design, an array of tiles can cover a sizable area. The width of each strip is small compared to the size of the tile, so a Frisch grid is not required. A grid-less, tiled anode design is beneficial for an experiment such as nEXO, where a wire tensioning support structure and Frisch grid might contribute radioactive backgrounds and would have to be designed to accommodate cycling to cryogenic temperatures. The segmented anode also reduces some degeneracies in signal reconstruction that arise in large-area crossed-wire time projection chambers. A prototype tile was tested in a cell containing liquid xenon. Very good agreement is achieved between the measured ionization spectrum of a $^{207}$Bi source and simulations that include the microphysics of recombination in xenon and a detailed modeling of the electrostatic field of the detector. An energy resolution $\sigma/E$=5.5\% is observed at 570~\si{keV}, comparable to the best intrinsic ionization-only resolution reported in literature for liquid xenon at 936~V/\si{cm}., Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures, as published
Published: 2017
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18. Search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with the IceCube 59-string configuration

Author: J. Kläs, A. Stasik, Carsten Rott, I. Taboada, W. Huelsnitz, G. Binder, D. Pieloth, K. Rawlins, Dustin Hebecker, T. Fischer-Wasels, D. T. Grandmont, B. J. Whelan, J. J. Beatty, D. L. Xu, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, Juanan Aguilar, S. C. Nowicki, P. Redl, L. Schulte, J. Becker Tjus, E. Pinat, C. Finley, T. Schmidt, Sofia Vallecorsa, S. Flis, J. Daughhetee, M. Bissok, G. T. Przybylski, F. Huang, Olga Botner, K. Jero, N. L. Strotjohann, S. Schöneberg, D. Heinen, Jenni Adams, K. Hoshina, M. Kauer, G. Golup, K. Woschnagg, M. N. Tobin, F. Scheriau, A. Stößl, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Glüsenkamp, G. M. Spiczak, H. Landsman, H. P. Bretz, M. W.E. Smith, G. Yodh, A. Fedynitch, D. J. Koskinen, Reina H. Maruyama, K. Krings, Teresa Montaruli, J. Feintzeig, M. Stamatikos, O. Schulz, C. De Clercq, M. Vraeghe, G. S. Japaridze, P. B. Price, G. C. Hill, D. Chirkin, A. Schönwald, S. Coenders, M. Dunkman, Markus Ahlers, M. Labare, P. Gretskov, E. Unger, Y. Sestayo, M. Schmitz, K. D. de Vries, Maria Tselengidou, S. Ter-Antonyan, C. Sheremata, B. Eberhardt, P. Desiati, B. Kaminsky, D. Altmann, M. Wolf, J. Madsen, M. Rameez, T. Fuchs, D. Soldin, F. Clevermann, T. Ruhe, A. Groß, S. De Ridder, P. Zarzhitsky, D. Bindig, Tyce DeYoung, P. O. Hulth, A. Karle, L. Brayeur, M. Richman, R. Nahnhauer, A. M. Brown, S. Cohen, K. Hultqvist, C. Walck, M. Wellons, A. R. Fazely, Dariusz Gora, C. Bohm, L. Gladstone, G. Kroll, S. Miarecki, T. Waldenmaier, X. Bai, M. Krasberg, N. Whitehorn, R. C. Bay, J. Casey, B. Eichmann, Carlos Arguelles, S. Toscano, A. Olivas, S. Böser, S. Schoenen, S. R. Klein, B. Christy, T. Palczewski, Hermann Kolanoski, Segev BenZvi, S. Yoshida, Rezo Shanidze, M. Day, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, J. P. Yanez, M. Ribordy, R. Reimann, L. Paul, A. Haj Ismail, S. Seunarine, J. G. Gonzalez, S. Westerhoff, Elisa Bernardini, C. Ha, E. Middell, M. Wallraff, Thomas Meures, S. Tilav, T. R. Wood, D. J. Boersma, E. A. Strahler, J. C. Groh, Giorgio Maggi, K. Wiebe, M. Vehring, A. Omairat, L. Köpke, P. Hallen, M. Voge, Ch Weaver, J. Posselt, Elisa Resconi, D. Bose, M. Kowalski, A. Franckowiak, Markus Ackermann, D. Grant, C. Wendt, J. L. Kelley, J. A. Goodman, M. Danninger, U. Naumann, Todor Stanev, J. A. Pepper, H. Niederhausen, X. W. Xu, R. Hoffmann, Christian Spiering, J. Blumenthal, A. Ishihara, M. Casier, G. Tešić, H. G. Sander, D. Heereman, Wolfgang Rhode, R. G. Stokstad, Thomas K. Gaisser, S. Euler, T. Stezelberger, Subir Sarkar, K. Mase, D. Seckel, D. Berley, Stephanie Hickford, C. Pfendner, S. M. Saba, S. Kopper, J. C. Davis, J. Lünemann, G. Kohnen, Marcos Santander, A. Goldschmidt, J. Eisch, S. Odrowski, H. S. Matis, Kael Hanson, N. A. Stanisha, K. D. Hoffman, S. Hussain, B. Ruzybayev, Steven W. Barwick, K. Meagher, L. Gerhardt, Francis Halzen, P. A. Toale, K. Helbing, K. Filimonov, J. Van Santen, J. H. Köhne, T. Kuwabara, A. O'Murchadha, N. Milke, E. Blaufuss, N. Kurahashi, M. G. Aartsen, J. Leute, C. Kopper, R. Morse, O. Fadiran, J. Jacobsen, A. Van Overloop, R. Eagan, H. Wissing, V. Baum, K. Frantzen, P. A. Evenson, J. Ziemann, L. Mohrmann, S. Zierke, A. Obertacke, H. Taavola, R. Bruijn, M. Usner, P. Berghaus, T. Karg, C. H. Wiebusch, Oscar Macias, K. Jagielski, O. Jlelati, A. Bernhard, A. Kriesten, T. Feusels, R. Hellauer, G. W. Sullivan, J. P. A. M. de André, Allan Hallgren, J. S. Gallagher, L. Classen, M. Baker, M. Merck, B. Riedel, J. Auffenberg, E. Jacobi, A. Homeier, A. Tepe, A. Tamburro, M. Zoll, D. Z. Besson, L. Rädel, J. Miller, A. Christov, J. Kunnen, T. C. Arlen, N. Van Eijndhoven, C. Pérez De Los Heros, D. F. Cowen, M. J. Larson, D. R. Nygren, J. Kiryluk, Sally Robertson, M. Leuermann, K. Clark, D. R. Williams, Rasha Abbasi, Alexander Kappes, K. Schatto, D. Ryckbosch, F. McNally, R. Ström, A. Schukraft, K. H. Becker, and M. Quinnan
Subjects: SELECTION, HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, TELESCOPE, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, RATIO, Observatory, DETECTORS, ddc:530, Muon neutrino, Zenith, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Muon, ICE, PERFORMANCE, Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A search for high-energy neutrinos was performed using data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory from May 2009 to May 2010, when the array was running in its 59-string configuration. The data sample was optimized to contain muon neutrino induced events with a background contamination of atmospheric muons of less than 1%. These data, which are dominated by atmospheric neutrinos, are analyzed with a global likelihood fit to search for possible contributions of prompt atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos, neither of which have yet been identified. Such signals are expected to follow a harder energy spectrum than conventional atmospheric neutrinos. In addition, the zenith angle distribution differs for astrophysical and atmospheric signals. A global fit of the reconstructed energies and directions of observed events is performed, including possible neutrino flux contributions for an astrophysical signal and atmospheric backgrounds as well as systematic uncertainties of the experiment and theoretical predictions. The best fit yields an astrophysical signal flux for $\nu_\mu + \bar\nu_\mu $ of $E^2 \cdot \Phi (E) = 0.25 \cdot 10^{-8} \textrm{GeV} \textrm{cm}^{-2} \textrm{s}^{-1} \textrm{sr}^{-1}$, and a zero prompt component. Although the sensitivity of this analysis for astrophysical neutrinos surpasses the Waxman and Bahcall upper bound, the experimental limit at 90% confidence level is a factor of 1.5 above at a flux of $E^2 \cdot \Phi (E) = 1.44 \cdot 10^{-8} \textrm{GeV} \textrm{cm}^{-2} \textrm{s}^{-1} \textrm{sr}^{-1}$., Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2016

19. A Search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

Author: J. Feintzeig, M. Ono, John Clem, Anatoli Fedynitch, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, J. L. Bazo Alba, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, H. G. Sander, M. Labare, S. R. Klein, B. D. Fox, T. Feusels, S. H. Seo, Chun Xu, Thomas Meures, J. J. Beatty, T. Glüsenkamp, Carsten Rott, J. Miller, G. Stephens, M. Bissok, S. Westerhoff, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, Larissa Paul, M. Merck, J. M. Joseph, Xianwu Xu, J. P. Dumm, L. Gerhardt, C. Bohm, H. Landsman, Jenni Adams, K. Laihem, D. Heinen, A. Marotta, K. Hoshina, C. Colnard, Glenn Spiczak, C. Pérez de los Heros, Stijn Buitink, M. Stamatikos, C. Ha, F. Clevermann, J. Posselt, A. Silvestri, J. Auffenberg, U. Naumann, K. Rawlins, S. Hickford, A. Piegsa, R. G. Stokstad, J. K. Becker, P. B. Price, P. Roth, M. L. Benabderrahmane, M. V. D'Agostino, K. Mase, G. W. Sullivan, Karen Andeen, Ch. Weaver, R. Wischnewski, K. Schatto, Simona Toscano, A. Goldschmidt, A. Stössl, T. O. B. Schmidt, R. Morse, M. M. Foerster, J. C. Gallagher, G. Kohnen, N. Kurahashi, M. Dierckxsens, R. W. Ellsworth, D. J. Boersma, Reina H. Maruyama, B. Ruzybayev, J. Petrovic, T. Griesel, D. Z. Besson, S. Bechet, W. Huelsnitz, Chad Finley, James Madsen, Allan Hallgren, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, R. Nahnhauer, Sandro Kopper, T. R. Wood, Albrecht Karle, K. Wiebe, D. Tosi, B. Semburg, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, M. J. Larson, S. Panknin, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Takao Kuwabara, T. Krings, L. Demirörs, K. Helbing, D. Bertrand, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, M. Krasberg, P. Redl, O. Engdegård, J. A. Goodman, A. Schönwald, S.J. Lafebre, Fabian Kislat, D. Altmann, S. Yoshida, S. W. Barwick, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, T. Denger, E. A. Strahler, Dariusz Gora, K. Meagher, Gerald Przybylski, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, B. Christy, H. Taavola, M. Olivo, Dmitry Chirkin, Elisa Resconi, M. Zoll, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Berdermann, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, A. Van Overloop, A. Ishihara, J. W. Nam, I. Taboada, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, K. Han, M. Schunck, Daniel Bindig, Teresa Montaruli, A. Hajismail, A. Homeier, D. R. Nygren, J. van Santen, M. Wallraff, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Stür, E. Middell, S. Odrowski, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, Christopher Wiebusch, A. Franckowiak, M. Gurtner, J. Blumenthal, Pratik Majumdar, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, G. Kroll, J. Daughhetee, Axel Groß, Hermann Kolanoski, P. Nießen, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, P. Berghaus, S. M. Movit, Ph. Herquet, Olga Botner, K.-H. Becker, T. Straszheim, Subir Sarkar, S. Hussain, T. Fischer-Wasels, Aongus O'Murchadha, S. Euler, Kael Hanson, S. Seunarine, D. J. Koskinen, J. Dreyer, A. Schukraft, D. Rutledge, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Y. Abdou, Michael J. Baker, L. Gladstone, Paolo Desiati, D. Seckel, Dirk Ryckbosch, M. Voge, Damian Pieloth, O. Depaepe, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, D. Hubert, A. M. Brown, S. Stoyanov, Rasha Abbasi, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, J. Lünemann, L. Köpke, Segev BenZvi, R. C. Bay, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Wolfgang Rhode, Timo Karg, F. Rothmaier, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, Christian Spiering, Justin Vandenbroucke, Martin Wolf, J.-P. Hülß, H. S. Matis, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, M. Kowalski, M. Danninger, T. Kowarik, A. Tamburro, Xinhua Bai, Markus Ahlers, R. Porrata, Q. Swillens, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, A. Schultes, Peter Mészáros, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, S. Böser, David A. Williams, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, F. Descamps, A. Tepe, R. Franke, C. Walck, H. A. B. Johansson, Thomas K. Gaisser, and G. B. Yodh
Subjects: SELECTION, AMANDA, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Amanda, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, Selection, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ICE, Ice, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic-Rays, Solar neutrino problem, COSMIC-RAYS, MODEL, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, TELESCOPES, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Model, Telescopes, Lepton
Abstract: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 km$^{3}$ detector currently taking data at the South Pole. One of the main strategies used to look for astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube is the search for a diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos from unresolved sources. A hard energy spectrum of neutrinos from isotropically distributed astrophysical sources could manifest itself as a detectable signal that may be differentiated from the atmospheric neutrino background by spectral measurement. This analysis uses data from the IceCube detector collected in its half completed configuration which operated between April 2008 and May 2009 to search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos. A total of 12,877 upward going candidate neutrino events have been selected for this analysis. No evidence for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos was found in the data set leading to a 90 percent C.L. upper limit on the normalization of an $E^{-2}$ astrophysical $\nu_{\mu}$ flux of $8.9 \times 10^{-9} \ \mathrm{GeV \ cm^{-2} \ s^{-1} \ sr^{-1}}$. The analysis is sensitive in the energy range between $35 \ \mathrm{TeV} - 7 \ \mathrm{PeV}$. The 12,877 candidate neutrino events are consistent with atmospheric muon neutrinos measured from 332 GeV to 84 TeV and no evidence for a prompt component to the atmospheric neutrino spectrum is found., Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2016

20. The IceProd framework: distributed data processing for the IceCube neutrino observatory

Author: Joshua Pepper, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Jenni Adams, P. B. Price, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, K. Rawlins, J. Feintzeig, K. Frantzen, M. Stamatikos, S. Euler, E. Jacobi, J. A. Goodman, J. Kunnen, T. O. B. Schmidt, A. Christov, F. Clevermann, M. Day, A. Bernhard, James Madsen, T. R. Wood, Oscar Macias, M. N. Tobin, J. C. Gallagher, M. Leuermann, J. P. Yanez, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, R. Ström, M. Krasberg, A. O'Murchadha, Teresa Montaruli, Damian Pieloth, A. M. Brown, A. Tepe, H.-P. Bretz, Frank McNally, Donglian Xu, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, Allan Hallgren, Javier Gonzalez, S. Hussain, D. T. Grandmont, Giorgio Maggi, O. Schulz, T. Fuchs, D. J. Koskinen, Sandro Kopper, M. Casier, G. W. Sullivan, D. Z. Besson, A. Goldschmidt, P. Gretskov, J. P. Rodrigues, K. Krings, C. De Clercq, L. Köpke, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, Anatoli Fedynitch, A. Van Overloop, N. A. Stanisha, Carsten Rott, D. Heereman, J. Lünemann, E. A. Strahler, L. Schulte, B. Eichmann, Y. Sestayo, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, Matthias Wolf, S. Böser, Nathan Whitehorn, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, R. Hellauer, B. Ruzybayev, R. C. Bay, M. Ribordy, S. Coenders, A. Haj Ismail, Benedikt Riedel, David A. Williams, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, A. Stasik, Maria Tselengidou, S. Schöneberg, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, T. Waldenmaier, Timo Karg, J. van Santen, Rezo Shanidze, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, K.-H. Becker, Matt Dunkman, T. Fischer-Wasels, S. Schoenen, Thorsten Glusenkamp, Carlos Arguelles, K. D. de Vries, K. Clark, L. Rädel, M. Kowalski, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, A. Schukraft, Hermann Kolanoski, M. Bissok, Dennis Soldin, R. Nahnhauer, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, C. Kopper, G. Golup, T. Feusels, M. Usner, S. Yoshida, H. Taavola, M. Danninger, L. Mohrmann, K. Hoshina, Kirill Filimonov, J. E. Jacobsen, Subir Sarkar, M. Quinnan, Marcos Santander, E. Blaufuss, C. Pfendner, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Dirk Ryckbosch, R. Bruijn, G. Merino, W. Huelsnitz, A. Tamburro, Glenn Spiczak, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, Segev BenZvi, K. Jagielski, R. Hoffmann, L. Gerhardt, I. Rae, J. C. Groh, David Schultz, Gary Binder, Spencer Klein, Matthias Vraeghe, Xianwu Xu, C. Walck, Axel Groß, R. Eagan, U. Naumann, Mohamed Rameez, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, H. Landsman, Kael Hanson, C. Ha, Kara Hoffman, A. H. Cruz Silva, A. Kriesten, Surujhdeo Seunarine, J. Miller, C. Bohm, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Elisa Resconi, K. Helbing, Thomas Meures, Ch. Weaver, O. Jlelati, J. Kiryluk, Juanan Aguilar, D. R. Nygren, Takao Kuwabara, Wolfgang Rhode, S. Tilav, J. Blumenthal, J. J. Beatty, J.-H. Köhne, Chad Finley, J. Ziemann, Xinhua Bai, B. Christy, J. Becker Tjus, M. Merck, H. Wissing, A. Homeier, L. Classen, Hans Niederhausen, Paolo Desiati, A. Ishihara, J. Posselt, J. Auffenberg, Naoko Kurahashi, N. van Eijndhoven, Christopher Wiebusch, Tim Ruhe, Daniel Bindig, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, Olga Botner, A. Stößl, A. Obertacke, B. Kaminsky, S. Odrowski, J. Daughhetee, M. W. E. Smith, Reina H. Maruyama, K. Mase, V. Baum, M. J. Larson, G. Kroll, A. R. Fazely, Mike Richman, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, A. Franckowiak, A. Olivas, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, L. Brayeur, Rasha Abbasi, F. Huang, M. G. Aartsen, J. Leute, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Gerald Przybylski, René Reimann, E. Pinat, M. Zoll, Michael J. Baker, J. Casey, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, L. Gladstone, S. Cohen, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, I. Taboada, Dustin Hebecker, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, S. Flis, Simona Toscano, Albrecht Karle, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Schönwald, E. Unger, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, K. Wiebe, S. Zierke, A. Omairat, P. Hallen, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, Sarah Nowicki, M. Kauer, D. Bose, B. Eberhardt, H. S. Matis, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, Christian Spiering, C. Sheremata, S. Westerhoff, G. Tešić, R. Morse, Sofia Vallecorsa, N. L. Strotjohann, H. G. Sander, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, and Vriendenkring VUB
Subjects: FOS: Computer and information sciences, Monitoring, Computer science, Computer Networks and Communications, Distributed computing, Data management, Real-time computing, Distributed management, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Theoretical Computer Science, IceCube, Artificial Intelligence, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Data processing, Grid computing, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing, Hardware and Architecture, Middleware (distributed applications), Middleware, Particle, Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC), Neutrino, ddc:004, business, computer, Software
Abstract: IceCube is a one-gigaton instrument located at the geographic South Pole, designed to detect cosmic neutrinos, identify the particle nature of dark matter, and study high-energy neutrinos themselves. Simulation of the IceCube detector and processing of data require a significant amount of computational resources. This paper presents the first detailed description of IceProd, a lightweight distributed management system designed to meet these requirements. It is driven by a central database in order to manage mass production of simulations and analysis of data produced by the IceCube detector. IceProd runs as a separate layer on top of other middleware and can take advantage of a variety of computing resources, including grids and batch systems such as CREAM, HTCondor, and PBS. This is accomplished by a set of dedicated daemons that process job submission in a coordinated fashion through the use of middleware plugins that serve to abstract the details of job submission and job management from the framework. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2016

21. Characterization of the atmospheric muon flux in IceCube

Author: C. Pérez de los Heros, M. Day, Julian Kemp, N. A. Stanisha, J. Feintzeig, Joshua Pepper, T. Anderson, K.-H. Becker, M. Schimp, Javier Gonzalez, P. Gretskov, Yiqian Xu, Matt Dunkman, Giorgio Maggi, T. Fischer-Wasels, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, A. Schukraft, C. De Clercq, E. Cheung, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Dirk Ryckbosch, Sander Vanheule, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, L. Schulte, D. Heereman, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, Karim Ghorbani, M. J. Larson, Albrecht Karle, A. Schönwald, D. Altmann, G. Golup, R. Gaior, P. B. Price, N. Kurahashi, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, C. Wendt, G. Merino, N. Wandkowsky, L. Sabbatini, G. de Wasseige, Jenni Adams, Carlos Arguelles, K. Wiebe, T. O. B. Schmidt, S. Hickford, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Surujhdeo Seunarine, J. Miller, J. Leuner, R. G. Stokstad, Kirill Filimonov, R. Hoffmann, R. Nahnhauer, S. Tilav, C. Walck, R. Eagan, S. Schoenen, Delia Tosi, M. G. Aartsen, Juanan Aguilar, T. R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Thorsten Glusenkamp, L. Classen, L. Mohrmann, S. Yoshida, Segev BenZvi, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, M. Stamatikos, J. Pütz, E. A. Strahler, M. Relich, B. Christy, M. W. E. Smith, Paul Evenson, K. Rawlins, W. Huelsnitz, A. Ishihara, Spencer Klein, J. Becker Tjus, Anatoli Fedynitch, M. Kroll, A. Goldschmidt, Hermann Kolanoski, L. Brayeur, K. Helbing, James Madsen, N. van Eijndhoven, C. Haack, Dmitry Chirkin, B. Kaminsky, I. Taboada, J. Veenkamp, D. Z. Besson, K. D. de Vries, Alexander Kappes, S. Flis, Kara Hoffman, A. H. Cruz Silva, A. O'Murchadha, M. N. Tobin, B. Hansmann, A. Koob, Timo Karg, Gerald Przybylski, E. Beiser, A. Omairat, M. Zoll, M. Jurkovic, H.-P. Bretz, Killian Holzapfel, A. Christov, D. J. Koskinen, Carsten Rott, Teresa Montaruli, D. R. Nygren, M. Quinnan, Frank McNally, Hershal Pandya, K. Meagher, A. Stasik, Nathan Whitehorn, M. Bissok, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, Kendall Mahn, M. Kauer, R. Konietz, E. Middlemas, G. Kroll, M. Glagla, P. Berghaus, Xianwu Xu, Marek Kowalski, J. Blumenthal, K. Hultqvist, B. Riedel, Joshua Hignight, J. Kläs, M. E. Huber, T. Menne, C. Bohm, Maria Tselengidou, S. Schöneberg, L. Rädel, L. Gerhardt, Darren Grant, Olga Botner, J. Kunnen, Ch. Weaver, M. Vehring, K. Hoshina, S. Böser, J. Auffenberg, C. Ha, Carl Pfendner, V. Baum, Chad Finley, A. Obertacke, Glenn Spiczak, Sarah Nowicki, Damian Pieloth, K. Mase, Ali Kheirandish, D. F. Cowen, J. P. A. M. de André, A. M. Brown, S. Euler, U. Naumann, Mohamed Rameez, E. Unger, M. Wallraff, T. Fuchs, L. Köpke, T. Stezelberger, M. Voge, S. M. Saba, A. Bernhard, D. Hellwig, Christian Spiering, Justin Vandenbroucke, Mike Richman, Kael Hanson, A. Olivas, M. Stahlberg, A. Haj Ismail, N. Buzinsky, A. Terliuk, S. Westerhoff, F. Huang, M. Usner, Justin Lanfranchi, M. Börner, J. Kiryluk, Martin Rongen, J. Casey, Matthias Vraeghe, L. Wille, P. O. Hulth, Hans Niederhausen, René Reimann, Björn Eichmann, H. Wissing, R. Hellauer, Paolo Desiati, Daniel Bindig, T. C. Arlen, R. Ström, X. Bai, Sally Robertson, Alexander Sandrock, B. J. Whelan, K. Clark, J. Felde, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, K. Krings, Ramesh Koirala, Dennis Soldin, H. Taavola, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, Maryon Ahrens, M. Medici, S. Coenders, Thomas Meures, N. L. Strotjohann, A. R. Fazely, E. Pinat, Donglian Xu, Subir Sarkar, R. Maunu, T. Kuwabara, J. C. Groh, C. Kopper, E. Jacobi, Joakim Sandroos, Azadeh Keivani, A. Homeier, M. Casier, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, J. P. Yanez, J. Lünemann, R. C. Bay, G. W. Sullivan, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, James E. Braun, Rezo Shanidze, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Archinger, L. Gladstone, J. J. Beatty, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, S. Miarecki, J. C. Gallagher, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, M. Leuermann, J. Posselt, F. Bos, A. Stößl, Tim Ruhe, Allan Hallgren, Sandro Kopper, Reina H. Maruyama, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, Sofia Vallecorsa, D. Hebecker, Matthias Wolf, Thomas Ehrhardt, Andrea Turcati, J. van Santen, H. G. Sander, Gary Binder, Axel Groß, George Japaridze, Seongjin In, Elisa Resconi, M. S. Sutherland, G. Tešić, S. Richter, D. Gier, D. Bose, J. P. Dumm, T. Palczewski, C. Wichary, B. Eberhardt, H. S. Matis, K. Abraham, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, R. Morse, H. Dembinski, Dariusz Gora, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, and Vriendenkring VUB
Subjects: Prompt leptons, lepton, Atmospheric muons, Cosmic rays, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Hadron, primary [cosmic radiation], PROTON, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, surface [detector], atmosphere [muon], NEUTRINO TELESCOPE, production [muon], Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), ELEMENTAL GROUPS, Detector, model [interaction], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, COSMIC-RAY MUONS, ENERGY-SPECTRUM, vector meson, statistics, INTRINSIC CHARM, ddc:540, Physique des particules élémentaires, high [energy], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, atmosphere [showers], Atmosperic muons, exceptional, air, flux [muon], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, spectrum [multiplicity], energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, atmosphere [cosmic radiation], Nuclear physics, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, ARRIVAL DIRECTIONS, Vector meson, 010306 general physics, Zenith, ANISOTROPY, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral component, tracks, MODEL, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, TEV, spectral, High Energy Physics::Experiment, hadron, Lepton
Abstract: Muons produced in atmospheric cosmic ray showers account for the by far dominant part of the event yield in large-volume underground particle detectors. The IceCube detector, with an instrumented volume of about a cubic kilometer, has the potential to conduct unique investigations on atmospheric muons by exploiting the large collection area and the possibility to track particles over a long distance. Through detailed reconstruction of energy deposition along the tracks, the characteristics of muon bundles can be quantified, and individual particles of exceptionally high energy identified. The data can then be used to constrain the cosmic ray primary flux and the contribution to atmospheric lepton fluxes from prompt decays of short-lived hadrons. In this paper, techniques for the extraction of physical measurements from atmospheric muon events are described and first results are presented. The multiplicity spectrum of TeV muons in cosmic ray air showers for primaries in the energy range from the knee to the ankle is derived and found to be consistent with recent results from surface detectors. The single muon energy spectrum is determined up to PeV energies and shows a clear indication for the emergence of a distinct spectral component from prompt decays of short-lived hadrons. The magnitude of the prompt flux, which should include a substantial contribution from light vector meson di-muon decays, is consistent with current theoretical predictions. The variety of measurements and high event statistics can also be exploited for the evaluation of systematic effects. In the course of this study, internal inconsistencies in the zenith angle distribution of events were found which indicate the presence of an unexplained effect outside the currently applied range of detector systematics. The underlying cause could be related to the hadronic interaction models used to describe muon production in air showers., 0, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2016

22. Neutrino oscillation studies with IceCube-DeepCore

Author: P. O. Hulth, Björn Eichmann, H. Wissing, G. H. Collin, Daniel Bindig, Ramesh Koirala, T. C. Arlen, R. Gaior, Dennis Soldin, M. Relich, M. Song, Mike Richman, H. Taavola, H. S. Matis, N. Kurahashi, B. J. Whelan, J. Casey, D. V. Pankova, B. Riedel, Julian Kemp, K. Abraham, C. Walck, E. Blaufuss, A. Obertacke Pollmann, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, L. Classen, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, T. Anderson, S. Hickford, M. Jurkovic, Francis Halzen, I. Ansseau, Thorsten Glusenkamp, George Japaridze, L. Schulte, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Zoll, N. Buzinsky, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, A. Christov, G. Merino, K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, W. Huelsnitz, N. Wandkowsky, K. Rawlins, M. Kauer, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, S. Westerhoff, L. Brayeur, E. Hansen, M. E. Huber, Donglian Xu, P. B. Price, Sander Vanheule, I. Taboada, K. Clark, A. Haj Ismail, L. Gerhardt, James Madsen, R. Nahnhauer, T. Menne, Lu Lu, Seongjin In, K. Helbing, A. Omairat, D. F. Cowen, U. Naumann, C. Kopper, M. Schimp, Kirill Filimonov, M. Kroll, D. Z. Besson, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, C. Wendt, Elisa Resconi, Azadeh Keivani, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. N. Tobin, J. Felde, P. Berghaus, Surujhdeo Seunarine, C. Pérez de los Heros, G. de Wasseige, S. Schoenen, Carl Pfendner, L. Wills, Teresa Montaruli, R. Hoffmann, K. D. de Vries, M. J. Larson, E. Unger, T. R. Wood, Juanan Aguilar, Darren Grant, J. P. Yanez, Dariusz Gora, E. del Pino Rosendo, J. Kunnen, S. Böser, Subir Sarkar, D. Heereman, L. Wille, M. Tselengidou, K. Meagher, Kendall Mahn, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, Kurt Woschnagg, Damian Pieloth, Delia Tosi, L. Schumacher, Hans Niederhausen, J. C. Gallagher, Sarah Nowicki, M. Casier, Paul Evenson, A. Bernhard, A. Ishihara, Ali Kheirandish, M. Day, D. R. Nygren, F. Bos, Javier Gonzalez, Joshua Pepper, Allan Hallgren, J. Feintzeig, R. Maunu, T. Stezelberger, Marek Kowalski, J. P. A. M. de André, Giorgio Maggi, Sandro Kopper, G. Tešić, T. Kuwabara, Dmitry Chirkin, T. Fuchs, C. De Clercq, L. Köpke, V. di Lorenzo, L. Mohrmann, R. Hellauer, R. C. Bay, E. Middell, K. Jero, Elisa Bernardini, Karim Ghorbani, Tim Ruhe, Matthias Wolf, Alexander Kappes, Thomas Ehrhardt, M. Leuermann, K. Schatto, G. Krückl, Christian Spiering, J. Auffenberg, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Markus Ackermann, M. Archinger, G. Kohnen, Spencer Klein, Jenni Adams, S. W. Barwick, N. L. Strotjohann, E. Jacobi, J. Lünemann, M. G. Aartsen, M. Quinnan, R. Ström, J. J. Beatty, Kara Hoffman, M. Dunkman, Hermann Kolanoski, J. Becker Tjus, Carlos Arguelles, K. Wiebe, N. van Eijndhoven, T. Karg, Ch. Weaver, Justin Vandenbroucke, A. H. Cruz Silva, D. Hebecker, Sally Robertson, J. Posselt, R. Morse, X. Bai, G. Neer, Killian Holzapfel, G. Golup, Z. Griffith, B. J. P. Jones, Andrea Turcati, Hershal Pandya, Carsten Rott, Wolfgang Rhode, J. Blumenthal, Frank McNally, J. Leuner, A. Meli, A. Stößl, B. Hansmann, Thomas Meures, J. Veenkamp, Sofia Vallecorsa, Alexander Sandrock, K. Mase, J. van Santen, M. Bissok, R. Konietz, E. Beiser, G. Kroll, M. Glagla, Reina H. Maruyama, R. G. Stokstad, C. Haack, M. Mandelartz, Olga Botner, Joshua Hignight, Gary Binder, Axel Groß, A. Steuer, Minjin Jeong, R. Reimann, H. G. Sander, A. Terliuk, H. Dembinski, Xianwu Xu, M. Stamatikos, J. L. Lanfranchi, J. Sandroos, D. Altmann, V. Baum, C.-C. Fösig, A. Goldschmidt, L. Sabbatini, S. Tilav, K.-H. Becker, D. Gier, D. Bose, J. P. Dumm, T. Palczewski, Yiqian Xu, S. Yoshida, S. Euler, E. Pinat, B. Eberhardt, Simona Toscano, D. J. Koskinen, S. Flis, A. Stasik, Kael Hanson, Janet Conrad, Larissa Paul, E. Cheung, M. Usner, M. Rongen, M. S. Sutherland, Gerald Przybylski, Dirk Ryckbosch, M. Stahlberg, S. Richter, Paolo Desiati, M. Börner, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, Albrecht Karle, K. Krings, S. Schöneberg, A. Schönwald, L. Rädel, J. Tatar, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, Maryon Ahrens, M. Rameez, M. Medici, S. Coenders, A. Wallace, M. Vehring, C. Ha, A. Olivas, F. Huang, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, C. Finley, J. Daughhetee, H.-P. Bretz, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, Christoph Raab, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Matthias Vraeghe, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Jones, Benjamin J. P., Christov, Asen, Montaruli, Teresa, Rameez, Mohamed, and Vallecorsa, Sofia
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, pole, interaction [neutrino nucleon], PINGU, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, neutrino nucleon: interaction, IceCube, energy: threshold, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, neutrino: atmosphere, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, detector [neutrino], Physics, neutrino: energy spectrum, oscillation [neutrino], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, atmosphere [neutrino], threshold [energy], mass difference [neutrino], Cosmic neutrino background, neutrino: detector, Neutrino detector, Physique des particules élémentaires, Measurements of neutrino speed, Neutrino, performance, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, neutrino: mass difference, ddc:500.2, neutrino: energy, SOUTH-POLE, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ICE, energy spectrum [neutrino], Solar neutrino problem, neutrino: mixing angle, Physics and Astronomy, energy [neutrino], High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino astronomy, MATTER, SYSTEM, mixing angle [neutrino], experimental results
Abstract: IceCube, a gigaton-scale neutrino detector located at the South Pole, was primarily designed to search for astrophysical neutrinos with energies of PeV and higher. This goal has been achieved with the detection of the highest energy neutrinos to date. At the other end of the energy spectrum, the DeepCore extension lowers the energy threshold of the detector to approximately 10 GeV and opens the door for oscillation studies using atmospheric neutrinos. An analysis of the disappearance of these neutrinos has been completed, with the results produced being complementary with dedicated oscillation experiments. Following a review of the detector principle and performance, the method used to make these calculations, as well as the results, is detailed. Finally, the future prospects of IceCube-DeepCore and the next generation of neutrino experiments at the South Pole (IceCube-Gen2, specifically the PINGU sub-detector) are briefly discussed., National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation (U.S.). Physics Division, University of Wisconsin. Alumni Research Foundation, United States. Dept. of Energy
Published: 2016

23. An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in gamma-ray bursts

Author: C. Walck, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, S. Hussain, J. W. Nam, F. Descamps, M. W. E. Smith, D. J. Koskinen, P. Berghaus, S. Boeser, S. Japaridze, S. Odrowski, Timo Karg, H. Landsman, R. Franke, S. Euler, S. Flis, H. A. B. Johansson, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, S. Westerhoff, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, J. J. Beatty, S. Seunarine, M. Kowalski, A. Gross, Damian Pieloth, A. M. Brown, P. B. Price, K. Hoshina, H. S. Matis, L. Koepke, M. Danninger, D. Heereman, M. V. D'Agostino, G. C. Hill, J. Posselt, M. Stamatikos, D. Z. Besson, T. O. B. Schmidt, Glenn Spiczak, Larissa Paul, L. Schulte, Chris Wendt, T. Kowarik, D. Rutledge, M. Labare, Albrecht Karle, M. Schunck, Michael J. Baker, Klas Hultqvist, A. Marotta, D. Altmann, U. Naumann, K. Meagher, T. R. Wood, J. Kiryluk, Thomas Meures, N. van Eijndhoven, L. Gladstone, M. Richman, Francis Halzen, Reina H. Maruyama, K. H. Becker, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, P. Zarzhitsky, A. Piegsa, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Xinhua Bai, A. Goldschmidt, F. Rothmaier, Segev BenZvi, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, J. Miller, Spencer Klein, R. J. Lauer, O. Fadiran, M. Bissok, Markus Ahlers, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, C. DeClercq, P. A. Toale, Hermann Kolanoski, J. A. Goodman, A. Silvestri, K. Mase, M. Merck, Xianwu Xu, G. Kroll, T. Degner, K. Rawlins, R. Hellauer, J. P. Huelss, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Darren Grant, Dmitry Chirkin, Jay Gallagher, R. Nahnhauer, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Karen Andeen, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, A. H. Cruz Silva, N. Milke, Jenni Adams, S. Schoeneberg, Sarah Nowicki, Alexander Kappes, C. Pérez de los Heros, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, James Madsen, A. Olivas, M. J. Larson, A. Homeier, S. Panknin, R. Stroem, Fabian Kislat, A. Stoessl, Markus Ackermann, J. Dreyer, S. Tilav, A. Schultes, O. Engdegård, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Juanan Aguilar, Wolfgang Rhode, T. Gluesenkamp, Takao Kuwabara, Simona Toscano, R. Wasserman, Y. Abdou, Christopher Wiebusch, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, A. Van Overloop, Kael Hanson, W. Huelsnitz, J. Daughhetee, Christian Spiering, T. Griesel, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, R. W. Ellsworth, Donglian Xu, K. Wiebe, A. Franckowiak, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, Matt Dunkman, Steven W. Barwick, Teresa Montaruli, K. Helbing, T. Abu-Zayyad, T. Fischer-Wasels, Elisa Resconi, S. Bechet, B. Hoffmann, Dariusz Gora, Anatoli Fedynitch, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, J. L. Bazo Alba, J. Berdermann, D. Bose, E. Jacobi, J. Luenemann, H. Taavola, J. Feintzeig, Dirk Ryckbosch, Subir Sarkar, P. Redl, M. Olivo, Paolo Desiati, T. Feusels, D. Berley, E. A. Strahler, Ignacio Taboada, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, D. J. Boersma, M. Krasberg, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, M. Ribordy, L. Gerhardt, J. P. Rodrigues, Matthias Wolf, T. Stezelberger, K. Han, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, R. C. Bay, B. Ruzybayev, C. Ha, S. Yoshida, M. Casier, G. W. Sullivan, P. Meszaros, J. K. Becker, Allan Hallgren, Sandro Kopper, S. M. Movit, H. G. Sander, C. Colnard, Aya Ishihara, Rasha Abbasi, Chun Xu, Ch. Weaver, Chad Finley, M. Stueer, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, J. Blumenthal, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, Olga Botner, D. Tosi, B. Semburg, H. Wissing, Stijn Buitink, J. Auffenberg, Daniel Bindig, Gerald Przybylski, R. Morse, M. Zoll, Benedikt Riedel, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, S. H. Seo, J. H. Koehne, F. Clevermann, J. P. Yanez, A. Haj Ismail, A. Tamburro, L. Brayeur, J. van Santen, J. Kunnen, Naoko Kurahashi, D. Bertrand, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Gurtner, M. Dierckxsens, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, and Montaruli, Teresa
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Electronvolt, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, high-energy neutrinos, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, ddc:070, Icecube, Acceleration, Pion, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, Telescope, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Very Energetic, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Multidisciplinary, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Search, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Gamma Ray Bursts, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as a leading candidate for acceleration of ultra high-energy cosmic rays, which would be accompanied by emission of TeV neutrinos produced in proton-photon interactions during acceleration in the GRB fireball. Two analyses using data from two years of the IceCube detector produced no evidence for this neutrino emission, placing strong constraints on models of neutrino and cosmic-ray production in these sources., 6 pages, 4 figures. Additional supplementary information (effective areas) is freely available with the published version. Version 2 supersedes the published version and fixes a small overestimation of the event rate from the Guetta et al. model in the 2010-2011 part of the model-dependent analysis, resulting in a new Fig. 1. Conclusions and all final results are unchanged.
Published: 2012
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24. Search for dark matter annihilation in the Galactic Center with IceCube-79: IceCube Collaboration

Author: M. Labare, Maryon Ahrens, Thorsten Glusenkamp, M. Rameez, M. Medici, S. Coenders, H. S. Matis, Ramesh Koirala, Dennis Soldin, H. Taavola, C. De Clercq, K. Abraham, Francis Halzen, W. Huelsnitz, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, L. Classen, D. Tosi, O. Fadiran, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, A. Terliuk, M. Kauer, B. J. Whelan, Da Xu, Dawn Williams, C. Wendt, D. Gier, K. Krings, K. Helbing, A. Stasik, G. de Wasseige, R. Hoffmann, A. Homeier, J. P. Dumm, T. Palczewski, M. Relich, C. Wichary, B. Christy, J. C. Groh, R. Eagan, Gerald Przybylski, Larissa Paul, M. Tselengidou, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, P. Gretskov, M. Vehring, J. Daughhetee, C. Ha, A. Koob, Benedikt Riedel, Marek Kowalski, P. B. Price, B. Eberhardt, George Japaridze, Carsten Rott, A. Karle, X. Bai, D. J. Koskinen, A. Christov, F. Scheriau, Anatoli Fedynitch, T. O. B. Schmidt, J. Becker Tjus, M. Kroll, K. Holzapfe, Sander Vanheule, M. Bissok, Naoko Kurahashi, T. R. Wood, Xianwu Xu, D. Altmann, Matthias Vraeghe, P. O. Hulth, Björn Eichmann, B. Kaminsky, Karim Ghorbani, Paul Evenson, S. Böser, J. Veenkamp, L. Schulte, G. Maggi, A. Omairat, M. Rongen, M. S. Sutherland, M. Day, H.-P. Bretz, B. Ruzybayev, M. E. Huber, Dmitry Chirkin, Thomas Meures, S. R. Klein, Christian Bohm, J. S. Gallagher, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Aongus O'Murchadha, H. Wissing, Alexander Sandrock, Carlos Arguelles, M. Leuermann, D. Z. Besson, A. Schönwald, Daniel Bindig, K. Meagher, Carl Pfendner, L. Gerhardt, A. Olivas, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, K. Mase, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Seongjin In, Elisa Resconi, Joakim Sandroos, Azadeh Keivani, Markus Ahlers, S. Vallecorsa, L. Gladstone, L. Rädel, M. Schmitz, D. Seckel, Stefan Richter, C. Haack, M. Wallraff, Darren Grant, M. W. E. Smith, M. Voge, S. Fahey, S. Miarecki, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Nathan Whitehorn, K. Rawlins, M. Stamatikos, M. Quinnan, M. Dunkman, M. Casier, Karl J. Clark, R. Reimann, K. Jero, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, L. Brayeur, Sarah Nowicki, J. Lünemann, A. Haj Ismail, R. C. Bay, J. Putz, K. Hoshina, D. Hellwig, M. J. Larson, F. Huang, Thomas Ehrhardt, James Madsen, Glenn Spiczak, Mike Richman, J. P. A. M. de André, J. Blumenthal, M. Stahlberg, I. Taboada, Dustin Hebecker, Rezo Shanidze, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, G. Golup, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Archinger, E. Jacobi, A. R. Fazely, J. L. Kelley, M. Börner, Klas Hultqvist, J. P. Yanez, D. F. Cowen, M. Tobin, Dariusz Gora, C. Walck, C. Pérez de los Heros, J. J. Beatty, U. Naumann, S. Schoenen, Olga Botner, H. Dembinski, K. D. Hoffman, D. Heereman, Teresa Montaruli, E. Unger, E. Pinat, V. Baum, J. Posselt, A. Schukraft, Joanna Kiryluk, T. Karg, Ch. Weaver, L. Wille, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, M. Jurkovic, Kendall Mahn, M. G. Aartsen, R. Hellauer, Hans Niederhausen, A. Bernhard, J. Casey, Fabian Bös, A. Stößl, D. R. Nygren, J. G. Gonzalez, J. Auffenberg, M. Zoll, A. Obertacke, T. C. Arlen, K. D. de Vries, Reina H. Maruyama, N. Buzinsky, S. Westerhoff, J. S. Miller, Sally Robertson, L. Mohrmann, Joshua Pepper, Allan Hallgren, R. Maunu, T. Kuwabara, T. Menne, Sandro Kopper, R. Gaior, Christian Spiering, S. Flis, J. Felde, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, K. Wiebe, C. Finley, Justin Vandenbroucke, S. Schöneberg, N. L. Strotjohann, Jenni Adams, J. L. Lanfranchi, Martin Wolf, Frank McNally, R. Konietz, Joshua Hignight, E. A. Strahler, J. van Santen, Hermann Kolanoski, Gary Binder, B. Hansmann, Axel Groß, Claudio Kopper, H. G. Sander, Subir Sarkar, G. Merino, N. Wandkowsky, R. Nahnhauer, Tim Ruhe, Richard G. Strom, Kael Hanson, Surujhdeo Seunarine, T. Fuchs, Juanan Aguilar, Paolo Desiati, Segev BenZvi, K. Filimonov, A. Ishihara, A. H. Cruz Silva, T. Stanev, J. Feintzeig, Hershal Pandya, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, S. Yoshida, S. Euler, P. Zarzhitsky, J. Kunnen, N. van Eijndhoven, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, A. M. Brown, E. Beiser, L. Köpke, Julian Kemp, N. A. Stanisha, Michael Schimp, E. Middlemas, G. Kroll, M. Glagla, T. Anderson, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, K. Woschnagg, G. Tešić, C. H. Wiebusch, K.-H. Becker, Yiqian Xu, T. Fischer-Wasels, R. Morse, E. Cheung, M. Usner, Dirk Ryckbosch, J. Leuner, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, A. Goldschmidt, L. Sabbatini, S. Tilav, and S. De Ridder
Subjects: Physics, Muon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic Center, Dark matter, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Dark matter halo, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, Physique des particules élémentaires, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Halo, Neutrino, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: The Milky Way is expected to be embedded in a halo of dark matter particles, with the highest density in the central region, and decreasing density with the halo-centric radius. Dark matter might be indirectly detectable at Earth through a flux of stable particles generated in dark matter annihilations and peaked in the direction of the Galactic Center. We present a search for an excess flux of muon (anti-) neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the Galactic Center using the cubic-kilometer-sized IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole. There, the Galactic Center is always seen above the horizon. Thus, new and dedicated veto techniques against atmospheric muons are required to make the southern hemisphere accessible for IceCube. We used 319.7 live-days of data from IceCube operating in its 79-string configuration during 2010 and 2011. No neutrino excess was found and the final result is compatible with the background. We present upper limits on the self-annihilation cross-section, (Formula presented.), for WIMP masses ranging from 30 GeV up to 10 TeV, assuming cuspy (NFW) and flat-cored (Burkert) dark matter halo profiles, reaching down to ≃4·10-24 cm3 s-1, and ≃2.6·10-23 cm3 s-1 for the νν¯ channel, respectively., 0, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2015

25. Study of silicon photomultiplier performance in external electric fields

Author: A. Alamre, T. Stiegler, John L. Orrell, T. Daniels, M. Côté, J. Schneider, Z. Li, N. Roy, L. Cao, F. Nolet, M. Oriunno, M. Hughes, Ethan Brown, J. Farine, D. Fairbank, D. Qiu, Y. Ito, M. Coon, Thilo Michel, Qing Xia, V.N. Stekhanov, C. T. Overman, M. Chiu, G. S. Ortega, A. Karelin, A. Pocar, D. S. Leonard, T. Tolba, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, J. Hößl, Marc Weber, S. Kravitz, Yuehe Lin, David Moore, Y. Lan, R. DeVoe, Serge A. Charlebois, K. Murray, A. Craycraft, J. Echevers, Gisela Anton, M. Wagenpfeil, J. Dalmasson, T. Brunner, E. Raguzin, O. Nusair, Jens Dilling, R. Krücken, Z. Ning, Samuele Sangiorgio, Wei Wei, K. S. Kumar, S. X. Wu, Gerard Visser, P. S. Barbeau, D. A. Harris, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, J. B. Zhao, A. Larson, D. Fudenberg, O. Zeldovich, A. Piepke, I. Badhrees, Angelo Dragone, M. J. Jewell, F. Vachon, Rejean Fontaine, Jean-Francois Pratte, R. Saldanha, L. Darroch, D. Kodroff, B. Veenstra, F. Bourque, S. Parent, S. Rescia, Lorenzo Fabris, T. Bhatta, A. Odian, S. J. Daugherty, J. Watkins, I. Ostrovskiy, R. MacLellan, G. Giacomini, J. P. Brodsky, T. I. Totev, Stefan Schmidt, R. Tsang, O. Njoya, A. Iverson, Triveni Rao, K. Skarpaas Viii, T. Rossignol, G. Wrede, B. Mong, Thomas Tsang, Shu Li, P. Fierlinger, W. R. Cen, Liangjian Wen, Guofu Cao, L. J. Kaufman, A. E. Robinson, M. Tarka, J. B. Albert, Qian Wang, G. Li, S. Feyzbakhsh, Giorgio Gratta, Yumei Zhou, M. J. Dolinski, P. Hufschmidt, David A. Sinclair, B. T. Cleveland, K. Odgers, A. Kuchenkov, U. Wichoski, G. St-Hilaire, C. Licciardi, V. Radeka, T. Ziegler, Thomas Koffas, W. M. Fairbank, Xilei Sun, I. J. Arnquist, Wei Wu, R.J. Newby, P. C. Rowson, A. House, W. Cree, S. Delaquis, Xiaoshan Jiang, C. Chambers, G. Gallina, P. Lv, J. Todd, Y. Y. Ding, E. V. Hansen, Liang Yang, A. Jamil, Douglas H Beck, A. Burenkov, Y-R Yen, J. L. Vuilleumier, Arun Kumar Soma, C. Jessiman, M. K. Moe, Eric W. Hoppe, M. Heffner, J. Daughhetee, R. Gornea, F. Retière, and V. A. Belov
Subjects: 010302 applied physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, FOS: Physical sciences, Observable, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Silicon photomultiplier, Electric field, 0103 physical sciences, Optoelectronics, business, Instrumentation, Photon detection, Mathematical Physics
Abstract: We report on the performance of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) light sensors operating in electric field strength up to 30 kV/cm and at a temperature of 149K, relative to their performance in the absence of an external electric field. The SiPM devices used in this study show stable gain, photon detection efficiency, and rates of correlated pulses, when exposed to external fields, within the estimated uncertainties. No observable physical damage to the bulk or surface of the devices was caused by the exposure., Comment: 16 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables and two conferences (INPC2016 and TIPP2017)
Published: 2018

26. Measurement of the AtmosphericνeSpectrum with IceCube

Author: Jenni Adams, Thorsten Glusenkamp, W. Huelsnitz, J. Pütz, J. Leuner, K. Helbing, Christian Spiering, R. G. Stokstad, Sander Vanheule, Justin Vandenbroucke, M. Richman, L. Classen, D. Z. Besson, K. Clark, M. Stamatikos, M. Leuermann, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, M. W. E. Smith, Javier Gonzalez, J. L. Lanfranchi, P. Berghaus, Dariusz Gora, Sofia Vallecorsa, J. Kläs, A. Stasik, J. Feintzeig, Gerald Przybylski, M. Schimp, L. Brayeur, Giorgio Maggi, C. De Clercq, J. Kunnen, George Japaridze, K. Rawlins, R. Hellauer, E. A. Strahler, S. Böser, A. Homeier, M. Rongen, M. Day, M. S. Sutherland, I. Taboada, J. Felde, M. Quinnan, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, M. Dunkman, Joakim Sandroos, Azadeh Keivani, H. G. Sander, J. Blumenthal, David A. Williams, K. Meagher, Y. Sestayo, Olga Botner, V. Baum, Christopher Wiebusch, James Madsen, Joshua Pepper, Nathan Whitehorn, Hermann Kolanoski, A. M. Brown, A. Goldschmidt, Sally Robertson, S. Richter, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, J. P. Yanez, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, G. Tešić, J. Daughhetee, Seongjin In, Carsten Rott, B. Hansmann, C. Walck, T. Fuchs, Elisa Resconi, M. Bissok, Anatoli Fedynitch, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, M. Kroll, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, M. N. Tobin, O. Schulz, R. Maunu, H. S. Matis, J. C. Groh, S. Flis, M. Jurkovic, L. Köpke, J. Becker Tjus, Xianwu Xu, D. Altmann, Dennis Soldin, C. Kopper, T. Kuwabara, Teresa Montaruli, K. D. de Vries, M. Kauer, Francis Halzen, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, H. Taavola, M. Zoll, Segev BenZvi, N. Buzinsky, S. Westerhoff, Kendall Mahn, P. Zarzhitsky, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, G. Golup, L. Schulte, J. A. Goodman, R. Morse, Spencer Klein, O. Fadiran, T. Menne, A. Terliuk, L. Sabbatini, B. Kaminsky, J. C. Gallagher, D. Hellwig, Tim Ruhe, C. Pérez de los Heros, H. Dembinski, M. Stahlberg, A. Haj Ismail, N. L. Strotjohann, P. Gretskov, G. Merino, N. Wandkowsky, A. Omairat, D. J. Koskinen, Kara Hoffman, F. Bos, D. Gier, M. Börner, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, Allan Hallgren, D. Bose, A. H. Cruz Silva, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, R. Nahnhauer, R. Ström, Surujhdeo Seunarine, J. Miller, J. P. Dumm, J. J. Beatty, Karim Ghorbani, Sandro Kopper, T. Palczewski, E. Jacobi, C. Wichary, Darren Grant, D. Hebecker, A. Olivas, Juanan Aguilar, S. Tilav, H.-P. Bretz, J. Casey, X. Bai, L. Wille, B. Eberhardt, Wolfgang Rhode, T. Karg, Ch. Weaver, A. Meli, J. Posselt, R. Gaior, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, N. Kurahashi, B. J. Whelan, S. Schöneberg, F. Huang, Carlos Arguelles, Todor Stanev, Sarah Nowicki, Matthias Wolf, Matthias Vraeghe, Hans Niederhausen, A. Christov, A. Bernhard, Julian Kemp, P. O. Hulth, Thomas Ehrhardt, B. Ruzybayev, B. Christy, L. Rädel, K. Wiebe, Thomas Meures, A. Ishihara, N. A. Stanisha, J. van Santen, A. Stößl, Björn Eichmann, T. Anderson, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, K.-H. Becker, Yiqian Xu, T. Fischer-Wasels, C. Wendt, C. Ha, Reina H. Maruyama, Alexander Sandrock, J. P. A. M. de André, P. B. Price, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, H. Wissing, Gary Binder, Axel Groß, K. Mase, K. Hoshina, A. Schukraft, C. Finley, T. O. B. Schmidt, T. C. Arlen, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, Glenn Spiczak, Daniel Bindig, E. Cheung, E. Pinat, M. Usner, T. R. Wood, Dirk Ryckbosch, C. Haack, Kurt Woschnagg, M. Casier, U. Naumann, M. Relich, E. Unger, Christian Bohm, Donglian Xu, Paul Evenson, Kirill Filimonov, G. de Wasseige, R. Reimann, R. Hoffmann, Dmitry Chirkin, Aongus O'Murchadha, J. Lünemann, L. Mohrmann, Alexander Kappes, Subir Sarkar, R. C. Bay, B. Riedel, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Rezo Shanidze, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Archinger, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, S. Miarecki, D. R. Nygren, Marek Kowalski, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, J. Auffenberg, A. Obertacke, R. Eagan, M. Tselengidou, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Frank McNally, R. Konietz, K. Krings, Joshua Hignight, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, Maryon Ahrens, M. Rameez, M. Medici, S. Coenders, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, A. Koob, Albrecht Karle, M. E. Huber, L. Gerhardt, A. Schönwald, S. Hickford, M. J. Larson, S. Schoenen, D. Heereman, Delia Tosi, M. G. Aartsen, S. Euler, C. Pfendner, Kael Hanson, Paolo Desiati, S. Yoshida, N. van Eijndhoven, E. Beiser, E. Middlemas, G. Kroll, M. Glagla, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: AMANDA, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, CASCADES, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Power law, IceCube, Nuclear physics, Flux (metallurgy), DESIGN, Likelihood analysis, DIGITIZATION, 0103 physical sciences, NEUTRINO FLUX, 010306 general physics, DETECTOR, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ICE, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Spectrum (functional analysis), Detector, PERFORMANCE, ENERGY-SPECTRUM, Event selection, Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, physics, SYSTEM
Abstract: We present a measurement of the atmospheric $\nu_e$ spectrum at energies between 0.1 TeV and 100 TeV using data from the first year of the complete IceCube detector. Atmospheric $\nu_e$ originate mainly from the decays of kaons produced in cosmic-ray air showers. This analysis selects 1078 fully contained events in 332 days of livetime, then identifies those consistent with particle showers. A likelihood analysis with improved event selection extends our previous measurement of the conventional $\nu_e$ fluxes to higher energies. The data constrain the conventional $\nu_e$ flux to be $1.3^{+0.4}_{-0.3}$ times a baseline prediction from a Honda's calculation, including the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum. A fit to the kaon contribution ($\xi$) to the neutrino flux finds a kaon component that is $\xi =1.3^{+0.5}_{-0.4}$ times the baseline value. The fitted/measured prompt neutrino flux from charmed hadron decays strongly depends on the assumed astrophysical flux and shape. If the astrophysical component follows a power law, the result for the prompt flux is $0.0^{+3.0}_{-0.0}$ times a calculated flux based on the work by Enberg, Reno and Sarcevic., Comment: PRD accepted version
Published: 2015

27. Atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos above 1 TeV interacting in IceCube

Author: K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, Markus Ahlers, Albrecht Karle, U. Naumann, Mohamed Rameez, E. Unger, A. Schönwald, Gerald Przybylski, M. Zoll, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, M. Relich, L. Schulte, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, Benedikt Riedel, K. Rawlins, Christian Spiering, B. J. Whelan, G. C. Hill, M. Quinnan, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, A. Stasik, J. van Santen, James Madsen, Segev BenZvi, K. Clark, Gary Binder, Axel Groß, K. Frantzen, L. Gladstone, D. Heereman, Joakim Sandroos, Azadeh Keivani, F. Clevermann, Y. Sestayo, Justin Vandenbroucke, J. P. Yanez, Dirk Heinen, E. A. Strahler, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, J. Blumenthal, M. Kowalski, Thomas Meures, M. N. Tobin, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Tim Ruhe, M. Danninger, L. Mohrmann, O. Schulz, D. Berley, R. Nahnhauer, P. B. Price, A. Koob, Timo Karg, E. Jacobi, Spencer Klein, Hermann Kolanoski, J. Pütz, Matthias Vraeghe, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, Olga Botner, Teresa Montaruli, A. Christov, Björn Eichmann, A. Franckowiak, J. Miller, T. O. B. Schmidt, N. L. Strotjohann, D. Z. Besson, A. Kriesten, V. Baum, Aya Ishihara, T. Feusels, J. P. A. M. de André, C. Walck, H.-P. Bretz, Juanan Aguilar, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, T. R. Wood, Kara Hoffman, A. H. Cruz Silva, P. Gretskov, B. Christy, Kurt Woschnagg, K. Krings, Chris Wendt, Frank McNally, Carl Pfendner, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, H. S. Matis, Daniel Bindig, J. Felde, Xinhua Bai, Paul Evenson, J. P. Rodrigues, T. C. Arlen, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, M. Casier, J. Auffenberg, A. Obertacke, K. Mase, A. Homeier, Nathan Whitehorn, Ch. Weaver, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, J. L. Kelley, M. Leuermann, F. Bos, N. Buzinsky, A. Terliuk, S. Westerhoff, Dmitry Chirkin, M. Jurkovic, M. Kauer, Allan Hallgren, Delia Tosi, R. Hellauer, S. Seunarine, Chad Finley, Sandro Kopper, R. C. Bay, L. Gerhardt, C. Haack, Carlos Arguelles, E. Pinat, D. Hellwig, Mike Richman, Alexander Kappes, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, S. Zierke, Sally Robertson, Dennis Soldin, Rezo Shanidze, J. J. Beatty, Donglian Xu, A. Omairat, M. G. Aartsen, H. Taavola, Anatoli Fedynitch, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, Maria Tselengidou, Ö. Penek, Francis Halzen, S. Schöneberg, P. Zarzhitsky, L. Rädel, E. Blaufuss, P. Hallen, N. A. Stanisha, M. Kroll, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, Darren Grant, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, K. Jagielski, J. Casey, Jay Gallagher, René Reimann, R. Morse, K. D. de Vries, M. J. Larson, Matthias Wolf, Sarah Nowicki, O. Fadiran, B. Ruzybayev, T. Anderson, J. Posselt, Subir Sarkar, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, G. Tešić, G. W. Sullivan, A. Stößl, Sofia Vallecorsa, A. Tamburro, A. Olivas, Reina H. Maruyama, R. Ström, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, Kirill Filimonov, R. Maunu, T. Kuwabara, S. De Ridder, C. Ha, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, D. Gier, M. Labare, F. Huang, J. Kunnen, H. G. Sander, D. Bose, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, A. M. Brown, Maryon Ahrens, T. Fuchs, T. Palczewski, M. Medici, S. Coenders, L. Köpke, J. C. Groh, C. Wichary, C. Kopper, B. Eberhardt, O. Jlelati, S. Tilav, Ignacio Taboada, M. Stamatikos, A. Goldschmidt, K.-H. Becker, Matt Dunkman, T. Fischer-Wasels, A. Schukraft, E. Cheung, Dirk Ryckbosch, N. Milke, George Japaridze, S. Euler, Jenni Adams, Kael Hanson, R. Gaior, Steven W. Barwick, N. Kurahashi, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, Paolo Desiati, N. van Eijndhoven, Elisa Resconi, E. Middlemas, G. Kroll, D. T. Larsen, S. Yoshida, S. Hickford, R. Hoffmann, R. Eagan, R. G. Stokstad, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Javier Gonzalez, Giorgio Maggi, C. De Clercq, S. Böser, I. Rees, J. Feintzeig, Markus Ackermann, J. Lünemann, J. A. Goodman, G. Golup, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, Joshua Pepper, J. Becker Tjus, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, B. Kaminsky, C. Pérez de los Heros, K. Wiebe, L. Classen, M. W. E. Smith, S. Schoenen, Thorsten Glusenkamp, L. Brayeur, Dustin Hebecker, S. Flis, W. Huelsnitz, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, M. Bissok, Xianwu Xu, K. Helbing, J. Ziemann, M. Day, A. Haj Ismail, M. Usner, Martin Rongen, Hans Niederhausen, S. Odrowski, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, A. Bernhard, A. Tepe, J. Leute, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, AMANDA, Meson, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, INDUCED CASCADES, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, FLUX PREDICTIONS, 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceCube, Observatory, SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, ASTRONOMY, PERFORMANCE, BLAZARS, PROMPT LEPTONS, GAMMA-RAY, Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, physics
Abstract: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed primarily to search for high-energy (TeV--PeV) neutrinos produced in distant astrophysical objects. A search for $\gtrsim 100$~TeV neutrinos interacting inside the instrumented volume has recently provided evidence for an isotropic flux of such neutrinos. At lower energies, IceCube collects large numbers of neutrinos from the weak decays of mesons in cosmic-ray air showers. Here we present the results of a search for neutrino interactions inside IceCube's instrumented volume between 1~TeV and 1~PeV in 641 days of data taken from 2010--2012, lowering the energy threshold for neutrinos from the southern sky below 10 TeV for the first time, far below the threshold of the previous high-energy analysis. Astrophysical neutrinos remain the dominant component in the southern sky down to 10 TeV. From these data we derive new constraints on the diffuse astrophysical neutrino spectrum, $\Phi_{\nu} = 2.06^{+0.4}_{-0.3} \times 10^{-18} \left({E_{\nu}}/{10^5 \,\, \rm{GeV}} \right)^{-2.46 \pm 0.12} {\rm {GeV^{-1} \, cm^{-2} \, sr^{-1} \, s^{-1}} } $, as well as the strongest upper limit yet on the flux of neutrinos from charmed-meson decay in the atmosphere, 1.52 times the benchmark theoretical prediction used in previous IceCube results at 90\% confidence., Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2015

28. Determining neutrino oscillation parameters from atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of IceCube DeepCore data

Author: K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, Glenn Spiczak, A. Koob, Timo Karg, J. Luenemann, U. Naumann, Mohamed Rameez, E. Unger, T. Feusels, P. B. Price, Christian Spiering, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, T. O. B. Schmidt, Justin Vandenbroucke, T. R. Wood, L. Gerhardt, D. Hellwig, A. O'Murchadha, Kurt Woschnagg, K. Frantzen, K. Rawlins, Paul Evenson, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, Mike Richman, T. De Young, J. H. Koehne, Joakim Sandroos, Azadeh Keivani, F. Clevermann, Y. Sestayo, J. Feintzeig, Dmitry Chirkin, S. Zierke, I. Rees, Maria Tselengidou, A. Omairat, Alexander Kappes, P. Hallen, James Madsen, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, Darren Grant, J. Casey, A. Kriesten, Carsten Rott, Sarah Nowicki, J. A. Goodman, D. R. Nygren, J. P. A. M. de André, M. Stamatikos, Dennis Soldin, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, J. P. Yanez, G. W. Sullivan, Kurt Becker, M. N. Tobin, S. Schoenen, N. A. Stanisha, B. J. Whelan, O. Schulz, M. Bissok, M. J. Larson, T. Anderson, M. Relich, H. Taavola, Jürgen Brunner, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, L. Raedel, Takao Kuwabara, S. Yoshida, Teresa Montaruli, K. Jagielski, D. Z. Besson, Anatoli Fedynitch, J. Auffenberg, Jenni Adams, K. Clark, K. Krings, A. Obertacke, C. Walck, Benedikt Riedel, A. Goldschmidt, M. Kowalski, Thomas Meures, K. D. de Vries, Jean Gallagher, Xianwu Xu, M. Leuermann, A. Tamburro, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, G. Tešić, W. Huelsnitz, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, A. Stasik, N. van Eijndhoven, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, P. Gretskov, A. Franckowiak, C. Ha, F. Bos, Nathan Whitehorn, Allan Hallgren, E. A. Strahler, Gerald Przybylski, Oe. Penek, Javier Gonzalez, Matt Dunkman, A. Haj Ismail, Giorgio Maggi, E. Middlemas, G. Kroll, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, N. Buzinsky, T. Fischer-Wasels, J. Felde, C. Haack, J. Ziemann, M. Quinnan, C. Pérez de los Heros, Hermann Kolanoski, D. T. Larsen, R. G. Stokstad, C. De Clercq, S. Euler, C. Pfendner, Tim Ruhe, René Reimann, Sandro Kopper, C. Kopper, G. Golup, A. Schukraft, Matthias Vraeghe, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, M. Day, J. L. Kelley, J. Blumenthal, M. Wellons, Markus Ahlers, A. Stoessl, Kirill Filimonov, Dariusz Gora, M. Usner, E. Cheung, Carlos Arguelles, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, S. De Ridder, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, M. Labare, P. Berghaus, Kael Hanson, H. Wissing, B. Eichmann, J. Klaes, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, R. Ström, O. Fadiran, Dirk Ryckbosch, Martin Rongen, Olga Botner, J. Kunnen, V. Baum, J. J. Beatty, Maryon Ahrens, Daniel Bindig, M. Medici, B. Ruzybayev, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Paolo Desiati, X. Bai, S. Coenders, Damian Pieloth, M. Kauer, J. Becker Tjus, Surujhdeo Seunarine, J. Miller, Martin Wolf, Ali Kheirandish, A. M. Brown, J. Posselt, K. Wiebe, Joshua Pepper, D. Gier, L. Classen, Hans Niederhausen, Juanan Aguilar, T. Fuchs, B. Kaminsky, D. Bose, B. Christy, A. Ishihara, M. W. E. Smith, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, S. Odrowski, Ch. Weaver, R. Gaior, L. Brayeur, T. Palczewski, N. Kurahashi, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Marcel Zoll, Segev BenZvi, Reina H. Maruyama, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, C. Wendt, S. Boeser, O. Jlelati, I. Taboada, Dustin Hebecker, Spencer Klein, J. Puetz, C. Wichary, A. Olivas, S. Flis, S. Tilav, R. Hoffmann, M. Wallraff, J. van Santen, E. Jacobi, Elisa Resconi, M. Voge, A. Bernhard, B. Eberhardt, R. Eagan, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Chad Finley, A. Homeier, F. Huang, Christopher Wiebusch, E. Pinat, T. Gluesenkamp, Kara Hoffman, Gary Binder, M. Casier, A. H. Cruz Silva, A. Tepe, Sofia Vallecorsa, N. L. Strotjohann, J. Daughhetee, Donglian Xu, M. Jurkovic, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, Christian Bohm, R. C. Bay, H. G. Sander, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Rezo Shanidze, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, A. Gross, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, M. Kroll, Subir Sarkar, A. R. Fazely, P. A. Toale, J. C. Groh, R. Maunu, A. Terliuk, S. Westerhoff, Justin Lanfranchi, R. Morse, D. Heereman, R. Hellauer, S. Schoeneberg, Sally Robertson, A. Christov, Larissa Paul, J. P. Rodrigues, T. C. Arlen, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, F. Scheriau, Albrecht Karle, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, Delia Tosi, M. G. Aartsen, H.-P. Bretz, Frank McNally, L. Schulte, R. Nahnhauer, and L. Mohrmann
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, TELESCOPE, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), TRACK RECONSTRUCTION, Muon neutrino, ddc:530, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Solar neutrino problem, PERFORMANCE, Neutrino detector, Physics and Astronomy, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy, SYSTEM
Abstract: We present a measurement of neutrino oscillations via atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of data of the completed IceCube neutrino detector. DeepCore, a region of denser instrumentation, enables the detection and reconstruction of atmospheric muon neutrinos between 10 GeV and 100 GeV, where a strong disappearance signal is expected. The detector volume surrounding DeepCore is used as a veto region to suppress the atmospheric muon background. Neutrino events are selected where the detected Cherenkov photons of the secondary particles minimally scatter, and the neutrino energy and arrival direction are reconstructed. Both variables are used to obtain the neutrino oscillation parameters from the data, with the best fit given by $\Delta m^2_{32}=2.72^{+0.19}_{-0.20}\times 10^{-3}\,\mathrm{eV}^2$ and $\sin^2\theta_{23} = 0.53^{+0.09}_{-0.12}$ (normal mass hierarchy assumed). The results are compatible and comparable in precision to those of dedicated oscillation experiments., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2015

29. Multipole analysis of IceCube data to search for dark matter accumulated in the Galactic halo: IceCube Collaboration

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, T. Anderson, C. Arguelles, T. C. Arlen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, A. Bernhard, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, E. Blaufuss, J. Blumenthal, D. J. Boersma, C. Bohm, F. Bos, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, L. Brayeur, H.-P. Bretz, A. M. Brown, J. Casey, M. Casier, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, B. Christy, K. Clark, L. Classen, F. Clevermann, S. Coenders, D. F. Cowen, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Danninger, J. Daughhetee, J. C. Davis, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, M. Dunkman, R. Eagan, B. Eberhardt, B. Eichmann, J. Eisch, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, A. R. Fazely, A. Fedynitch, J. Feintzeig, J. Felde, T. Feusels, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, T. Fischer-Wasels, S. Flis, A. Franckowiak, K. Frantzen, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, D. Gier, L. Gladstone, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, G. Golup, J. G. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, D. Góra, D. T. Grandmont, D. Grant, P. Gretskov, J. C. Groh, A. Groß, C. Ha, C. Haack, A. Haj Ismail, P. Hallen, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, D. Heinen, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, D. Hellwig, S. Hickford, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, A. Homeier, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, W. Huelsnitz, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hussain, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, J. Jacobsen, K. Jagielski, G. S. Japaridze, K. Jero, O. Jlelati, M. Jurkovic, B. Kaminsky, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kiryluk, J. Kläs, S. R. Klein, J.-H. Köhne, G. Kohnen, H. Kolanoski, A. Koob, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, A. Kriesten, K. Krings, G. Kroll, M. Kroll, J. Kunnen, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, M. Labare, D. T. Larsen, M. J. Larson, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, J. Leute, J. Lünemann, O. Macías, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, A. Meli, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, E. Middell, E. Middlemas, N. Milke, J. Miller, L. Mohrmann, T. Montaruli, R. Morse, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke, S. Odrowski, A. Olivas, A. Omairat, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, L. Paul, Ö. Penek, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, C. Pfendner, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, J. Posselt, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, J. Pütz, M. Quinnan, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, P. Redl, I. Rees, R. Reimann, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, J. P. Rodrigues, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, B. Ruzybayev, D. Ryckbosch, S. M. Saba, H.-G. Sander, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Schatto, F. Scheriau, T. Schmidt, M. Schmitz, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, A. Schönwald, A. Schukraft, L. Schulte, O. Schulz, D. Seckel, Y. Sestayo, S. Seunarine, R. Shanidze, C. Sheremata, M. W. E. Smith, D. Soldin, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, N. A. Stanisha, A. Stasik, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, E. A. Strahler, R. Ström, N. L. Strotjohann, G. W. Sullivan, H. Taavola, I. Taboada, A. Tamburro, A. Tepe, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, G. Tešić, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, E. Unger, M. Usner, S. Vallecorsa, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Vandenbroucke, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, M. Voge, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, M. Wallraff, Ch. Weaver, M. Wellons, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, C. Wichary, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, D. R. Williams, H. Wissing, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, P. Zarzhitsky, J. Ziemann, S. Zierke, and M. Zoll
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Annihilation, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Cherenkov detector, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Relative velocity, law.invention, Galactic halo, law, Physique des particules élémentaires, Muon neutrino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Multipole expansion, Engineering (miscellaneous)
Abstract: Dark matter which is bound in the Galactic halo might self-annihilate and produce a flux of stable final state particles, e.g. high energy neutrinos. These neutrinos can be detected with IceCube, a cubic-kilometer sized Cherenkov detector. Given IceCube’s large field of view, a characteristic anisotropy of the additional neutrino flux is expected. In this paper we describe a multipole method to search for such a large-scale anisotropy in IceCube data. This method uses the expansion coefficients of a multipole expansion of neutrino arrival directions and incorporates signal-specific weights for each expansion coefficient. We apply the technique to a high-purity muon neutrino sample from the Northern Hemisphere. The final result is compatible with the null-hypothesis. As no signal was observed, we present limits on the self-annihilation cross-section averaged over the relative velocity distribution (Formula Presented.) down to ([Formula Presented.) for a dark matter particle mass of 700–1,000 GeV and direct annihilation into (Formula Presented.). The resulting exclusion limits come close to exclusion limits from γ-ray experiments, that focus on the outer Galactic halo, for high dark matter masses of a few TeV and hard annihilation channels., 0, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2015

30. Search for neutrino-induced particle showers with IceCube-40

Author: M. Leuermann, F. McNally, A. Tepe, R. Ström, J. Kunnen, M. Casier, D. Seckel, K. Mase, J. Eisch, S. Odrowski, K. Helbing, S. Kopper, H. S. Matis, J. Daughhetee, M. J. Larson, J. Leute, M. Day, T. Fuchs, D. Soldin, K. Jero, Sally Robertson, R. Eagan, H. Wissing, R. Bruijn, Francis Halzen, A. Fedynitch, N. Van Eijndhoven, E. Blaufuss, N. Kurahashi, C. Pérez De Los Heros, Hermann Kolanoski, R. Hellauer, K. Krings, D. F. Cowen, P. B. Price, A. M. Brown, K. Hultqvist, C. Walck, A. Haj Ismail, Todor Stanev, C. Kopper, D. J. Boersma, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, E. A. Strahler, D. R. Nygren, M. Baker, G. M. Spiczak, H. Landsman, K. Rawlins, J. Blumenthal, J. A. Pepper, L. Köpke, C. Bohm, M. Kauer, J. Miller, A. Christov, D. R. Williams, G. Kroll, X. Bai, Stephanie Hickford, B. Kaminsky, Alexander Kappes, P. Zarzhitsky, K. Schatto, D. Ryckbosch, S. Cohen, T. C. Arlen, H. G. Sander, S. Flis, C. De Clercq, B. Ruzybayev, Thomas K. Gaisser, R. Morse, W. Huelsnitz, T. Fischer-Wasels, L. Paul, S. Euler, A. Schönwald, A. Van Overloop, S. C. Nowicki, T. Kuwabara, J. Van Santen, Elisa Bernardini, M. N. Tobin, P. Desiati, T. Stezelberger, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. G. Aartsen, K. D. de Vries, M. Rameez, K. Frantzen, F. Huang, Jenni Adams, J. J. Beatty, A. Ishihara, J. Lünemann, Marcos Santander, Teresa Montaruli, B. Eberhardt, T. Glüsenkamp, M. Vraeghe, J. Madsen, M. Dunkman, E. Jacobi, G. Kohnen, B. Christy, T. Palczewski, P. Gretskov, L. Brayeur, M. Bissok, S. Seunarine, K. Meagher, D. Bose, A. Stößl, K. Filimonov, A. O'Murchadha, J. Kläs, A. Stasik, R. G. Stokstad, Reina H. Maruyama, N. Milke, Giorgio Maggi, M. Zoll, I. Taboada, F. Scheriau, A. Goldschmidt, L. Mohrmann, H. P. Bretz, M. Schmitz, M. W.E. Smith, T. Karg, Ch Weaver, L. Schulte, S. Miarecki, C. H. Wiebusch, Oscar Macias, M. Wallraff, Carlos Arguelles, M. Kowalski, A. Franckowiak, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. R. Klein, A. Obertacke, D. Z. Besson, Markus Ackermann, J. Kiryluk, K. Woschnagg, J. C. Groh, G. Yodh, K. Wiebe, H. Taavola, K. Clark, M. Vehring, A. R. Fazely, Allan Hallgren, P. A. Evenson, K. Jagielski, T. Waldenmaier, Rasha Abbasi, S. Zierke, L. Classen, N. Whitehorn, M. Usner, V. Baum, B. Eichmann, S. Toscano, D. Grant, C. Wendt, T. Feusels, M. Richman, A. Kriesten, J. L. Kelley, J. A. Goodman, G. W. Sullivan, J. S. Gallagher, J. P. A. M. de André, G. Binder, M. Merck, S. Tilav, D. Pieloth, Dustin Hebecker, B. Riedel, R. Hoffmann, C. Sheremata, Christian Spiering, J. Posselt, Elisa Resconi, J. Auffenberg, Carsten Rott, A. Olivas, S. Schoenen, D. Berley, A. Tamburro, S. M. Saba, J. C. Davis, L. Rädel, A. Schukraft, R. C. Bay, J. Casey, J. G. Gonzalez, M. Labare, Thomas Meures, T. R. Wood, E. Unger, Y. Sestayo, K. H. Becker, A. Omairat, Rezo Shanidze, P. Hallen, G. C. Hill, U. Naumann, M. Voge, D. J. Koskinen, M. Quinnan, J. Jacobsen, D. Chirkin, M. Danninger, S. Coenders, Maria Tselengidou, Tyce DeYoung, M. Stamatikos, G. Tešić, D. Altmann, Olga Botner, G. Golup, L. Gladstone, Subir Sarkar, R. Reimann, F. Clevermann, J. P. Yanez, T. Ruhe, S. De Ridder, R. Nahnhauer, S. Westerhoff, C. Ha, E. Middell, D. T. Grandmont, B. J. Whelan, D. L. Xu, C. Finley, T. Schmidt, K. Hoshina, J. P. Rodrigues, Markus Ahlers, M. Wolf, A. Groß, X. W. Xu, A. H. Cruz Silva, Juanan Aguilar, P. Redl, J. Becker Tjus, E. Pinat, D. Heereman, G. T. Przybylski, S. Ter-Antonyan, P. O. Hulth, Segev BenZvi, M. Ribordy, H. Niederhausen, Wolfgang Rhode, P. Berghaus, A. Homeier, N. A. Stanisha, P. A. Toale, J. H. Köhne, O. Fadiran, S. Yoshida, J. Ziemann, C. Pfendner, Kael Hanson, K. D. Hoffman, S. Hussain, Steven W. Barwick, L. Gerhardt, Sofia Vallecorsa, N. L. Strotjohann, S. Schöneberg, D. Heinen, J. Feintzeig, O. Schulz, G. S. Japaridze, M. Krasberg, S. Böser, D. Bindig, A. Karle, O. Jlelati, and A. Bernhard
Subjects: SELECTION, AMANDA, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, CASCADES, SCATTERING, ddc:530, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, SPECTRUM, Muon, ICE, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, MODEL, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Event (particle physics), SYSTEM
Abstract: We report on the search for neutrino-induced particle-showers, so-called cascades, in the IceCube-40 detector. The data for this search was collected between April 2008 and May 2009 when the first 40 IceCube strings were deployed and operational. Three complementary searches were performed, each optimized for different energy regimes. The analysis with the lowest energy threshold (2 TeV) targeted atmospheric neutrinos. A total of 67 events were found, consistent with the expectation of 41 atmospheric muons and 30 atmospheric neutrino events. The two other analyses targeted a harder, astrophysical neutrino flux. The analysis with an intermediate threshold of 25 TeV lead to the observation of 14 cascade-like events, again consistent with the prediction of 3.0 atmospheric neutrino and 7.7 atmospheric muon events. We hence set an upper limit of $E^2 \Phi_{lim} \leq 7.46\times10^{-8}\,\mathrm{GeV sr^{-1} s^{-1} cm^{-2}}$ (90% C.L.) on the diffuse flux from astrophysical neutrinos of all neutrino flavors, applicable to the energy range 25 TeV to 5 PeV, assuming an $E_{\nu}^{-2}$ spectrum and a neutrino flavor ratio of 1:1:1 at the Earth. The third analysis utilized a larger and optimized sample of atmospheric muon background simulation, leading to a higher energy threshold of 100 TeV. Three events were found over a background prediction of 0.04 atmospheric muon events and 0.21 events from the flux of conventional and prompt atmospheric neutrinos. Including systematic errors this corresponds to a $2.7\sigma$ excess with respect to the background-only hypothesis. Our observation of neutrino event candidates above 100 TeV complements IceCube's recently observed evidence for high-energy astrophysical neutrinos., Comment: 19 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2014

31. IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae ( Corrigendum )

Author: J. W. Nam, D. R. Nygren, T. Abu-Zayyad, S. Odrowski, R. Ström, C. Pérez de los Heros, J. Auffenberg, K. Mase, Thomas Meures, M. Labare, P. Berghaus, P. B. Price, C. Ha, S. Euler, S. Panknin, C. Wendt, M. Merck, Christian Spiering, S. Seunarine, Ch. Weaver, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, T. O. B. Schmidt, Larissa Paul, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Henrik J. Johansson, M. L. Benabderrahmane, F. Descamps, A. Tepe, M. Kowalski, Chad Finley, Naoko Kurahashi, M. Danninger, Aongus O'Murchadha, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, D. Berley, Justin Vandenbroucke, R. Franke, C. Walck, G. C. Hill, J. L. Bazo Alba, Timo Karg, M. J. Larson, D. Rutledge, H. Köhne, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, T. Kowarik, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Damian Pieloth, A. M. Brown, Michael J. Baker, D. Bertrand, T. Griesel, A. Marotta, T. Feusels, T. R. Wood, Fabian Kislat, D. Z. Besson, Xinhua Bai, M. Schunck, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, Martin Wolf, K. Andeen, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, A. Silvestri, D. Seckel, K. Wiebe, J. E. Jacobsen, L. Köpke, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Jenni Adams, Takao Kuwabara, F. Clevermann, Q. Swillens, Marcos Santander, M. Voge, Markus Ahlers, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, F. Rothmaier, P. A. Toale, K.-H. Becker, Matt Dunkman, Simona Toscano, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, J. P. Yanez, L. Gerhardt, R. W. Ellsworth, K. Rawlins, A. Schönwald, N. Milke, George Japaridze, R. Porrata, B. Christy, A. Olivas, K. Hultqvist, T. Fischer-Wasels, James Madsen, Seth M. Cohen, Darren Grant, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, G. W. Sullivan, A. Piegsa, A. Ishihara, Nathan Whitehorn, D. Altmann, O. Engdegård, Dmitry Chirkin, J. J. Beatty, J. S. Gallagher, K. Meagher, Anatoli Fedynitch, D. J. Boersma, A. Franckowiak, S. Bechet, D. Tosi, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, I. Taboada, A. Schultes, T. Stanev, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Dirk Ryckbosch, J. Feintzeig, L. Demirörs, Elisa Resconi, M. Richman, K. H. Kampert, P. Redl, Teresa Montaruli, C. Colnard, J. Berdermann, B. Hoffmann, Peter Mészáros, B. Ruzybayev, Carsten Rott, R. J. Lauer, M. M. Allen, S. Hussain, R. Nahnhauer, M. Stamatikos, A. Hajismail, J. Miller, M. Bissok, M. Wallraff, D. J. Koskinen, H. Taavola, C. De Clercq, T. Degner, J. K. Becker, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, S. Hickford, Douglas Cowen, Gerald Przybylski, K. Beattie, Xianwu Xu, A. S. Richard, C. Bohm, S. Böser, David A. Williams, A. Van Overloop, R. G. Stokstad, Markus Ackermann, M. Zoll, A. Goldschmidt, J. van Santen, O. Schulz, R. Wischnewski, J.-P. Hülß, L. Schulte, S. W. Barwick, M. Gurtner, S. Westerhoff, Donglian Xu, H. S. Matis, Kirill Filimonov, A. Homeier, M. Vehring, Axel Groß, Thorsten Glusenkamp, Segev BenZvi, J. Blumenthal, S. M. Movit, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Posselt, K. Han, M. Stüer, A. Tamburro, Spencer Klein, E. Jakobi, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, Allan Hallgren, W. Huelsnitz, H. G. Sander, Sandro Kopper, J. Daughhetee, J. Petrovic, A. Karle, Subir Sarkar, O. Fadiran, Olga Botner, K. Hoshina, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, K. Singh, A. H. Cruz Silva, Chun Xu, Glenn Spiczak, K. Helbing, V. Baum, S. H. Seo, A. Stößl, U. Naumann, Wolfgang Rhode, Stijn Buitink, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, R. Morse, Reina H. Maruyama, Dariusz Gora, B. D. Fox, J. Lünemann, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, M. Dierckxsens, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, N. van Eijndhoven, H. Wissing, G. Kroll, Daniel Bindig, Kael Hanson, Paolo Desiati, Rasha Abbasi, M. Krasberg, S. Yoshida, E. A. Strahler, Hermann Kolanoski, H. Landsman, R. Hellauer, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, M. V. D'Agostino, J. P. Rodrigues, and T. Stezelberger
Subjects: Physics, Supernova, Low energy, Web of science, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Instrumentation (computer programming), Sensitivity (control systems), Neutrino
Abstract: Keywords: neutrinos ; supernovae: general ; instrumentation: detectors ; errata ; addenda Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-198916doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117810eView record in Web of Science Record created on 2014-05-19, modified on 2017-05-12
Published: 2014

32. Observation of the cosmic-ray shadow of the Moon with IceCube

Author: J. Daughhetee, T. Fuchs, D. Soldin, S. Yoshida, A. Fedynitch, K. Krings, P. B. Price, P. A. Evenson, S. Zierke, M. Usner, W. Huelsnitz, P. Desiati, T. Fischer-Wasels, N. Van Eijndhoven, A. M. Brown, K. Hultqvist, C. Walck, D. J. Koskinen, G. W. Sullivan, Segev BenZvi, C. Bohm, M. Ribordy, T. Stezelberger, D. van der Drift, S. C. Nowicki, V. Baum, G. Kroll, X. Bai, D. Chirkin, J. Auffenberg, M. J. Larson, S. Coenders, J. Lünemann, Marcos Santander, J. J. Beatty, Y. Abdou, J. Miller, A. Christov, Markus Ahlers, H. Niederhausen, D. Bose, M. Leuermann, F. Clevermann, R. Wasserman, T. Ruhe, S. Bohaichuk, M. J. Carson, J. S. Gallagher, Wolfgang Rhode, M. Merck, M. Wolf, A. Groß, R. G. Stokstad, M. Bissok, D. Z. Besson, A. Obertacke, H. Taavola, S. De Ridder, F. McNally, K. Jagielski, K. Jero, R. Nahnhauer, G. M. Spiczak, H. Landsman, G. Binder, M. Richman, Fabian Kislat, A. Stößl, K. Meagher, K. Wiebe, S. Bechet, A. Goldschmidt, K. Filimonov, P. A. Toale, T. Feusels, R. Ström, A. O'Murchadha, N. Milke, J. Blumenthal, M. L. Benabderrahmane, J. H. Köhne, D. Pieloth, B. Kaminsky, Reina H. Maruyama, T. Kuwabara, O. Fadiran, M. Olivo, Todor Stanev, J. A. Pepper, F. Scheriau, Stephanie Hickford, M. Schmitz, B. Riedel, M. Casier, N. Pirk, S. Miarecki, P. Zarzhitsky, J. Ziemann, Michael S. Bell, E. A. Strahler, M. Wallraff, J. L. Kelley, J. A. Goodman, X. W. Xu, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, D. Heereman, D. J. Boersma, R. Franke, C. Pérez De Los Heros, D. Seckel, J. Madsen, C. Pfendner, M. Labare, Y. Sestayo, D. T. Grandmont, D. L. Xu, D. F. Cowen, P. Berghaus, B. Ruzybayev, S. R. Klein, J. Kiryluk, K. Clark, D. Bertrand, J. Eisch, S. Odrowski, Olga Botner, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, K. Helbing, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Vehring, L. Köpke, D. R. Nygren, A. Schukraft, C. Finley, T. Schmidt, R. Morse, M. Scheel, H. G. Sander, Thomas K. Gaisser, S. Euler, Jenni Adams, T. Glüsenkamp, M. Vraeghe, K. Rawlins, Rasha Abbasi, S. Seunarine, G. Golup, Kael Hanson, K. D. Hoffman, K. Hoshina, Juanan Aguilar, P. Redl, J. Becker Tjus, A. Van Overloop, M. Dunkman, S. Hussain, O. Jlelati, A. Bernhard, E. Pinat, D. Grant, E. Jacobi, K. H. Becker, Jürgen Brunner, C. Sheremata, A. Homeier, L. Gladstone, Steven W. Barwick, K. Frantzen, C. Wendt, D. R. Williams, L. Gerhardt, A. Tepe, S. Flis, Carsten Rott, G. T. Przybylski, J. Van Santen, Ch Weaver, Hermann Kolanoski, J. P. Rodrigues, M. Zoll, M. Kowalski, A. Franckowiak, Markus Ackermann, S. Cohen, Alexander Kappes, A. Haj Ismail, K. Schatto, L. Paul, D. Ryckbosch, Teresa Montaruli, R. Reimann, M. Wellons, M. G. Aartsen, Dariusz Gora, J. Kunnen, R. C. Bay, J. Casey, J. Leute, J. G. Gonzalez, Thomas Meures, S. Ter-Antonyan, R. Eagan, H. Wissing, U. Naumann, R. W. Ellsworth, Elisa Bernardini, R. Bruijn, G. Tešić, Subir Sarkar, R. Hellauer, M. Baker, P. O. Hulth, B. Eberhardt, B. Christy, C. Kopper, Peter Mészáros, K. Mase, S. Kopper, H. S. Matis, Francis Halzen, E. Blaufuss, N. Kurahashi, S. Tilav, J. Posselt, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, L. Mohrmann, T. Karg, C. H. Wiebusch, Allan Hallgren, A. Ishihara, G. Kohnen, G. C. Hill, Tyce DeYoung, A. R. Fazely, T. Waldenmaier, N. Whitehorn, S. Toscano, A. Olivas, S. Schoenen, T. Salameh, H. P. Bretz, M. W.E. Smith, D. Bindig, A. Karle, J. Kläs, A. Stasik, I. Taboada, M. Krasberg, L. Schulte, S. Böser, K. Woschnagg, G. Yodh, C. De Clercq, A. Schönwald, M. Rameez, L. Brayeur, S. Schöneberg, D. Heinen, J. Feintzeig, O. Schulz, G. S. Japaridze, Chun Xu, J. Jacobsen, A. Tamburro, L. Rädel, T. R. Wood, P. Hallen, M. Voge, M. Danninger, R. Hoffmann, Christian Spiering, D. Berley, S. M. Saba, J. C. Davis, M. Stamatikos, D. Altmann, J. P. Yanez, S. Westerhoff, C. Ha, and E. Middell
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, NEUTRINO TELESCOPES, Position (vector), SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, Shadow, Angular resolution, ddc:530, ARRIVAL DIRECTIONS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, DETECTOR, Analysis method, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, ANISOTROPY, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, SUN, Astronomy, ANGULAR RESOLUTION, Earth's magnetic field, Deflection (physics), Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report on the observation of a significant deficit of cosmic rays from the direction of the Moon with the IceCube detector. The study of this "Moon shadow" is used to characterize the angular resolution and absolute pointing capabilities of the detector. The detection is based on data taken in two periods before the completion of the detector: between April 2008 and May 2009, when IceCube operated in a partial configuration with 40 detector strings deployed in the South Pole ice, and between May 2009 and May 2010 when the detector operated with 59 strings. Using two independent analysis methods, the Moon shadow has been observed to high significance (> 6 sigma) in both detector configurations. The observed location of the shadow center is within 0.2 degrees of its expected position when geomagnetic deflection effects are taken into account. This measurement validates the directional reconstruction capabilities of IceCube., Submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2014

33. Probing the origin of cosmic-rays with extremely high energy neutrinos using the IceCube Observatory

Author: M. J. Larson, M. Day, T. Stezelberger, E. Jacobi, E. A. Strahler, A. R. Fazely, T. Waldenmaier, C. Pfendner, G. C. Hill, Tyce DeYoung, A. M. Brown, K. Hultqvist, J. Lünemann, C. Walck, A. Schukraft, N. Whitehorn, S. Toscano, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, J. Daughhetee, A. Olivas, S. Schoenen, M. Casier, Marcos Santander, Jenni Adams, T. Glüsenkamp, Segev BenZvi, M. Ribordy, K. H. Becker, M. Vraeghe, N. Van Eijndhoven, Kael Hanson, K. D. Hoffman, S. Hussain, C. Bohm, M. Dunkman, G. Kroll, X. Bai, H. P. Bretz, M. W.E. Smith, K. Rawlins, D. Seckel, J. Eisch, S. Odrowski, M. Wallraff, A. Ishihara, Steven W. Barwick, C. De Clercq, A. Schönwald, K. D. de Vries, A. Fedynitch, S. Flis, K. Krings, C. Sheremata, L. Gerhardt, G. Binder, J. C. Groh, M. Vehring, M. Rameez, M. N. Tobin, A. H. Cruz Silva, D. Pieloth, Teresa Montaruli, M. Richman, L. Gladstone, T. Kuwabara, K. Jero, P. B. Price, P. Gretskov, K. Helbing, K. Wiebe, Juanan Aguilar, L. Brayeur, H. Niederhausen, Wolfgang Rhode, G. Kohnen, D. Grant, C. Wendt, J. J. Beatty, J. Jacobsen, W. Huelsnitz, T. Fischer-Wasels, J. Miller, V. Baum, P. Redl, J. Becker Tjus, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, A. Christov, Carsten Rott, S. C. Nowicki, J. Kläs, A. Stasik, E. Pinat, J. G. Gonzalez, D. J. Koskinen, A. Tamburro, A. Stößl, Reina H. Maruyama, Carlos Arguelles, Thomas Meures, M. Leuermann, I. Taboada, J. L. Kelley, J. A. Goodman, D. J. Boersma, N. A. Stanisha, S. R. Klein, D. Chirkin, A. Karle, L. Rädel, L. Köpke, G. T. Przybylski, M. Wellons, S. Coenders, S. Yoshida, P. A. Toale, Dariusz Gora, L. Schulte, J. S. Gallagher, M. Merck, F. McNally, J. H. Köhne, J. Madsen, G. M. Spiczak, H. Landsman, R. Reimann, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, U. Naumann, S. Zierke, M. Usner, J. Kiryluk, K. Woschnagg, Sofia Vallecorsa, M. Kauer, G. Yodh, L. Mohrmann, D. Z. Besson, D. Bose, M. Zoll, X. W. Xu, S. Schöneberg, D. Heinen, K. Clark, T. Karg, B. Kaminsky, R. C. Bay, J. Casey, C. H. Wiebusch, D. Heereman, A. Kriesten, J. Blumenthal, Oscar Macias, S. Ter-Antonyan, J. Ziemann, G. W. Sullivan, P. Zarzhitsky, Rezo Shanidze, M. Labare, R. G. Stokstad, Elisa Bernardini, Stephanie Hickford, A. Obertacke, E. Unger, Y. Sestayo, Allan Hallgren, J. Feintzeig, H. Taavola, P. Berghaus, O. Schulz, G. S. Japaridze, A. Goldschmidt, B. Ruzybayev, Hermann Kolanoski, K. Jagielski, J. Auffenberg, G. Tešić, A. Haj Ismail, S. Tilav, J. Van Santen, T. Feusels, J. Posselt, M. G. Aartsen, Elisa Resconi, J. Leute, M. Krasberg, B. Riedel, R. Eagan, H. Wissing, Subir Sarkar, R. Bruijn, P. O. Hulth, R. Hellauer, Olga Botner, M. Baker, A. Homeier, S. Cohen, G. Golup, L. Paul, Markus Ahlers, S. Böser, F. Clevermann, T. Ruhe, S. De Ridder, R. Nahnhauer, M. Wolf, M. Stamatikos, D. Altmann, A. Groß, J. P. Yanez, S. Westerhoff, C. Ha, E. Middell, T. R. Wood, A. Omairat, P. Hallen, M. Voge, M. Danninger, D. T. Grandmont, D. L. Xu, R. Hoffmann, Christian Spiering, S. Seunarine, C. Finley, T. Schmidt, D. Berley, Giorgio Maggi, S. M. Saba, J. C. Davis, K. Hoshina, Ch Weaver, M. Kowalski, A. Franckowiak, J. P. Rodrigues, Markus Ackermann, P. Desiati, C. Kopper, B. Eberhardt, B. Christy, K. Mase, S. Kopper, H. S. Matis, Francis Halzen, E. Blaufuss, N. Kurahashi, Todor Stanev, J. A. Pepper, H. G. Sander, Thomas K. Gaisser, S. Euler, D. R. Nygren, D. R. Williams, Alexander Kappes, K. Schatto, D. Ryckbosch, C. Pérez De Los Heros, D. F. Cowen, F. Scheriau, M. Schmitz, S. Miarecki, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, R. Ström, O. Jlelati, A. Bernhard, A. Tepe, J. Kunnen, K. Meagher, K. Filimonov, A. O'Murchadha, N. Milke, R. Morse, Rasha Abbasi, A. Van Overloop, K. Frantzen, T. Fuchs, D. Soldin, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Christov, Asen, Montaruli, Teresa, Rameez, Mohamed, and Vallecorsa, Sofia
Subjects: FLUX, SELECTION, FERMI-LAT, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Photon, Radio galaxy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, LIMIT, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle shower, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, SPECTRUM, Range (particle radiation), COSMOGENIC NEUTRINOS, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, PERFORMANCE, COMPONENT, MODEL, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, Intergalactic travel, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, SYSTEM, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We have searched for extremely high energy neutrinos using data taken with the IceCube detector between May 2010 and May 2012. Two neutrino induced particle shower events with energies around 1 PeV were observed, as reported previously. In this work, we investigate whether these events could originate from cosmogenic neutrinos produced in the interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays with ambient photons while propagating through intergalactic space. Exploiting IceCube's large exposure for extremely high energy neutrinos and the lack of observed events above 100 PeV, we can rule out the corresponding models at more than 90% confidence level. The model independent quasi-differential 90% CL upper limit, which amounts to $E^2 \phi_{\nu_e + \nu_\mu + \nu_\tau} = 1.2 \times 10^{-7}$ GeV cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ sr$^{-1}$ at 1 EeV, provides the most stringent constraint in the energy range from 10 PeV to 10 EeV. Our observation disfavors strong cosmological evolution of the highest energy cosmic ray sources such as the Fanaroff-Riley type II class of radio galaxies., Comment: A follow-up analysis to the report published in PRL 111 (2013) 021103. 15 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, the version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Published: 2013

34. Improvement in fast particle track reconstruction with robust statistics

Author: A. R. Fazely, T. Waldenmaier, N. Whitehorn, S. Toscano, A. Olivas, S. Schoenen, C. Pfendner, G. C. Hill, Tyce DeYoung, M. Casier, H. P. Bretz, M. W.E. Smith, M. Labare, D. Seckel, P. A. Evenson, P. Desiati, R. Hoffmann, E. Unger, Y. Sestayo, L. Gladstone, M. L. Benabderrahmane, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, T. Salameh, Christian Spiering, S. Zierke, M. Usner, Kael Hanson, Jenni Adams, T. Glüsenkamp, C. De Clercq, C. Kopper, K. Jero, K. D. Hoffman, M. Vraeghe, A. Schönwald, S. Cohen, G. W. Sullivan, S. Hussain, N. Van Eijndhoven, L. Mohrmann, M. Dunkman, K. D. de Vries, M. Rameez, A. H. Cruz Silva, D. Berley, R. C. Bay, Steven W. Barwick, V. Baum, S. M. Saba, Carsten Rott, J. Casey, L. Paul, W. Huelsnitz, T. Karg, Juanan Aguilar, S. Seunarine, J. C. Davis, C. H. Wiebusch, T. Fischer-Wasels, P. Redl, J. Becker Tjus, J. Auffenberg, Oscar Macias, J. Daughhetee, D. J. Boersma, D. Bindig, Segev BenZvi, M. Ribordy, D. Z. Besson, Rezo Shanidze, L. Köpke, D. Bose, S. R. Klein, M. Stamatikos, E. Pinat, J. Leute, S. C. Nowicki, Giorgio Maggi, J. J. Beatty, K. Rawlins, L. Gerhardt, L. Brayeur, D. Altmann, A. Karle, J. S. Gallagher, M. Merck, Allan Hallgren, G. T. Przybylski, R. Eagan, Ch Weaver, A. Fedynitch, K. Krings, H. Wissing, P. B. Price, A. Tamburro, R. Bruijn, M. Kowalski, A. Franckowiak, Markus Ackermann, S. Flis, E. Jacobi, Jürgen Brunner, A. Ishihara, K. Wiebe, T. Stezelberger, J. P. Yanez, J. Kläs, R. Hellauer, Todor Stanev, J. A. Pepper, L. Rädel, S. Westerhoff, S. Ter-Antonyan, G. Binder, R. Reimann, A. Stasik, Teresa Montaruli, R. G. Stokstad, C. Ha, E. Middell, Sofia Vallecorsa, M. Bissok, T. R. Wood, M. Baker, B. Eberhardt, G. Kohnen, J. Blumenthal, S. Schöneberg, A. Omairat, D. Heinen, J. Lünemann, J. L. Kelley, D. Pieloth, I. Taboada, P. Hallen, A. Goldschmidt, Stephanie Hickford, H. G. Sander, M. Voge, P. O. Hulth, J. A. Goodman, Thomas K. Gaisser, Marcos Santander, M. Danninger, H. Niederhausen, S. Euler, M. Wellons, C. Pérez De Los Heros, B. Ruzybayev, J. Feintzeig, B. Christy, Dariusz Gora, O. Schulz, G. S. Japaridze, L. Schulte, A. Stößl, J. Van Santen, M. G. Aartsen, M. Krasberg, M. Day, D. F. Cowen, J. Jacobsen, Reina H. Maruyama, K. Woschnagg, J. Kiryluk, G. Yodh, T. Kuwabara, S. Böser, Wolfgang Rhode, D. R. Nygren, Hermann Kolanoski, K. Clark, M. J. Larson, A. Haj Ismail, M. Wallraff, Elisa Bernardini, K. Mase, G. M. Spiczak, H. Landsman, P. Berghaus, S. Kopper, Rasha Abbasi, E. A. Strahler, H. S. Matis, M. Vehring, F. Clevermann, T. Ruhe, S. De Ridder, X. W. Xu, M. Zoll, D. R. Williams, R. Morse, B. Kaminsky, J. Eisch, S. Odrowski, R. Nahnhauer, Francis Halzen, D. Grant, C. Wendt, A. Van Overloop, K. Helbing, O. Jlelati, A. Bernhard, A. Tepe, J. Kunnen, Benjamin Recht, M. Leuermann, F. McNally, E. Blaufuss, R. Ström, P. Zarzhitsky, Y. Abdou, K. Frantzen, N. Kurahashi, Christopher Ré, D. Heereman, Alexander Kappes, K. Schatto, D. Ryckbosch, J. Miller, A. Christov, S. Bohaichuk, A. Homeier, K. Meagher, K. Filimonov, A. O'Murchadha, N. Milke, S. Bechet, P. A. Toale, J. H. Köhne, O. Fadiran, J. Ziemann, S. Yoshida, A. Obertacke, H. Taavola, K. Jagielski, D. J. Koskinen, T. Feusels, D. Chirkin, S. Coenders, B. Riedel, A. Schukraft, K. H. Becker, M. J. Carson, M. Richman, D. T. Grandmont, D. L. Xu, C. Finley, T. Schmidt, K. Hoshina, J. P. Rodrigues, Markus Ahlers, M. Wolf, A. Groß, Thomas Meures, T. Fuchs, D. Soldin, S. Tilav, J. Posselt, Elisa Resconi, U. Naumann, A. M. Brown, K. Hultqvist, C. Walck, C. Bohm, G. Kroll, X. Bai, C. Sheremata, J. G. Gonzalez, G. Tešić, Subir Sarkar, J. Madsen, Olga Botner, G. Golup, F. Scheriau, M. Schmitz, S. Miarecki, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Christov, Asen, Montaruli, Teresa, and Rameez, Mohamed
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Cherenkov detector, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, ddc:500.2, Neutrino telescope, Track reconstruction, law.invention, IceCube, law, Coincident, Angular resolution, ddc:530, Instrumentation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Remote sensing, Ice Cube, Physics, Muon, Track (disk drive), Detector, Neutrino astrophysics, Robust statistics, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The IceCube project has transformed one cubic kilometer of deep natural Antarctic ice into a Cherenkov detector. Muon neutrinos are detected and their direction inferred by mapping the light produced by the secondary muon track inside the volume instrumented with photomultipliers. Reconstructing the muon track from the observed light is challenging due to noise, light scattering in the ice medium, and the possibility of simultaneously having multiple muons inside the detector, resulting from the large flux of cosmic ray muons. This manuscript describes work on two problems: (1) the track reconstruction problem, in which, given a set of observations, the goal is to recover the track of a muon; and (2) the coincident event problem, which is to determine how many muons are active in the detector during a time window. Rather than solving these problems by developing more complex physical models that are applied at later stages of the analysis, our approach is to augment the detectors early reconstruction with data filters and robust statistical techniques. These can be implemented at the level of on-line reconstruction and, therefore, improve all subsequent reconstructions. Using the metric of median angular resolution, a standard metric for track reconstruction, we improve the accuracy in the initial reconstruction direction by 13%. We also present improvements in measuring the number of muons in coincident events: we can accurately determine the number of muons 98% of the time., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Published: 2013

35. Measurement of the Atmospheric ve flux in IceCube

Author: F. McNally, Christian Bohm, G. C. Hill, Gerald Przybylski, A. Zilles, M. Zoll, L. Mohrmann, L. Gladstone, D. Bindig, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, M. Voge, R. Hellauer, S. Seunarine, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, Ignacio Taboada, S. Flis, J. Dreyer, S. Euler, A. Tamburro, J. P. Rodrigues, Y. Abdou, T. Stezelberger, J. Kunnen, S. M. Saba, C. Walck, Damian Pieloth, J. Leute, S. Odrowski, J. van Santen, L. Köpke, J. Feintzeig, A. M. Brown, K. Schatto, D. Altmann, G. Kohnen, B. Ruzybayev, J. Auffenberg, F. Scheriau, Klas Hultqvist, A. Obertacke, J. Kiryluk, K. Rawlins, A. O'Murchadha, Axel Groß, A. Fedynitch, T. Fuchs, C. Finley, K. Mase, James Madsen, Aya Ishihara, P. Meszaros, Stijn Buitink, Segev BenZvi, M. Vraeghe, M. Merck, O. Fadiran, T. Schmidt, S. Böser, J. Blumenthal, Spencer Klein, M. Krasberg, J. J. Beatty, O. Schulz, F. Clevermann, C. Sheremata, S. Bohaichuk, Y. Sestayo, K. Beattie, Teresa Montaruli, S. Westerhoff, J. Eisch, V. Baum, H. Taavola, Olga Botner, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, Albrecht Karle, D. Soldin, H. Landsman, H. S. Matis, Kara Hoffman, S. Hussain, J. P. Yanez, E. Blaufuss, S. Panknin, K. Clark, J. C. Davis, T. R. Wood, D. J. Koskinen, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Wellons, J. Posselt, A. Schönwald, A. Homeier, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, R. W. Ellsworth, Christian Spiering, Francis Halzen, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, S. Yoshida, A. Stößl, A. Van Overloop, S. Schoenen, Dariusz Gora, G. W. Sullivan, K. Meagher, M. Dunkman, R. Ström, M. Wolf, S. C. Nowicki, C. Pfendner, P. Zarzhitsky, Reina H. Maruyama, L. Schulte, W. Huelsnitz, S. De Ridder, Wolfgang Rhode, D. J. Boersma, Christopher Wiebusch, L. Schönherr, E. Jacobi, D. Ryckbosch, Allan Hallgren, R. Morse, Dmitry Chirkin, K. Helbing, M. Labare, C. Kopper, G. Golup, Kael Hanson, Jürgen Brunner, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, J. Daughhetee, K. Frantzen, T. Salameh, M. L. Benabderrahmane, S. Schöneberg, M. Casier, D. Berley, S. H. Seo, N. Milke, Steven W. Barwick, George Japaridze, C. De Clercq, R. Nahnhauer, S. Bechet, Donglian Xu, P. B. Price, J. Lünemann, O. Engdegård, J. Miller, Paolo Desiati, R. C. Bay, Juanan Aguilar, M. G. Aartsen, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, J. Becker Tjus, M. Olivo, T. Feusels, N. van Eijndhoven, R. Bruijn, Subir Sarkar, B. Christy, Markus Ackermann, S. Zierke, T. Karg, J. E. Jacobsen, L. Paul, B. Riedel, J. A. Pepper, A. Schukraft, Marcos Santander, M. J. Carson, P. Heimann, A. Stasik, T. Kuwabara, D. Heereman, L. Gerhardt, G. Kroll, B. Eberhardt, Elisa Resconi, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, J. Berdermann, Todor Stanev, Jay Gallagher, Dawn Williams, M. J. Larson, M. W. E. Smith, D. Z. Besson, Darren Grant, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, Fabian Kislat, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. Kopper, R. Hoffmann, R. Franke, R. Eagan, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, M. Baker, A. Olivas, D. van der Drift, T. Ruhe, S. Cohen, M. Kowalski, T. Meures, R. Wasserman, H. G. Sander, B. Kaminsky, N. Whitehorn, Chris Wendt, L. Brayeur, A. Franckowiak, E. A. Strahler, Mike Richman, M. Soiron, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Hermann Kolanoski, M. Ribordy, Rasha Abbasi, Ch. Weaver, J. Casey, Chun Xu, K. Hoshina, Jenni Adams, D. Heinen, Glenn Spiczak, U. Naumann, K. H. Becker, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, T. Glüsenkamp, Carsten Rott, A. Goldschmidt, Dave Nygren, Michael Stamatikos, M. Bissok, P. O. Hulth, J. A. Goodman, T. Fischer-Wasels, Xianwu Xu, S. Toscano, J. Ziemann, C. Pérez de los Heros, N. Pirk, O. Jlelati, M. Scheel, S. Tilav, L. Rädel, K. Wiebe, A. Bernhard, J. L. Kelley, M. Wallraff, A. Haj Ismail, Markus Ahlers, M. Usner, Hans Niederhausen, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, D. Bertrand, T. Waldenmaier, M. Gurtner, M. Danninger, Xinhua Bai, N. Kurahashi, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, and Montaruli, Teresa
Subjects: DEEPCORE, Particle physics, AMANDA, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, DETECTOR, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, Cosmic neutrino background, Neutrino detector, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, NEUTRINO-INDUCED CASCADES, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report the first measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux in the energy range between approximately 80 GeV and 6 TeV, using data recorded during the first year of operation of IceCube's DeepCore low energy extension. Techniques to identify neutrinos interacting within the DeepCore volume and veto muons originating outside the detector are demonstrated. A sample of 1029 events is observed in 281 days of data, of which 496 $\pm$ 66(stat.) $\pm$ 88(syst.) are estimated to be cascade events, including both electron neutrino and neutral current events. The rest of the sample includes residual backgrounds due to atmospheric muons and charged current interactions of atmospheric muon neutrinos. The flux of the atmospheric electron neutrinos is consistent with models of atmospheric neutrinos in this energy range. This constitutes the first observation of electron neutrinos and neutral current interactions in a very large volume neutrino telescope optimized for the TeV energy range., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures (accepted by PRL)
Published: 2013

36. Search for Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun with the 79-String IceCube Detector

Author: A. O'Murchadha, O. Engdegård, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, Chris Wendt, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, S. Schöneberg, Ignacio Taboada, A. Haj Ismail, J. Blumenthal, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, A. Goldschmidt, Peter Mészáros, M. Usner, Olga Botner, R. Bruijn, S. C. Nowicki, Allan Hallgren, C. Finley, K. Frantzen, B. Riedel, S. Schoenen, J. J. Beatty, L. Köpke, J. Auffenberg, A. Obertacke, Hans Niederhausen, M. Merck, A. Bernhard, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, W. Huelsnitz, S. Cohen, N. Kurahashi, K. Mase, Ch. Weaver, S. Bechet, K. Hoshina, J. A. Pepper, D. Heereman, A. Schukraft, O. Fadiran, Gerald Przybylski, H. S. Matis, A. Zilles, J. Posselt, M. Zoll, K. Rawlins, S. Böser, D. Bindig, M. W. E. Smith, K. Helbing, Mike Richman, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, E. A. Strahler, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, A. Stößl, O. Jlelati, M. Scheel, S. Tilav, M. Krasberg, Glenn Spiczak, U. Naumann, K. H. Becker, Reina H. Maruyama, James Madsen, M. L. Benabderrahmane, M. Kowalski, T. Meures, Rasha Abbasi, R. W. Ellsworth, R. Nahnhauer, J. Miller, M. Vraeghe, Donglian Xu, P. B. Price, Hermann Kolanoski, L. Rädel, T. Ruhe, N. Whitehorn, C. De Clercq, O. Schulz, T. Waldenmaier, Juanan Aguilar, L. Brayeur, M. Soiron, D. Bertrand, J. Casey, Teresa Montaruli, B. Ruzybayev, M. Olivo, S. Yoshida, L. Schönherr, E. Jacobi, R. Ström, M. Wolf, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, J. Becker Tjus, C. Pfendner, Christian Spiering, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, D. Z. Besson, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, Markus Ackermann, B. Christy, M. Danninger, L. Paul, A. Tamburro, J. van Santen, A. Van Overloop, M. Casier, L. Schulte, L. Mohrmann, J. Eisch, V. Baum, J. Feintzeig, F. McNally, Christian Bohm, T. Schmidt, C. Pérez de los Heros, N. Pirk, T. Fischer-Wasels, Kael Hanson, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, S. Seunarine, M. J. Carson, Fabian Kislat, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. Kopper, M. Baker, J. Lünemann, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, H. G. Sander, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, M. Gurtner, Jenni Adams, K. Beattie, R. C. Bay, Steven W. Barwick, A. Franckowiak, G. C. Hill, Axel Groß, R. Hoffmann, L. Gladstone, F. Clevermann, R. Franke, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, M. Voge, R. Eagan, H. Taavola, Kara Hoffman, A. H. Cruz Silva, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, T. Feusels, Paolo Desiati, S. Bohaichuk, Y. Sestayo, M. Dunkman, S. Hickford, D. Soldin, C. Kopper, G. Golup, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, R. G. Stokstad, B. Eberhardt, Xinhua Bai, K. Wiebe, J. P. Yanez, N. van Eijndhoven, R. Morse, Wolfgang Rhode, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, J. L. Kelley, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, K. Clark, P. Berghaus, A. Homeier, T. Glüsenkamp, J. Kläs, M. Wallraff, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, Jürgen Brunner, P. Heimann, S. Euler, L. Gerhardt, Markus Ahlers, M. Bissok, D. Berley, M. G. Aartsen, J. Kunnen, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, B. Kaminsky, G. Kroll, J. Leute, S. Odrowski, F. Scheriau, Michael Stamatikos, Damian Pieloth, P. O. Hulth, Xianwu Xu, S. Toscano, A. M. Brown, J. A. Goodman, T. Fuchs, J. Ziemann, Albrecht Karle, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, A. Stasik, A. Schönwald, D. Ryckbosch, S. Zierke, G. W. Sullivan, K. Meagher, D. Heinen, S. H. Seo, Aya Ishihara, Darren Grant, Chun Xu, T. Salameh, S. De Ridder, C. Walck, D. Altmann, M. Labare, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, Stijn Buitink, C. Sheremata, S. Westerhoff, T. R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Dmitry Chirkin, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, T. Karg, T. Kuwabara, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, A. Fedynitch, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, R. Hellauer, S. Flis, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, Jay Gallagher, M. J. Larson, A. Olivas, D. van der Drift, R. Wasserman, H. Landsman, D. J. Boersma, Subir Sarkar, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Montaruli, Teresa, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, and Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group
Subjects: Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, MASSIVE PARTICLES, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), LIMITS, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, 010306 general physics, Light dark matter, CANDIDATES, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, CONSTRAINTS, CAPTURE, NEUTRINOS, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Weakly interacting massive particles, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We have performed a search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the center of the Sun with the 79-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, the DeepCore sub-array is included in the analysis, lowering the energy threshold and extending the search to the austral summer. The 317 days of data collected between June 2010 and May 2011 are consistent with the expected background from atmospheric muons and neutrinos. Upper limits are therefore set on the dark matter annihilation rate, with conversions to limits on spin-dependent and spin-independent WIMP-proton cross-sections for WIMP masses in the range 20 - 5000 GeV. These are the most stringent spin-dependent WIMP-proton cross-sections limits to date above 35 GeV., 7 pages, 3 figues
Published: 2013

37. Measurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system

Author: M. Labare, R. Bruijn, J. A. Pepper, D. Heereman, Ch. Weaver, F. McNally, K. Hoshina, Christian Bohm, Glenn Spiczak, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, B. Riedel, D. Z. Besson, Kara Hoffman, N. van Eijndhoven, U. Naumann, G. C. Hill, M. W. E. Smith, A. H. Cruz Silva, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, K. H. Becker, Chun Xu, A. Fedynitch, J. Leute, S. Odrowski, F. Scheriau, T. Ruhe, A. O'Murchadha, N. Whitehorn, L. Brayeur, M. Wellons, L. Gladstone, H. G. Sander, Wolfgang Rhode, M. Soiron, D. Seckel, Dariusz Gora, S. Miarecki, T. Salameh, G. Kroll, L. Köpke, M. Voge, S. Hussain, K. Frantzen, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, D. J. Koskinen, K. Rawlins, P. A. Toale, S. Bechet, R. Hellauer, L. Schönherr, E. Jacobi, J. Eisch, V. Baum, C. De Clercq, J. Auffenberg, T. Feusels, Albrecht Karle, J. E. Jacobsen, E. A. Strahler, M. Dunkman, A. Schukraft, A. Obertacke, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, S. Flis, M. Casier, T. R. Wood, R. Morse, C. Pfendner, A. Goldschmidt, K. Mase, T. Glüsenkamp, Paul Evenson, M. Olivo, K. Schatto, Marcos Santander, P. Heimann, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, L. Gerhardt, A. Bernhard, A. Schönwald, S. Schöneberg, Y. Abdou, J. Lünemann, Markus Ackermann, L. Paul, M. Bissok, O. Fadiran, Dmitry Chirkin, Kael Hanson, G. Kohnen, D. Heinen, Hermann Kolanoski, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, K. Meagher, S. Cohen, Michael S. Bell, S. Böser, Kirill Filimonov, R. C. Bay, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, M. Ribordy, Xianwu Xu, S. Toscano, James Madsen, Steven W. Barwick, T. Karg, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Jay Gallagher, M. J. Larson, M. J. Carson, Aya Ishihara, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, R. Nahnhauer, J. P. Rodrigues, Jenni Adams, S. Euler, J. Ziemann, B. Eberhardt, T. Kuwabara, S. C. Nowicki, Allan Hallgren, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, T. Fischer-Wasels, J. Kunnen, Fabian Kislat, Paolo Desiati, J. Blumenthal, S. Hickford, C. Pérez de los Heros, M. Vraeghe, A. Olivas, D. van der Drift, N. Pirk, Damian Pieloth, R. G. Stokstad, B. Ruzybayev, H. Taavola, A. M. Brown, O. Schulz, Teresa Montaruli, T. Schmidt, Ignacio Taboada, Chris Wendt, J. Miller, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, T. Fuchs, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. Kopper, M. Baker, D. Ryckbosch, M. Krasberg, Peter Mészáros, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, C. Finley, A. Franckowiak, R. Wasserman, H. Landsman, Juanan Aguilar, J. Becker Tjus, Olga Botner, M. G. Aartsen, Michael Stamatikos, H. S. Matis, P. O. Hulth, K. Wiebe, D. J. Boersma, A. Van Overloop, G. W. Sullivan, J. J. Beatty, B. Christy, S. H. Seo, J. A. Goodman, S. Yoshida, R. Ström, M. Schmitz, K. Jero, N. Kurahashi, M. Wolf, B. Kaminsky, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, L. Mohrmann, J. Posselt, Mike Richman, J. Feintzeig, S. Schoenen, A. Stößl, Reina H. Maruyama, S. Seunarine, L. Schulte, W. Huelsnitz, Rasha Abbasi, O. Jlelati, A. Haj Ismail, C. Kopper, G. Golup, M. Scheel, S. Tilav, A. Homeier, Gerald Przybylski, L. Rädel, A. Zilles, M. Zoll, J. Casey, D. Bindig, F. Clevermann, S. Bohaichuk, Y. Sestayo, K. Helbing, M. Usner, Jürgen Brunner, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, D. Soldin, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, J. P. Yanez, K. Clark, A. Stasik, M. Kowalski, T. Meures, N. Milke, A. Tamburro, George Japaridze, J. van Santen, R. Hoffmann, Gary Binder, Axel Groß, R. Franke, R. Eagan, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, Hans Niederhausen, D. Bertrand, M. Gurtner, Christian Spiering, Donglian Xu, P. B. Price, D. Berley, C. Walck, D. Altmann, Subir Sarkar, Stijn Buitink, C. Sheremata, S. Westerhoff, S. Zierke, Darren Grant, M. Merck, R. W. Ellsworth, J. L. Kelley, M. Wallraff, Markus Ahlers, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, T. Waldenmaier, M. Danninger, Xinhua Bai, S. De Ridder, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Montaruli, Teresa, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, South Pole ice, Photon progagation, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceCube, Physics::Geophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, ddc:530, 14. Life underwater, 010306 general physics, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Instrumentation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, Remote sensing, Physics, Optical properties, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Photon propagation, South Poleice, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Charged particle, Data set, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1 km^3 in size, is now complete with 86 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged particles passing through or created in the ice. To realize the full potential of the detector, the properties of light propagation in the ice in and around the detector must be well understood. This report presents a new method of fitting the model of light propagation in the ice to a data set of in-situ light source events collected with IceCube. The resulting set of derived parameters, namely the measured values of scattering and absorption coefficients vs. depth, is presented and a comparison of IceCube data with simulations based on the new model is shown. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1km^3 in size, is now complete with 86 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged particles passing through or created in the ice. To realize the full potential of the detector, the properties of light propagation in the ice in and around the detector must be well understood. This report presents a new method of fitting the model of light propagation in the ice to a data set of in situ light source events collected with IceCube. The resulting set of derived parameters, namely the measured values of scattering and absorption coefficients vs. depth, is presented and a comparison of IceCube data with simulations based on the new model is shown.
Published: 2013

38. First Observation of PeV-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube

Author: K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, J. Becker Tjus, U. Naumann, Mohamed Rameez, R. Bruijn, K. H. Becker, Matthias Vraeghe, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, S. Zierke, P. Hallen, Darren Grant, Sarah Nowicki, Joshua Pepper, Christian Bohm, G. C. Hill, Michael J. Baker, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, Timo Karg, T. Feusels, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, L. Gerhardt, B. Kaminsky, M. J. Carson, Fabian Kislat, Jay Gallagher, M. J. Larson, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, H.-P. Bretz, Chris Wendt, Frank McNally, C. Kopper, G. Golup, A. Franckowiak, Naoko Kurahashi, D. Bertrand, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, J. Auffenberg, Daniel Bindig, D. Heereman, Jürgen Brunner, D. Z. Besson, J. Leute, S. Odrowski, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, M. Bissok, M. Leuermann, K. Krings, Allan Hallgren, Sandro Kopper, Nathan Whitehorn, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, S. Euler, J. Kunnen, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, A. Olivas, D. van der Drift, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Gurtner, A. Bernhard, Xianwu Xu, S. De Ridder, Damian Pieloth, A. M. Brown, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, R. Wasserman, Benedikt Riedel, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, A. Stasik, Albrecht Karle, J. Ziemann, P. A. Toale, N. Milke, George Japaridze, L. Köpke, K. Rawlins, Aya Ishihara, M. Richman, S. Bechet, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, G. Tešić, A. Schönwald, M. L. Benabderrahmane, R. Nahnhauer, M. W. E. Smith, M. Labare, Javier Gonzalez, E. A. Strahler, J. J. Beatty, M. Olivo, Ch. Weaver, J. Blumenthal, K. Meagher, Jenni Adams, C. De Clercq, James Madsen, L. Mohrmann, L. Brayeur, M. Soiron, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, H. S. Matis, J. Miller, Christian Spiering, A. Homeier, S. Böser, Segev BenZvi, Olga Botner, Spencer Klein, R. Hellauer, S. Flis, Hermann Kolanoski, Chad Finley, Elisa Resconi, Juanan Aguilar, V. Baum, J. Berdermann, Matt Dunkman, Markus Ackermann, Kara Hoffman, M. G. Aartsen, A. H. Cruz Silva, S. Hickford, J. Posselt, C. Pérez de los Heros, N. Pirk, O. Schulz, T. Fischer-Wasels, Teresa Montaruli, Tim Ruhe, A. Van Overloop, Christopher Wiebusch, R. G. Stokstad, Takao Kuwabara, D. Berley, Rasha Abbasi, J. Daughhetee, H. Landsman, Wolfgang Rhode, Todor Stanev, J. L. Kelley, Dawn Williams, Anatoli Fedynitch, Dennis Soldin, J. Casey, H. Taavola, Markus Ahlers, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, A. Schukraft, A. Stößl, A. Haj Ismail, K. Jero, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, C. Walck, D. Altmann, S. Seunarine, Francis Halzen, R. Hoffmann, K. Jagielski, P. Zarzhitsky, Matthias Wolf, Reina H. Maruyama, M. Usner, Gerald Przybylski, A. Zilles, R. Franke, M. Zoll, Dirk Ryckbosch, K. Wiebe, R. Eagan, C. Sheremata, G. W. Sullivan, M. Schmitz, S. Westerhoff, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, O. Fadiran, Y. Abdou, Michael Stamatikos, B. Ruzybayev, J. A. Goodman, A. Christov, Hans Niederhausen, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Ignacio Taboada, A. Goldschmidt, Thomas Meures, A. Tamburro, Peter Mészáros, T. Waldenmaier, M. Merck, M. Kowalski, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, J. van Santen, M. Danninger, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, Gary Binder, Axel Groß, O. Jlelati, K. Frantzen, E. Pinat, M. Scheel, F. Clevermann, S. Tilav, Xinhua Bai, S. Bohaichuk, Y. Sestayo, Simona Toscano, L. Rädel, R. W. Ellsworth, Donglian Xu, J. P. Yanez, B. Eberhardt, E. Jacobi, K. Clark, M. Casier, Subir Sarkar, J. Lünemann, R. C. Bay, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, T. R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Dmitry Chirkin, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, M. Krasberg, S. Yoshida, N. van Eijndhoven, G. Kroll, R. Morse, C. Pfendner, T. Salameh, Kael Hanson, T. Fuchs, Steven W. Barwick, Paolo Desiati, H. G. Sander, Chun Xu, A. Obertacke, R. Ström, L. Schulte, S. Schoenen, Thorsten Glusenkamp, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, K. Mase, René Reimann, A. O'Murchadha, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, S. Coenders, S. Schöneberg, J. Feintzeig, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Christov, Asen, Montaruli, Teresa, and Rameez, Mohamed
Subjects: SELECTION, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), ATMOSPHERIC MUON, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, CHARM, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, SCATTERING, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Charged current, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, SPECTRUM, Neutral current, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, ICE, Glashow resonance, PERFORMANCE, 3. Good health, Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, SYSTEM, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Bar (unit)
Abstract: We report on the observation of two neutrino-induced events which have an estimated deposited energy in the IceCube detector of 1.04 $\pm$ 0.16 and 1.14 $\pm$ 0.17 PeV, respectively, the highest neutrino energies observed so far. These events are consistent with fully contained particle showers induced by neutral-current $\nu_{e,\mu,\tau}$ ($\bar\nu_{e,\mu,\tau}$) or charged-current $\nu_{e}$ ($\bar\nu_{e}$) interactions within the IceCube detector. The events were discovered in a search for ultra-high energy neutrinos using data corresponding to 615.9 days effective livetime. The expected number of atmospheric background is $0.082 \pm 0.004 \text{(stat)}^{+0.041}_{-0.057} \text{(syst)}$. The probability to observe two or more candidate events under the atmospheric background-only hypothesis is $2.9\times10^{-3}$ ($2.8\sigma$) taking into account the uncertainty on the expected number of background events. These two events could be a first indication of an astrophysical neutrino flux, the moderate significance, however, does not permit a definitive conclusion at this time., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2013

39. Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with IceCube

Author: A. O'Murchadha, J. J. Beatty, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, K. Rawlins, U. Naumann, S. Schöneberg, L. Rädel, R. Ström, M. W. E. Smith, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, James Madsen, J. Becker Tjus, N. van Eijndhoven, Fabian Kislat, S. Odrowski, Larissa Paul, J. Posselt, F. Scheriau, A. Franckowiak, Donglian Xu, Timo Karg, J. Feintzeig, A. Stößl, J. C. Gallagher, Reina H. Maruyama, Frank McNally, D. Z. Besson, A. Tamburro, O. Jlelati, L. Schönherr, E. Jacobi, M. Scheel, M. Soiron, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, T. Feusels, O. Schulz, M. Labare, Allan Hallgren, S. Tilav, G. Kroll, Todor Stanev, R. Hellauer, Teresa Montaruli, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, Sandro Kopper, C. Ha, C. Wendt, M. Kowalski, I. Taboada, J. E. Jacobsen, J. A. Goodman, N. Milke, George Japaridze, A. Homeier, H. Landsman, Nathan Whitehorn, J. Lünemann, K. Beattie, P. B. Price, Marcos Santander, M. Danninger, M. Krasberg, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, R. Hoffmann, R. Franke, P. Heimann, O. Engdegård, H. G. Sander, T. O. B. Schmidt, T. R. Wood, L. Gerhardt, S. Flis, C. Walck, R. Eagan, Christopher Wiebusch, Dariusz Gora, J. Daughhetee, J. van Santen, K.-H. Becker, Matt Dunkman, T. Fischer-Wasels, A. Schukraft, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, S. Seunarine, K. Laihem, Ch. Weaver, Elisa Resconi, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, J. Berdermann, Chun Xu, L. Schulte, F. Rothmaier, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, M. Richman, J. Kunnen, Axel Groß, Rasha Abbasi, Albrecht Karle, Karen Andeen, D. R. Nygren, J. Dreyer, Dirk Ryckbosch, S. Yoshida, R. J. Lauer, K. Hultqvist, Dmitry Chirkin, Joshua Pepper, Peter Mészáros, C. Pérez de los Heros, M. Casier, Chad Finley, A. Schönwald, J. Casey, M. Schmitz, Y. Abdou, C. De Clercq, Xinhua Bai, Alexander Kappes, Darren Grant, M. Stamatikos, S. Böser, E. Middell, C. Kopper, Matthias Wolf, N. Pirk, A. Haj Ismail, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, David A. Williams, Kael Hanson, Markus Ahlers, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, M. Usner, R. Nahnhauer, A. Obertacke, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, T. Fuchs, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, K. Meagher, Tim Ruhe, Stijn Buitink, M. Walter, A. Van Overloop, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Jenni Adams, Sarah Nowicki, K. Mase, L. Mohrmann, J. Kiryluk, A. Goldschmidt, Gerald Przybylski, R. Bruijn, Paolo Desiati, Michael J. Baker, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, J. Auffenberg, A. Zilles, M. Zoll, S. Hickford, S. H. Seo, L. Brayeur, Anatoli Fedynitch, D. Heereman, Daniel Bindig, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, R. G. Stokstad, Juanan Aguilar, Takao Kuwabara, F. Descamps, S. Panknin, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, R. Morse, D. Seckel, Christian Spiering, Jürgen Brunner, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, A. Ishihara, T. Salameh, J. Blumenthal, Naoko Kurahashi, D. Bertrand, D. Bose, K. Frantzen, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, K. Wiebe, Benedikt Riedel, A. Stasik, E. A. Strahler, F. Clevermann, J. P. Rodrigues, P. A. Toale, Carsten Rott, Y. Sestayo, T. Stezelberger, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Gurtner, S. M. Saba, Olga Botner, H. S. Matis, J. Miller, Hermann Kolanoski, V. Baum, J. P. Yanez, M. Bissok, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, Xianwu Xu, G. W. Sullivan, O. Fadiran, C. Bohm, M. J. Larson, B. Ruzybayev, A. Olivas, D. van der Drift, J. Ziemann, D. Altmann, R. Wasserman, S. Westerhoff, S. Schoenen, Thorsten Glusenkamp, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, S. Bechet, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, M. Olivo, Dennis Soldin, H. Taavola, Michael S. Bell, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, Kirill Filimonov, Segev BenZvi, S. M. Movit, Spencer Klein, Kara Hoffman, A. H. Cruz Silva, Subir Sarkar, Wolfgang Rhode, D. J. Boersma, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, S. Euler, Thomas Meures, Damian Pieloth, A. M. Brown, M. Merck, L. Köpke, Simona Toscano, R. W. Ellsworth, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, and Montaruli, Teresa
Subjects: FLUX, SELECTION, AMANDA, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Proton decay, Cherenkov detector, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Magnetic monopole, FOS: Physical sciences, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Physics::Geophysics, IceCube, law, 0103 physical sciences, Grand Unified Theory, ddc:530, NEUTRINO TELESCOPE, 010306 general physics, Cherenkov radiation, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FIELDS, 85-05, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the first results in the search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the IceCube detector, a subsurface neutrino telescope located in the South Polar ice cap containing a volume of 1 km$^{3}$. This analysis searches data taken on the partially completed detector during 2007 when roughly 0.2 km$^{3}$ of ice was instrumented. The lack of candidate events leads to an upper limit on the flux of relativistic magnetic monopoles of $\Phi_{\mathrm{90%C.L.}}\sim 3\e{-18}\fluxunits$ for $\beta\geq0.8$. This is a factor of 4 improvement over the previous best experimental flux limits up to a Lorentz boost $\gamma$ below $10^{7}$. This result is then interpreted for a wide range of mass and kinetic energy values., Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures. v2 is minor text edits, no changes to result
Published: 2013

40. South Pole glacial climate reconstruction from multi-borehole laser particulate stratigraphy

Author: M. Stamatikos, D. Altmann, X. W. Xu, M. Wallraff, D. Heereman, J. P. Yanez, Thomas Meures, F. Scheriau, M. Casier, C. De Clercq, S. Westerhoff, A. Schönwald, C. Ha, E. Middell, J. Leute, M. Schmitz, M. Rameez, D. Seckel, D. Bertrand, M. Vehring, M. Krasberg, S. Miarecki, K. Rawlins, S. Flis, R. Eagan, H. Wissing, Teresa Montaruli, D. Tosi, W. Huelsnitz, R. Hoffmann, J. Eisch, S. Odrowski, J. Madsen, Christian Spiering, T. Fischer-Wasels, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, D. van der Drift, S. C. Nowicki, D. Grant, L. Brayeur, C. Wendt, S. R. Klein, R. Bruijn, L. Gladstone, S. Böser, J. Miller, K. Mase, K. Wiebe, S. Kopper, U. Naumann, A. Christov, J. Jacobsen, N. Pirk, A. Obertacke, K. Helbing, H. Taavola, T. Fuchs, D. Soldin, T. Stezelberger, J. Daughhetee, D. Berley, R. Hellauer, J. J. Beatty, M. Baker, P. A. Evenson, V. Baum, S. M. Saba, H. S. Matis, M. Labare, K. Jagielski, S. Zierke, M. Usner, M. L. Benabderrahmane, S. Bohaichuk, J. L. Kelley, J. A. Goodman, S. Cohen, J. Cherwinka, J. C. Davis, J. Lünemann, R. Wasserman, G. M. Spiczak, M. J. Carson, H. Landsman, Marcos Santander, A. Fedynitch, K. Krings, Y. Sestayo, M. Gurtner, S. Yoshida, C. Pfendner, P. Desiati, Markus Ahlers, J. Kläs, M. Wellons, Dariusz Gora, M. Bissok, A. Stößl, T. Salameh, G. W. Sullivan, P. B. Price, A. H. Cruz Silva, Francis Halzen, T. Feusels, A. Stasik, I. Taboada, A. Zilles, R. Reimann, Reina H. Maruyama, E. Blaufuss, Segev BenZvi, T. R. Wood, P. Hallen, M. Voge, M. Richman, L. Mohrmann, L. Paul, N. Kurahashi, R. W. Ellsworth, A. M. Brown, K. Hultqvist, C. Walck, B. Riedel, B. Kaminsky, C. Bohm, M. Danninger, C. Pérez De Los Heros, D. F. Cowen, K. Jero, Fabian Kislat, Juanan Aguilar, J. S. Gallagher, K. Meagher, P. Redl, J. Becker Tjus, T. Kuwabara, D. Bindig, K. Filimonov, M. Merck, Kael Hanson, A. O'Murchadha, T. Karg, M. Ribordy, K. D. Hoffman, A. Karle, S. Hussain, G. Kroll, N. Milke, P. Zarzhitsky, X. Bai, L. Schulte, D. R. Nygren, M. Leuermann, E. Pinat, E. Jacobi, B. Eberhardt, Jürgen Brunner, J. Auffenberg, C. H. Wiebusch, Steven W. Barwick, M. Wolf, Elisa Bernardini, A. Groß, L. Gerhardt, E. A. Strahler, K. Woschnagg, G. Yodh, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, D. Z. Besson, G. T. Przybylski, F. McNally, B. Christy, N. Van Eijndhoven, R. Morse, Jenni Adams, M. Zoll, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Van Overloop, M. Scheel, D. R. Williams, H. Niederhausen, J. Blumenthal, M. Vraeghe, M. Dunkman, R. C. Bay, J. Casey, H. P. Bretz, Wolfgang Rhode, Olga Botner, G. Binder, C. Sheremata, Allan Hallgren, M. Soiron, A. Schukraft, M. W.E. Smith, K. Frantzen, D. J. Boersma, A. Tamburro, S. Schöneberg, D. Heinen, R. Ström, Alexander Kappes, Stephanie Hickford, K. Schatto, D. Ryckbosch, G. Golup, A. R. Fazely, D. Pieloth, A. Ishihara, D. L. Xu, K. H. Becker, L. Köpke, S. Bechet, S. Ter-Antonyan, Hermann Kolanoski, B. Ruzybayev, L. Rädel, T. Waldenmaier, O. Jlelati, A. Bernhard, P. A. Toale, N. Whitehorn, J. H. Köhne, S. Toscano, C. Finley, T. Schmidt, J. Feintzeig, O. Schulz, G. S. Japaridze, O. Fadiran, M. Olivo, D. J. Koskinen, A. Haj Ismail, Chun Xu, K. Hoshina, J. Kiryluk, G. Kohnen, A. Olivas, S. Schoenen, P. Meszaros, Carsten Rott, D. Chirkin, J. Ziemann, Michael S. Bell, S. Coenders, J. Van Santen, M. G. Aartsen, K. Clark, J. P. Rodrigues, P. Berghaus, T. De Young, G. C. Hill, D. Bose, P. O. Hulth, F. Clevermann, Rasha Abbasi, J. Kunnen, T. Ruhe, S. De Ridder, R. Nahnhauer, A. Homeier, M. J. Larson, S. Tilav, J. Posselt, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, J. G. Gonzalez, R. G. Stokstad, S. Seunarine, Ch Weaver, A. Goldschmidt, M. Kowalski, A. Franckowiak, Markus Ackermann, G. Tešić, Todor Stanev, J. A. Pepper, R. Franke, H. G. Sander, Thomas K. Gaisser, S. Euler, Y. Abdou, Subir Sarkar, C. Kopper, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Christov, Asen, Montaruli, Teresa, Rameez, Mohamed, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, and Vriendenkring VUB
Subjects: EPICA-DOME-C, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, DEEP ICE, Borehole, Antarctic ice sheet, DUST, ddc:500.2, ANTARCTIC ICE-SHEET, 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceCube, Paleontology, 0103 physical sciences, Paleoclimatology, ddc:550, CORE, Glacial period, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, SIPLE DOME, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, EAST ANTARCTICA, VOLCANIC WINTER, VOSTOK, OPTICAL-PROPERTIES, Stratigraphy, 13. Climate action, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Radiometric dating, Ice sheet, physics, Geology
Abstract: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory and its prototype, AMANDA, were built in South Pole ice, using powerful hot-water drills to cleanly bore>100 holes to depths up to 2500 m. The construction of these particle physics detectors provided a unique opportunity to examine the deep ice sheet using a variety of novel techniques. We made high-resolution particulate profiles with a laser dust logger in eight of the boreholes during detector commissioning between 2004 and 2010. The South Pole laser logs are among the most clearly resolved measurements of Antarctic dust strata during the last glacial period and can be used to reconstruct paleoclimate records in exceptional detail. Here we use manual and algorithmic matching to synthesize our South Pole measurements with ice-core and logging data from Dome C, East Antarctica. We derive impurity concentration, precision chronology, annual-layer thickness, local spatial variability, and identify several widespread volcanic ash depositions useful for dating. We also examine the interval around ∼74 ka recently isolated with radiometric dating to bracket the Toba (Sumatra) supereruption.
Published: 2013

41. Search for Galactic PeV gamma rays with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Author: S. Hussain, M. J. Larson, D. J. Koskinen, Naoko Kurahashi, D. Bertrand, C. Walck, A. Olivas, S. Schöneberg, D. van der Drift, O. Jlelati, D. Altmann, M. W. E. Smith, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, K. Rawlins, R. Wasserman, M. Gurtner, P. Berghaus, Thomas Meures, T. Salameh, J. Kläs, A. Haj Ismail, M. Usner, M. Scheel, S. Tilav, L. Brayeur, M. Soiron, James Madsen, D. Z. Besson, Stijn Buitink, S. Euler, J. Kunnen, C. Sheremata, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, Rasha Abbasi, J. Kiryluk, M. Merck, L. Rädel, O. Schulz, S. Westerhoff, Damian Pieloth, S. Flis, M. Krasberg, A. M. Brown, L. Schönherr, E. Jacobi, Teresa Montaruli, Timo Karg, J. Casey, E. A. Strahler, R. Ström, Nathan Whitehorn, J. Blumenthal, T. Fuchs, J. Becker Tjus, Fabian Kislat, Hermann Kolanoski, M. Casier, Matthias Vraeghe, Ch. Weaver, L. Schulte, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, Dariusz Gora, C. Pérez de los Heros, T. Feusels, N. Pirk, S. Zierke, K. Frantzen, H. Landsman, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, S. Bechet, Matt Dunkman, T. Fischer-Wasels, R. Hellauer, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, P. Heimann, F. Rothmaier, Chad Finley, A. Franckowiak, M. G. Aartsen, H. S. Matis, Olga Botner, J. Lünemann, L. Gerhardt, J. Auffenberg, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, S. Seunarine, M. Olivo, S. Yoshida, S. Schoenen, K. Hultqvist, J. Dreyer, V. Baum, M. Richman, A. Schukraft, J. C. Gallagher, Daniel Bindig, Jürgen Brunner, R. Morse, Karen Andeen, S. H. Seo, K. Hoshina, Joshua Pepper, Y. Abdou, Benedikt Riedel, Dirk Ryckbosch, Simona Toscano, Darren Grant, Sarah Nowicki, Glenn Spiczak, R. J. Lauer, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, C. De Clercq, A. Stasik, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, M. Stamatikos, S. Böser, David A. Williams, Allan Hallgren, M. Ribordy, Thorsten Glusenkamp, U. Naumann, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, R. Nahnhauer, Christian Spiering, K. H. Becker, Markus Ackermann, Sandro Kopper, O. Fadiran, K. Wiebe, K. Mase, R. W. Ellsworth, M. Schmitz, L. Mohrmann, Kara Hoffman, Chun Xu, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, Matthias Wolf, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, J. van Santen, R. Bruijn, D. Heereman, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, Gerald Przybylski, Kael Hanson, A. Goldschmidt, A. H. Cruz Silva, A. Zilles, M. Zoll, Anatoli Fedynitch, M. Bissok, R. Hoffmann, P. O. Hulth, Axel Groß, J. A. Goodman, R. Franke, Xianwu Xu, W. Huelsnitz, M. Kowalski, Wolfgang Rhode, Steven W. Barwick, S. Odrowski, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, R. Eagan, H. G. Sander, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, C. Bohm, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Frank McNally, Jenni Adams, F. Clevermann, O. Engdegård, S. Bohaichuk, Y. Sestayo, J. Ziemann, J. P. Yanez, Albrecht Karle, J. P. Rodrigues, Elisa Resconi, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, J. Berdermann, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, K. Clark, R. G. Stokstad, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, G. W. Sullivan, Paolo Desiati, Donglian Xu, A. Schönwald, J. J. Beatty, S. Panknin, P. B. Price, Ignacio Taboada, K. Meagher, N. van Eijndhoven, Peter Mészáros, J. Posselt, T. Schmidt, A. Stößl, Subir Sarkar, L. Köpke, Reina H. Maruyama, A. Obertacke, G. Kroll, J. Feintzeig, K. Beattie, C. Kopper, G. Golup, M. L. Benabderrahmane, J. Miller, Juanan Aguilar, Takao Kuwabara, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, A. Ishihara, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, Markus Ahlers, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Michael J. Baker, F. Descamps, Dennis Soldin, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, T. R. Wood, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, H. Taavola, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, Jon Dumm, Dmitry Chirkin, P. A. Toale, T. Waldenmaier, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, S. De Ridder, M. Danninger, A. Van Overloop, M. Labare, Xinhua Bai, B. Ruzybayev, A. Tamburro, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, A. O'Murchadha, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Montaruli, Teresa, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, and KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, TELESCOPE, Point source, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceCube, HESS, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, MILAGRO, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Muon, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, PLANE, Galactic plane, Air shower, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, DISCOVERY, Milagro, MOLECULAR CLOUDS, TEV, RADIATION, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, EMISSION
Abstract: Gamma-ray induced air showers are notable for their lack of muons, compared to hadronic showers. Hence, air shower arrays with large underground muon detectors can select a sample greatly enriched in photon showers by rejecting showers containing muons. IceCube is sensitive to muons with energies above ~500 GeV at the surface, which provides an efficient veto system for hadronic air showers with energies above 1 PeV. One year of data from the 40-string IceCube configuration was used to perform a search for point sources and a Galactic diffuse signal. No sources were found, resulting in a 90% C.L. upper limit on the ratio of gamma rays to cosmic rays of 1.2 x 10^(-3)for the flux coming from the Galactic Plane region (-80 deg < l < -30 deg; -10 deg < b < 5 deg) in the energy range 1.2 - 6.0 PeV. In the same energy range, point source fluxes with E^(-2) spectra have been excluded at a level of (E/TeV)^2 d��/dE ~ 10^(-12)-10^(-11) cm^2/s/TeV depending on source declination. The complete IceCube detector will have a better sensitivity, due to the larger detector size, improved reconstruction and vetoing techniques. Preliminary data from the nearly-final IceCube detector configuration has been used to estimate the 5 year sensitivity of the full detector. It is found to be more than an order of magnitude better, allowing the search for PeV extensions of known TeV gamma-ray emitters., submitted to PRD, 15 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2013

42. IceTop : the surface component of IceCube

Author: Anatoli Fedynitch, K. Mase, J. Blumenthal, P. B. Price, K. Frantzen, T. O. B. Schmidt, C. Roucelle, F. Clevermann, K. Hoshina, Y. Sestayo, Olga Botner, T. R. Wood, Karl-Heinz Sulanke, Glenn Spiczak, Timo Karg, J. P. Yanez, A. Haj Ismail, Kael Hanson, T. Fuchs, D. Z. Besson, Paolo Desiati, M. Usner, V. Baum, F. Rothmaier, G. W. Sullivan, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, U. Naumann, K. H. Becker, K. Hultqvist, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Darren Grant, Todor Stanev, J. J. Beatty, C. Wendt, T. Feusels, Dmitry Chirkin, S. Panknin, Sarah Nowicki, A. O'Murchadha, Karen Andeen, O. Engdegård, Ch. Weaver, Markus Ahlers, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, P. Heimann, S. Hussain, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, J. Posselt, C. Pérez de los Heros, M. J. Larson, L. Gerhardt, J. Kiryluk, Chad Finley, Christian Spiering, S. Schoenen, Jürgen Brunner, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, A. Homeier, A. Olivas, D. van der Drift, D. J. Koskinen, A. Stößl, Thorsten Glusenkamp, Christopher Wiebusch, F. Descamps, R. Hoffmann, R. Franke, C. Walck, R. Eagan, S. Seunarine, Reina H. Maruyama, A. McDermott, S. H. Seo, M. Labare, J. Daughhetee, W. Huelsnitz, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, D. J. Boersma, J. Roth, Matthias Wolf, L. Schönherr, E. Jacobi, Benedikt Riedel, K. Helbing, L. Shulman, R. Nahnhauer, S. Stoyanov, M. Casier, L. Mohrmann, D. Rutledge, M. Schmitz, D. Altmann, A. Stasik, R. Ström, K. Rawlins, C. Elliott, J. Lünemann, J. van Santen, James Madsen, M. Richman, L. Schulte, S. Schöneberg, R. C. Bay, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Axel Groß, R. Wasserman, Naoko Kurahashi, Michael J. Baker, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, A. Van Overloop, Gerald Przybylski, D. Bertrand, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, O. Schulz, Stijn Buitink, Peter Mészáros, Teresa Montaruli, L. Gladstone, Fabian Kislat, Dirk Heinen, R. J. Lauer, R. Bruijn, S. Westerhoff, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, Frank McNally, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, A. Zilles, M. Zoll, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, H. Landsman, D. Heereman, H. S. Matis, P. A. Toale, Thomas Meures, M. Kowalski, C. De Clercq, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, S. Klepser, M. Danninger, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, A. Franckowiak, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, M. Merck, S. Böser, J. Auffenberg, M. Gurtner, Henrik J. Johansson, Daniel Bindig, A. Tamburro, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, J. P. Rodrigues, David A. Williams, T. Stezelberger, S. M. Saba, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, R. Hellauer, C. Ha, S. Odrowski, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, Dennis Soldin, Xinhua Bai, H. Taavola, J. Becker Tjus, Rasha Abbasi, J. C. Gallagher, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, Albrecht Karle, D. R. Nygren, J. Casey, A. Schönwald, J. Dreyer, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Allan Hallgren, K. Meagher, Y. Abdou, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Sandro Kopper, Simona Toscano, R. W. Ellsworth, S. M. Movit, Donglian Xu, B. Ruzybayev, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Miller, Juanan Aguilar, A. Obertacke, Takao Kuwabara, G. Kroll, M. Krasberg, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, Subir Sarkar, A. Ishihara, E. A. Strahler, S. Yoshida, J. Feintzeig, K. Beattie, S. Bechet, C. Kopper, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, M. Olivo, N. Pirk, Nathan Whitehorn, Hermann Kolanoski, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, S. Euler, J. Kunnen, Damian Pieloth, A. M. Brown, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, L. Köpke, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, O. Jlelati, Kara Hoffman, M. Scheel, A. H. Cruz Silva, S. Tilav, Wolfgang Rhode, L. Rädel, P. Nießen, M. Stamatikos, Jenni Adams, A. Goldschmidt, Matt Dunkman, T. Fischer-Wasels, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Dirk Ryckbosch, K. Wiebe, H. G. Sander, Carsten Rott, Chun Xu, M. Bissok, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, R. Morse, T. Salameh, Xianwu Xu, C. Bohm, J. Ziemann, M. W. E. Smith, L. Brayeur, M. Soiron, I. Taboada, S. Flis, J. A. Goodman, Dariusz Gora, Joshua Pepper, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Montaruli, Teresa, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, and Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group
Subjects: FLUX, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Air shower, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic rays, Detector, IceCube, IceTop, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Shower, Data acquisition, cosmic rays, DIGITIZATION, 0103 physical sciences, SHOWERS, Calibration, ddc:530, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Remote sensing, Physics, Muon, detector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, ENERGY-SPECTRUM, Physics and Astronomy, SIMULATION, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1 km2. The detector allows a detailed exploration of the mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range from about 100 TeV to 1 EeV by exploiting the correlation between the shower energy measured in IceTop and the energy deposited by muons in the deep ice. In this paper we report on the technical design, construction and installation, the trigger and data acquisition systems as well as the software framework for calibration, reconstruction and simulation. Finally the first experience from commissioning and operating the detector and the performance as an air shower detector will be discussed., 50 pages, 38 figures; submitted to NIM A
Published: 2013

43. Cosmic ray composition and energy spectrum from 1–30 PeV using the 40-string configuration of IceTop and IceCube

Author: R. Bruijn, D. Heereman, Dariusz Gora, S. Odrowski, Larissa Paul, F. Scheriau, Albrecht Karle, A. Schönwald, K. Meagher, Timo Karg, J. Feintzeig, S. Schoenen, Thorsten Glusenkamp, M. W. E. Smith, K. Rawlins, A. Homeier, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, D. J. Boersma, W. Huelsnitz, M. Stamatikos, Joshua Pepper, Anatoli Fedynitch, K. Hoshina, Christopher Wiebusch, M. Krasberg, James Madsen, K. Beattie, Frank McNally, E. Middell, J. Daughhetee, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, Elisa Bernardini, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, K. Helbing, Glenn Spiczak, L. Brayeur, M. Soiron, J. Auffenberg, M. Labare, M. Ribordy, S. M. Saba, O. Schulz, Teresa Montaruli, S. Yoshida, Daniel Bindig, A. Goldschmidt, J. van Santen, T. Feusels, I. Taboada, S. Flis, D. Z. Besson, Matthias Wolf, A. Olivas, D. R. Nygren, D. van der Drift, T. Salameh, N. van Eijndhoven, Jürgen Brunner, C. Kopper, J. Kiryluk, Naoko Kurahashi, D. Bertrand, S. Seunarine, U. Naumann, J. E. Jacobsen, Benedikt Riedel, Axel Groß, Marcos Santander, P. Heimann, Carsten Rott, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, D. Rutledge, Nathan Whitehorn, A. Stasik, Gerald Przybylski, A. Zilles, R. Wasserman, A. Obertacke, M. Zoll, K. Mase, R. Hellauer, M. L. Benabderrahmane, M. Schmitz, O. Jlelati, Donglian Xu, H. Landsman, L. Gerhardt, L. Schulte, Ch. Weaver, J. K. Becker, J. A. Goodman, M. Scheel, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, G. Kroll, J. Miller, Karen Andeen, Chad Finley, S. Tilav, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, B. Ruzybayev, M. Gurtner, M. Bissok, S. Bechet, Juanan Aguilar, Jenni Adams, Takao Kuwabara, Subir Sarkar, J. Blumenthal, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, K.-H. Becker, J. C. Gallagher, S. Panknin, S. Hussain, A. Ishihara, S. Hickford, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, P. Redl, Matt Dunkman, J. Dreyer, R. G. Stokstad, Thomas Meures, T. Fischer-Wasels, Dennis Soldin, Xianwu Xu, H. Taavola, Allan Hallgren, D. J. Koskinen, S. H. Seo, R. Nahnhauer, M. Olivo, A. Van Overloop, Aongus O'Murchadha, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, M. Merck, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Sandro Kopper, L. Schönherr, E. Jacobi, Y. Abdou, H. G. Sander, C. Bohm, Kael Hanson, Olga Botner, L. Mohrmann, N. Milke, George Japaridze, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, M. Casier, Dirk Ryckbosch, O. Engdegård, T. Fuchs, Rasha Abbasi, Michael J. Baker, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, J. Lünemann, S. Schöneberg, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, Elisa Resconi, V. Baum, Paolo Desiati, J. Berdermann, J. Casey, S. Miarecki, P. Berghaus, J. Kläs, Chun Xu, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, L. Rädel, J. Ziemann, C. Pérez de los Heros, Simona Toscano, R. C. Bay, S. M. Movit, N. Pirk, R. Ström, S. Euler, R. W. Ellsworth, J. Kunnen, E. A. Strahler, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, Damian Pieloth, Henrik J. Johansson, A. M. Brown, J. J. Beatty, M. J. Larson, Hermann Kolanoski, K. Wiebe, L. Köpke, J. Posselt, Fabian Kislat, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, Kara Hoffman, K. Schatto, A. Stößl, G. Kohnen, A. H. Cruz Silva, Reina H. Maruyama, Wolfgang Rhode, R. Morse, H. S. Matis, A. Franckowiak, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, D. Altmann, Peter Mészáros, Stijn Buitink, S. Westerhoff, Christian Spiering, F. Rothmaier, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, Sarah Nowicki, Markus Ahlers, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, M. Kowalski, M. Danninger, Xinhua Bai, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, F. Descamps, R. Hoffmann, R. Franke, C. Walck, R. Eagan, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, M. Richman, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, S. Böser, David A. Williams, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, A. Tamburro, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, T. R. Wood, K. Frantzen, F. Clevermann, Y. Sestayo, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, J. P. Yanez, G. W. Sullivan, Dmitry Chirkin, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, A. Haj Ismail, M. Usner, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Montaruli, Teresa, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, and Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group
Subjects: Knee region, Astrophysics, Tracking (particle physics), 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, IceCube, TRACKING, WATER, Cherenkov, Neutrino energy, NEUTRINO TELESCOPE, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, SEA, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, LIGHT, Composition, Cosmic rays, Energy spectrum, IceTop, ddc:540, PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, IceCube detector, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, SEARCHES, Acceleration, cosmic rays, dE/dx, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, DETECTOR, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, Truncated mean, Muon energy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics and Astronomy, composition, Energy Spectrum, TEV
Abstract: Astroparticle physics 42, 15 - 32 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.003, The mass composition of high energy cosmic rays depends on their production, acceleration, and propagation. The study of cosmic ray composition can therefore reveal hints of the origin of these particles. At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is capable of measuring two components of cosmic ray air showers in coincidence: the electromagnetic component at high altitude (2835 m) using the IceTop surface array, and the muonic component above ∼1 TeV using the IceCube array. This unique detector arrangement provides an opportunity for precision measurements of the cosmic ray energy spectrum and composition in the region of the knee and beyond. We present the results of a neural network analysis technique to study the cosmic ray composition and the energy spectrum from 1 PeV to 30 PeV using data recorded using the 40-string/40-station configuration of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory., Published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam [u.a.]
Published: 2013

44. The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore

Author: T. Griesel, K. Wiebe, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, J. Miller, M. Bissok, Xianwu Xu, S. Boeser, C. Ha, K. Rawlins, P. Berghaus, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Jay Gallagher, J. K. Becker, R. Nahnhauer, Q. Swillens, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, James Madsen, Jon Dumm, S. Euler, T. Waldenmaier, Thomas Meures, Joanna Kiryluk, A. Stoessl, M. Kowalski, M. Danninger, T. Kowarik, C. Walck, R. Ström, J. Petrovic, A. Olivas, A. Gross, Ignacio Taboada, Teresa Montaruli, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, K. Andeen, M. V. D'Agostino, Timo Karg, Chris Wendt, M. Stamatikos, Damian Pieloth, M. Labare, P. B. Price, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, M. J. Larson, M. Merck, A. M. Brown, Takao Kuwabara, A. Tamburro, Xinhua Bai, Markus Ahlers, Allan Hallgren, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. Richman, Fabian Kislat, B. Christy, S. Seunarine, R. Porrata, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, T. R. Wood, Seth M. Cohen, N. Milke, George Japaridze, R. J. Lauer, W. Huesnitz, Nathan Whitehorn, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, C. De Clercq, T. Degner, Tim Ruhe, D. Rutledge, M. Walter, Peter Mészáros, O. Engdegård, Kurt Woschnagg, Klas Hultqvist, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, J. A. Goodman, D. Z. Besson, R. Wischnewski, B. Semburg, H. G. Sander, K. Helbing, Markus Ackermann, A. Schultes, Segev BenZvi, Paul Evenson, J. Feintzeig, S. Westerhoff, C. Colnard, Spencer Klein, Aya Ishihara, H. Wissing, A. Marotta, Larissa Paul, Chun Xu, J. Auffenberg, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, M. Stueer, Daniel Bindig, B. Hoffmann, F. Descamps, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Dmitry Chirkin, H. Taavola, K. Beattie, Albrecht Karle, A. Silvestri, Christian Spiering, A. Tepe, A. H. Cruz Silva, Stijn Buitink, A. Piegsa, Ch. Weaver, O. Schulz, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, S. H. Seo, Dariusz Gora, Hermann Kolanoski, R. Franke, K. Han, Elisa Resconi, Alexander Kappes, A. Franckowiak, Matt Dunkman, K. Mase, J. Berdermann, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, Kael Hanson, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, T. Fischer-Wasels, Justin Vandenbroucke, Chad Finley, R. Morse, G. W. Sullivan, Wolfgang Rhode, M. Schunck, D. Berley, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, S. M. Movit, R. Hellauer, T. Abu-Zayyad, Rasha Abbasi, H. Landsman, Dirk Ryckbosch, J. P. Huelss, Martin Wolf, S. Bechet, T. Gluesenkamp, L. Demiroers, M. M. Allen, S. Hussain, Simona Toscano, J. H. Koehne, F. Rothmaier, A. Van Overloop, R. W. Ellsworth, Steven W. Barwick, F. Clevermann, P. Redl, D. J. Koskinen, Donglian Xu, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Darren Grant, M. Olivo, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, A. Goldschmidth, M. Ribordy, J. P. Yanez, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, F. A. Fedynitch, Jenni Adams, S. Panknin, J. L. Bazo Alba, J. Luenemann, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, J. J. Beatty, S. Tilav, T. Feusels, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, J. Dreyer, Subir Sarkar, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, R. G. Stokstad, J. Posselt, Y. Abdou, L. Gerhardt, K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, J. W. Nam, Glenn Spiczak, Reina H. Maruyama, D. Bose, E. Jacobi, U. Naumann, Paolo Desiati, K. H. Becker, D. J. Boersma, J. Blumenthal, H. S. Matis, E. A. Strahler, G. C. Hill, Michael J. Baker, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, R. C. Bay, J. van Santen, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, M. Krasberg, Olga Botner, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, Henrik J. Johansson, S. Yoshida, N. van Eijndhoven, G. Kroll, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, D. Tosi, Gerald Przybylski, M. Zoll, A. Haj Ismail, B. D. Fox, Naoko Kurahashi, D. Bertrand, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Gurtner, S. Odrowski, M. Dierckxsens, B. Ruzybayev, C. Pérez de los Heros, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Antartica, Generator, Astrophysics, Neutrino telescope, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Antarctica, DeepCore, Detector, IceCube, Neutrino, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Ice, ICE, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), GENERATOR, Supernova, Air shower, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, ddc:540, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The IceCube neutrino observatory in operation at the South Pole, Antarctica, comprises three distinct components: a large buried array for ultrahigh energy neutrino detection, a surface air shower array, and a new buried component called DeepCore. DeepCore was designed to lower the IceCube neutrino energy threshold by over an order of magnitude, to energies as low as about 10 GeV. DeepCore is situated primarily 2100 m below the surface of the icecap at the South Pole, at the bottom center of the existing IceCube array, and began taking physics data in May 2010. Its location takes advantage of the exceptionally clear ice at those depths and allows it to use the surrounding IceCube detector as a highly efficient active veto against the principal background of downward-going muons produced in cosmic-ray air showers. DeepCore has a module density roughly five times higher than that of the standard IceCube array, and uses photomultiplier tubes with a new photocathode featuring a quantum efficiency about 35% higher than standard IceCube PMTs. Taken together, these features of DeepCore will increase IceCube's sensitivity to neutrinos from WIMP dark matter annihilations, atmospheric neutrino oscillations, galactic supernova neutrinos, and point sources of neutrinos in the northern and southern skies. In this paper we describe the design and initial performance of DeepCore., Comment: 22 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2012

45. All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured with 26 IceTop stations

Author: Donglian Xu, Carsten Rott, J. Miller, M. Bissok, C. Pérez de los Heros, Xianwu Xu, C. Bohm, M. L. Benabderrahmane, M. Stüer, N. Milke, George Japaridze, K. Wiebe, R. Hellauer, Todor Stanev, M. W. E. Smith, S. Seunarine, I. Taboada, S. Flis, A. Haj Ismail, C. Wendt, F. Descamps, Markus Ahlers, O. Engdegård, K.-H. Becker, D. Rutledge, S. Odrowski, Larissa Paul, T. Abu-Zayyad, Juanan Aguilar, Takao Kuwabara, J. Dreyer, Ch. Weaver, Subir Sarkar, Segev BenZvi, Y. Abdou, Benedikt Riedel, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, Spencer Klein, Peter Mészáros, J. A. Goodman, Matt Dunkman, T. Fischer-Wasels, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Chad Finley, R. Franke, C. Walck, S. H. Seo, A. Ishihara, K. Rawlins, M. Labare, D. Bose, B. Ruzybayev, E. Jacobi, James Madsen, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, D. Z. Besson, Thomas Meures, E. A. Strahler, Kara Hoffman, J. Feintzeig, Dariusz Gora, A. Tamburro, Dirk Ryckbosch, M. Merck, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, Stijn Buitink, S. Westerhoff, A. H. Cruz Silva, Elisa Resconi, Thorsten Glusenkamp, O. Schulz, Anatoli Fedynitch, Teresa Montaruli, M. V. D'Agostino, J. Berdermann, M. Richman, K. Beattie, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, Nathan Whitehorn, A. Silvestri, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, J. Kiryluk, J. Lünemann, C. Ha, P. B. Price, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Wolfgang Rhode, L. Schulte, R. J. Lauer, Albrecht Karle, A. Schultes, R. Morse, Christian Spiering, R. C. Bay, H. S. Matis, A. Van Overloop, L. Brayeur, C. De Clercq, T. Degner, T. O. B. Schmidt, Karen Andeen, P. Berghaus, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, S. Böser, A. Schönwald, F. Clevermann, T. R. Wood, J. J. Beatty, S. Euler, B. Hoffmann, H. Taavola, David A. Williams, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, M. Scheel, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, A. Homeier, Kurt Woschnagg, Y. Sestayo, J. Posselt, Matthias Wolf, Rasha Abbasi, S. Tilav, K. Han, D. Altmann, H. G. Sander, K. Hoshina, Paul Evenson, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, M. Kowalski, R. Nahnhauer, Christopher Wiebusch, M. Danninger, J. L. Bazo Alba, A. Stößl, Simona Toscano, K. Meagher, Damian Pieloth, W. Huelsnitz, Chun Xu, Reina H. Maruyama, A. M. Brown, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, J. Daughhetee, Francis Halzen, M. Ribordy, R. W. Ellsworth, J. P. Yanez, S. M. Movit, M. Stamatikos, Glenn Spiczak, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, P. Zarzhitsky, T. Feusels, F. Rothmaier, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, Jenni Adams, Dmitry Chirkin, J. E. Jacobsen, Aongus O'Murchadha, Marcos Santander, O. Fadiran, G. W. Sullivan, K. Hultqvist, P. Heimann, L. Gerhardt, L. Köpke, B. Semburg, Alexander Kappes, Darren Grant, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, D. J. Boersma, S. Hickford, Michael J. Baker, Xinhua Bai, S. Bechet, Sarah Nowicki, R. G. Stokstad, L. Gladstone, R. Wischnewski, Dirk Heinen, A. Goldschmidt, J. Auffenberg, D. Heereman, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, Naoko Kurahashi, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, Daniel Bindig, P. Redl, D. Bertrand, P. A. Toale, M. Olivo, K. Helbing, N. van Eijndhoven, U. Naumann, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, S. Klepser, J. K. Becker, G. Kroll, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Gurtner, M. Krasberg, M. Schunck, J. C. Gallagher, S. Yoshida, M. Casier, Allan Hallgren, J. van Santen, S. Hussain, Sandro Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, Kael Hanson, J. Kunnen, Axel Groß, Timo Karg, J. W. Nam, S. Schöneberg, D. R. Nygren, Paolo Desiati, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, M. J. Larson, Fabian Kislat, A. Franckowiak, J. Blumenthal, K. Mase, Olga Botner, V. Baum, Henrik J. Johansson, S. Panknin, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, R. Ström, Hermann Kolanoski, D. Tosi, H. Landsman, Gerald Przybylski, M. Zoll, A. Olivas, R. Wasserman, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Montaruli, Teresa, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic rays, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Zenith, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Energy spectrum, IceTop, Spectral index, COSMIC cancer database, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Air shower, KASCADE, ddc:540, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Astroparticle physics 44, 40 - 58 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.016, We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum with the IceTop air shower array, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The data used in this analysis were taken between June and October, 2007, with 26 surface stations operational at that time, corresponding to about one third of the final array. The fiducial area used in this analysis was 0.122 km2. The analysis investigated the energy spectrum from 1 to 100 PeV measured for three different zenith angle ranges between 0° and 46°. Because of the isotropy of cosmic rays in this energy range the spectra from all zenith angle intervals have to agree. The cosmic-ray energy spectrum was determined under different assumptions on the primary mass composition. Good agreement of spectra in the three zenith angle ranges was found for the assumption of pure proton and a simple two-component model. For zenith angles θ < 30°, where the mass dependence is smallest, the knee in the cosmic ray energy spectrum was observed at about 4 PeV, with a spectral index above the knee of about −3.1. Moreover, an indication of a flattening of the spectrum above 22 PeV was observed., Published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam [u.a.]
Published: 2012
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46. Background studies for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole

Author: T. Denger, H. Taavola, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, K. Han, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, J. J. Beatty, B. Semburg, A. Piegsa, M. Krasberg, C. Pérez de los Heros, H. Wissing, K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, Glenn Spiczak, J. Posselt, Daniel Bindig, S. M. Movit, J. Auffenberg, U. Naumann, S. Yoshida, J. M. Clem, P. Zarzhitsk, A. Van Overloop, Ch. Weaver, Reina H. Maruyama, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, O. Depaepe, P. B. Price, Chad Finley, T. Griesel, M. Ono, S. Stoyanov, K.-H. Becker, J. L. Bazo Alba, Peter Mészáros, M. Kowalski, J. Luenemann, K. Rawlins, T. Feusels, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, L. Gerhardt, Larissa Paul, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, D. Bose, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. Danninger, K. Wiebe, T. Fischer-Wasels, James Madsen, A. Schukraft, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, Segev BenZvi, D. Z. Besson, Spencer Klein, T. Kowarik, A. Marotta, Thomas Meures, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, R. C. Bay, J. M. Joseph, M. Ribordy, H. S. Matis, E. A. Strahler, Kurt Woschnagg, N. van Eijndhoven, Dirk Ryckbosch, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Paul Evenson, Teresa Montaruli, P. Roth, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, M. J. Larson, Albrecht Karle, D. Tosi, J. P. Rodrigues, Anatoli Fedynitch, Stijn Buitink, T. Stezelberger, P. Niessen, A. Tamburro, D. Turcan, M. Dierckxsens, Jenni Adams, Christian Spiering, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, Fabian Kislat, Xinhua Bai, S. Boeser, Justin Vandenbroucke, I. Taboada, Francis Halzen, C. Ha, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, R. Morse, K. Mase, J. L. Kelley, O. Fadiran, M. Merck, G. Kroll, Markus Ahlers, K. Meagher, B. D. Fox, Wolfgang Rhode, M. L. Benabderrahmane, J. Dreyer, T. Abu-Zayyad, A. Franckowiak, S. Seunarine, Y. Abdou, Carsten Rott, J. Miller, J. P. Huelss, Ph. Herquet, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, A. Stoessl, M. Bissok, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, R. G. Stokstad, D. Rutledge, S. Bechet, R. Porrata, Pratik Majumdar, Gerald Przybylski, J. van Santen, R. Wischnewski, P. Redl, D. Heinen, Xianwu Xu, Martin Wolf, C. Colnard, C. Bohm, K. Laihem, M. Stamatikos, M. Olivo, T. Straszheim, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, D. Bertrand, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, L. Demiroers, J. K. Becker, Takao Kuwabara, Kael Hanson, J. Petrovic, H. G. Sander, B. Christy, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, Chun Xu, F. Rothmaier, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, A. Ishihara, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, A. Schultes, P. Berghaus, Timo Karg, B. Ruzybayev, M. M. Foerster, Rasha Abbasi, M. Wallraff, J. Blumenthal, A. Goldschmidt, S. Euler, M. Voge, J. C. Gallagher, M. Gurtner, Darren Grant, S. Panknin, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, M. Stüer, A. M. Brown, Paolo Desiati, Allan Hallgren, J. A. Goodman, Sandro Kopper, N. Milke, Olga Botner, George Japaridze, O. Engdegård, Aongus O'Murchadha, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, Henrik J. Johansson, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, T. Gluesenkamp, Simona Toscano, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, R. W. Ellsworth, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Michael J. Baker, J. W. Nam, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, S. H. Seo, Subir Sarkar, D. R. Nygren, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, S. Odrowski, D. J. Boersma, S.J. Lafebre, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, J. H. Koehne, F. Clevermann, J. P. Yanez, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, Q. Swillens, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, David A. Williams, S. W. Barwick, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, F. Descamps, A. Tepe, R. Franke, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, A. Gross, M. Labare, A. Silvestri, Karen Andeen, R. Nahnhauer, M. Schunck, K. Kuehn, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, T. Krings, Hermann Kolanoski, H. Landsman, M. V. D'Agostino, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Signals, TELESCOPE, Absolute noise level, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, law.invention, IceCube, Telescope, Acoustic neutrino detection, Neutrino flux limit, law, SIGNALS, 0103 physical sciences, WATER, Detection theory, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Acoustic neutrino detector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Water, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geodesy, Noise, Neutrino detector, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, ddc:540, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The detection of acoustic signals from ultra-high energy neutrino interactions is a promising method to measure the tiny flux of cosmogenic neutrinos expected on Earth. The energy threshold for this process depends strongly on the absolute noise level in the target material. The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS), deployed in the upper part of four boreholes of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has monitored the noise in Antarctic ice at the geographic South Pole for more than two years down to 500 m depth. The noise is very stable and Gaussian distributed. Lacking an in-situ calibration up to now, laboratory measurements have been used to estimate the absolute noise level in the 10 to 50 kHz frequency range to be smaller than 20 mPa. Using a threshold trigger, sensors of the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup registered acoustic pulse-like events in the IceCube detector volume and its vicinity. Acoustic signals from refreezing IceCube holes and from anthropogenic sources have been used to localize acoustic events. Monte Carlo simulations of sound propagating from the established sources to the SPATS sensors have allowed to check corresponding model expectations. An upper limit on the neutrino flux at energies $E_��> 10^{11}$ GeV is derived from acoustic data taken over eight months., 17 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2012

47. Multi-year search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA-II and IceCube detectors

Author: A. Piegsa, P. Berghaus, L. Schulte, S. Euler, K.-H. Becker, Donglian Xu, J. Feintzeig, Damian Pieloth, Matt Dunkman, T. Fischer-Wasels, M. Krasberg, A. M. Brown, D. Bose, A. Schukraft, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, K. Laihem, E. A. Strahler, A. Gross, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, Subir Sarkar, Naoko Kurahashi, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, D. Bertrand, W. Huelsnitz, R. Hellauer, A. Van Overloop, S. Yoshida, M. V. D'Agostino, Dirk Ryckbosch, J. Kiryluk, N. Milke, George Japaridze, K. Rawlins, M. J. Larson, Fabian Kislat, S. Schoeneberg, M. Labare, M. Casier, Peter Mészáros, J. Dreyer, Jon Dumm, O. Engdegård, Y. Abdou, T. Waldenmaier, K. Helbing, J. W. Nam, D. J. Boersma, Anatoli Fedynitch, A. Olivas, A. Stoessl, James Madsen, D. R. Nygren, A. Silvestri, Jenni Adams, M. Stamatikos, M. Kowalski, S. Odrowski, S. Bechet, Carsten Rott, Kael Hanson, A. Franckowiak, M. Danninger, H. S. Matis, J. Miller, M. L. Benabderrahmane, D. Z. Besson, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, P. Redl, F. Rothmaier, M. Wallraff, M. Bissok, M. Olivo, T. Kowarik, M. Voge, J. L. Bazo Alba, R. Wasserman, M. Schunck, K. Mase, M. Gurtner, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, Xianwu Xu, J. Luenemann, A. Goldschmidt, Karen Andeen, Thomas Meures, Francis Halzen, K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, Matthias Wolf, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, H. Landsman, Glenn Spiczak, C. Bohm, Sarah Nowicki, Juanan Aguilar, P. Zarzhitsky, Takao Kuwabara, T. Feusels, M. Merck, Paolo Desiati, Todor Stanev, O. Fadiran, R. G. Stokstad, C. Wendt, R. Wischnewski, Xinhua Bai, Michael S. Bell, Kirill Filimonov, C. Colnard, N. van Eijndhoven, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Panknin, A. Ishihara, C. Pérez de los Heros, U. Naumann, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, Markus Ahlers, L. Gerhardt, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Dariusz Gora, F. Descamps, T. Gluesenkamp, Simona Toscano, Teresa Montaruli, G. Kroll, R. Nahnhauer, R. W. Ellsworth, D. Heereman, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, A. H. Cruz Silva, Ch. Weaver, J. K. Becker, S. Tilav, S. Hussain, M. Dierckxsens, R. Franke, S. Westerhoff, Wolfgang Rhode, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, H. G. Sander, D. J. Koskinen, T. Griesel, A. Schultes, J. C. Gallagher, Chad Finley, A. Haj Ismail, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, C. Walck, K. Wiebe, M. Ribordy, Christian Spiering, Allan Hallgren, D. Tosi, Sandro Kopper, Chun Xu, Hermann Kolanoski, S. Boeser, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, I. Taboada, S. Flis, S. Seunarine, D. Rutledge, J. A. Goodman, M. Stueer, A. Marotta, B. Hoffmann, H. Taavola, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, K. Han, L. Brayeur, Stijn Buitink, M. Richman, S. M. Movit, Larissa Paul, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, Gerald Przybylski, M. Zoll, T. Degner, R. Morse, Albrecht Karle, David A. Williams, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, J. Blumenthal, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, Olga Botner, Henrik J. Johansson, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Timo Karg, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, H. Wissing, J. Auffenberg, A. Tamburro, Daniel Bindig, J. van Santen, Rasha Abbasi, J. Kunnen, J. H. Koehne, F. Clevermann, P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, T. R. Wood, J. P. Yanez, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, G. W. Sullivan, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, C. Ha, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, S. H. Seo, J. P. Huelss, J. J. Beatty, J. Posselt, Reina H. Maruyama, E. Jacobi, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, B. Ruzybayev, Aongus O'Murchadha, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Michael J. Baker, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, R. Ström, Aguilar Sanchez, Juan, Montaruli, Teresa, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Limits, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Capture, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, South-Pole, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, IceCube, High Energy Physics - Experiment, LIMITS, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), SOUTH-POLE, 0103 physical sciences, PARTICLES, ddc:530, Limit (mathematics), 010306 general physics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ICE, Detector, Ice, Supersymmetry, CAPTURE, Particles, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, Neutralino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope using data collected in 812 days of livetime between 2001 and 2006 and 149 days of livetime collected with the AMANDA-II and the 40-string configuration of IceCube during 2008 and early 2009. No excess over the expected atmospheric neutrino background has been observed. We combine these results with the previously published IceCube limits obtained with data taken during 2007 to obtain a total livetime of 1065 days. We provide an upper limit at 90% confidence level on the annihilation rate of captured neutralinos in the Sun, as well as the corresponding muon flux limit at the Earth, both as functions of the neutralino mass in the range 50 GeV-5000 GeV. We also derive a limit on the neutralino-proton spin-dependent and spin-independent cross section. The limits presented here improve the previous results obtained by the collaboration between a factor of two and five, as well as extending the neutralino masses probed down to 50 GeV. The spin-dependent cross section limits are the most stringent so far for neutralino masses above 200 GeV, and well below direct search results in the mass range from 50 GeV to 5 TeV., author list corrected. Full author list added in this website
Published: 2011

48. Erratum: Constraints on the extremely-high energy cosmic neutrino flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 data [Phys. Rev. D83, 092003 (2011)]

Author: J. A. Aguilar, Dariusz Gora, T. Denger, H. Taavola, C. Colnard, J.-P. Hülß, A. Tepe, K.-H. Becker, T. Fischer-Wasels, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, H. S. Matis, I. Taboada, K. Han, Pratik Majumdar, Thorsten Glusenkamp, A. Tamburro, M. Vehring, A. Piegsa, C. Ha, Marek Kowalski, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, P. B. Price, D. Turcan, T. O. B. Schmidt, J. J. Beatty, T. R. Wood, Paul Evenson, Francis Halzen, X. Bai, H. Landsman, C. B. Finley, J. Auffenberg, Dmitry Chirkin, S. M. Movit, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Dirk Ryckbosch, R. Ehrlich, O. Fadiran, Q. Swillens, J. Posselt, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Stijn Buitink, D. Heinen, O. Schulz, W. Huelsnitz, S. H. Seo, M. Gurtner, Ch. Weaver, G. Stephens, Henrik J. Johansson, A. Van Overloop, S. Westerhoff, S. Sarkar, K. Helbing, M. Labare, M. Ribordy, P. Zarzhitsky, A. Stössl, J. Petrovic, D. Z. Besson, P. Berghaus, J. van Santen, Carsten Rott, M. Bissok, N. van Eijndhoven, K. Mase, Christian Spiering, S. Euler, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Xianwu Xu, M. Dierckxsens, Axel Groß, Y. Sestayo, Reina H. Maruyama, Surujhdeo Seunarine, A. Marotta, C. Bohm, Justin Vandenbroucke, Damian Pieloth, T. Krings, Chun Xu, D. Hubert, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, J. M. Joseph, A. M. Brown, Paraic A. Kenny, D. Bertrand, M. Ono, E. A. Strahler, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, P. Nießen, Larissa Paul, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Ishihara, F. Clevermann, Jenni Adams, P. Herquet, J. L. Bazo Alba, Timo Karg, C. H. Wiebusch, T. Stanev, M. Schunck, K. Schatto, S. R. Klein, Martin Wolf, P. O. Hulth, G. Kohnen, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, L. Köpke, Segev BenZvi, P. Roth, Hermann Kolanoski, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, S. Hickford, M. Stamatikos, R. G. Stokstad, R. J. Lauer, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, B. Semburg, D. Rutledge, R. Wischnewski, J.-H. Köhne, F. Rothmaier, R. Morse, T. Feusels, H. Wissing, K. D. Hoffman, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, C. De Clercq, G. W. Sullivan, J. P. Rodrigues, Darren Grant, Anatoli Fedynitch, James E. Braun, D. Tosi, G. Kroll, Daniel Bindig, T. Straszheim, Marcos Santander, M. Stür, A. Schönwald, O. Depaepe, B. D. Fox, J. W. Nam, T. Stezelberger, K. H. Kampert, K. Wiebe, S. Böser, S. W. Barwick, Wolfgang Rhode, J. S. Miller, K. Beattie, K. Rawlins, S. Stoyanov, K. Meagher, L. Gerhardt, A. Olivas, T. Griesel, S. Odrowski, S. Bechet, C. Wendt, James Madsen, J. Lünemann, D. R. Nygren, A. Goldschmidt, P. Redl, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, R. C. Bay, K. Woschnagg, F. Descamps, Gerald Przybylski, Michael J Larson, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Janet Jacobsen, M. M. Foerster, Teresa Montaruli, Kirill Filimonov, Kael Hanson, R. Franke, C. Walck, J. Blumenthal, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Olga Botner, Anna Franckowiak, Rasha Abbasi, Paolo Desiati, M. Krasberg, S. Yoshida, K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, D. F. Cowen, U. Naumann, A. O'Murchadha, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, S. Panknin, Fabian Kislat, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Nathan Whitehorn, A. Homeier, J. Daughhetee, A. Karle, B. Ruzybayev, P. Meszaros, Markus Ahlers, R. Porrata, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, A. Schultes, J. M. Clem, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, T. Kowarik, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Matthias Danninger, J. D. Eisch, O. Engdegård, M. D. Baker, A. Silvestri, David R. Williams, J. S. Gallagher, Karen Andeen, R. Nahnhauer, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, J. K. Becker, H. G. Sander, Thomas Meures, M. Merck, L. Demirörs, A. R. Fazely, J. L. Kelley, Simona Toscano, R. W. Ellsworth, Allan Hallgren, T. Kuwabara, M. V. D'Agostino, Sandro Kopper, S.J. Lafebre, and A. Rizzo
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Massless particle, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation flux, COSMIC cancer database, Neutrino detector, Flux, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Neutrino, Lepton
Published: 2011

49. First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

Author: F. Clevermann, K. Mase, J. Blumenthal, K. Han, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, D. Z. Besson, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, Hg Sander, G. W. Sullivan, H. Wissing, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, Daniel Bindig, Olga Botner, C. Pérez de los Heros, M. Krasberg, T. Straszheim, D. J. Boersma, Rasha Abbasi, S. Panknin, A. Piegsa, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, S. Seunarine, H. Taavola, J. M. Clem, J. M. Joseph, Peter Mészáros, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, P. B. Price, S.J. Lafebre, D. Rutledge, A. Gross, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, T. O. B. Schmidt, Stijn Buitink, S. Yoshida, Joanna Kiryluk, D. Tosi, Ph. Herquet, Timo Karg, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, M. Kowalski, J. Auffenberg, Christian Spiering, O. Depaepe, K. Rawlins, Larissa Paul, S. H. Seo, Gerald Przybylski, R. Morse, M. Danninger, H. S. Matis, K. Hoshina, S. M. Movit, S. Stoyanov, S. Bechet, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, L. Koepke, Thomas Meures, Aongus O'Murchadha, T. Fischer-Wasels, Kael Hanson, Justin Vandenbroucke, Henrik J. Johansson, Glenn Spiczak, Albrecht Karle, James Madsen, A. Van Overloop, K. Beattie, Ch. Weaver, M. Labare, T. Griesel, T. Krings, M. Merck, Dmitry Chirkin, T. Kowarik, A. Silvestri, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, A. Schukraft, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, K. Meagher, O. Fadiran, O. Schulz, Chun Xu, J. W. Nam, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Martin Wolf, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, E. A. Strahler, K. Laihem, J. van Santen, K. Wiebe, U. Naumann, Dirk Ryckbosch, Teresa Montaruli, K. Schatto, P. Redl, K. H. Becker, J. J. Beatty, M. Ono, M. V. D'Agostino, G. Kohnen, D. R. Nygren, A. Tamburro, Chad Finley, F. Rothmaier, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Paolo Desiati, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, B. Voigt, J. L. Bazo Alba, Karen Andeen, T. Gluesenkamp, Simona Toscano, S. Odrowski, Xinhua Bai, O. Engdegård, J. Luenemann, K. H. Kampert, N. van Eijndhoven, T. Abu-Zayyad, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, R. W. Ellsworth, Darren Grant, M. Stamatikos, J. Posselt, Michael J. Baker, L. Demiroers, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, T. Feusels, Hermann Kolanoski, M. Voge, Pratik Majumdar, Carsten Rott, C. Ha, Elisa Resconi, M. J. Larson, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, J. Berdermann, A. Marotta, Kirill Filimonov, J. Miller, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Fabian Kislat, G. Kroll, J. K. Becker, M. Dierckxsens, L. Gerhardt, R. Nahnhauer, J-P Huelss, Reina H. Maruyama, L. Gladstone, P. Roth, A. Goldschmidt, R. Lehmann, M. Bissok, Subir Sarkar, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, D. Seckel, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, R. Porrata, M. M. Foerster, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, Anatoli Fedynitch, J. C. Gallagher, Takao Kuwabara, D. Bertrand, A. Franckowiak, Xianwu Xu, R. Ehrlich, B. Christy, G. Stephens, A. Olivas, A. Ishihara, Allan Hallgren, C. Bohm, S. Westerhoff, A. R. Fazely, O. Tarasova, Tyce DeYoung, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, S. Hussain, Sandro Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, A. Schultes, Kara Hoffman, D. Heinen, C. Colnard, H. Landsman, P. Niessen, S. Boeser, Yolanda Sestayo de la Cerra, J. Dreyer, I. Taboada, Y. Abdou, M. Wallraff, M. Gurtner, Wolfgang Rhode, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, B. D. Fox, P. Berghaus, S. Euler, A. Homeier, David A. Williams, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, A. M. Brown, S. W. Barwick, Christopher Wiebusch, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, J. Daughhetee, F. Descamps, J-H Koehne, A. Tepe, R. Franke, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Q. Swillens, B. Ruzybayev, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, M. Schunck, Jenni Adams, K. Kuehn, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, J. Petrovic, M. Olivo, and J. A. Goodman
Subjects: HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, SELECTION, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High-energy neutrinos, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Cosmic ray, Elementary particle, Astrophysics, Particle detector, IceCube, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), SCATTERING, ddc:530, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, SPECTRUM, ICE, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Massless particle, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, AMANDA-II, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lepton
Abstract: We report on the first search for atmospheric and for diffuse astrophysical neutrino-induced showers (cascades) in the IceCube detector using 257 days of data collected in the year 2007-2008 with 22 strings active. A total of 14 events with energies above 16 TeV remained after event selections in the diffuse analysis, with an expected total background contribution of $8.3\pm 3.6$. At 90% confidence we set an upper limit of $E^2\Phi_{90%CL}, Comment: 14 pages, 16 figures
Published: 2011

50. Constraints on the extremely-high energy cosmic neutrino flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 data

Author: S. Bechet, T. Abu-Zayyad, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, P. Redl, F. Clevermann, M. Olivo, Pratik Majumdar, B. Ruzybayev, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, A. Piegsa, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, N. Milke, George Japaridze, O. Engdegård, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, Larissa Paul, A. Gross, A. Stössl, Albrecht Karle, A. Schönwald, K. Meagher, Thomas Meures, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, Peter Mészáros, K. Rawlins, A. Homeier, M. Merck, J. Auffenberg, C. Ha, Christopher Wiebusch, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Denger, B. D. Fox, J. K. Becker, M. Diercksens, Dariusz Gora, Jon Dumm, Segev BenZvi, H. Taavola, J. Daughhetee, A. Van Overloop, N. van Eijndhoven, P. B. Price, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, Ch. Weaver, K.-H. Becker, J. van Santen, Spencer Klein, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, M. Kowalski, Takao Kuwabara, Q. Swillens, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, K. Hoshina, T. O. B. Schmidt, James Madsen, M. M. Foerster, J. M. Joseph, Aongus O'Murchadha, M. Danninger, T. Fischer-Wasels, B. Christy, J. C. Gallagher, A. Ishihara, Chad Finley, D. Z. Besson, T. R. Wood, Glenn Spiczak, Kara Hoffman, K. Han, R. Ehrlich, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, A. Silvestri, T. Kowarik, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, A. Olivas, U. Naumann, Michael J. Baker, Allan Hallgren, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Stijn Buitink, L. Gladstone, Sandro Kopper, D. Seckel, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, M. Ono, D. Bertrand, M. Voge, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, P. A. Toale, Teresa Montaruli, Karen Andeen, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, Dmitry Chirkin, J. L. Bazo Alba, G. Kroll, A. Tamburro, Anatoli Fedynitch, Wolfgang Rhode, Simona Toscano, Xinhua Bai, S. M. Movit, R. Morse, Dirk Ryckbosch, Christian Spiering, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, R. W. Ellsworth, C. Pérez los de Heros, John Clem, I. Taboada, P. Berghaus, M. Wallraff, Todor Stanev, T. Feusels, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, M. Labare, Ph. Herquet, C. Wendt, Justin Vandenbroucke, J. L. Kelley, M. Gurtner, S. Euler, M. J. Larson, F. Descamps, S. H. Seo, J. E. Jacobsen, D. Heinen, H. Landsman, Marcos Santander, C. Colnard, J.-P. Hülß, R. Nahnhauer, Fabian Kislat, Markus Ahlers, H. G. Sander, A. Tepe, L. Gerhardt, T. Glüsenkamp, Subir Sarkar, J. Dreyer, Carsten Rott, A. Marotta, Kael Hanson, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, A. M. Brown, R. Franke, C. Walck, H. A. B. Johansson, S. Seunarine, J. Miller, Chun Xu, Martin Wolf, H. S. Matis, M. Bissok, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, A. Franckowiak, P. Roth, Y. Abdou, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, D. Rutledge, R. Porrata, D. J. Boersma, L. Köpke, Xianwu Xu, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, F. Rothmaier, D. Turcan, C. Bohm, Francis Halzen, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, M. Ribordy, S.J. Lafebre, L. Demirörs, R. J. Lauer, M. V. D'Agostino, Darren Grant, P. Nießen, Paolo Desiati, M. Stamatikos, P. Zarzhitsky, C. De Clercq, S. Böser, David A. Williams, S. W. Barwick, O. Fadiran, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, A. Goldschmidt, Yolanda Sestayo de la Cerra, T. Griesel, Jenni Adams, K. Wiebe, A. Schultes, M. Krasberg, T. Krings, E. A. Strahler, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, Hermann Kolanoski, J. Petrovic, S. Yoshida, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, T. Straszheim, Timo Karg, Rasha Abbasi, W. Huelsnitz, J. W. Nam, D. R. Nygren, S. Odrowski, K. Helbing, K. Mase, S. Panknin, M. Schunck, O. Depaepe, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, S. Stoyanov, B. Semburg, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, Daniel Bindig, M. Stür, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, J. Lünemann, J. Blumenthal, Olga Botner, R. C. Bay, D. Tosi, Gerald Przybylski, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, J. J. Beatty, J. Posselt, and Reina H. Maruyama
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Rays, Astrophysics, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Spectrum, ddc:530, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, SPECTRUM, COSMIC cancer database, RAYS, Massless particle, Neutrino detector, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Lepton
Abstract: We report on a search for extremely-high energy neutrinos with energies greater than $10^6$ GeV using the data taken with the IceCube detector at the South Pole. The data was collected between April 2008 and May 2009 with the half completed IceCube array. The absence of signal candidate events in the sample of 333.5 days of livetime significantly improves model independent limit from previous searches and allows to place a limit on the diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with an $E^{-2}$ spectrum in the energy range $2.0 \times 10^{6}$ $-$ $6.3 \times 10^{9}$ GeV to a level of $E^2 \phi \leq 3.6 \times 10^{-8}$ ${\rm GeV cm^{-2} sec^{-1}sr^{-1}}$., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures. This corresponds to the paper Phys.Rev.D 83, 092003(2011), and its erratum Phys.Rev.D 84, 079902(2011)
Published: 2011

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