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1. Detection of astrophysical tau neutrino candidates in IceCube

Author: IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, V. Baum, S. Baur, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K.-H. Becker, J. Becker Tjus, C. Bellenghi, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Böttcher, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, R. S. Busse, M. A. Campana, C. Chen, D. Chirkin, S. Choi, B. A. Clark, K. Clark, L. Classen, A. Coleman, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, K. Deoskar, S. De Ridder, A. Desai, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, S. Dharani, A. Diaz, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, H. Dujmovic, M. Dunkman, M. A. DuVernois, E. Dvorak, T. Ehrhardt, P. Eller, R. Engel, J. Evans, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, S. Fiedlschuster, A. T. Fienberg, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, L. Fischer, D. Fox, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, P. Fürst, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, S. Garrappa, L. Gerhardt, A. Ghadimi, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, S. Goswami, D. Grant, T. Grégoire, Z. Griffith, S. Griswold, M. Gündüz, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, R. Halliday, L. Halve, F. Halzen, M. Ha Minh, K. Hanson, J. Hardin, A. Haungs, S. Hauser, D. Hebecker, K. Helbing, F. Henningsen, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, C. Hill, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, T. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, M. Jansson, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, B. J. P. Jones, R. Joppe, D. Kang, W. Kang, X. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, M. Karl, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, M. Kellermann, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, K. Kin, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, S. R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, P. Koundal, M. Kovacevich, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, G. Krückl, N. Kulacz, N. Kurahashi, A. Kyriacou, C. Lagunas Gualda, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, J. P. Lazar, K. Leonard, A. Leszczyńska, Y. Li, Q. R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, F. Lucarelli, A. Ludwig, W. Luszczak, Y. Lyu, W. Y. Ma, J. Madsen, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, P. Mallik, S. Mancina, I. C. Mariş, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, F. McNally, K. Meagher, A. Medina, M. Meier, S. Meighen-Berger, J. Merz, J. Micallef, D. Mockler, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, R. Morse, M. Moulai, R. Naab, R. Nagai, U. Naumann, J. Necker, G. Neer, L. V. Nguyễn, H. Niederhausen, M. U. Nisa, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, M. Oehler, A. Olivas, E. O’Sullivan, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, N. Park, G. K. Parker, E. N. Paudel, P. Peiffer, C. Pérez de los Heros, S. Philippen, D. Pieloth, S. Pieper, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, Y. Popovych, A. Porcelli, M. Prado Rodriguez, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, A. Raissi, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, I. C. Rea, A. Rehman, R. Reimann, M. Renschler, G. Renzi, E. Resconi, S. Reusch, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, G. Roellinghoff, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk Cantu, I. Safa, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Scharf, M. Schaufel, H. Schieler, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, J. Schneider, F. G. Schröder, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, S. Shefali, M. Silva, B. Smithers, R. Snihur, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, R. Stein, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, I. Taboada, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, S. Tilav, F. Tischbein, K. Tollefson, L. Tomankova, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, A. Trettin, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, R. Turcotte, C. F. Turley, J. P. Twagirayezu, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, D. Vannerom, J. van Santen, S. Verpoest, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, N. Wandkowsky, T. B. Watson, C. Weaver, A. Weindl, M. J. Weiss, J. Weldert, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, M. Weyrauch, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, D. R. Williams, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, J. Wulff, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, S. Yoshida, T. Yuan, and Z. Zhang
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract High-energy tau neutrinos are rarely produced in atmospheric cosmic-ray showers or at cosmic particle accelerators, but are expected to emerge during neutrino propagation over cosmic distances due to flavor mixing. When high energy tau neutrinos interact inside the IceCube detector, two spatially separated energy depositions may be resolved, the first from the charged current interaction and the second from the tau lepton decay. We report a novel analysis of 7.5 years of IceCube data that identifies two candidate tau neutrinos among the 60 “High-Energy Starting Events” (HESE) collected during that period. The HESE sample offers high purity, all-sky sensitivity, and distinct observational signatures for each neutrino flavor, enabling a new measurement of the flavor composition. The measured astrophysical neutrino flavor composition is consistent with expectations, and an astrophysical tau neutrino flux is indicated at 2.8 $$\sigma $$ σ significance.
Published: 2022
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2. Velocity independent constraints on spin-dependent DM-nucleon interactions from IceCube and PICO

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Baum, S. Baur, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K.-H. Becker, J. Becker Tjus, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Böttcher, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, J. Buscher, R. S. Busse, T. Carver, C. Chen, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, S. Choi, L. Classen, A. Coleman, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, K. Deoskar, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, A. Diaz, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, H. Dujmovic, M. Dunkman, E. Dvorak, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, P. Eller, R. Engel, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, S. Garrappa, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, S. Griswold, M. Günder, M. Gündüz, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, A. Haungs, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, P. Heix, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, F. Henningsen, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, T. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, F. Jonske, R. Joppe, D. Kang, W. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, M. Karl, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, G. Krückl, N. Kulacz, N. Kurahashi, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, J. P. Lazar, K. Leonard, A. Leszczynska, M. Leuermann, Q. R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, F. Lucarelli, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, Y. Lyu, W. Y. Ma, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, P. Mallik, K. Mallot, S. Mancina, I. C. Mariş, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, A. Medina, M. Meier, S. Meighen-Berger, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, R. Morse, M. Moulai, P. Muth, R. Nagai, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, M. Oehler, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, E. O’Sullivan, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, N. Park, P. Peiffer, C. Pérez de los Heros, S. Philippen, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, A. Porcelli, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, A. Raissi, M. Rameez, L. Rauch, K. Rawlins, I. C. Rea, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Renschler, G. Renzi, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, I. Safa, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Schaufel, H. Schieler, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, J. Schneider, F. G. Schröder, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, S. Shefali, M. Silva, R. Snihur, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, R. Stein, P. Steinmüller, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stössl, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Stürwald, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, I. Taboada, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, S. Tilav, L. Tomankova, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, A. Trettin, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, R. Turcotte, C. F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, T. B. Watson, C. Weaver, A. Weindl, M. J. Weiss, J. Weldert, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T. R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, T. Yuan, M. Zöcklein, IceCube Collaboration, C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist, D. M. Asner, D. Baxter, E. Behnke, M. Bressler, B. Broerman, G. Cao, C. J. Chen, U. Chowdhury, K. Clark, J. I. Collar, P. S. Cooper, M. Crisler, G. Crowder, N. A. Cruz-Venegas, C. E. Dahl, M. Das, S. Fallows, J. Farine, I. Felis, R. Filgas, F. Girard, G. Giroux, J. Hall, C. Hardy, O. Harris, E. W. Hoppe, M. Jin, L. Klopfenstein, C. B. Krauss, M. Laurin, I. Lawson, A. Leblanc, I. Levine, W. H. Lippincott, F. Mamedov, D. Maurya, P. Mitra, C. Moore, T. Nania, R. Neilson, A. J. Noble, P. Oedekerk, A. Ortega, M.-C. Piro, A. Plante, R. Podviyanuk, S. Priya, A. E. Robinson, S. Sahoo, O. Scallon, S. Seth, A. Sonnenschein, N. Starinski, I. Štekl, T. Sullivan, F. Tardif, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, N. Walkowski, U. Wichoski, Y. Yan, V. Zacek, J. Zhang, and PICO Collaboration
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract Adopting the Standard Halo Model (SHM) of an isotropic Maxwellian velocity distribution for dark matter (DM) particles in the Galaxy, the most stringent current constraints on their spin-dependent scattering cross-section with nucleons come from the IceCube neutrino observatory and the PICO-60 $$\hbox {C}_3\hbox {F}_8$$ C 3 F 8 superheated bubble chamber experiments. The former is sensitive to high energy neutrinos from the self-annihilation of DM particles captured in the Sun, while the latter looks for nuclear recoil events from DM scattering off nucleons. Although slower DM particles are more likely to be captured by the Sun, the faster ones are more likely to be detected by PICO. Recent N-body simulations suggest significant deviations from the SHM for the smooth halo component of the DM, while observations hint at a dominant fraction of the local DM being in substructures. We use the method of Ferrer et al. (JCAP 1509: 052, 2015) to exploit the complementarity between the two approaches and derive conservative constraints on DM-nucleon scattering. Our results constrain $$\sigma _{\mathrm{SD}} \lesssim 3 \times 10^{-39} \mathrm {cm}^2$$ σ SD ≲ 3 × 10 - 39 cm 2 ( $$6 \times 10^{-38} \mathrm {cm}^2$$ 6 × 10 - 38 cm 2 ) at $$\gtrsim 90\%$$ ≳ 90 % C.L. for a DM particle of mass 1 TeV annihilating into $$\tau ^+ \tau ^-$$ τ + τ - ( $$b\bar{b}$$ b b ¯ ) with a local density of $$\rho _{\mathrm{DM}} = 0.3~\mathrm {GeV/cm}^3$$ ρ DM = 0.3 GeV / cm 3 . The constraints scale inversely with $$\rho _{\mathrm{DM}}$$ ρ DM and are independent of the DM velocity distribution.
Published: 2020
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3. Development of an analysis to probe the neutrino mass ordering with atmospheric neutrinos using three years of IceCube DeepCore data

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K.-H. Becker, J. Becker Tjus, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, S. Böser, O. Botner, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, R. S. Busse, T. Carver, C. Chen, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, K. Clark, L. Classen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, K. Deoskar, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, A. Diaz, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, H. Dujmovic, M. Dunkman, E. Dvorak, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, J. J. Evans, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, S. Garrappa, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, M. Günder, M. Gündüz, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, F. Henningsen, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, W. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, M. Karl, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, G. Krückl, N. Kulacz, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, J. P. Lazar, K. Leonard, M. Leuermann, Q. R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, F. Lucarelli, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, K. Mallot, S. Mancina, I. C. Mariş, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, K. Meagher, M. Medici, A. Medina, M. Meier, S. Meighen-Berger, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, M. Moulai, R. Nagai, R. Nahnhauer, P. Nakarmi, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, E. O’Sullivan, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, N. Park, P. Peiffer, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, A. Raissi, M. Rameez, L. Rauch, K. Rawlins, I. C. Rea, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, G. Renzi, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, I. Safa, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Schaufel, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, J. Schneider, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, M. Silva, R. Snihur, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, S. Söldner-Rembold, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, R. Stein, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, S. Tilav, L. Tomankova, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, R. Turcotte, C. F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, T. B. Watson, C. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, J. Weldert, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T. R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, S. Wren, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and T. Yuan
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract The Neutrino Mass Ordering (NMO) remains one of the outstanding questions in the field of neutrino physics. One strategy to measure the NMO is to observe matter effects in the oscillation pattern of atmospheric neutrinos above $$\sim 1\,\mathrm {GeV}$$ ∼1GeV , as proposed for several next-generation neutrino experiments. Moreover, the existing IceCube DeepCore detector can already explore this type of measurement. We present the development and application of two independent analyses to search for the signature of the NMO with three years of DeepCore data. These analyses include a full treatment of systematic uncertainties and a statistically-rigorous method to determine the significance for the NMO from a fit to the data. Both analyses show that the dataset is fully compatible with both mass orderings. For the more sensitive analysis, we observe a preference for normal ordering with a p-value of $$p_\mathrm {IO} = 15.3\%$$ pIO=15.3% and $$\mathrm {CL}_\mathrm {s}=53.3\%$$ CLs=53.3% for the inverted ordering hypothesis, while the experimental results from both analyses are consistent within their uncertainties. Since the result is independent of the value of $$\delta _\mathrm {CP}$$ δCP and obtained from energies $$E_\nu \gtrsim 5\,\mathrm {GeV}$$ Eν≳5GeV , it is complementary to recent results from long-baseline experiments. These analyses set the groundwork for the future of this measurement with more capable detectors, such as the IceCube Upgrade and the proposed PINGU detector.
Published: 2020
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4. Search for steady point-like sources in the astrophysical muon neutrino flux with 8 years of IceCube data

Author: IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. Barbano, J. P. Barron, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, S. Böser, O. Botner, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, R. S. Busse, T. Carver, C. Chen, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, K. Clark, L. Classen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, K. Deoskar, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, H. Dujmovic, M. Dunkman, E. Dvorak, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, S. Garrappa, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, P. Kalaczynski, W. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, K. Leonard, M. Leuermann, Q. R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, S. Mancina, I. C. Mariş, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, M. Moulai, R. Nagai, R. Nahnhauer, P. Nakarmi, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, E. O’Sullivan, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, M. Rameez, L. Rauch, K. Rawlins, I. C. Rea, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, G. Renzi, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, I. Safa, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Schaufel, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, J. Schneider, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, R. Stein, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, S. Tilav, M. N. Tobin, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, R. Turcotte, C. F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, F. D. Wandler, N. Wandkowsky, T. B. Watson, C. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and T. Yuan
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract The IceCube Collaboration has observed a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux and recently found evidence for neutrino emission from the blazar TXS 0506$$+$$ + 056. These results open a new window into the high-energy universe. However, the source or sources of most of the observed flux of astrophysical neutrinos remains uncertain. Here, a search for steady point-like neutrino sources is performed using an unbinned likelihood analysis. The method searches for a spatial accumulation of muon-neutrino events using the very high-statistics sample of about 497,000 neutrinos recorded by IceCube between 2009 and 2017. The median angular resolution is $$\sim 1^\circ $$ ∼1∘ at 1 TeV and improves to $$\sim 0.3^\circ $$ ∼0.3∘ for neutrinos with an energy of 1 PeV. Compared to previous analyses, this search is optimized for point-like neutrino emission with the same flux-characteristics as the observed astrophysical muon-neutrino flux and introduces an improved event-reconstruction and parametrization of the background. The result is an improvement in sensitivity to the muon-neutrino flux compared to the previous analysis of $$\sim 35\%$$ ∼35% assuming an $$E^{-2}$$ E-2 spectrum. The sensitivity on the muon-neutrino flux is at a level of $$E^2 \mathrm {d} N /\mathrm {d} E = 3\cdot 10^{-13}\,\mathrm {TeV}\,\mathrm {cm}^{-2}\,\mathrm {s}^{-1}$$ E2dN/dE=3·10-13TeVcm-2s-1 . No new evidence for neutrino sources is found in a full sky scan and in an a priori candidate source list that is motivated by gamma-ray observations. Furthermore, no significant excesses above background are found from populations of sub-threshold sources. The implications of the non-observation for potential source classes are discussed.
Published: 2019
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5. Erratum to: Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, M. Archinger, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, A. Bernhard, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Braun, L. Brayeur, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, A. Burgman, T. Carver, M. Casier, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, K. Clark, L. Classen, S. Coenders, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, E. del Pino Rosendo, H. Dembinski, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, V. di Lorenzo, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Feintzeig, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, S. Flis, C.-C. Fösig, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, L. Gladstone, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, E. Hansen, T. Hansmann, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, S. In, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, W. Kang, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, M. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, G. Kohnen, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, R. Konietz, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, C. Krüger, J. Kunnen, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, D. Lennarz, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, S. Mancina, M. Mandelartz, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, A. Meli, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, T. Montaruli, M. Moulai, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, Ö. Penek, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, M. Quinnan, C. Raab, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Relich, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, L. Sabbatini, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, R. Ström, N. L. Strotjohann, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, H. Taavola, I. Taboada, J. Tatar, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, G. Tešić, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, A. Turcati, E. Unger, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, M. van Rossem, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, M. Voge, E. Vogel, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, Ch. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, S. Wickmann, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and M. Zoll
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: In the analysis published in 1, constraints on the number of signal events can be interpreted as constraints on the volumetric neutrino to muon conversion rate.
Published: 2019
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6. Search for neutrinos from decaying dark matter with IceCube

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, I. Al Samarai, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, J. P. Barron, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, S. Böser, O. Botner, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, M. Brenzke, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, R. S. Busse, T. Carver, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, K. Clark, L. Classen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, V. di Lorenzo, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, E. Dvorak, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, S. Flis, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, P. Kalaczynski, W. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, M. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, J. P. Koschinsky, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, K. Leonard, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, Q. R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, S. Mancina, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, M. Moulai, R. Nahnhauer, P. Nakarmi, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, E. O’Sullivan, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, M. Plum, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, L. Rauch, K. Rawlins, I. C. Rea, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Relich, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, I. Safa, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Schaufel, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, R. Stein, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, J. Tatar, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, C. F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, F. D. Wandler, N. Wandkowsky, A. Waza, C. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and T. Yuan
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract With the observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, interest has risen in models of PeV-mass decaying dark matter particles to explain the observed flux. We present two dedicated experimental analyses to test this hypothesis. One analysis uses 6 years of IceCube data focusing on muon neutrino ‘track’ events from the Northern Hemisphere, while the second analysis uses 2 years of ‘cascade’ events from the full sky. Known background components and the hypothetical flux from unstable dark matter are fitted to the experimental data. Since no significant excess is observed in either analysis, lower limits on the lifetime of dark matter particles are derived: we obtain the strongest constraint to date, excluding lifetimes shorter than $$10^{28}\hbox { s}$$ 1028s at 90% CL for dark matter masses above $$10~\hbox {TeV}$$ 10TeV .
Published: 2018
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7. 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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8. Measurement of the $$\nu _{\mu }$$ νμ energy spectrum with IceCube-79

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, I. Al Samarai, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, M. Archinger, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, L. Brayeur, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, A. Burgman, T. Carver, M. Casier, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, K. Clark, L. Classen, S. Coenders, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, E. del Pino Rosendo, H. Dembinski, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, V. di Lorenzo, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Feintzeig, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, S. Flis, C.-C. Fösig, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, L. Gladstone, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, E. Hansen, T. Hansmann, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, S. In, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, W. Kang, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, M. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, G. Kohnen, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, R. Konietz, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, C. Krüger, J. Kunnen, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, D. Lennarz, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, S. Mancina, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, M. Moulai, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, Ö. Penek, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, M. Quinnan, C. Raab, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Relich, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, L. Sabbatini, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, R. Ström, N. L. Strotjohann, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, H. Taavola, I. Taboada, J. Tatar, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, G. Tešić, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, E. Unger, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, M. van Rossem, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, M. Voge, E. Vogel, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, A. Waza, Ch. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, S. Wickmann, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and M. Zoll
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract IceCube is a neutrino observatory deployed in the glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. The $$\nu _\mu $$ νμ energy unfolding described in this paper is based on data taken with IceCube in its 79-string configuration. A sample of muon neutrino charged-current interactions with a purity of 99.5% was selected by means of a multivariate classification process based on machine learning. The subsequent unfolding was performed using the software Truee. The resulting spectrum covers an E$$_\nu $$ ν -range of more than four orders of magnitude from 125 GeV to 3.2 PeV. Compared to the Honda atmospheric neutrino flux model, the energy spectrum shows an excess of more than $$1.9\,\sigma $$ 1.9σ in four adjacent bins for neutrino energies $$E_\nu \ge 177.8\,\text {TeV}$$ Eν≥177.8TeV . The obtained spectrum is fully compatible with previous measurements of the atmospheric neutrino flux and recent IceCube measurements of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
Published: 2017
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9. Search for neutrinos from dark matter self-annihilations in the center of the Milky Way with 3 years of IceCube/DeepCore

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, I. Al Samarai, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, J. P. Barron, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K. -H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, L. Brayeur, M. Brenzke, H. -P. Bretz, S. Bron, A. Burgman, T. Carver, J. Casey, M. Casier, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, K. Clark, L. Classen, S. Coenders, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, V. di Lorenzo, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, S. Flis, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, S. In, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, P. Kalacynski, W. Kang, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, M. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, G. Kohnen, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, J. P. Koschinsky, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, J. Kunnen, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, D. Lennarz, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, Q. R. Liu, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, S. Mancina, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, M. Moulai, R. Nahnhauer, P. Nakarmi, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, M. Plum, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Relich, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, T. Sälzer, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, N. L. Strotjohann, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, J. Tatar, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, G. Tešić, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, C. F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, E. Vogel, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, F. D. Wandler, N. Wandkowsky, A. Waza, C. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, S. Wickmann, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, T. Yuan, and M. Zoll
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract We present a search for a neutrino signal from dark matter self-annihilations in the Milky Way using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube). In 1005 days of data we found no significant excess of neutrinos over the background of neutrinos produced in atmospheric air showers from cosmic ray interactions. We derive upper limits on the velocity averaged product of the dark matter self-annihilation cross section and the relative velocity of the dark matter particles $$\langle \sigma _{\text {A}}v\rangle $$ ⟨ σ A v ⟩ . Upper limits are set for dark matter particle candidate masses ranging from 10 GeV up to 1 TeV while considering annihilation through multiple channels. This work sets the most stringent limit on a neutrino signal from dark matter with mass between 10 and 100 GeV, with a limit of $$1.18\cdot 10^{-23}\text { cm}^3\text {s}^{-1}$$ 1.18 · 10 - 23 cm 3 s - 1 for 100 GeV dark matter particles self-annihilating via $$\tau ^+\tau ^-$$ τ + τ - to neutrinos (assuming the Navarro–Frenk–White dark matter halo profile).
Published: 2017
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10. Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, M. Archinger, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, A. Bernhard, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Braun, L. Brayeur, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, A. Burgman, T. Carver, M. Casier, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, K. Clark, L. Classen, S. Coenders, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, E. del Pino Rosendo, H. Dembinski, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, V. di Lorenzo, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Feintzeig, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, S. Flis, C.-C. Fösig, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, L. Gladstone, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, E. Hansen, T. Hansmann, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, S. In, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, W. Kang, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, M. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, G. Kohnen, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, R. Konietz, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, C. Krüger, J. Kunnen, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, D. Lennarz, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, S. Mancina, M. Mandelartz, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, A. Meli, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, T. Montaruli, M. Moulai, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, Ö. Penek, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, M. Quinnan, C. Raab, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Relich, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, L. Sabbatini, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, R. Ström, N. L. Strotjohann, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, H. Taavola, I. Taboada, J. Tatar, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, G. Tešić, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, A. Turcati, E. Unger, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, M. van Rossem, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, M. Voge, E. Vogel, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, Ch. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, S. Wickmann, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and M. Zoll
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract We present results from an analysis looking for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube neutrino telescope. Gravitationally trapped dark matter in the Sun’s core can annihilate into Standard Model particles making the Sun a source of GeV neutrinos. IceCube is able to detect neutrinos with energies >100 GeV while its low-energy infill array DeepCore extends this to >10 GeV. This analysis uses data gathered in the austral winters between May 2011 and May 2014, corresponding to 532 days of livetime when the Sun, being below the horizon, is a source of up-going neutrino events, easiest to discriminate against the dominant background of atmospheric muons. The sensitivity is a factor of two to four better than previous searches due to additional statistics and improved analysis methods involving better background rejection and reconstructions. The resultant upper limits on the spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering cross section reach down to $$1.46\times 10^{-5}$$ 1.46×10-5 pb for a dark matter particle of mass 500 GeV annihilating exclusively into $$\tau ^{+}\tau ^{-}$$ τ+τ- particles. These are currently the most stringent limits on the spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering cross section for WIMP masses above 50 GeV.
Published: 2017
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11. Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its First Observing Run, ANTARES, and IceCube

Author: A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, M. Ardid, J.-J. Aubert, J. Aublin, T. Avgitas, B. Baret, J. Barrios-Martí, S. Basa, B. Belhorma, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, R. Bormuth, J. Boumaaza, S. Bourret, M. C. Bouwhuis, H. Brânzaş, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, J. Busto, A. Capone, L. Caramete, J. Carr, S. Celli, M. Chabab, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, J. A. B. Coelho, A. Coleiro, M. Colomer, R. Coniglione, H. Costantini, P. Coyle, A. Creusot, A. F. Díaz, A. Deschamps, C. Distefano, I. Di Palma, A. Domi, R. Donà, C. Donzaud, D. Dornic, D. Drouhin, T. Eberl, I. El Bojaddaini, N. El Khayati, D. Elsässer, A. Enzenhöfer, A. Ettahiri, F. Fassi, I. Felis, P. Fermani, G. Ferrara, L. Fusco, P. Gay, H. Glotin, T. Grégoire, R. Gracia Ruiz, K. Graf, S. Hallmann, H. van Haren, A. J. Heijboer, Y. Hello, J. J. Hernández-Rey, J. Hößl, J. Hofestädt, G. Illuminati, M. de Jong, M. Jongen, M. Kadler, O. Kalekin, U. Katz, N. R. Khan-Chowdhury, A. Kouchner, M. Kreter, I. Kreykenbohm, V. Kulikovskiy, C. Lachaud, R. Lahmann, D. Lefèvre, E. Leonora, G. Levi, M. Lotze, S. Loucatos, G. Maggi, M. Marcelin, A. Margiotta, A. Marinelli, J. A. Martínez-Mora, R. Mele, K. Melis, P. Migliozzi, A. Moussa, S. Navas, E. Nezri, A. Nuñez, M. Organokov, G. E. Păvălaş, C. Pellegrino, P. Piattelli, V. Popa, T. Pradier, L. Quinn, C. Racca, N. Randazzo, G. Riccobene, A. Sánchez-Losa, M. Saldaña, I. Salvadori, D. F. E. Samtleben, M. Sanguineti, P. Sapienza, F. Schüssler, M. Spurio, Th. Stolarczyk, M. Taiuti, Y. Tayalati, A. Trovato, B. Vallage, V. Van Elewyck, F. Versari, D. Vivolo, J. Wilms, D. Zaborov, J. D. Zornoza, J. Zúñiga, ANTARES collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. Barbano, J. P. Barron, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. 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Isi, B. R. Iyer, K. Izumi, T. Jacqmin, S. J. Jadhav, K. Jani, N. N. Janthalur, P. Jaranowski, A. C. Jenkins, J. Jiang, D. S. Johnson, A. W. Jones, D. I. Jones, R. Jones, R. J. G. Jonker, L. Ju, J. Junker, C. V. Kalaghatgi, V. Kalogera, B. Kamai, S. Kandhasamy, G. Kang, J. B. Kanner, S. J. Kapadia, S. Karki, K. S. Karvinen, R. Kashyap, M. Kasprzack, S. Katsanevas, E. Katsavounidis, W. Katzman, S. Kaufer, K. Kawabe, N. V. Keerthana, F. Kéfélian, D. Keitel, R. Kennedy, J. S. Key, F. Y. Khalili, H. Khan, I. Khan, S. Khan, Z. Khan, E. A. Khazanov, M. Khursheed, N. Kijbunchoo, Chunglee Kim, J. C. Kim, K. Kim, W. Kim, W. S. Kim, Y.-M. Kim, C. Kimball, E. J. King, P. J. King, M. Kinley-Hanlon, R. Kirchhoff, J. S. Kissel, L. Kleybolte, J. H. Klika, S. Klimenko, T. D. Knowles, P. Koch, S. M. Koehlenbeck, G. Koekoek, S. Koley, V. Kondrashov, A. Kontos, N. Koper, M. Korobko, W. Z. Korth, I. Kowalska, D. B. Kozak, V. Kringel, N. Krishnendu, A. Królak, G. Kuehn, A. Kumar, P. Kumar, R. Kumar, S. Kumar, L. Kuo, A. Kutynia, S. Kwang, B. D. Lackey, K. H. Lai, T. L. Lam, M. Landry, B. B. Lane, R. N. Lang, J. Lange, B. Lantz, R. K. Lanza, A. Lartaux-Vollard, P. D. Lasky, M. Laxen, A. Lazzarini, C. Lazzaro, P. Leaci, S. Leavey, Y. K. Lecoeuche, C. H. Lee, H. K. Lee, H. M. Lee, H. W. Lee, J. Lee, K. Lee, J. Lehmann, A. Lenon, N. Leroy, N. Letendre, Y. Levin, J. Li, K. J. L. Li, T. G. F. Li, X. Li, F. Lin, F. Linde, S. D. Linker, T. B. Littenberg, J. Liu, X. Liu, R. K. L. Lo, N. A. Lockerbie, L. T. London, A. Longo, M. Lorenzini, V. Loriette, M. Lormand, G. Losurdo, J. D. Lough, C. O. Lousto, G. Lovelace, M. E. Lower, H. Lück, D. Lumaca, A. P. Lundgren, R. Lynch, Y. Ma, R. Macas, S. Macfoy, M. MacInnis, D. M. Macleod, A. Macquet, F. Magaña-Sandoval, L. Magaña Zertuche, R. M. Magee, E. Majorana, I. Maksimovic, A. Malik, N. Man, V. Mandic, V. Mangano, G. L. Mansell, M. Manske, M. Mantovani, F. Marchesoni, F. Marion, S. Márka, Z. Márka, C. Markakis, A. S. Markosyan, A. Markowitz, E. Maros, A. Marquina, S. Marsat, F. Martelli, I. W. Martin, R. M. Martin, D. V. Martynov, K. Mason, E. Massera, A. Masserot, T. J. Massinger, M. Masso-Reid, S. Mastrogiovanni, A. Matas, F. Matichard, L. Matone, N. Mavalvala, N. Mazumder, J. J. McCann, R. McCarthy, D. E. McClelland, S. McCormick, L. McCuller, S. C. McGuire, J. McIver, D. J. McManus, T. McRae, S. T. McWilliams, D. Meacher, G. D. Meadors, M. Mehmet, A. K. Mehta, J. Meidam, A. Melatos, G. Mendell, R. A. Mercer, L. Mereni, E. L. Merilh, M. Merzougui, S. Meshkov, C. Messenger, C. Messick, R. Metzdorff, P. M. Meyers, H. Miao, C. Michel, H. Middleton, E. E. Mikhailov, L. Milano, A. L. Miller, A. Miller, M. Millhouse, J. C. Mills, M. C. Milovich-Goff, O. Minazzoli, Y. Minenkov, A. Mishkin, C. Mishra, T. Mistry, S. Mitra, V. P. Mitrofanov, G. Mitselmakher, R. Mittleman, G. Mo, D. Moffa, K. Mogushi, S. R. P. Mohapatra, M. Montani, C. J. Moore, D. Moraru, G. Moreno, S. Morisaki, B. Mours, C. M. Mow-Lowry, Arunava Mukherjee, D. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, N. Mukund, A. Mullavey, J. Munch, E. A. Muñiz, M. Muratore, P. G. Murray, I. Nardecchia, L. Naticchioni, R. K. Nayak, J. Neilson, G. Nelemans, T. J. N. Nelson, M. Nery, A. Neunzert, K. Y. Ng, S. Ng, P. Nguyen, D. Nichols, S. Nissanke, F. Nocera, C. North, L. K. Nuttall, M. Obergaulinger, J. Oberling, B. D. O’Brien, G. D. O’Dea, G. H. Ogin, J. J. Oh, S. H. Oh, F. Ohme, H. Ohta, M. A. Okada, M. Oliver, P. Oppermann, Richard J. Oram, B. O’Reilly, R. G. Ormiston, L. F. Ortega, R. O’Shaughnessy, S. Ossokine, D. J. Ottaway, H. Overmier, B. J. Owen, A. E. Pace, G. Pagano, M. A. Page, A. Pai, S. A. Pai, J. R. Palamos, O. Palashov, C. Palomba, A. Pal-Singh, Huang-Wei Pan, B. Pang, P. T. H. Pang, C. Pankow, F. Pannarale, B. C. Pant, F. Paoletti, A. Paoli, A. Parida, W. Parker, D. Pascucci, A. Pasqualetti, R. Passaquieti, D. Passuello, M. Patil, B. Patricelli, B. L. Pearlstone, C. Pedersen, M. Pedraza, R. Pedurand, A. Pele, S. Penn, C. J. Perez, A. Perreca, H. P. Pfeiffer, M. Phelps, K. S. Phukon, O. J. Piccinni, M. Pichot, F. Piergiovanni, G. Pillant, L. Pinard, M. Pirello, M. Pitkin, R. Poggiani, D. Y. T. Pong, S. Ponrathnam, P. Popolizio, E. K. Porter, J. Powell, A. K. Prajapati, J. Prasad, K. Prasai, R. Prasanna, G. Pratten, T. Prestegard, S. Privitera, G. A. Prodi, L. G. Prokhorov, O. Puncken, M. Punturo, P. Puppo, M. Pürrer, H. Qi, V. Quetschke, P. J. Quinonez, E. A. Quintero, R. Quitzow-James, F. J. Raab, H. Radkins, N. Radulescu, P. Raffai, S. Raja, C. Rajan, B. Rajbhandari, M. Rakhmanov, K. E. Ramirez, A. Ramos-Buades, Javed Rana, K. Rao, P. Rapagnani, V. Raymond, M. Razzano, J. Read, T. Regimbau, L. Rei, S. Reid, D. H. Reitze, W. Ren, F. Ricci, C. J. Richardson, J. W. Richardson, P. M. Ricker, K. Riles, M. Rizzo, N. A. Robertson, R. Robie, F. Robinet, A. Rocchi, L. Rolland, J. G. Rollins, V. J. Roma, M. Romanelli, R. Romano, C. L. Romel, J. H. Romie, K. Rose, D. Rosińska, S. G. Rosofsky, M. P. Ross, S. Rowan, A. Rüdiger, P. Ruggi, G. Rutins, K. Ryan, S. Sachdev, T. Sadecki, M. Sakellariadou, L. Salconi, M. Saleem, A. Samajdar, L. Sammut, E. J. Sanchez, L. E. Sanchez, N. Sanchis-Gual, V. Sandberg, J. R. Sanders, K. A. Santiago, N. Sarin, B. Sassolas, P. R. Saulson, O. Sauter, R. L. Savage, P. Schale, M. Scheel, J. Scheuer, F. Schiettekatte, P. Schmidt, R. Schnabel, R. M. S. Schofield, A. Schönbeck, E. Schreiber, B. W. Schulte, B. F. Schutz, S. G. Schwalbe, J. Scott, S. M. Scott, E. Seidel, D. Sellers, A. S. Sengupta, N. Sennett, D. Sentenac, V. Sequino, A. Sergeev, Y. Setyawati, D. A. Shaddock, T. Shaffer, M. S. Shahriar, M. B. Shaner, L. Shao, P. Sharma, P. Shawhan, H. Shen, R. Shink, D. H. Shoemaker, D. M. Shoemaker, S. ShyamSundar, K. Siellez, M. Sieniawska, D. Sigg, A. D. Silva, L. P. Singer, N. Singh, A. Singhal, A. M. Sintes, S. Sitmukhambetov, V. Skliris, B. J. J. Slagmolen, T. J. Slaven-Blair, J. R. Smith, R. J. E. Smith, S. Somala, E. J. Son, B. Sorazu, F. Sorrentino, T. Souradeep, E. Sowell, A. P. Spencer, A. K. Srivastava, V. Srivastava, K. Staats, C. Stachie, M. Standke, D. A. Steer, M. Steinke, J. Steinlechner, S. Steinlechner, D. Steinmeyer, S. P. Stevenson, D. Stocks, R. Stone, D. J. Stops, K. A. Strain, G. Stratta, S. E. Strigin, A. Strunk, R. Sturani, A. L. Stuver, V. Sudhir, T. Z. Summerscales, L. Sun, S. Sunil, J. Suresh, P. J. Sutton, B. L. Swinkels, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Tacca, S. C. Tait, C. Talbot, D. Talukder, D. B. Tanner, M. Tápai, A. Taracchini, J. D. Tasson, R. Taylor, F. Thies, M. Thomas, P. Thomas, S. R. Thondapu, K. A. Thorne, E. Thrane, Shubhanshu Tiwari, Srishti Tiwari, V. Tiwari, K. Toland, M. Tonelli, Z. Tornasi, A. Torres-Forné, C. I. Torrie, D. Töyrä, F. Travasso, G. Traylor, M. C. Tringali, L. Trozzo, R. Trudeau, K. W. Tsang, M. Tse, R. Tso, L. Tsukada, D. Tsuna, D. Tuyenbayev, K. Ueno, D. Ugolini, C. S. Unnikrishnan, A. L. Urban, S. A. Usman, H. Vahlbruch, G. Vajente, G. Valdes, N. van Bakel, M. van Beuzekom, J. F. J. van den Brand, C. Van Den Broeck, D. C. Vander-Hyde, L. van der Schaaf, J. V. van Heijningen, A. A. van Veggel, M. Vardaro, V. Varma, S. Vass, M. Vasúth, A. Vecchio, G. Vedovato, J. Veitch, P. J. Veitch, K. Venkateswara, G. Venugopalan, D. Verkindt, F. Vetrano, A. Viceré, A. D. Viets, D. J. Vine, J.-Y. Vinet, S. Vitale, T. Vo, H. Vocca, C. Vorvick, S. P. Vyatchanin, A. R. Wade, L. E. Wade, M. Wade, R. Walet, M. Walker, L. Wallace, S. Walsh, G. Wang, H. Wang, J. Z. Wang, W. H. Wang, Y. F. Wang, R. L. Ward, Z. A. Warden, J. Warner, M. Was, J. Watchi, B. Weaver, L.-W. Wei, M. Weinert, A. J. Weinstein, R. Weiss, F. Wellmann, L. Wen, E. K. Wessel, P. Weßels, J. W. Westhouse, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, B. F. Whiting, C. Whittle, D. M. Wilken, D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. H. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. K. Wofford, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, D. M. Wysocki, L. Xiao, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, L. Yang, M. J. Yap, M. Yazback, D. W. Yeeles, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, S. H. R. Yuen, M. Yvert, A. K. Zadrozny, A. Zadrożny, M. Zanolin, T. Zelenova, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, J. Zhang, L. Zhang, T. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig, and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration
Subjects: gravitational waves, neutrinos, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, such as binary neutron star and black hole mergers or core-collapse supernovae, can drive relativistic outflows, giving rise to non-thermal high-energy emission. High-energy neutrinos are signatures of such outflows. The detection of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from common sources could help establish the connection between the dynamics of the progenitor and the properties of the outflow. We searched for associated emission of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical transients with minimal assumptions using data from Advanced LIGO from its first observing run O1, and data from the A ntares and IceCube neutrino observatories from the same time period. We focused on candidate events whose astrophysical origins could not be determined from a single messenger. We found no significant coincident candidate, which we used to constrain the rate density of astrophysical sources dependent on their gravitational-wave and neutrino emission processes.
Published: 2019
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12. EV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Search Using Eight Years of Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Author: K. Tollefson, Albrecht Karle, U. Katz, R. S. Busse, G. H. Collin, Christopher Wiebusch, Kunal Deoskar, Thomas Ehrhardt, P. Schlunder, R. Hellauer, Spencer Axani, D. B. Fox, Kayla Leonard, R. Maunu, Alan Coleman, Sukeerthi Dharani, Francis Halzen, J. Merz, S. Hickford, R. Joppe, A. Wallace, Delia Tosi, Sebastian Baur, M. G. Aartsen, Carlos Arguelles, David Vannerom, I. Ansseau, Hermann Kolanoski, Juliana Stachurska, H. Dembinski, Stef Verpoest, Jessie Micallef, Matthias Vraeghe, George Japaridze, Roger Moore, Tim Ruhe, N. Kurahashi, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, Ioana Codrina Maris, H. Bagherpour, Johan Wulff, Sebastian Böser, Olga Botner, J. Kim, Elisa Bernardini, A. Ludwig, Christoph Raab, Nadège Iovine, Timothyblake Watson, D. Heereman, Gisela Anton, M. Stamatikos, J. Bourbeau, K. Rawlins, G. de Wasseige, Won Nam Kang, V. Baum, Jenni Adams, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, H. Niederhausen, A. Steuer, C. Alispach, Bunheng Ty, Stephen L. Hauser, Raamis Hussain, Janet Conrad, B. Relethford, Jan Soedingrekso, Ralph Engel, Moritz Kellermann, Z. Griffith, Y. Makino, Seongjin In, R. Hoffmann, James Madsen, Konstancja Satalecka, Benjamin Bastian, Theo Glauch, Anastasia Maria Barbano, Saskia Philippen, F. Jonske, R. Cross, M. J. Larson, Lu Lu, T. Kittler, X. Bai, G. Neer, Alexander Fritz, A. Goldschmidt, D. van Eijk, Lenka Tomankova, Giovanni Renzi, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, Elisa Resconi, Alessio Porcelli, Claudio Kopper, Daniel Bindig, G. Krückl, Alejandro Diaz, C. Pérez de los Heros, E. O’Sullivan, Le Viet Nguyen, Wing Yan Ma, James DeLaunay, Marjon Moulai, R. G. Stokstad, K. Krings, M. Plum, P. B. Price, William Luszczak, M. Kauer, Suyong Choi, David Kappesser, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, Francesco Lucarelli, T. O. B. Schmidt, Tyce DeYoung, Chad Finley, Nathan Whitehorn, Immacolata Carmen Rea, Matti Jansson, D. Z. Besson, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, A. Kyriacou, M. Silva, Najia Moureen Binte Amin, K.-H. Becker, Yiqian Xu, Qinrui Liu, J. Becker Tjus, T. Glüsenkamp, Subir Sarkar, Martina Karl, Matt Dunkman, Kendall Mahn, Christoph Tönnis, F. Huang, K. Meagher, Jochen M. Schneider, J. Stettner, T. R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, T. Palczewski, S. De Ridder, Y. L. Li, G. W. Sullivan, J. J. Beatty, Tianlu Yuan, Jeffrey Lazar, Chunfai Tung, James E. Braun, Alexander Trettin, E. Cheung, J. Werthebach, Thomas Stuttard, Mirco Hunnefeld, Marie Oehler, Alexander Sandrock, Elisa Lohfink, Thomas Meures, N. L. Strotjohann, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Wallraff, Michael DuVernois, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Felix Henningsen, Karl J. Clark, Simone Garrappa, Dmitry Chirkin, Sarah Pieper, D. Hebecker, Anatoli Fedynitch, K. Helbing, Chujie Chen, Dirk Ryckbosch, Joshua Hignight, M. Zöcklein, T. Grégoire, Timo Sturwald, J. C. Gallagher, Timo Karg, Gerald Przybylski, Federica Bradascio, Yang Lyu, Alexander Kappes, Alexander Burgman, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Paras Koundal, Mike Richman, Sarah Mancina, Paul Coppin, Anna Franckowiak, Tobias Hoinka, Vedant Basu, Steve Sclafani, F. McNally, A. R. Fazely, M. Usner, Grant Parker, R. Halliday, Stephan Meighen-Berger, K. D. de Vries, Gerrit Wrede, Andrea Turcati, J. van Santen, K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, Thomas Huber, G. Momenté, Merlin Schaufel, A. Stößl, J. Kiryluk, K. Andeen, D. R. Nygren, Marek Kowalski, A. Weindl, Maryon Ahrens, Frederik Tenholt, R. Nagai, M. Medici, M. Rameez, Javier Gonzalez, Roxanne Turcotte, Alex Pizzuto, D. F. Cowen, Reina H. Maruyama, E. Pinat, N. Kulacz, U. Naumann, Martin Rongen, Ek Narayan Paudel, Allan Hallgren, Giorgio Maggi, K. Wiebe, A. Balagopal, Gary Binder, Zhedong Zhang, E. Unger, Simona Toscano, J. Auffenberg, Pablo Correa, Summer Blot, Brian Clark, C. De Clercq, P. Heix, K. Mase, P. Mallik, M. E. Huber, A. O'Murchadha, Marcos Santander, Ramesh Koirala, David A. Williams, L. Schumacher, Benedikt Riedel, S. Tilav, Max Renschler, D. Kang, D. J. Koskinen, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, L. Gerhardt, M. J. Weiss, E. Bourbeau, J. P. Yanez, Ben Smithers, Colin Turley, A. Olivas, S. Kopper, Spencer Griswold, I. Taboada, Michael O. Wolf, René Reimann, A. Haungs, M. Prado Rodriguez, Maria Tselengidou, D. Soldin, Nahee Park, Pranav Dave, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, E. Blaufuss, Mehmet Gunduz, Agnieszka Leszczyńska, R. C. Bay, M. Günder, Austin Schneider, Steven Robertson, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Shefali Shefali, L. Classen, T. Stezelberger, Abdul Rehman, Carsten Rott, Y. Popovych, T. Kintscher, Frederik Hermann Lauber, Xianwu Xu, A. Terliuk, J. Sandroos, C. Bohm, Justin Lanfranchi, Christian Spiering, Justin Vandenbroucke, Abhishek Desai, S. C. Nowicki, Rasha Abbasi, B. J. Whelan, Jan Weldert, L. Halve, Philipp Eller, J. Felde, J. Buscher, D. Rysewyk Cantu, A. Obertacke Pollmann, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, Erik Ganster, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Frank G. Schröder, J. Lünemann, N. van Eijndhoven, C. Haack, Emily Dvorak, Aaron Fienberg, Amirreza Raissi, Minjin Jeong, Chris Weaver, Stephanie Bron, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, H. Dujmovic, L. Rauch, S. Yoshida, Surujhdeo Seunarine, R. Snihur, Juanan Aguilar, Kael Hanson, A. Ishihara, Maximilian Meier, Paolo Desiati, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, B. J. P. Jones, Andres Medina, Kara Hoffman, D. Mockler, Hershal Pandya, Daria Pankova, E. Friedman, Wolfgang Rhode, Robert Stein, L. Wills, P. Muth, R. Morse, Jakob Bottcher, T. Montaruli, Maximilian Karl Scharf, P. Peiffer, Ibrahim Safa, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, W. Van Driessche, Jannes Brostean-Kaiser, M. U. Nisa, L. Köpke, T. Anderson, John Hardin, H. Schieler, Kirill Filimonov, Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vriendenkring VUB, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Sterile neutrino, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, sterile [neutrino], 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, IceCube, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Subatomär fysik, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, Subatomic Physics, TOOL, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, atmosphere [muon], Muon neutrino, Physics, oscillation [neutrino], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, hep-ph, neutrino: sterile, mass difference [neutrino], ddc, muon: atmosphere, observatory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physique des particules élémentaires, signature, Particle physics, data analysis method, Scale (ratio), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, neutrino: mass difference, FOS: Physical sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, statistical analysis, 0103 physical sciences, OSCILLATIONS, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, hep-ex, ICE, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, neutrino: mixing angle, CONVERSION, Physics and Astronomy, COSMOLOGY, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, BAYESIAN-INFERENCE, mixing angle [neutrino], experimental results
Abstract: Physical review letters 125(14), 141801 (1-11) (2020). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.141801, The results of a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using eight years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory are presented. A total of 305 735 muon neutrino events are analyzed in reconstructed energy-zenith space to test for signatures of a matter-enhanced oscillation that would occur given a sterile neutrino state with a mass-squared differences between 0.01 and 100 eV$^2$. The best-fit point is found to be at sin$^2$($2θ_{24}$)=0.10 and $Δm_{41}^2$=4.5 eV$^2$, which is consistent with the no sterile neutrino hypothesis with a $p$ value of 8.0%., Published by APS, College Park, Md.
Published: 2020

13. IceCube Search for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Author: C. Haack, Immacolata Carmen Rea, Emily Dvorak, K.-H. Becker, K. Hoshina, Yiqian Xu, Matt Dunkman, K. Mase, Yuya Makino, Minjin Jeong, Timothyblake Watson, Thomas Meures, B. Relethford, E. Cheung, Saskia Philippen, M. J. Weiss, Konstancja Satalecka, Theo Glauch, L. Rauch, U. Katz, Thomas Stuttard, S. De Ridder, Jeffrey Lazar, P. B. Price, D. Heereman, S. Yoshida, D. B. Fox, S. Kopper, Sarah Pieper, K. Jero, N. L. Strotjohann, Hermann Kolanoski, Dirk Ryckbosch, Stef Verpoest, Colin Turley, Felix Henningsen, M. Zöcklein, René Reimann, C. Alispach, Lenka Tomankova, T. Grégoire, Timo Karg, A. Steuer, Stephan Meighen-Berger, Janet Conrad, Thomas Ehrhardt, Frank G. Schröder, A. R. Fazely, M. Silva, Francesco Lucarelli, Raamis Hussain, R. Cross, A. Obertacke Pollmann, E. Pinat, T. O. B. Schmidt, Johannes Werthebach, M. Usner, Kael Hanson, Karl J. Clark, Maximilian Meier, S. Hickford, R. Joppe, Delia Tosi, Sebastian Baur, Chujie Chen, A. Weindl, Maryon Ahrens, Frederik Tenholt, R. Nagai, K. Helbing, Won Nam Kang, X. Bai, G. Neer, Simona Toscano, P. Heix, R. Maunu, J. Lünemann, William Luszczak, S. Tilav, M. Medici, Christian Spiering, L. Wills, P. Muth, P. Schlunder, Daria Pankova, E. Friedman, R. S. Busse, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, Amirreza Raissi, Federica Bradascio, Alexander Burgman, T. R. Wood, Ramesh Koirala, J. P. Yanez, Karim Ghorbani, Spencer Axani, Christopher Wiebusch, Kunal Deoskar, Paolo Desiati, Chris Weaver, Stephanie Bron, Kurt Woschnagg, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, G. Merino, Tim Ruhe, Justin Vandenbroucke, H. Bagherpour, Alexander Sandrock, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, Martin Rongen, George Japaridze, Roger Moore, A. Ludwig, Olga Botner, Paul Evenson, M. G. Aartsen, N. Wandkowsky, H. Dujmovic, Merlin Schaufel, M. Stamatikos, E. Blaufuss, Ioana Codrina Maris, L. Wille, H. Niederhausen, Carlos Arguelles, Ibrahim Safa, V. Baum, Jessie Micallef, L. Classen, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, N. Kurahashi, J. Bourbeau, D. Kang, Todor Stanev, K. Tollefson, Surujhdeo Seunarine, Albrecht Karle, D. van Eijk, Christoph Raab, Nadège Iovine, P. Mallik, Simone Garrappa, Dmitry Chirkin, S. C. Nowicki, W. Van Driessche, C. Wendt, Alexander Kappes, Erik Ganster, K. Mallot, R. Morse, James W. Wood, Z. Griffith, Jakob Bottcher, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Bunheng Ty, R. Snihur, T. Montaruli, Jannes Brostean-Kaiser, Juanan Aguilar, G. de Wasseige, G. W. Sullivan, K. Rawlins, Donglian Xu, Seongjin In, B. J. P. Jones, Ralph Engel, Moritz Kellermann, Elisa Resconi, I. Taboada, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Elisa Lohfink, James E. Braun, Gisela Anton, James Madsen, Lu Lu, Alessio Porcelli, T. Kintscher, Frederik Hermann Lauber, Giovanni Renzi, A. Goldschmidt, D. Hebecker, Qinrui Liu, R. Hoffmann, T. Glüsenkamp, Le Viet Nguyen, L. Köpke, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, Michael O. Wolf, Alexander Fritz, D. Z. Besson, Martina Karl, A. Wallace, A. Terliuk, Paul Coppin, Andrea Turcati, Justin Lanfranchi, J. van Santen, Mehr Nisa, Jochen M. Schneider, B. J. Whelan, Claudio Kopper, A. Ishihara, Tyce DeYoung, Andres Medina, Alexander Trettin, Nathan Whitehorn, Alex Pizzuto, D. R. Nygren, Gerald Przybylski, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, Gary Binder, R. Halliday, A. Haungs, C. Pérez de los Heros, K. Krings, D. Mockler, Nahee Park, K. Hultqvist, M. Wallraff, Darren Grant, Kendall Mahn, C. Walck, Alan Coleman, E. O’Sullivan, T. Anderson, Marek Kowalski, J. C. Gallagher, M. Plum, Subir Sarkar, Jan Weldert, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, A. Kyriacou, Gerrit Wrede, K. Meagher, L. Halve, Philipp Eller, Thomas Huber, Allan Hallgren, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Yang Lyu, Elisa Bernardini, J. Auffenberg, Chunfai Tung, J. Becker Tjus, J. Felde, J. Buscher, D. Rysewyk Cantu, Jenni Adams, P. Peiffer, Joshua Hignight, Timo Sturwald, H. Schieler, Kirill Filimonov, K. Wiebe, Steven Robertson, R. G. Stokstad, Segev BenZvi, Shefali Shefali, Spencer Klein, Abdul Rehman, Carsten Rott, Kara Hoffman, Javier Gonzalez, Roxanne Turcotte, Giorgio Maggi, Matthias Vraeghe, C. De Clercq, Hershal Pandya, Wolfgang Rhode, David A. Williams, Xianwu Xu, Robert Stein, J. Sandroos, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, C. Bohm, J. Kim, Daniel Bindig, K. D. de Vries, N. Kulacz, Brian Clark, Chad Finley, Christoph Tönnis, Pranav Dave, M. Günder, T. Stezelberger, G. H. Collin, Sarah Mancina, Anna Franckowiak, Tobias Hoinka, Kayla Leonard, Steve Sclafani, Jan Soedingrekso, Francis Halzen, J. Kiryluk, K. Andeen, I. Ansseau, G. Krückl, Juliana Stachurska, Alejandro Diaz, Pablo Correa, H. Dembinski, M. Kauer, Suyong Choi, David Kappesser, R. Hellauer, Matti Jansson, T. Palczewski, Sebastian Böser, Benjamin Bastian, Anastasia Maria Barbano, T. Kittler, B. Eberhardt, M. E. Huber, Marcos Santander, L. Gerhardt, A. Olivas, M. J. Larson, Wing Yan Ma, James DeLaunay, Marjon Moulai, J. J. Beatty, Tianlu Yuan, F. McNally, A. Stößl, Reina H. Maruyama, Summer Blot, F. Jonske, L. Schumacher, F. Huang, Mehmet Gunduz, Agnieszka Leszczyńska, R. C. Bay, Austin Schneider, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Glenn Spiczak, G. Momenté, M. Rameez, D. F. Cowen, U. Naumann, E. Unger, A. O'Murchadha, Max Renschler, D. J. Koskinen, E. Bourbeau, Spencer Griswold, Maria Tselengidou, D. Soldin, J. Stettner, Mirco Hunnefeld, Marie Oehler, N. van Eijndhoven, Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vriendenkring VUB, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Neutrino astronomy, High energy astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Pulsar, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galactic plane, COSMIC-RAYS, CRAB-NEBULA, Crab Nebula, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, GALACTIC SOURCES, DISCOVERY, Physique des particules élémentaires, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, GAMMA-RAY EMISSION, Lepton
Abstract: Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are the main gamma-ray emitters in the Galactic plane. They are diffuse nebulae that emit nonthermal radiation. Pulsar winds, relativistic magnetized outflows from the central star, shocked in the ambient medium produce a multiwavelength emission from the radio through gamma-rays. Although the leptonic scenario is able to explain most PWNe emission, a hadronic contribution cannot be excluded. A possible hadronic contribution to the high-energy gamma-ray emission inevitably leads to the production of neutrinos. Using 9.5 yr of all-sky IceCube data, we report results from a stacking analysis to search for neutrino emission from 35 PWNe that are high-energy gamma-ray emitters. In the absence of any significant correlation, we set upper limits on the total neutrino emission from those PWNe and constraints on hadronic spectral components., SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2020

14. In-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge response of the IceCube photomultiplier tubes

Author: M.G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J.A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S.W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Baum, S. Baur, R. Bay, J.J. Beatty, K.-H. Becker, J. Becker Tjus, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D.Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Böttcher, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, J. Buscher, R.S. Busse, T. Carver, C. Chen, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, S. Choi, K. Clark, L. Classen, A. Coleman, G.H. Collin, J.M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D.F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, C. De Clercq, J.J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, K. Deoskar, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K.D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, A. Diaz, J.C. Díaz-Vélez, H. Dujmovic, M. Dunkman, E. Dvorak, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, P. Eller, R. Engel, P.A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A.R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, D. Fox, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, T.K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, S. Garrappa, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J.G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, S. Griswold, M. Günder, M. Gündüz, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, A. Haungs, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, P. Heix, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, F. Henningsen, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G.C. Hill, K.D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, T. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, G.S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B.J.P. Jones, F. Jonske, R. Joppe, D. Kang, W. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, M. Karl, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, J.L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S.R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D.J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, G. Krückl, N. Kulacz, N. Kurahashi, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J.L. Lanfranchi, M.J. Larson, F. Lauber, J.P. Lazar, K. Leonard, A. Leszczyńska, M. Leuermann, Q.R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C.J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, F. Lucarelli, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, Y. Lyu, W.Y. Ma, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K.B.M. Mahn, Y. Makino, P. Mallik, K. Mallot, S. Mancina, I.C. Mariş, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, A. Medina, M. Meier, S. Meighen-Berger, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, J. Micallef, D. Mockler, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R.W. Moore, R. Morse, M. Moulai, P. Muth, R. Nagai, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, M.U. Nisa, S.C. Nowicki, D.R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, M. Oehler, A. Olivas, A. O'Murchadha, E. O'Sullivan, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D.V. Pankova, N. Park, P. Peiffer, C. Pérez de los Heros, S. Philippen, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, A. Porcelli, P.B. Price, G.T. Przybylski, C. Raab, A. Raissi, M. Rameez, L. Rauch, K. Rawlins, I.C. Rea, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Renschler, G. Renzi, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, I. Safa, S.E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Schaufel, H. Schieler, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, J. Schneider, F.G. Schröder, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, S. Shefali, M. Silva, R. Snihur, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, M. Song, G.M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, R. Stein, P. Steinmüller, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R.G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, N.L. Strotjohann, T. Stürwald, T. Stuttard, G.W. Sullivan, I. Taboada, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, S. Tilav, K. Tollefson, L. Tomankova, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, A. Trettin, M. Tselengidou, C.F. Tung, A. Turcati, R. Turcotte, C.F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M.A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, T.B. Watson, C. Weaver, A. Weindl, M.J. Weiss, J. Weldert, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, B.J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C.H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D.R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T.R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, D.L. Xu, X.W. Xu, Y. Xu, J.P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, T. Yuan, M. Zöcklein, Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vriendenkring VUB, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: electron, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, 01 natural sciences, charge distribution, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, IceCube, 0302 clinical medicine, DESIGN, charge, emission, (photomultipliers, Instrumentation, Photon detectors for UV, physics.ins-det, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Charge density, calibration [photomultiplier], Monte Carlo [numerical calculations], Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), photomultiplier: calibration, Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc), Neutrino detector, HPDs, Physique des particules élémentaires, Neutrino, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, others), photoelectron, Photomultiplier, data analysis method, pulse formation, Visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others), FOS: Physical sciences, Particle detector, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, 03 medical and health sciences, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, ddc:610, etc), multiplication and induction, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, PERFORMANCE, visible and IR photons (vacuum), charge transport, Physics and Astronomy, electron emission, transport, business
Abstract: Journal of Instrumentation 15(06), P06032 (2020). doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/06/P06032, We describe an improved in-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge distributions for each of the in-ice Hamamatsu Photonics R7081-02[MOD] photomultiplier tubes in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The characterization of the individual PMT charge distributions is important for PMT calibration, data and Monte Carlo simulation agreement, and understanding the effect of hardware differences within the detector. We discuss the single photoelectron identification procedure and how we extract the single-photoelectron charge distribution using a deconvolution of the multiple-photoelectron charge distribution., Published by Inst. of Physics, London
Published: 2020

15. 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. 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, M. Zoll, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, P. Ajith, A. Alemic, B. Allen, A. Allocca, D. Amariutei, M. Andersen, R. A. Anderson, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. Arceneaux, J. S. Areeda, S. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, H. Augustus, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. T. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, M. Barbet, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M. G. Beker, C. Belczynski, A. S. Bell, C. Bell, G. Bergmann, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, S. Biscans, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, E. Black, J. K. Blackburn, L. Blackburn, D. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, T. P. Bodiya, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, C. Bogan, P. Bojtos, C. Bond, F. Bondu, L. Bonelli, R. Bonnand, R. Bork, M. Born, V. Boschi, Sukanta Bose, L. Bosi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, V. B. Braginsky, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, T. Briant, D. O. Bridges, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, A. F. Brooks, D. A. Brown, D. D. Brown, F. Brückner, S. Buchman, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, R. Burman, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, J. Calderón Bustillo, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, P. Campsie, K. C. Cannon, B. Canuel, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, F. Carbognani, L. Carbone, S. Caride, G. Castaldi, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, C. Celerier, G. Cella, C. Cepeda, E. Cesarini, R. Chakraborty, T. Chalermsongsak, S. J. Chamberlin, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. Chassande-Mottin, X. Chen, Y. Chen, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, S. S. Y. Chua, S. Chung, G. Ciani, F. Clara, D. E. Clark, J. A. Clark, J. H. Clayton, F. Cleva, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Colla, C. Collette, M. Colombini, L. Cominsky, M. Constancio, A. Conte, D. Cook, T. R. Corbitt, N. Cornish, A. Corsi, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. Countryman, P. Couvares, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, K. Craig, J. D. E. Creighton, R. P. Croce, S. G. Crowder, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, C. Cutler, K. Dahl, T. Dal Canton, M. Damjanic, S. L. Danilishin, S. D’Antonio, K. Danzmann, V. Dattilo, H. Daveloza, M. Davier, G. S. Davies, E. J. Daw, R. Day, T. Dayanga, D. DeBra, G. Debreczeni, J. Degallaix, S. Deléglise, W. Del Pozzo, T. Denker, T. Dent, H. Dereli, V. Dergachev, R. De Rosa, R. T. DeRosa, R. DeSalvo, S. Dhurandhar, M. Díaz, J. Dickson, L. Di Fiore, A. Di Lieto, I. Di Palma, A. Di Virgilio, V. Dolique, E. Dominguez, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, S. Doravari, R. Douglas, T. P. Downes, M. Drago, R. W. P. Drever, J. C. Driggers, Z. Du, M. Ducrot, S. Dwyer, T. Eberle, T. Edo, M. Edwards, A. Effler, H.-B. Eggenstein, P. Ehrens, J. Eichholz, S. S. Eikenberry, G. Endrőczi, R. Essick, T. Etzel, M. Evans, T. Evans, M. Factourovich, V. Fafone, S. Fairhurst, X. Fan, Q. Fang, S. 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Harstad, M. Hart, M. T. Hartman, C.-J. Haster, K. Haughian, A. Heidmann, M. Heintze, H. Heitmann, P. Hello, G. Hemming, M. Hendry, I. S. Heng, A. W. Heptonstall, M. Heurs, M. Hewitson, S. Hild, D. Hoak, K. A. Hodge, D. Hofman, K. Holt, P. Hopkins, T. Horrom, D. Hoske, D. J. Hosken, J. Hough, E. J. Howell, Y. Hu, E. Huerta, B. Hughey, S. Husa, S. H. Huttner, M. Huynh, T. Huynh-Dinh, A. Idrisy, D. R. Ingram, R. Inta, G. Islas, T. Isogai, A. Ivanov, B. R. Iyer, K. Izumi, M. Jacobson, H. Jang, P. Jaranowski, Y. Ji, F. Jiménez-Forteza, W. W. Johnson, D. I. Jones, R. Jones, R. J. G. Jonker, L. Ju, Haris K, P. Kalmus, V. Kalogera, S. Kandhasamy, G. Kang, J. B. Kanner, J. Karlen, M. Kasprzack, E. Katsavounidis, W. Katzman, H. Kaufer, S. Kaufer, T. Kaur, K. Kawabe, F. Kawazoe, F. Kéfélian, G. M. Keiser, D. Keitel, D. B. Kelley, W. Kells, D. G. Keppel, A. Khalaidovski, F. Y. Khalili, E. A. Khazanov, C. Kim, K. Kim, N. G. Kim, N. Kim, S. Kim, Y.-M. Kim, E. J. King, P. J. King, D. L. Kinzel, J. 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. Raja, G. Rajalakshmi, M. Rakhmanov, C. Ramet, K. Ramirez, P. Rapagnani, V. Raymond, M. Razzano, V. Re, S. Recchia, C. M. Reed, T. Regimbau, S. Reid, D. H. Reitze, O. Reula, E. Rhoades, F. Ricci, R. Riesen, K. Riles, N. A. Robertson, F. Robinet, A. Rocchi, S. B. Roddy, L. Rolland, J. G. Rollins, R. Romano, G. Romanov, J. H. Romie, D. Rosińska, S. Rowan, A. Rüdiger, P. Ruggi, K. Ryan, F. Salemi, L. Sammut, V. Sandberg, J. R. Sanders, S. Sankar, V. Sannibale, I. Santiago-Prieto, E. Saracco, B. Sassolas, B. S. Sathyaprakash, P. R. Saulson, R. Savage, J. Scheuer, R. Schilling, M. Schilman, P. Schmidt, R. Schnabel, R. M. S. Schofield, E. Schreiber, D. Schuette, B. F. Schutz, J. Scott, S. M. Scott, D. Sellers, A. S. Sengupta, D. Sentenac, V. Sequino, A. Sergeev, D. A. Shaddock, S. Shah, M. S. Shahriar, M. Shaltev, Z. Shao, B. Shapiro, P. Shawhan, D. H. Shoemaker, T. L. Sidery, K. Siellez, X. Siemens, D. Sigg, D. Simakov, A. Singer, L. Singer, R. Singh, A. M. Sintes, B. J. J. Slagmolen, J. Slutsky, J. R. Smith, M. R. Smith, R. J. E. Smith, N. D. Smith-Lefebvre, E. J. Son, B. Sorazu, T. Souradeep, A. Staley, J. Stebbins, M. Steinke, J. Steinlechner, S. Steinlechner, B. C. Stephens, S. Steplewski, S. Stevenson, R. Stone, D. Stops, K. A. Strain, N. Straniero, S. Strigin, R. Sturani, A. L. Stuver, T. Z. Summerscales, S. Susmithan, P. J. Sutton, B. Swinkels, M. Tacca, D. Talukder, D. B. Tanner, J. Tao, S. P. Tarabrin, R. Taylor, G. Tellez, M. P. Thirugnanasambandam, M. Thomas, P. Thomas, K. A. Thorne, K. S. Thorne, E. Thrane, V. Tiwari, K. V. Tokmakov, C. Tomlinson, M. Tonelli, C. V. Torres, C. I. Torrie, F. Travasso, G. Traylor, M. Tse, D. Tshilumba, H. Tuennermann, D. Ugolini, C. S. Unnikrishnan, A. L. Urban, S. A. Usman, H. Vahlbruch, G. Vajente, G. Valdes, M. Vallisneri, M. van Beuzekom, J. F. J. van den Brand, C. Van Den Broeck, M. V. van der Sluys, J. van Heijningen, A. A. van Veggel, S. Vass, M. Vasúth, R. Vaulin, A. Vecchio, G. Vedovato, J. Veitch, P. J. Veitch, K. 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
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16. Development of an analysis to probe the neutrino mass ordering with atmospheric neutrinos using three years of IceCube DeepCore data IceCube Collaboration

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K.-H. Becker, J. Becker Tjus, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, S. Böser, O. Botner, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, R. S. Busse, T. Carver, C. Chen, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, K. Clark, L. Classen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, K. Deoskar, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, A. Diaz, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, H. Dujmovic, M. Dunkman, E. Dvorak, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, J. J. Evans, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, S. Garrappa, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, M. Günder, M. Gündüz, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, F. Henningsen, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, W. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, M. Karl, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, G. Krückl, N. Kulacz, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, J. P. Lazar, K. Leonard, M. Leuermann, Q. R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, F. Lucarelli, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, K. Mallot, S. Mancina, I. C. Mariş, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, K. Meagher, M. Medici, A. Medina, M. Meier, S. Meighen-Berger, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, M. Moulai, R. Nagai, R. Nahnhauer, P. Nakarmi, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, E. O’Sullivan, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, N. Park, P. Peiffer, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, A. Raissi, M. Rameez, L. Rauch, K. Rawlins, I. C. Rea, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, G. Renzi, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, I. Safa, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Schaufel, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, J. Schneider, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, M. Silva, R. Snihur, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, S. Söldner-Rembold, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, R. Stein, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, S. Tilav, L. Tomankova, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, R. Turcotte, C. F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, T. B. Watson, C. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, J. Weldert, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T. R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, S. Wren, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, T. Yuan, and Collaboration, IceCube
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Field (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, Sensitive analysis, Type (model theory), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Subatomär fysik, Upgrade, 0103 physical sciences, Subatomic Physics, Physique des particules élémentaires, Development (differential geometry), Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous)
Abstract: The Neutrino Mass Ordering (NMO) remains one of the outstanding questions in the field of neutrino physics. One strategy to measure the NMO is to observe matter effects in the oscillation pattern of atmospheric neutrinos above ∼1GeV, as proposed for several next-generation neutrino experiments. Moreover, the existing IceCube DeepCore detector can already explore this type of measurement. We present the development and application of two independent analyses to search for the signature of the NMO with three years of DeepCore data. These analyses include a full treatment of systematic uncertainties and a statistically-rigorous method to determine the significance for the NMO from a fit to the data. Both analyses show that the dataset is fully compatible with both mass orderings. For the more sensitive analysis, we observe a preference for normal ordering with a p-value of pIO= 15.3 % and CL s= 53.3 % for the inverted ordering hypothesis, while the experimental results from both analyses are consistent within their uncertainties. Since the result is independent of the value of δCP and obtained from energies Eν≳5GeV, it is complementary to recent results from long-baseline experiments. These analyses set the groundwork for the future of this measurement with more capable detectors, such as the IceCube Upgrade and the proposed PINGU detector., SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2020

17. Neutrinos below 100 TeV from the southern sky employing refined veto techniques to IceCube data

Author: A. O'Murchadha, D. J. Koskinen, Timothyblake Watson, Timo Karg, A. Kyriacou, E. Bourbeau, R. Maunu, C. Pérez de los Heros, T. Menne, Matthias Vraeghe, Maria Tselengidou, E. O’Sullivan, B. Relethford, J. Auffenberg, Raffaela Busse, D. Soldin, K. Rawlins, Claudio Kopper, J. Becker Tjus, Konstancja Satalecka, Subir Sarkar, Z. Griffith, Theo Glauch, R. Hellauer, K. Mallot, B. J. P. Jones, U. Katz, Minjin Jeong, James W. Wood, James Madsen, Thomas Meures, K. Hoshina, M. E. Huber, P. B. Price, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, N. L. Strotjohann, Segev BenZvi, Felix Henningsen, Glenn Spiczak, G. Momenté, M. Rameez, Lu Lu, Marcos Santander, R. Ström, Won Nam Kang, A. R. Fazely, H. Bagherpour, E. Pinat, P. Backes, X. Bai, D. van Eijk, Simona Toscano, D. F. Cowen, U. Naumann, K. D. de Vries, Spencer Klein, Andres Medina, Olga Botner, S. Tilav, E. Unger, L. Gerhardt, G. Neer, T. Kintscher, Francesco Lucarelli, Frederik Hermann Lauber, S. Hickford, A. Olivas, J. J. Beatty, Daniel Bindig, J. P. Yanez, N. Kulacz, G. H. Collin, Azadeh Keivani, T. Glüsenkamp, T. O. B. Schmidt, V. Baum, Teresa Montaruli, K. Jero, Tianlu Yuan, Sebastian Böser, C. Chen, Kara Hoffman, Kendall Mahn, K. Wiebe, J. Stettner, Hermann Kolanoski, A. Terliuk, S. Westerhoff, T. R. Wood, Justin Lanfranchi, R. Turcotte, K. Helbing, Yiqian Xu, Karl J. Clark, Matt Dunkman, Hrvoje Dujmovic, Sander Vanheule, Javier Gonzalez, L. Rauch, Anastasia Maria Barbano, Kurt Woschnagg, T. Kittler, G. W. Sullivan, Giorgio Maggi, James E. Braun, Alexander Sandrock, Thomas Ehrhardt, E. Cheung, Thomas Stuttard, H.-P. Bretz, Qinrui Liu, Martina Karl, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, Jochen M. Schneider, Paul Evenson, Hershal Pandya, C. De Clercq, Mirco Hunnefeld, Wolfgang Rhode, Dirk Ryckbosch, Nahee Park, K. Hultqvist, Stephan Meighen-Berger, Chunfai Tung, S. Yoshida, Elisa Bernardini, David A. Williams, Robert Stein, Lenka Tomankova, D. Hebecker, Karim Ghorbani, Spencer Axani, Simone Garrappa, Darren Grant, L. Wills, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, M. Stamatikos, D. Rysewyk, M. Silva, Kayla Leonard, M. J. Larson, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, Dmitry Chirkin, Sarah Mancina, Sarah Nowicki, Alexander Kappes, N. Kurahashi, Jenni Adams, I. Taboada, P. Peiffer, Joshua Hignight, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, Paul Coppin, Michael O. Wolf, P. Nakarmi, Carlos Arguelles, J. P. A. M. de André, N. van Eijndhoven, C. Haack, Delia Tosi, Anna Franckowiak, Tobias Hoinka, Andrea Turcati, Jessie Micallef, A. Goldschmidt, Jung-Hyun Kim, Ibrahim Safa, Francis Halzen, P. Schlunder, G. de Wasseige, M. Wallraff, F. Huang, J. van Santen, A. Stößl, M. Börner, Steve Sclafani, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, W. Van Driessche, J. Kiryluk, Alex Pizzuto, Daria Pankova, R. Hoffmann, E. Friedman, George Japaridze, Roger Moore, Gary Binder, Christian Spiering, D. R. Nygren, Reina H. Maruyama, I. Ansseau, K. Becker, Jan Soedingrekso, C. Walck, Marek Kowalski, Steven Robertson, Elisa Lohfink, K. Andeen, Jannes Brostean-Kaiser, Summer Blot, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, J. Bourbeau, E. Jacobi, R. G. Stokstad, R. Nahnhauer, Gisela Anton, A. Stasik, Justin Vandenbroucke, Juliana Stachurska, H. Dembinski, Emily Dvorak, L. Köpke, Alexander Fritz, D. Z. Besson, Chad Finley, G. Krückl, L. Schumacher, Carsten Rott, Tim Ruhe, Colin Turley, C. Alispach, Seongjin In, Gerald Przybylski, Elisa Resconi, T. Anderson, M. G. Aartsen, Janet Conrad, Federica Bradascio, Alexander Burgman, Pablo Correa, H. Niederhausen, K. Mase, Yuya Makino, R. Cross, Xianwu Xu, Christoph Tönnis, J. Sandroos, Mehmet Gunduz, Johannes Werthebach, M. S. Sutherland, A. Ishihara, R. C. Bay, M. J. Weiss, Kirill Filimonov, Austin Schneider, J. C. Gallagher, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Usner, S. Kopper, M. Leuermann, Gerrit Wrede, Kael Hanson, René Reimann, William Luszczak, Allan Hallgren, M. Kauer, Martin Rongen, Pranav Dave, Samridha Kunwar, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, David Kappesser, L. Wille, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, Maximilian Meier, T. Palczewski, Paolo Desiati, M. Günder, D. Heereman, T. Stezelberger, A. Steuer, B. Eberhardt, Raamis Hussain, J. Lünemann, Amirreza Raissi, Chris Weaver, Stephanie Bron, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, G. Merino, N. Wandkowsky, Surujhdeo Seunarine, R. Snihur, Juanan Aguilar, B. J. Whelan, Immacolata Carmen Rea, K. Krings, Jan Weldert, L. Halve, Philipp Eller, M. Plum, Ramesh Koirala, E. Blaufuss, J. Felde, Merlin Schaufel, L. Classen, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Wallace, J. L. Kelley, Da Xu, Markus Ahlers, James DeLaunay, Marjon Moulai, S. De Ridder, Christopher Wiebusch, Kunal Deoskar, M. Labare, A. Karle, Erik Ganster, Ioana Codrina Maris, Christian Bohm, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Christoph Raab, Nadège Iovine, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Bunheng Ty, Maryon Ahrens, Giovanni Renzi, D. Seckel, Frederik Tenholt, S. Fahey, R. Nagai, M. Medici, S. Miarecki, Tyce DeYoung, Nathan Whitehorn, Jeffrey Lazar, Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vriendenkring VUB, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: background [atmosphere], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, pole, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceCube, charged current, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrinos, Point sources, Veto techniques, SEARCH, TRACK RECONSTRUCTION, 0103 physical sciences, supernova, Muon neutrino, atmosphere [muon], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, neutrino muon, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ICE, Galactic Center, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, flux [neutrino], Galactic plane, observatory, Supernova, Physics and Astronomy, Sky, energy [neutrino], gamma ray, ddc:540, spectral, High Energy Physics::Experiment, galaxy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Many Galactic sources of gamma rays, such as supernova remnants, are expected to produce neutrinos with a typical energy cutoff well below 100 TeV. For the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole, the southern sky, containing the inner part of the Galactic plane and the Galactic Center, is a particularly challenging region at these energies, because of the large background of atmospheric muons. In this paper, we present recent advancements in data selection strategies for track-like muon neutrino events with energies below 100 TeV from the southern sky. The strategies utilize the outer detector regions as veto and features of the signal pattern to reduce the background of atmospheric muons to a level which, for the first time, allows IceCube searching for point-like sources of neutrinos in the southern sky at energies between 100 GeV and several TeV in the muon neutrino charged current channel. No significant clustering of neutrinos above background expectation was observed in four years of data recorded with the completed IceCube detector. Upper limits on the neutrino flux for a number of spectral hypotheses are reported for a list of astrophysical objects in the southern hemisphere., 19 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2020

18. The IceCube realtime alert system

Author: B. J. P. Jones, Chris Wendt, S. Hickford, D. Tosi, M. Day, R. Konietz, M. Vehring, S. Coenders, Joshua Hignight, Francis Halzen, Karim Ghorbani, S. Seunarine, G. Merino, Spencer Axani, I. Ansseau, N. Wandkowsky, S. Schoenen, J. Kiryluk, M. Wolf, F. Bos, A. Terliuk, Sally Robertson, G. Krückl, Carlos Arguelles, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, H. Dembinski, Sebastian Böser, D. Heereman, P. Schlunder, R. Nahnhauer, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, Gisela Anton, V. di Lorenzo, Allan Hallgren, J. Tatar, M. J. Larson, Jae Yool Kim, M. Kauer, L. Classen, Kurt Woschnagg, T. Menne, Paul Evenson, L. Brayeur, C. Finley, Juanan Aguilar, Jenni Adams, Hrvoje Dujmovic, Janet Conrad, B. Relethford, Ignacio Taboada, A. Obertacke Pollmann, K. Rawlins, M. G. Aartsen, Michael Sutherland, K. Mase, T. Kittler, S. Flis, P. Peiffer, R. Cross, K. D. de Vries, George Japaridze, S. De Ridder, Dirk Lennarz, Konstancja Satalecka, Theo Glauch, M. Rongen, Gabriel Collin, Dmitry Chirkin, A. Franckowiak, D. Z. Besson, Marjon Moulai, James Madsen, Lu Lu, R. Maunu, E. Friedman, Alexander Kappes, R. G. Stokstad, Markus Ahlers, J. Kunnen, Jay Gallagher, T. Ehrhardt, N. van Eijndhoven, M. N. Tobin, A. Meli, C.-C. Fösig, M. van Rossem, M. Vraeghe, C. Haack, K. Meagher, Elisa Resconi, A. Steuer, Teresa Montaruli, M. J. Weiss, N. Kurahashi, B. J. Whelan, Todor Stanev, R. Hellauer, D. Bose, Kendall Mahn, N. L. Strotjohann, J. P. Dumm, M. Relich, A. Olivas, K. Helbing, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, M. Bissok, K. Jero, A. Wallace, R. Reimann, E. Vogel, Maryon Ahrens, U. Katz, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. Kopper, E. Woolsey, G. Binder, Joshua Pepper, H. Niederhausen, Dawn Williams, F. Huang, M. Leuermann, G. de Wasseige, A. Turcati, U. Naumann, E. Hansen, M. E. Huber, B. Eberhardt, M. S. Kim, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Aya Ishihara, D. Bindig, E. Jacobi, Elisa Bernardini, Segev BenZvi, G. Maggi, T. Schmidt, L. Wille, Y. Xu, J. Lünemann, M. Kowalski, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, Azadeh Keivani, Frederik Tenholt, M. Rameez, M. Medici, L. Gerhardt, D. F. Cowen, Albrecht Karle, S. Euler, T. Fuchs, T. Karg, Ch. Weaver, Alexander Burgman, W. Kang, Z. Griffith, S. Miarecki, J. van Santen, Kael Hanson, Thomas Meures, K. Krings, K. Clark, D. V. Pankova, F. McNally, G. W. Sullivan, M. Casier, B. Riedel, D. R. Nygren, S. Bron, Steven W. Barwick, M. Tselengidou, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Spencer Klein, A. Stasik, Stijn Vanheule, Philipp Eller, Maximilian Meier, T. Ruhe, S. Wickmann, J. Auffenberg, D. Hebecker, Paolo Desiati, A. Sandrock, T. Glüsenkamp, Gerald Przybylski, Minjin Jeong, G. Neer, T. Kintscher, Hermann Kolanoski, M. Labare, M. Quinnan, M. Dunkman, J. Felde, H. Taavola, Stijn Blot, Christian Spiering, S. Yoshida, Xinhua Bai, T. Hansmann, R. Hoffmann, Javier Gonzalez, M. Mandelartz, E. Blaufuss, Kara Hoffman, E. Pinat, Olga Botner, K. Wiebe, P. B. Price, V. Baum, D. J. Koskinen, D. Ryckbosch, Simona Toscano, M. Voge, Markus Ackermann, Donglian Xu, J. Becker Tjus, Ö. Penek, D. Soldin, L. Rädel, J. Stettner, Justin Vandenbroucke, K. Hoshina, E. del Pino Rosendo, Subir Sarkar, Glenn Spiczak, S. Schöneberg, K. H. Becker, E. Unger, D. Berley, W. Giang, J. L. Lanfranchi, Wolfgang Rhode, J. L. Kelley, S. In, S. C. Nowicki, L. Gladstone, R. Koirala, Darren Grant, J. P. A. M. de André, C. Walck, Sarah Mancina, Frederik Hermann Lauber, M. Börner, Klas Hultqvist, M. Zoll, K. Andeen, S. Westerhoff, A. Christov, M. Wallraff, T. Stezelberger, E. Cheung, M. Usner, L. Sabbatini, B. Eichmann, H.-P. Bretz, S. Tilav, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, J. P. Yanez, Christoph Raab, G. C. Hill, L. Schumacher, C. Krüger, A. Goldschmidt, R. C. Bay, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, S. Kunwar, M. Archinger, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, M. Kroll, C. Kopper, J. Braun, T. R. Wood, J. J. Beatty, A. Bernhard, D. Rysewyk, A. Stößl, Reina H. Maruyama, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Feintzeig, Carsten Rott, Xianwu Xu, J. Sandroos, D. Altmann, C. Pérez de los Heros, R. Ström, T. Kuwabara, L. Wills, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, L. Köpke, G. Kohnen, T. Anderson, C. De Clercq, G. Tešić, Kirill Filimonov, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, and Vriendenkring VUB
Subjects: HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, TELESCOPE, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Multi-messenger astronomy, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino detectors, Transient sources, Astronomy and Astrophysics, pole, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, law.invention, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Telescope, SEARCHES, CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, site, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, background, Event (computing), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, PERFORMANCE, sensitivity, observatory, Identification (information), electromagnetic, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, ddc:540, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOLLOW-UP
Abstract: Following the detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in 2013, their origin is still unknown. Aiming for the identification of an electromagnetic counterpart of a rapidly fading source, we have implemented a realtime analysis framework for the IceCube neutrino observatory. Several analyses selecting neutrinos of astrophysical origin are now operating in realtime at the detector site in Antarctica and are producing alerts to the community to enable rapid follow-up observations. The goal of these observations is to locate the astrophysical objects responsible for these neutrino signals. This paper highlights the infrastructure in place both at the South Pole detector site and at IceCube facilities in the north that have enabled this fast follow-up program to be developed. Additionally, this paper presents the first realtime analyses to be activated within this framework, highlights their sensitivities to astrophysical neutrinos and background event rates, and presents an outlook for future discoveries., Comment: 33 pages, 9 figures, Published in Astroparticle Physics
Published: 2017

19. 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

20. Erratum to: Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data

Author: B. Eichmann, H.-P. Bretz, L. Köpke, Christian Bohm, B. Relethford, Aongus O'Murchadha, Christoph Raab, Athina Meli, G. C. Hill, C. Krüger, T. R. Wood, Christopher Wiebusch, S. Fahey, M. Voge, A. R. Fazely, Aya Ishihara, Dennis Soldin, H. Taavola, E. Jacobi, G. Kohnen, L. Gladstone, P. A. Evenson, B. J. P. Jones, S. Euler, C. Pérez de los Heros, Logan Wille, P. Peiffer, M. Day, Matthew Relich, Sally Robertson, G. W. Sullivan, D. J. Koskinen, R. Koirala, J. Braun, D. Seckel, Albrecht Karle, B. Eberhardt, D. Bose, J. P. Dumm, S. Flis, Sebastian Böser, S. Miarecki, D. Z. Besson, P. Schlunder, D. Chirkin, Azadeh Keivani, T. Palczewski, D. V. Pankova, T. Stezelberger, B. Riedel, Matthias Wolf, A. Stasik, Matthew Weiss, Chad Finley, G. Krückl, Hermann Kolanoski, D. R. Nygren, Ö. Penek, S. Schöneberg, E. Vogel, K. Meagher, A. Turcati, T. Kittler, G. H. Collin, Marek Kowalski, J. Kim, E. Hansen, Matthias Huber, V. Baum, Gisela Anton, J. van Santen, C. Kopper, F. Tenholt, A. Stößl, J. A. Pepper, Kurt Becker, Kael Hanson, J. Feintzeig, N. van Eijndhoven, Dirk Ryckbosch, J. P. A. M. de André, Thomas Kintscher, G. Merino, N. Wandkowsky, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. Kopper, Janet Conrad, K. Jero, A. Christov, V. di Lorenzo, S. Wickmann, J. Auffenberg, D. Bindig, Jenni Adams, Dirk Lennarz, A. Steuer, Ignacio Taboada, D. Grant, D. Hebecker, H. Dujmovic, G. S. Japaridze, R. Nahnhauer, M. Quinnan, T. Meures, M. Vraeghe, A. Olivas, S. Schoenen, R. Cross, David Berley, M. Rongen, M. J. Larson, S. Bron, J. J. Beatty, C. Walck, G. Yodh, A. Burgman, D. Rysewyk, M. Börner, F. Huang, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, A. Bernhard, Steven W. Barwick, Juanan Aguilar, Stijn Blot, R. Hoffmann, Marjon Moulai, Chris Wendt, J. Becker Tjus, M. Bissok, J. Kunnen, K. Mase, C.-C. Fösig, E. Pinat, M. Labare, L. Gerhardt, R. Reimann, S. Tilav, Ch. Weaver, G. M. Spiczak, S. Hickford, R. Konietz, K. Rawlins, M. Vehring, G. T. Przybylski, M. van Rossem, Joeran Stettner, K. D. de Vries, T. Glüsenkamp, M. Kauer, Frank McNally, S. Westerhoff, Olga Botner, Elisa Resconi, Y. Xu, M. Rameez, Reina H. Maruyama, Joshua Hignight, James Madsen, K. Wiebe, Lu Lu, T. DeYoung, M. Zoll, Maryon Ahrens, K. Helbing, D. Heereman, H. Niederhausen, Francis Halzen, M. Dunkman, E. Unger, M. Medici, S. Coenders, E. Woolsey, G. Binder, Delia Tosi, S. Ter-Antonyan, R. Ström, Won Nam Kang, M. N. Tobin, Konstancja Satalecka, Theo Glauch, I. Ansseau, J. Lünemann, G. Neer, Teresa Montaruli, Elisa Bernardini, Timo Karg, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, Christian Spiering, E. Blaufuss, A. Terliuk, J. C. Gallagher, H. Dembinski, K. Krings, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. G. Aartsen, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, S. C. Nowicki, Kendall Mahn, F. Bos, K. Andeen, S. De Ridder, Justin Vandenbroucke, Anna Franckowiak, Allan Hallgren, R. C. Bay, T. Anderson, C. De Clercq, M. Leuermann, Kurt Woschnagg, S. Yoshida, P. A. Toale, L. Brayeur, T. Hansmann, Karim Ghorbani, M. Casier, Spencer Axani, W. Giang, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. Archinger, T. Ehrhardt, C. Haack, Michael Sutherland, J. Tatar, S. Mancina, Carlos Arguelles, X. W. Xu, U. Naumann, M. Meier, N. Kurahashi, Todor Stanev, R. Hellauer, M. Jeong, G. de Wasseige, M. Tselengidou, Thomas K. Gaisser, P. Desiati, M. Mandelartz, F. Lauber, Lisa Johanna Schumacher, Javier Gonzalez, Giorgio Maggi, David A. Williams, Markus Ackermann, Carsten Rott, Alexander Kappes, Kirill Filimonov, Uli Katz, Segev BenZvi, A. Wallace, J. Sandroos, D. Altmann, S. Toscano, Spencer Klein, D. F. Cowen, L. Classen, Kara Hoffman, T. Ruhe, D. Pieloth, M. Kroll, Wolfgang Rhode, B. J. Whelan, S. In, L. Wills, Ali Kheirandish, T. Fuchs, L. Sabbatini, Takao Kuwabara, K. Clark, K. Hoshina, Stijn Vanheule, Philipp Eller, A. Sandrock, J. Felde, J. P. Yanez, H. Pandya, Xinhua Bai, A. Obertacke Pollmann, S. Kunwar, J. L. Kelley, M. Wallraff, Markus Ahlers, L. Rädel, R. G. Stokstad, A. Goldschmidt, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, E. Cheung, M. Usner, Elizabeth Friedman, R. Maunu, N. L. Strotjohann, Z. Griffith, Min Suk Kim, Donglian Xu, P. B. Price, G. Tešić, E. del Pino Rosendo, Subir Sarkar, Tobias Menne, S. Seunarine, Bron, Stéphanie, Carver, Tessa, Christov, Asen, Montaruli, Teresa, and Rameez, Mohamed
Subjects: background [atmosphere], Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, lcsh:Astrophysics, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, Signal, horizon, IceCube, Subatomär fysik, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:QB460-466, Subatomic Physics, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, ddc:530, atmosphere [muon], 010306 general physics, detector [neutrino], mass [WIMP], Engineering (miscellaneous), Computer Science::Databases, direct detection [dark matter], Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, scattering, sensitivity, statistics, lcsh:QC770-798, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: The European physical journal / C Particles and fields C 79(3), 214 (2019). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6702-y, Published by Springer24928, Heidelberg
Published: 2019
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21. Time-integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 years of IceCube Data

Author: Federica Bradascio, Alexander Burgman, Merlin Schaufel, Daria Pankova, E. Friedman, Claudio Kopper, Subir Sarkar, Chad Finley, J. J. Beatty, Tianlu Yuan, M. Kauer, D. Kang, Christoph Tönnis, Frank G. Schröder, Alexander Fritz, D. Z. Besson, K. Mase, Yuya Makino, R. Morse, Suyong Choi, I. Taboada, R. Maunu, David Kappesser, Michael O. Wolf, Minjin Jeong, Thomas Meures, N. L. Strotjohann, Felix Henningsen, A. R. Fazely, E. Pinat, Simona Toscano, P. Heix, K. Jero, Sander Vanheule, N. Kurahashi, Karl J. Clark, S. De Ridder, Z. Griffith, Jenni Adams, J. Lünemann, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Obertacke Pollmann, Aswathi Balagopal, Saskia Philippen, D. Rysewyk, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, K. Meagher, F. McNally, M. J. Weiss, M. Labare, T. Palczewski, C. Wendt, E. O’Sullivan, S. Hickford, Jan Soedingrekso, M. Stamatikos, S. Kopper, René Reimann, A. O'Murchadha, Lenka Tomankova, Chunfai Tung, P. Peiffer, M. J. Larson, Pranav Dave, Timothyblake Watson, Erik Ganster, T. Menne, G. de Wasseige, B. Eberhardt, A. Stößl, L. Rauch, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Yang Lyu, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, M. Silva, R. G. Stokstad, B. Relethford, S. Yoshida, Won Nam Kang, Amirreza Raissi, Chris Weaver, Stephanie Bron, Max Renschler, D. J. Koskinen, Wing Yan Ma, Tim Ruhe, B. J. P. Jones, R. Hoffmann, B. J. Whelan, X. Bai, G. Neer, E. Bourbeau, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, G. Merino, Reina H. Maruyama, James DeLaunay, C. Alispach, G. Krückl, Konstancja Satalecka, N. Wandkowsky, H. Dujmovic, Janet Conrad, K. Wiebe, Marjon Moulai, Summer Blot, Andres Medina, Theo Glauch, Jan Weldert, Thomas Ehrhardt, Spencer Griswold, Steven Robertson, Joshua Hignight, L. Halve, Philipp Eller, Shefali Shefali, D. Mockler, M. Günder, Alejandro Diaz, R. Cross, Timo Sturwald, H. Niederhausen, Kael Hanson, Surujhdeo Seunarine, R. Snihur, A. Weindl, Maria Tselengidou, D. Soldin, Johannes Werthebach, Carsten Rott, Juanan Aguilar, T. Stezelberger, R. Joppe, D. van Eijk, Joshua A. Wood, J. Felde, C. Walck, Jeffrey Lazar, R. Hellauer, J. Buscher, P. Schlunder, Maryon Ahrens, Alan Coleman, William Luszczak, Alexander Sandrock, Frederik Tenholt, R. Nagai, A. Goldschmidt, L. Schumacher, M. Zöcklein, Xianwu Xu, M. Medici, J. Sandroos, Timo Karg, T. Stanev, Maximilian Meier, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, P. Steinmüller, F. Huang, G. H. Collin, Matthias Vraeghe, J. Stettner, J. Kim, Delia Tosi, U. Katz, Mehmet Gunduz, Agnieszka Leszczyńska, M. E. Huber, Marcos Santander, Paolo Desiati, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, R. C. Bay, K. D. de Vries, Sebastian Baur, Sebastian Böser, P. Backes, Gisela Anton, Elisa Bernardini, G. W. Sullivan, H. S. Matis, D. B. Fox, L. Gerhardt, A. Olivas, Austin Schneider, James E. Braun, N. van Eijndhoven, K. Helbing, C. Haack, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, H. Bagherpour, Benjamin Bastian, Anastasia Maria Barbano, T. Kittler, Daniel Bindig, Hermann Kolanoski, K. Becker, Emily Dvorak, N. Kulacz, Olga Botner, Kayla Leonard, D. R. Nygren, Javier Gonzalez, Roxanne Turcotte, Marek Kowalski, D. Hebecker, F. Jonske, Alexander Trettin, Giorgio Maggi, Mirco Hunnefeld, Marie Oehler, V. Baum, Sarah Mancina, Anna Franckowiak, Tobias Hoinka, Francis Halzen, J. Auffenberg, M. Börner, Steve Sclafani, J. Kiryluk, C. De Clercq, S. Tilav, I. Ansseau, Paul Coppin, Andrea Turcati, J. C. Gallagher, M. Leuermann, K. Andeen, Elisa Lohfink, J. P. Yanez, Gerrit Wrede, K. Hoshina, Thomas Huber, David A. Williams, Allan Hallgren, Juliana Stachurska, J. van Santen, H. Dembinski, Alex Pizzuto, Markus Ackermann, Glenn Spiczak, G. Momenté, M. G. Aartsen, Pablo Correa, S. W. Barwick, M. Rameez, D. F. Cowen, Gary Binder, Gerald Przybylski, U. Naumann, R. Halliday, George Japaridze, Roger Moore, E. Unger, A. Kyriacou, J. Bourbeau, K. Krings, Seongjin In, Elisa Resconi, Yiqian Xu, Matt Dunkman, Alessio Porcelli, M. Plum, J. Becker Tjus, E. Cheung, Ramesh Koirala, Thomas Stuttard, Dirk Ryckbosch, Stephan Meighen-Berger, K. Tollefson, E. Blaufuss, Albrecht Karle, Qinrui Liu, T. Glüsenkamp, L. Classen, Martina Karl, Jochen M. Schneider, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, D. Heereman, M. Wallraff, A. Steuer, Raamis Hussain, Colin Turley, T. Anderson, Immacolata Carmen Rea, Andreas Haungs, A. Ishihara, K. Mallot, H. Schieler, Kirill Filimonov, Segev BenZvi, T. Kintscher, M. Usner, Frederik Hermann Lauber, Spencer Klein, A. Terliuk, Justin Lanfranchi, Kara Hoffman, Julia Böttcher, Christian Spiering, Hershal Pandya, Wolfgang Rhode, Robert Stein, Justin Vandenbroucke, L. Wills, P. Muth, Ioana Codrina Maris, S. C. Nowicki, Christian Bohm, Ibrahim Safa, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, W. Van Driessche, Nahee Park, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, Jannes Brostean-Kaiser, Christoph Raab, Nadège Iovine, M. U. Nisa, L. Köpke, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Bunheng Ty, Ralph Engel, Giovanni Renzi, K. Rawlins, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, Tyce DeYoung, Nathan Whitehorn, Martin Rongen, R. S. Busse, Christopher Wiebusch, Kunal Deoskar, James Madsen, Lu Lu, L. Wille, Teresa Montaruli, Kendall Mahn, P. B. Price, Francesco Lucarelli, T. O. B. Schmidt, C. Chen, Karim Ghorbani, Spencer Axani, T. R. Wood, Carlos Arguelles, Jessie Micallef, P. Mallik, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Simone Garrappa, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, A. Wallace, Da Xu, Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Elementary Particle Physics, and Vriendenkring VUB
Subjects: background [atmosphere], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, particle source [neutrino], TRACK RECONSTRUCTION, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, atmosphere [muon], 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, astro-ph.HE, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Muon, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Northern Hemisphere, Astronomy, Galaxy, messenger, Physics and Astronomy, Sky, correlation, time dependence, upgrade, galaxy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, statistical
Abstract: Physical review letters 124(5), 051103 (1-9) (2020). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.051103, This paper presents the results from point-like neutrino source searches using ten years of IceCube data collected between April 6, 2008 and July 10, 2018. We evaluate the significance of an astrophysical signal from a point-like source looking for an excess of clustered neutrino events with energies typically above $\sim1\,$TeV among the background of atmospheric muons and neutrinos. We perform a full-sky scan, a search within a selected source catalog, a catalog population study, and three stacked Galactic catalog searches. The most significant point in the Northern hemisphere from scanning the sky is coincident with the Seyfert II galaxy NGC 1068, which was included in the source catalog search. The excess at the coordinates of NGC 1068 is inconsistent with background expectations at the level of $2.9\,\sigma$ after accounting for statistical trials. The combination of this result along with excesses observed at the coordinates of three other sources, including TXS 0506+056, suggests that, collectively, correlations with sources in the Northern catalog are inconsistent with background at 3.3$\,\sigma$ significance. These results, all based on searches for a cumulative neutrino signal integrated over the ten years of available data, motivate further study of these and similar sources, including time-dependent analyses, multimessenger correlations, and the possibility of stronger evidence with coming upgrades to the detector., Published by APS, College Park, Md.
Published: 2019
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22. Astrophysical neutrinos and cosmic rays observed by IceCube

Author: D. Hebecker, Andrea Turcati, M. Kroll, K. Krings, J. van Santen, K. D. de Vries, G. Merino, N. Wandkowsky, Segev BenZvi, R. Maunu, Spencer Klein, M. Mandelartz, M. Usner, Ramesh Koirala, J. Becker Tjus, Dennis Soldin, G. H. Collin, H. Taavola, Gary Binder, E. Blaufuss, T. Kuwabara, Surujhdeo Seunarine, L. Classen, Kara Hoffman, Juanan Aguilar, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, M. van Rossem, K. Rawlins, Maryon Ahrens, Frederik Tenholt, M. Medici, B. J. Whelan, M. Relich, A. Ishihara, J. Veenkamp, S. Coenders, C. Pérez de los Heros, H.-P. Bretz, Killian Holzapfel, Hershal Pandya, Frank McNally, Martin Rongen, Francis Halzen, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Christov, A. Meli, L. Wille, James Madsen, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Goldschmidt, D. Z. Besson, Lu Lu, Z. Griffith, T. Kintscher, S. Euler, Hans Niederhausen, A. Bernhard, K. Clark, I. Ansseau, H. Dembinski, J. C. Gallagher, Thomas Meures, L. Wills, B. J. P. Jones, Ch. Weaver, M. N. Tobin, A. Stasik, Frederik Hermann Lauber, R. Konietz, M. Leuermann, J. Feintzeig, N. L. Strotjohann, J. Kunnen, Jenni Adams, N. Kurahashi, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, Chad Finley, A. Wallace, G. de Wasseige, K. Meagher, F. Bos, J. Lünemann, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, Tim Ruhe, K.-H. Becker, Janet Conrad, T. Stezelberger, R. Hoffmann, M. Day, B. Riedel, Yiqian Xu, Matt Dunkman, R. G. Stokstad, A. R. Fazely, R. Cross, Joshua Hignight, Da Xu, Allan Hallgren, C. Walck, A. Terliuk, S. Westerhoff, Justin Lanfranchi, Stephanie Bron, Philipp Eller, Sarah Mancina, Albrecht Karle, M. S. Sutherland, Kendall Mahn, C.-C. Fösig, Sandro Kopper, T. Fuchs, E. Pinat, Kael Hanson, K. Wiebe, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, E. Cheung, Christian Spiering, D. R. Nygren, P. Schlunder, L. Köpke, Simona Toscano, M. Kauer, M. Börner, J. Kiryluk, K. Jero, G. Krückl, Dirk Ryckbosch, Marek Kowalski, K. Andeen, Matthias Wolf, M. Vehring, D. Altmann, Alexander Burgman, T. Anderson, D. Bose, P. B. Price, Justin Vandenbroucke, Javier Gonzalez, J. P. Dumm, Azadeh Keivani, Thomas Ehrhardt, T. Palczewski, J. Felde, S. Schöneberg, Karim Ghorbani, Spencer Axani, M. Song, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, L. Brayeur, L. Sabbatini, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, Giorgio Maggi, Maximilian Meier, T. O. B. Schmidt, D. Heereman, G. Tešić, Daria Pankova, E. Vogel, M. S. Kim, Dirk Lennarz, S. Wickmann, J. Auffenberg, Paolo Desiati, T. R. Wood, R. Nahnhauer, Gisela Anton, E. Friedman, R. Hellauer, I. Taboada, A. Steuer, E. del Pino Rosendo, A. Obertacke Pollmann, S. Kunwar, Subir Sarkar, Minjin Jeong, Carlos Arguelles, S. Schoenen, W. Giang, S. Flis, S. Tilav, C. De Clercq, K. Mase, B. Eberhardt, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, J. P. Yanez, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, Kirill Filimonov, Sally Robertson, Matthias Vraeghe, Sebastian Böser, G. W. Sullivan, David A. Williams, M. J. Weiss, Carsten Rott, James E. Braun, J. Kim, Christopher Wiebusch, George Japaridze, Dmitry Chirkin, S. Hickford, K. Helbing, Björn Eichmann, T. Kittler, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, M. Bissok, Alexander Kappes, K. Hultqvist, S. Yoshida, T. Hansmann, E. Woolsey, Darren Grant, T. Montaruli, N. van Eijndhoven, Xianwu Xu, Joshua Pepper, J. Sandroos, René Reimann, E. Jacobi, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, C. Haack, C. Bohm, Delia Tosi, Daniel Bindig, Christoph Raab, Sarah Nowicki, Seongjin In, Elisa Resconi, J. Tatar, Elisa Bernardini, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, R. Ström, J. P. A. M. de André, Won Nam Kang, M. Jurkovic, L. Gladstone, C. Krüger, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, M. G. Aartsen, S. Miarecki, X. Bai, G. Neer, P. Peiffer, T. Menne, Tyce DeYoung, L. Schumacher, P. A. Toale, B. Relethford, Konstancja Satalecka, Theo Glauch, M. Casier, U. Katz, Alexander Sandrock, R. C. Bay, Hermann Kolanoski, J. Stettner, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Archinger, A. Olivas, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, Glenn Spiczak, M. Rameez, D. F. Cowen, C. Kopper, U. Naumann, E. Unger, J. J. Beatty, A. O'Murchadha, D. J. Koskinen, D. Rysewyk, A. Stößl, Reina H. Maruyama, Maria Tselengidou, Ö. Penek, Summer Blot, L. Rädel, Timo Karg, E. Hansen, M. E. Huber, L. Gerhardt, M. J. Larson, M. Quinnan, A. Franckowiak, Marjon Moulai, Olga Botner, V. Baum, Gerald Przybylski, M. Zoll, Hrvoje Dujmovic, Sander Vanheule, G. Kohnen, V. di Lorenzo, T. Glüsenkamp, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Vriendenkring VUB, and Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Aerospace Engineering, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Physics and Astronomy(all), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceCube, cosmic rays, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrinos, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cosmic rays, Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, neutrinos, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Physique des particules élémentaires, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy
Abstract: The core mission of the IceCube neutrino observatory is to study the origin and propagation of cosmic rays. IceCube, with its surface component IceTop, observes multiple signatures to accomplish this mission. Most important are the astrophysical neutrinos that are produced in interactions of cosmic rays, close to their sources and in interstellar space. IceCube is the first instrument that measures the properties of this astrophysical neutrino flux and constrains its origin. In addition, the spectrum, composition, and anisotropy of the local cosmic-ray flux are obtained from measurements of atmospheric muons and showers. Here we provide an overview of recent findings from the analysis of IceCube data, and their implications to our understanding of cosmic rays., 0, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2018

23. Constraints on Minute-Scale Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Sources

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, I. Al Samarai, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, P. Backes, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. Barbano, J. P. Barron, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, S. Böser, O. Botner, E. Bourbeau, J. Bourbeau, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, M. Brenzke, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Burgman, R. S. Busse, T. Carver, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, K. Clark, L. Classen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, P. Coppin, P. Correa, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, P. Dave, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, H. Dembinski, K. Deoskar, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, V. di Lorenzo, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, E. Dvorak, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, P. A. Evans, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, A. Fritz, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, T. Hoinka, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, S. In, N. Iovine, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, P. Kalaczynski, W. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, J. P. Koschinsky, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, K. Leonard, M. Leuermann, Q. R. Liu, E. Lohfink, C. J. Lozano Mariscal, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, W. Luszczak, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, S. Mancina, I. C. Mariş, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, M. Moulai, R. Nagai, R. Nahnhauer, P. Nakarmi, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, J. P. Osborne, E. O’Sullivan, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, C. Raab, M. Rameez, L. Rauch, K. Rawlins, I. C. Rea, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, G. Renzi, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, I. Safa, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, M. Schaufel, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, A. Schneider, J. Schneider, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, J. Soedingrekso, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, R. Stein, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, C. F. Turley, B. Ty, E. Unger, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, W. Van Driessche, D. van Eijk, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, J. van Santen, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, F. D. Wandler, N. Wandkowsky, T. B. Watson, A. Waza, C. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, J. Wood, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, G. Wrede, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, T. Yuan, Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vriendenkring VUB, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, 0103 physical sciences, Muon neutrino, ddc:530, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, GAMMA-RAY BURSTS, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), education.field_of_study, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Supernova, Neutron star, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, Physique des particules élémentaires, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: High-energy neutrino emission has been predicted for several short-lived astrophysical transients including gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), core-collapse supernovae with choked jets, and neutron star mergers. IceCube's optical and x-ray follow-up program searches for such transient sources by looking for two or more muon neutrino candidates in directional coincidence and arriving within 100 s. The measured rate of neutrino alerts is consistent with the expected rate of chance coincidences of atmospheric background events and no likely electromagnetic counterparts have been identified in Swift follow-up observations. Here, we calculate generic bounds on the neutrino flux of short-lived transient sources. Assuming an E-2.5 neutrino spectrum, we find that the neutrino flux of rare sources, like long gamma-ray bursts, is constrained to, 0, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2018
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24. Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6–56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

Author: P. Schlunder, R. Hellauer, Sally Robertson, S. De Ridder, F. Bos, Dirk Lennarz, Gisela Anton, M. E. Huber, Allan Hallgren, L. Classen, T. Kittler, S. Flis, M. Labare, J. Werthebach, K. Clark, A. Wallace, Darren Grant, Sarah Nowicki, G. H. Collin, Piotr Kalaczyński, C. Pérez de los Heros, F. D. Wandler, M. Brenzke, J. P. A. M. de André, L. Gerhardt, Minjin Jeong, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, J. P. Barron, S. Yoshida, Stijn Vanheule, Maryon Ahrens, Frederik Tenholt, M. Rameez, M. Medici, A. Waza, Philipp Eller, Thomas Meures, E. Woolsey, G. Binder, P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, Francis Halzen, Joshua Pepper, Karim Ghorbani, S. Coenders, K. Helbing, Christian Spiering, Sarah Mancina, Spencer Axani, K. Jero, Joshua A. Wood, I. Ansseau, T. R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Elisa Bernardini, A. Terliuk, Justin Vandenbroucke, Paul Evenson, S. Schöneberg, H. Dembinski, Frank McNally, Chunfai Tung, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, J. Felde, Xinhua Bai, K. Andeen, E. Jacobi, A. Kyriacou, D. Berley, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, W. Giang, J. L. Lanfranchi, P. Nakarmi, Carlos Arguelles, Janet Conrad, Dmitry Chirkin, F. Bradascio, A. Obertacke Pollmann, I. Al Samarai, J. L. Kelley, Alexander Kappes, C. Walck, Jessie Micallef, R. Cross, M. Rongen, Joshua Hignight, K. Krings, M. S. Sutherland, M. Börner, Markus Ahlers, S. Tilav, U. Katz, E. Pinat, K. Rawlins, George Japaridze, Roger Moore, Ramesh Koirala, Dennis Soldin, A. Christov, William Luszczak, Frederik Hermann Lauber, Jenni Adams, S. Hickford, D. J. Koskinen, Simona Toscano, M. Kauer, M. Zoll, S. Westerhoff, James Madsen, J. Bourbeau, E. Blaufuss, Lu Lu, Donglian Xu, Yiqian Xu, J. Tatar, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, D. Bose, R. G. Stokstad, M. J. Larson, Seongjin In, Hermann Kolanoski, Elisa Resconi, M. N. Tobin, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, J. Becker Tjus, A. Stasik, J. P. Dumm, Subir Sarkar, E. Cheung, M. Usner, T. Palczewski, Dirk Ryckbosch, M. Day, C. Kopper, Teresa Montaruli, T. Karg, R. Maunu, T. Kuwabara, E. Vogel, M. Stamatikos, J. Braun, T. Stezelberger, Jan Soedingrekso, B. Eberhardt, Kendall Mahn, Jae Yool Kim, J. Stachurska, N. L. Strotjohann, T. Menne, L. Rädel, J. Casey, S. Schoenen, D. Bindig, A. Franckowiak, D. Heereman, B. Relethford, P. Peiffer, Konstancja Satalecka, Theo Glauch, A. Goldschmidt, Gerald Przybylski, Z. Griffith, Marjon Moulai, S. Kunwar, K. Meagher, Jay Gallagher, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Azadeh Keivani, C. F. Turley, G. Krückl, Matthias Vraeghe, N. Kurahashi, B. J. Whelan, Todor Stanev, G. Tešić, T. Anderson, E. Friedman, A. Olivas, Delia Tosi, Mirco Hunnefeld, C. Wendt, F. Huang, M. Dunkman, G. de Wasseige, J. Stettner, D. R. Nygren, J. Lünemann, C. De Clercq, J. J. Beatty, Tianlu Yuan, K. Hoshina, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, R. Hoffmann, Glenn Spiczak, G. Momenté, M. Tselengidou, M. G. Aartsen, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, U. Naumann, K. H. Becker, T. Kintscher, Marsha J. Wolf, E. Unger, Javier Gonzalez, D. Rysewyk, Giorgio Maggi, K. Wiebe, Marek Kowalski, David A. Williams, B. J. P. Jones, T. Sälzer, Markus Ackermann, A. Stößl, H. Bagherpour, Olga Botner, Reina H. Maruyama, M. Relich, V. Baum, Chris Weaver, G. Merino, Kirill Filimonov, M. Kroll, N. Wandkowsky, K. D. de Vries, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Koschinsky, R. Nahnhauer, L. Schumacher, Carsten Rott, D. V. Pankova, M. Casier, M. Leuermann, L. Wills, Surujhdeo Seunarine, G. Kohnen, J. P. Yanez, A. Steuer, Juanan Aguilar, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Kunnen, S. Böser, R. C. Bay, A. Ishihara, D. Z. Besson, Xianwu Xu, Damian Pieloth, J. Sandroos, D. Altmann, Austin Schneider, Ali Kheirandish, J. Auffenberg, W. Van Driessche, G. W. Sullivan, Jannes Brostean-Kaiser, T. Fuchs, L. Köpke, Albrecht Karle, L. Brayeur, I. Taboada, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, Kara Hoffman, Won Nam Kang, Hershal Pandya, Wolfgang Rhode, J. J. DeLaunay, G. Neer, Tim Ruhe, J. van Santen, Kael Hanson, M. Plum, S. Bron, Steven W. Barwick, Maximilian Meier, Paolo Desiati, T. Ehrhardt, Alexander Sandrock, D. Hebecker, K. Mase, Andrea Turcati, Stijn Blot, C. Haack, M. J. Weiss, R. Reimann, S. Kopper, Christopher Wiebusch, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, Christoph Raab, G. C. Hill, Bunheng Ty, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Immacolata Carmen Rea, B. Eichmann, H.-P. Bretz, M. Kim, L. Wille, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, Hans Niederhausen, V. di Lorenzo, C. Finley, A. Burgman, Qinrui Liu, T. Glüsenkamp, M. Wallraff, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Vriendenkring VUB, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Arguelles Delgado, Carlos A, Axani, Spencer Nicholas, Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet Marie, Moulai, Marjon H., Al Samarai, Imen, Bron, Stéphanie, Carver, Tessa, Christov, Asen, and Montaruli, Teresa
Subjects: interaction [cosmic radiation], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, IceCube, Subatomär fysik, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, Subatomic Physics, TOOL, Physics, oscillation [neutrino], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, atmosphere [neutrino], threshold [energy], mass difference [neutrino], ddc, observatory, Neutrino detector, Physique des particules élémentaires, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, Particle physics, cosmic radiation [neutrino], accelerator, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, ddc:500.2, Physics and Astronomy(all), IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, neutrino/mu, ddc:530, energy: high [neutrino], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Astroparticle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ICE, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy, Solar neutrino problem, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, mass [neutrino], High Energy Physics::Experiment, SYSTEM, mixing angle [neutrino], experimental results
Abstract: We present a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters using three years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The DeepCore infill array in the center of IceCube enables the detection and reconstruction of neutrinos produced by the interaction of cosmic rays in Earth's atmosphere at energies as low as ∼5 GeV. That energy threshold permits measurements of muon neutrino disappearance, over a range of baselines up to the diameter of the Earth, probing the same range of L/Eν as long-baseline experiments but with substantially higher-energy neutrinos. This analysis uses neutrinos from the full sky with reconstructed energies from 5.6 to 56 GeV. We measure Δm322=2.31-0.13+0.11×10-3 eV2 and sin2θ23=0.51-0.09+0.07, assuming normal neutrino mass ordering. These results are consistent with, and of similar precision to, those from accelerator- and reactor-based experiments., 0, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2018
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25. 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

26. Measurement of the $$\nu _{\mu }$$ <math><msub><mi>ν</mi><mi>μ</mi></msub></math> energy spectrum with IceCube-79

Author: M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, I. Al Samarai, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, M. Archinger, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, D. Bindig, E. Blaufuss, S. Blot, C. Bohm, M. Börner, F. Bos, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, F. Bradascio, J. Braun, L. Brayeur, H.-P. Bretz, S. Bron, A. Burgman, T. Carver, M. Casier, E. Cheung, D. Chirkin, A. Christov, K. Clark, L. Classen, S. Coenders, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, D. F. Cowen, R. Cross, M. Day, J. P. A. M. de André, C. De Clercq, E. del Pino Rosendo, H. Dembinski, S. De Ridder, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, M. de With, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, V. di Lorenzo, H. Dujmovic, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, B. Eichmann, P. Eller, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, S. Fahey, A. R. Fazely, J. Feintzeig, J. Felde, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, S. Flis, C.-C. Fösig, A. Franckowiak, E. Friedman, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, K. Ghorbani, W. Giang, L. Gladstone, T. Glauch, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. G. Gonzalez, D. Grant, Z. Griffith, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, E. Hansen, T. Hansmann, K. Hanson, D. Hebecker, D. Heereman, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, J. Hignight, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, K. Hoshina, F. Huang, M. Huber, K. Hultqvist, S. In, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, G. S. Japaridze, M. Jeong, K. Jero, B. J. P. Jones, W. Kang, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, U. Katz, M. Kauer, A. Keivani, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, J. Kim, M. Kim, T. Kintscher, J. Kiryluk, T. Kittler, S. R. Klein, G. Kohnen, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, R. Konietz, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, K. Krings, M. Kroll, G. Krückl, C. Krüger, J. Kunnen, S. Kunwar, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, A. Kyriacou, M. Labare, J. L. Lanfranchi, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, D. Lennarz, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, M. Leuermann, L. Lu, J. Lünemann, J. Madsen, G. Maggi, K. B. M. Mahn, S. Mancina, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, R. Maunu, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Medici, M. Meier, T. Menne, G. Merino, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, J. Micallef, G. Momenté, T. Montaruli, M. Moulai, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, G. Neer, H. Niederhausen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke Pollmann, A. Olivas, A. O’Murchadha, T. Palczewski, H. Pandya, D. V. Pankova, P. Peiffer, Ö. Penek, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, E. Pinat, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, M. Quinnan, C. Raab, L. Rädel, M. Rameez, K. Rawlins, R. Reimann, B. Relethford, M. Relich, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Richman, B. Riedel, S. Robertson, M. Rongen, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, D. Ryckbosch, D. Rysewyk, L. Sabbatini, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, A. Sandrock, J. Sandroos, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, P. Schlunder, T. Schmidt, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, L. Schumacher, D. Seckel, S. Seunarine, D. Soldin, M. Song, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, J. Stettner, A. Steuer, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, R. Ström, N. L. Strotjohann, G. W. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, H. Taavola, I. Taboada, J. Tatar, F. Tenholt, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, G. Tešić, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, M. N. Tobin, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, M. Tselengidou, C. F. Tung, A. Turcati, E. Unger, M. Usner, J. Vandenbroucke, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Vanheule, M. van Rossem, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, M. Voge, E. Vogel, M. Vraeghe, C. Walck, A. Wallace, M. Wallraff, N. Wandkowsky, A. Waza, Ch. Weaver, M. J. Weiss, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, B. J. Whelan, S. Wickmann, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, L. Wille, D. R. Williams, L. Wills, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, K. Woschnagg, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, Y. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and M. Zoll
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, lcsh:QB460-466, lcsh:QC770-798, lcsh:Astrophysics, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract: IceCube is a neutrino observatory deployed in the glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. The $$\nu _\mu $$ νμ energy unfolding described in this paper is based on data taken with IceCube in its 79-string configuration. A sample of muon neutrino charged-current interactions with a purity of 99.5% was selected by means of a multivariate classification process based on machine learning. The subsequent unfolding was performed using the software Truee. The resulting spectrum covers an E$$_\nu $$ ν -range of more than four orders of magnitude from 125 GeV to 3.2 PeV. Compared to the Honda atmospheric neutrino flux model, the energy spectrum shows an excess of more than $$1.9\,\sigma $$ 1.9σ in four adjacent bins for neutrino energies $$E_\nu \ge 177.8\,\text {TeV}$$ Eν≥177.8TeV . The obtained spectrum is fully compatible with previous measurements of the atmospheric neutrino flux and recent IceCube measurements of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
Published: 2017

27. PINGU: a vision for neutrino and particle physics at the South Pole

Author: A. Olivas, F. Huang, G. Neer, S. Euler, J. van Santen, M. Day, Kael Hanson, Janet Conrad, Hrvoje Dujmovic, Ignacio Taboada, Steven W. Barwick, Christian Bohm, D. Hebecker, Aongus O'Murchadha, Segev BenZvi, R. Cross, M. Wolf, M. Jurkovic, M. Rongen, M. Kauer, B. Relethford, Christian Spiering, Spencer Klein, Konstancja Satalecka, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, Maximilian Meier, Thomas Meures, Christoph Raab, Paolo Desiati, George Japaridze, M. Schimp, G. Krückl, P. Schlunder, Hermann Kolanoski, B. Hansmann, Roger Moore, G. C. Hill, E. Friedman, D. Tosi, H. Taavola, J. Lünemann, L. Brayeur, Sally Robertson, M. Kroll, S. Hickford, A. Meli, Kara Hoffman, K. D. de Vries, T. Ehrhardt, N. van Eijndhoven, Justin Vandenbroucke, M. Leuermann, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, K. Mase, Elisa Resconi, K. Hoshina, C. Krüger, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, Sebastian Böser, M. Kowalski, G. H. Collin, C. Haack, M. J. Weiss, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, S. Márka, M. Labare, U. Naumann, D. Berley, W. Giang, M. Quinnan, C. Kopper, J. Braun, T. Kittler, S. Flis, Glenn Spiczak, G. Golup, Gisela Anton, M. Dunkman, J. L. Lanfranchi, R. Reimann, Imre Bartos, Stijn Blot, K. Krings, M. Glagla, Karim Ghorbani, S. Seunarine, E. Pinat, Dmitry Chirkin, L. Mohrmann, R. Hoffmann, S. Kopper, Antonio Palazzo, Simona Toscano, M. Voge, Spencer Axani, M. Mandelartz, S. Coenders, T. R. Wood, S. C. Nowicki, T. C. Arlen, G. Merino, Wolfgang Rhode, N. Wandkowsky, Alexander Kappes, A. Christov, Minjin Jeong, J. L. Kelley, S. In, L. Gladstone, G. Karagiorgi, S. Mandalia, R. Koirala, Donglian Xu, R. Nahnhauer, Carlos Arguelles, S. Schoenen, J. J. Beatty, K. Abraham, L. Wills, Olga Botner, S. Miarecki, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Feintzeig, D. Heereman, A. Bernhard, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, Darren Grant, Juanan Aguilar, K. Wiebe, Azadeh Keivani, A. Haj Ismail, J. Kiryluk, F. Bos, Teppei Katori, K. H. Becker, E. Unger, D. Z. Besson, F. McNally, V. Baum, Francis Halzen, D. R. Nygren, Aya Ishihara, D. Rysewyk, Subir Sarkar, Allan Hallgren, D. V. Pankova, L. Classen, J. Haugen, K. Rawlins, I. Ansseau, M. J. Larson, A. Franckowiak, Marjon Moulai, S. Yoshida, M. Casier, B. Riedel, J. P. A. M. de André, M. Bissok, K. Jero, A. Stößl, A. Terliuk, E. Jacobi, M. G. Aartsen, S. Wickmann, J. Auffenberg, T. Stezelberger, T. Hansmann, G. W. Sullivan, M. H. Shaevitz, Reina H. Maruyama, A. Turcati, R. Maunu, J. Kunnen, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, B. Eichmann, H. Dembinski, C. Walck, James Madsen, M. S. Kim, James Pinfold, Michael Sutherland, H.-P. Bretz, A. Stasik, N. L. Strotjohann, Lu Lu, Sarah Mancina, S. De Ridder, B. J. P. Jones, M. Stahlberg, L. Schumacher, A. Steuer, D. Bindig, M. van Rossem, Gerald Przybylski, T. Fuchs, Y. Xu, M. N. Tobin, E. Hansen, M. E. Huber, E. Pino del Rosendo, M. Börner, Klas Hultqvist, Z. Griffith, R. C. Bay, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, D. Bose, J. P. Dumm, M. Relich, K. Meagher, T. Karg, Ch. Weaver, L. Gerhardt, Maryon Ahrens, O. Kalekin, K. Andeen, Teresa Montaruli, P. Sandstrom, Frederik Tenholt, M. Rameez, M. Archinger, M. Medici, Kendall Mahn, Frederik Hermann Lauber, H. Niederhausen, L. Köpke, T. Palczewski, Julian Kemp, M. Zoll, G. Kohnen, Carsten Rott, G. Maggi, J. Tatar, S. Westerhoff, Albrecht Karle, M. Wallraff, Xianwu Xu, J. Sandroos, D. Altmann, P. Berghaus, T. Anderson, B. Eberhardt, C. De Clercq, C. Pérez de los Heros, R. Ström, G. Tešić, T. Kuwabara, Kirill Filimonov, D. J. Koskinen, Ö. Penek, S. Söldner-Rembold, Dirk Lennarz, Thorsten Glusenkamp, D. Soldin, S. Schöneberg, Z. Márka, K. Helbing, U. Katz, L. Rädel, Alexander Burgman, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Jenni Adams, Akimichi Taketa, J. Leuner, R. G. Stokstad, Killian Holzapfel, Chris Wendt, C.-C. Fösig, R. Konietz, M. Vehring, J. M. LoSecco, Joshua Hignight, H. Pandya, T. Kintscher, Javier Gonzalez, C. B. Krauss, E. Woolsey, G. Binder, Joshua Pepper, P. B. Price, D. Ryckbosch, Markus Ackermann, N. Kurahashi, B. J. Whelan, Todor Stanev, R. Hellauer, Dawn Williams, G. de Wasseige, Elisa Bernardini, M. Tselengidou, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, J. Becker Tjus, J. Veenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, Troels Petersen, S. Kunwar, S. Wren, L. Sabbatini, T. Ruhe, S. Tilav, J. P. Yanez, T. Schmidt, L. Wille, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, E. Cheung, M. Usner, V. di Lorenzo, T. Menne, C. Finley, A. Wallace, K. Clark, D. F. Cowen, Stijn Vanheule, Philipp Eller, A. Sandrock, J. Felde, Xinhua Bai, A. Obertacke Pollmann, Markus Ahlers, M. Vraeghe, J. J. Evans, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Jay Gallagher, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Physics, Vriendenkring VUB, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, mixing [neutrino], atmospheric neutrinos, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, neutrino oscillations, PINGU, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, pole, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Observatory, Physics, solar [WIMP], precision measurement, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, oscillation [neutrino], solar [dark matter], atmosphere [neutrino], threshold [energy], mass difference [neutrino], observatory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Upgrade, Neutrino detector, upgrade, Neutrino, KM3NET, performance, Particle physics, supernova [neutrino], particle identification [neutrino/tau], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, SUPERNOVA DETECTION, 0103 physical sciences, OSCILLATIONS, mass: low [dark matter], unitarity, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, sensitivity, KM3NeT, Physics and Astronomy, mass [neutrino], beam [neutrino], High Energy Physics::Experiment, galaxy, ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS, MATTER, SYSTEM, Lepton, mixing angle [neutrino], experimental results
Abstract: The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed low-energy in-fill extension to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. With detection technology modeled closely on the successful IceCube example, PINGU will provide a 6Mton effective mass for neutrino detection with an energy threshold of a few GeV. With an unprecedented sample of over 60,000 atmospheric neutrinos per year in this energy range, PINGU will make highly competitive measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters in an energy range over an order of magnitude higher than long-baseline neutrino beam experiments. PINGU will measure the mixing parameters $\theta_{\rm 23}$ and $\Delta m^2_{\rm 32}$, including the octant of $\theta_{\rm 23}$ for a wide range of values, and determine the neutrino mass ordering at $3\sigma$ median significance within 4 years of operation. PINGU's high precision measurement of the rate of ${\nu_\tau}$ appearance will provide essential tests of the unitarity of the $3\times 3$ PMNS neutrino mixing matrix. PINGU will also improve the sensitivity of searches for low mass dark matter in the Sun, use neutrino tomography to directly probe the composition of the Earth's core, and improve IceCube's sensitivity to neutrinos from Galactic supernovae. Reoptimization of the PINGU design has permitted substantial reduction in both cost and logistical requirements while delivering performance nearly identical to configurations previously studied. This document summarizes the results of detailed studies described in a more comprehensive document to be released soon., Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures, submitted to J. Phys. G
Published: 2017

28. Search for sterile neutrino mixing using three years of IceCube DeepCore data

Author: Janet Conrad, M. Rongen, M. S. Sutherland, M. Kauer, G. Merino, D. Bose, Francis Halzen, J. P. Dumm, I. Ansseau, A. Terliuk, E. Vogel, Christian Bohm, B. Eberhardt, Aongus O'Murchadha, Christoph Raab, Jenni Adams, R. Nahnhauer, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Juanan Aguilar, Hrvoje Dujmovic, L. Gladstone, C. Krüger, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, S. Miarecki, E. Jacobi, Tyce DeYoung, R. Maunu, A. Ishihara, P. A. Toale, Sander Vanheule, T. Kuwabara, T. Karg, Ch. Weaver, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, A. Kyriacou, Joonghan Kim, J. Feintzeig, K. Mase, Minjin Jeong, G. Tešić, Tim Ruhe, E. Friedman, C.-C. Fösig, Darren Grant, N. L. Strotjohann, I. Al Samarai, A. Karle, J. Becker Tjus, Karim Ghorbani, Sarah Nowicki, C. H. Wiebusch, J. P. A. M. de André, K. Filimonov, Spencer Axani, M. Leuermann, G. Kohnen, J. P. Yanez, G. Maggi, Alexander Burgman, M. Kroll, C. Walck, D. Z. Besson, H.-P. Bretz, T. Menne, M. J. Larson, G. Krückl, Frank McNally, Chunfai Tung, Carlos Arguelles, E. V. Hansen, D. Tosi, J. Stachurska, C. Pérez de los Heros, Jessie Micallef, Z. Griffith, M. Kowalski, A. Stasik, R. Konietz, G.M. Spiczak, Joakim Sandroos, Azadeh Keivani, Konstancja Satalecka, J. J. Beatty, Joanna Kiryluk, K. Meagher, M. Day, Dirk Lennarz, M. Zoll, A. Franckowiak, Marjon Moulai, H. Dembinski, K. Rawlins, Theo Glauch, S. Westerhoff, Gerald Przybylski, D. Rysewyk, M. Quinnan, D. Soldin, M. Dunkman, K. Clark, S. Yoshida, T. Hansmann, A. Stößl, B. J. Whelan, Christian Spiering, Thorsten Glusenkamp, Reina H. Maruyama, David R. Williams, Todor Stanev, Claudio Kopper, C. Wendt, K. D. Hoffman, Justin Vandenbroucke, G. W. Sullivan, S. Schöneberg, James E. Braun, James Madsen, Lu Lu, L. Schumacher, M. Casier, E. del Pino Rosendo, W. Giang, G. de Wasseige, J. L. Lanfranchi, J. Lünemann, Subir Sarkar, R. Hoffmann, Martin Wolf, R. C. Bay, Olga Botner, J. Tatar, N. van Eijndhoven, Gisela Anton, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Archinger, K. Helbing, Thomas Meures, V. Baum, D.F. Cowen, M. Tselengidou, R. Cross, Andrea Turcati, Teresa Montaruli, J. Stettner, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, L. Sabbatini, P. Peiffer, J. van Santen, Stijn Blot, K. D. de Vries, K. Hoshina, M. Mandelartz, Kendall Mahn, U. Katz, T. Kintscher, Gary Binder, A. Sandrock, George Japaridze, S. Tilav, B. J. P. Jones, A. R. Fazely, J. L. Kelley, E. Woolsey, M. E. Huber, Joshua Pepper, J. S. Gallagher, M. Richman, K. Wiebe, M. Tobin, J. Hignight, U. Naumann, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, Seongjin In, F. Lauber, A. Olivas, E. Pinat, Hermann Kolanoski, E. Unger, Elisa Resconi, Elisa Bernardini, Simona Toscano, C. De Clercq, F. Tenholt, Richard G. Strom, Philipp Eller, Kael Hanson, Carsten Rott, Markus Ackermann, S. Bron, T. Fuchs, S. W. Barwick, Maximilian Meier, Segev BenZvi, Paolo Desiati, A. Goldschmidt, S. Kunwar, F. Huang, Xianwu Xu, D. Altmann, Timothy W. Schmidt, K.-H. Becker, Yiqian Xu, J. Felde, S. Seunarine, E. Cheung, A. Steuer, M. Usner, A. Kheirandish, Dirk Ryckbosch, A. Obertacke Pollmann, F. Bos, J. G. Gonzalez, P. Schlunder, Hershal Pandya, Markus Ahlers, Wolfgang Rhode, V. di Lorenzo, Allan Hallgren, T. Palczewski, S. Schoenen, Sandro Kopper, C. Finley, D. Heereman, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, L. Brayeur, Naoko Kurahashi, I. Taboada, Dustin Hebecker, T. Anderson, K. Jero, S. R. Klein, M. G. Aartsen, Thomas Ehrhardt, Ramesh Koirala, H. Taavola, E. Blaufuss, K. Woschnagg, L. Classen, N. Wandkowsky, M. Relich, M. Wallraff, M. S. Kim, L. Wills, M. Voge, K. Krings, Woosik Kang, S. De Ridder, Benedikt Riedel, M. van Rossem, L. Gerhardt, Maryon Ahrens, M. Rameez, S. Euler, M. Medici, S. Coenders, M. Labare, J. Kunnen, D. V. Pankova, D. R. Nygren, Damian Pieloth, L. Wille, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, S. Wickmann, J. Auffenberg, Hans Niederhausen, A. Wallace, X. Bai, G. Neer, L. Köpke, Da Xu, R. Hellauer, G. Momenté, M. Vehring, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Sally Robertson, Sebastian Böser, P. B. Price, A. Waza, C. Haack, M. J. Weiss, T. Kittler, S. Flis, T. R. Wood, R. Reimann, Matthias Vraeghe, Sarah Mancina, Paul Evenson, M. Börner, Klas Hultqvist, K. Andeen, D. J. Koskinen, Björn Eichmann, Ö. Penek, L. Rädel, Gabriel Collin, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, A. Christov, B. Relethford, Daniel Bindig, T. Stezelberger, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, and Vriendenkring VUB
Subjects: FLUX, Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, OSCILLATION EXPERIMENTS, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, TRACK RECONSTRUCTION, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy, Solar neutrino problem, LINE-EXPERIMENT-SIMULATOR, MODEL, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Neutrino detector, Physics and Astronomy, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino
Abstract: Physical review / D 95(11), 112002(2017). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.112002, We present a search for a light sterile neutrino using three years of atmospheric neutrino data from the DeepCore detector in the energy range of approximately 10–60 GeV. DeepCore is the low-energy subarray of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The standard three-neutrino paradigm can be probed by adding an additional light (Δm$^{2}_{41}$ ∼ 1 eV2) sterile neutrino. Sterile neutrinos do not interact through the standard weak interaction and, therefore, cannot be directly detected. However, their mixing with the three active neutrino states leaves an imprint on the standard atmospheric neutrino oscillations for energies below 100 GeV. A search for such mixing via muon neutrino disappearance is presented here. The data are found to be consistent with the standard three-neutrino hypothesis. Therefore, we derive limits on the mixing matrix elements at the level of $|U_{μ4}|^{2}, Published by APS, Woodbury, NY
Published: 2017

29. Measurement of the multi-TeV neutrino interaction cross-section with IceCube using Earth absorption

Author: M. G. Aartsen, G. C. Hill, A. Kyriacou, S. Robertson, A. Wallace, B. J. Whelan, M. Ackermann, E. Bernardini, S. Blot, F. Bradascio, H.-P. Bretz, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Franckowiak, E. Jacobi, T. Karg, T. Kintscher, S. Kunwar, R. Nahnhauer, K. Satalecka, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, A. Stasik, N. L. Strotjohann, A. Terliuk, M. Usner, J. van Santen, J. Adams, H. Bagherpour, J. A. Aguilar, I. Ansseau, D. Heereman, K. Meagher, T. Meures, A. O’Murchadha, E. Pinat, C. Raab, M. Ahlers, D. J. Koskinen, M. J. Larson, M. Medici, M. Rameez, M. Ahrens, C. Bohm, J. P. Dumm, C. Finley, S. Flis, K. Hultqvist, C. Walck, M. Zoll, I. Al Samarai, S. Bron, T. Carver, A. Christov, T. Montaruli, D. Altmann, G. Anton, T. Glüsenkamp, U. Katz, T. Kittler, M. Tselengidou, K. Andeen, M. Plum, T. Anderson, J. J. DeLaunay, M. Dunkman, P. Eller, F. Huang, A. Keivani, J. L. Lanfranchi, D. V. Pankova, G. Tešic´, C. F. Turley, M. J. Weiss, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, M. Moulai, J. Auffenberg, M. Brenzke, T. Glauch, C. Haack, P. Kalaczynski, J. P. Koschinsky, M. Leuermann, L. Rädel, R. Reimann, M. Rongen, T. Sälzer, S. Schoenen, L. Schumacher, J. Stettner, M. Vehring, E. Vogel, M. Wallraff, A. Waza, C. H. Wiebusch, X. Bai, J. P. Barron, W. Giang, D. Grant, C. Kopper, R. W. Moore, S. C. Nowicki, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, S. Sarkar, F. D. Wandler, C. Weaver, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, J. P. Yanez, S. W. Barwick, G. Yodh, V. Baum, S. Böser, V. di Lorenzo, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, L. Köpke, G. Krückl, G. Momenté, P. Peiffer, J. Sandroos, A. Steuer, K. Wiebe, R. Bay, K. Filimonov, P. B. Price, K. Woschnagg, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, F. Bos, B. Eichmann, M. Kroll, S. Schöneberg, F. Tenholt, K.-H. Becker, D. Bindig, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, R. Hoffmann, F. Lauber, U. Naumann, A. Obertacke Pollmann, D. Soldin, S. BenZvi, R. Cross, D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, E. Cheung, J. Felde, E. Friedman, R. Hellauer, K. D. Hoffman, R. Maunu, A. Olivas, T. Schmidt, M. Song, G. W. Sullivan, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, S. R. Klein, S. Miarecki, T. Palczewski, J. Tatar, M. Börner, T. Fuchs, M. Hünnefeld, M. Meier, T. Menne, D. Pieloth, W. Rhode, T. Ruhe, A. Sandrock, P. Schlunder, J. Soedingrekso, J. Werthebach, D. Bose, H. Dujmovic, S. In, M. Jeong, W. Kang, J. Kim, C. Rott, O. Botner, A. Burgman, A. Hallgren, C. Pérez de los Heros, E. Unger, J. Bourbeau, J. Braun, J. Casey, D. Chirkin, M. Day, P. Desiati, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. Fahey, K. Ghorbani, Z. Griffith, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, K. Jero, A. Karle, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, Q. R. Liu, W. Luszczak, S. Mancina, F. McNally, G. Merino, A. Schneider, M. N. Tobin, D. Tosi, B. Ty, J. Vandenbroucke, N. Wandkowsky, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, L. Wille, M. Wolf, J. Wood, D. L. Xu, T. Yuan, L. Brayeur, M. Casier, C. De Clercq, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, J. Kunnen, J. Lünemann, G. Maggi, S. Toscano, N. van Eijndhoven, K. Clark, L. Classen, A. Kappes, S. Coenders, K. Krings, I. C. Rea, E. Resconi, A. Turcati, D. F. Cowen, J. P. A. M. de André, T. DeYoung, J. Hignight, D. Lennarz, K. B. M. Mahn, J. Micallef, G. Neer, D. Rysewyk, H. Dembinski, P. A. Evenson, T. K. Gaisser, J. G. Gonzalez, R. Koirala, H. Pandya, D. Seckel, T. Stanev, S. Tilav, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, D. Ryckbosch, W. Van Driessche, S. Vanheule, M. Vraeghe, M. de With, D. Hebecker, H. Kolanoski, A. R. Fazely, S. Ter-Antonyan, X. W. Xu, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, D. R. Nygren, G. T. Przybylski, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Ishihara, M. Kim, T. Kuwabara, L. Lu, K. Mase, M. Relich, A. Stößl, S. Yoshida, G. S. Japaridze, B. J. P. Jones, J. Kiryluk, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, H. Niederhausen, Y. Xu, G. Kohnen, S. Kopper, P. Nakarmi, J. A. Pepper, P. A. Toale, D. R. Williams, M. Kowalski, N. Kurahashi, B. Relethford, M. Richman, L. Wills, J. Madsen, S. Seunarine, G. M. Spiczak, R. Maruyama, K. Rawlins, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, C. F. Tung, M. Huber, M. G. Aartsen, G. C. Hill, A. Kyriacou, S. Robertson, A. Wallace, B. J. Whelan, M. Ackermann, E. Bernardini, S. Blot, F. Bradascio, H.-P. Bretz, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Franckowiak, E. Jacobi, T. Karg, T. Kintscher, S. Kunwar, R. Nahnhauer, K. Satalecka, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, A. Stasik, N. L. Strotjohann, A. Terliuk, M. Usner, J. van Santen, J. Adams, H. Bagherpour, J. A. Aguilar, I. Ansseau, D. Heereman, K. Meagher, T. Meures, A. O’Murchadha, E. Pinat, C. Raab, M. Ahlers, D. J. Koskinen, M. J. Larson, M. Medici, M. Rameez, M. Ahrens, C. Bohm, J. P. Dumm, C. Finley, S. Flis, K. Hultqvist, C. Walck, M. Zoll, I. Al Samarai, S. Bron, T. Carver, A. Christov, T. Montaruli, D. Altmann, G. Anton, T. Glüsenkamp, U. Katz, T. Kittler, M. Tselengidou, K. Andeen, M. Plum, T. Anderson, J. J. DeLaunay, M. Dunkman, P. Eller, F. Huang, A. Keivani, J. L. Lanfranchi, D. V. Pankova, G. Tešic´, C. F. Turley, M. J. Weiss, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, M. Moulai, J. Auffenberg, M. Brenzke, T. Glauch, C. Haack, P. Kalaczynski, J. P. Koschinsky, M. Leuermann, L. Rädel, R. Reimann, M. Rongen, T. Sälzer, S. Schoenen, L. Schumacher, J. Stettner, M. Vehring, E. Vogel, M. Wallraff, A. Waza, C. H. Wiebusch, X. Bai, J. P. Barron, W. Giang, D. Grant, C. Kopper, R. W. Moore, S. C. Nowicki, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, S. Sarkar, F. D. Wandler, C. Weaver, T. R. Wood, E. Woolsey, J. P. Yanez, S. W. Barwick, G. Yodh, V. Baum, S. Böser, V. di Lorenzo, B. Eberhardt, T. Ehrhardt, L. Köpke, G. Krückl, G. Momenté, P. Peiffer, J. Sandroos, A. Steuer, K. Wiebe, R. Bay, K. Filimonov, P. B. Price, K. Woschnagg, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, F. Bos, B. Eichmann, M. Kroll, S. Schöneberg, F. Tenholt, K.-H. Becker, D. Bindig, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, R. Hoffmann, F. Lauber, U. Naumann, A. Obertacke Pollmann, D. Soldin, S. BenZvi, R. Cross, D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, E. Cheung, J. Felde, E. Friedman, R. Hellauer, K. D. Hoffman, R. Maunu, A. Olivas, T. Schmidt, M. Song, G. W. Sullivan, D. Z. Besson, G. Binder, S. R. Klein, S. Miarecki, T. Palczewski, J. Tatar, M. Börner, T. Fuchs, M. Hünnefeld, M. Meier, T. Menne, D. Pieloth, W. Rhode, T. Ruhe, A. Sandrock, P. Schlunder, J. Soedingrekso, J. Werthebach, D. Bose, H. Dujmovic, S. In, M. Jeong, W. Kang, J. Kim, C. Rott, O. Botner, A. Burgman, A. Hallgren, C. Pérez de los Heros, E. Unger, J. Bourbeau, J. Braun, J. Casey, D. Chirkin, M. Day, P. Desiati, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, S. Fahey, K. Ghorbani, Z. Griffith, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, K. Jero, A. Karle, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, A. Kheirandish, Q. R. Liu, W. Luszczak, S. Mancina, F. McNally, G. Merino, A. Schneider, M. N. Tobin, D. Tosi, B. Ty, J. Vandenbroucke, N. Wandkowsky, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, L. Wille, M. Wolf, J. Wood, D. L. Xu, T. Yuan, L. Brayeur, M. Casier, C. De Clercq, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, J. Kunnen, J. Lünemann, G. Maggi, S. Toscano, N. van Eijndhoven, K. Clark, L. Classen, A. Kappes, S. Coenders, K. Krings, I. C. Rea, E. Resconi, A. Turcati, D. F. Cowen, J. P. A. M. de André, T. DeYoung, J. Hignight, D. Lennarz, K. B. M. Mahn, J. Micallef, G. Neer, D. Rysewyk, H. Dembinski, P. A. Evenson, T. K. Gaisser, J. G. Gonzalez, R. Koirala, H. Pandya, D. Seckel, T. Stanev, S. Tilav, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, D. Ryckbosch, W. Van Driessche, S. Vanheule, M. Vraeghe, M. de With, D. Hebecker, H. Kolanoski, A. R. Fazely, S. Ter-Antonyan, X. W. Xu, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, D. R. Nygren, G. T. Przybylski, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Ishihara, M. Kim, T. Kuwabara, L. Lu, K. Mase, M. Relich, A. Stößl, S. Yoshida, G. S. Japaridze, B. J. P. Jones, J. Kiryluk, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, H. Niederhausen, Y. Xu, G. Kohnen, S. Kopper, P. Nakarmi, J. A. Pepper, P. A. Toale, D. R. Williams, M. Kowalski, N. Kurahashi, B. Relethford, M. Richman, L. Wills, J. Madsen, S. Seunarine, G. M. Spiczak, R. Maruyama, K. Rawlins, M. Sutherland, I. Taboada, C. F. Tung, and M. Huber
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Published: 2017

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. Constraints on ultra-high-energy cosmic ray sources from a search for neutrinos above 10 PeV with IceCube

Author: Julian Kemp, T. Anderson, Dirk Lennarz, Darren Grant, Thorsten Glusenkamp, P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, T. R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Gabriel Collin, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, M. J. Larson, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, Killian Holzapfel, M. Kroll, C. Kopper, Sarah Nowicki, N. Kurahashi, B. J. Whelan, Thomas Meures, Frank McNally, A. Obertacke Pollmann, Tim Ruhe, C. Wendt, N. van Eijndhoven, K. D. de Vries, B. J. P. Jones, J. P. A. M. de André, A. Franckowiak, Marjon Moulai, E. Woolsey, M. Relich, A. Wallace, Da Xu, Kirill Filimonov, M. Vehring, R. Konietz, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, R. Ström, X. Bai, G. Neer, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, K. Helbing, L. Wille, J. C. Gallagher, S. E. Sanchez Herrera, G. de Wasseige, Karim Ghorbani, Spencer Axani, Christoph Raab, Joshua Pepper, K. Hoshina, F. Bos, C. Walck, Hans Niederhausen, A. Bernhard, U. Katz, Joshua Hignight, Janet Conrad, D. Berley, A. R. Fazely, Glenn Spiczak, G. C. Hill, Albrecht Karle, M. Glagla, R. Hoffmann, Allan Hallgren, Elisa Bernardini, K.-H. Becker, M. Jurkovic, D. F. Cowen, M. Tselengidou, M. Day, Yiqian Xu, Sandro Kopper, R. Cross, U. Naumann, P. Schlunder, Hrvoje Dujmovic, D. V. Pankova, L. Wills, Lew Classen, J. Kunnen, Alexander Burgman, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, K. Jero, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, L. Schumacher, E. Cheung, Carlos Arguelles, S. Böser, Damian Pieloth, Ali Kheirandish, D. Hebecker, A. Christov, B. Riedel, E. Jacobi, M. Usner, E. Pinat, Simona Toscano, E. Unger, G. Krückl, T. Kintscher, L. Gladstone, C. Krüger, D. Seckel, S. Fahey, S. Miarecki, T. Menne, B. Relethford, Tyce DeYoung, J. Feintzeig, Matthias Wolf, M. Casier, Konstancja Satalecka, D. Z. Besson, Minjin Jeong, Andrea Turcati, M. Rongen, M. S. Sutherland, M. Kauer, R. C. Bay, V. di Lorenzo, Dirk Ryckbosch, A. Goldschmidt, S. Kunwar, L. Sabbatini, T. Karg, Ch. Weaver, Thomas Ehrhardt, George Japaridze, T. Fuchs, L. Köpke, Segev BenZvi, K. Clark, Spencer Klein, Stijn Vanheule, Kara Hoffman, Philipp Eller, M. Schimp, J. Felde, A. Steuer, A. Olivas, S. Hickford, F. Huang, M. Song, T. L. Carver, Mike Richman, E. Hansen, M. E. Huber, L. Gerhardt, P. A. Toale, J. van Santen, Stijn Blot, Christopher Wiebusch, M. Mandelartz, Gary Binder, Azadeh Keivani, Frederik Hermann Lauber, M. Zoll, J. P. Yanez, S. Westerhoff, Javier Gonzalez, Giorgio Maggi, Christian Spiering, C. De Clercq, David A. Williams, Justin Vandenbroucke, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, W. Giang, J. L. Lanfranchi, J. Becker Tjus, Carsten Rott, M. Bissok, Xianwu Xu, J. Sandroos, D. Altmann, P. Berghaus, E. del Pino Rosendo, Subir Sarkar, D. J. Koskinen, R. Maunu, D. Bose, J. P. Dumm, T. Palczewski, T. Stezelberger, B. Eberhardt, Sarah Mancina, M. Stahlberg, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, M. Archinger, J. J. Beatty, D. Rysewyk, S. Yoshida, T. Hansmann, S. Euler, K. Meagher, Alexander Sandrock, Gisela Anton, L. Mohrmann, Hershal Pandya, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, D. R. Nygren, Marek Kowalski, S. Wickmann, J. Auffenberg, K. Krings, Ramesh Koirala, Dennis Soldin, H. Taavola, C. Finley, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Leuermann, G. Kohnen, Seongjin In, Elisa Resconi, J. Lünemann, Kael Hanson, T. Kuwabara, J. Veenkamp, K. Rawlins, S. Tilav, A. Stasik, N. L. Strotjohann, M. Börner, Klas Hultqvist, J. Kiryluk, K. Andeen, G. W. Sullivan, Matthias Vraeghe, James E. Braun, James Madsen, Jenni Adams, K. Abraham, K. Mase, S. Schoenen, Hermann Kolanoski, Lu Lu, Björn Eichmann, H.-P. Bretz, Francis Halzen, A. Stößl, Reina H. Maruyama, J. Leuner, D. Heereman, Gerald Przybylski, E. Blaufuss, R. G. Stokstad, B. Hansmann, G. Golup, J. Tatar, Delia Tosi, C.-C. Fösig, I. Ansseau, A. Terliuk, Maximilian Meier, R. Hellauer, M. N. Tobin, Z. Griffith, H. Dembinski, M. Quinnan, G. Merino, G. Tešić, Ö. Penek, S. Schöneberg, Min Suk Kim, Paolo Desiati, N. Wandkowsky, E. Friedman, M. Dunkman, Daniel Bindig, Teresa Montaruli, C. Haack, M. J. Weiss, L. Brayeur, R. Nahnhauer, L. Rädel, Sally Robertson, M. G. Aartsen, Kendall Mahn, Surujhdeo Seunarine, I. Taboada, R. Reimann, T. Kittler, S. Flis, Juanan Aguilar, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Ishihara, T. Stanev, Olga Botner, A. Haj Ismail, K. Wiebe, V. Baum, S. De Ridder, M. Labare, M. van Rossem, Maryon Ahrens, Frederik Tenholt, M. Rameez, M. Medici, S. Coenders, Vriendenkring VUB, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: FLUX, SELECTION, FERMI-LAT, Active galactic nucleus, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Parameter space, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, COSMOGENIC NEUTRINOS, TRACK RECONSTRUCTION, BURSTS, SPECTRUM, MODEL, TELESCOPES, EMISSION, Pulsar, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, Ultrahigh energy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Energy (signal processing), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report constraints on the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) above $10^{9}$ GeV, based on an analysis of seven years of IceCube data. This analysis efficiently selects very high energy neutrino-induced events which have deposited energies from $\sim 10^6$ GeV to above $10^{11}$ GeV. Two neutrino-induced events with an estimated deposited energy of $(2.6 \pm 0.3) \times 10^6$ GeV, the highest neutrino energies observed so far, and $(7.7 \pm 2.0) \times 10^5$ GeV were detected. The atmospheric background-only hypothesis of detecting these events is rejected at 3.6$\sigma$. The hypothesis that the observed events are of cosmogenic origin is also rejected at $>$99% CL because of the limited deposited energy and the non-observation of events at higher energy, while their observation is consistent with an astrophysical origin. Our limits on cosmogenic neutrino fluxes disfavor the UHECR sources having cosmological evolution stronger than the star formation rate, e.g., active galactic nuclei and $\gamma$-ray bursts, assuming proton-dominated UHECRs. Constraints on UHECR sources including mixed and heavy UHECR compositions are obtained for models of neutrino production within UHECR sources. Our limit disfavors a significant part of parameter space for active galactic nuclei and new-born pulsar models., Comment: The erratum is bundled with the original published version of the letter together with supplemental materials
Published: 2016
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35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

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