papers

Publications (54)

nucl-ex2015

Measurement of the Beam-Recoil Polarization in Low-Energy Virtual Compton Scattering from the Proton

L. Doria, P. Janssens, P. Achenbach +38

Double-polarization observables in the reaction have been measured at . The experiment was performed at the spectrometer set…

cs.DC2014

The IceProd Framework: Distributed Data Processing for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +284

IceCube is a one-gigaton instrument located at the geographic South Pole, designed to detect cosmic neutrinos, iden- tify the particle nature of dark matter, and study high-energy…

astro-ph.CO2011

Constraints on the Extremely-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 Data

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +261

We report on a search for extremely-high energy neutrinos with energies greater than GeV using the data taken with the IceCube detector at the South Pole. The data was colle…

astro-ph.HE2013

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +280

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 characteri…

hep-ex2011

Observation of an Anisotropy in the Galactic Cosmic Ray arrival direction at 400 TeV with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

In this paper we report the first observation in the Southern hemisphere of an energy dependence in the Galactic cosmic ray anisotropy up to a few hundred TeV. This measurement was…

astro-ph.HE2011

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

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope using data collected in 812 days of live…

astro-ph.HE2013

Searches for high-energy neutrino emission in the Galaxy with the combined IceCube-AMANDA detector

IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +268

We report on searches for neutrino sources at energies above 200 GeV in the Northern sky of the galactic plane, using the data collected by the South Pole neutrino telescopes IceCu…

astro-ph.HE2013

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part III: Cosmic Rays

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278

Papers on cosmic rays submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.

astro-ph.HE2013

Search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with the IceCube 59-string configuration

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +287

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 con…

astro-ph.HE2011

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

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +264

We report on the first search for atmospheric and for diffuse astrophysical neutrino-induced showers (cascades) in the IceCube detector using 257 days of data collected in the year…

astro-ph.HE2010

Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for sidereal modulation in the flux of atmospheric muon neutrinos in IceCube was performed. Such a signal could be an indication of Lorentz-violating physics. Neutrino osc…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of the Atmospheric flux in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274

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 o…

astro-ph.CO2010

The first search for extremely-high energy cosmogenic neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +250

We report on the results of the search for extremely-high energy (EHE) neutrinos with energies above GeV obtained with the partially (30%) constructed IceCube in 2007.…

astro-ph.IM2013

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +272

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 ch…

astro-ph.HE2014

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part II: Atmospheric and Diffuse UHE Neutrino Searches of All Flavors

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278

Papers on atmospheric and diffuse UHE neutrino searches of all flavors submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.

physics.ins-det2014

Energy Reconstruction Methods in the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +285

Accurate measurement of neutrino energies is essential to many of the scientific goals of large-volume neutrino telescopes. The fundamental observable in such detectors is the Cher…

astro-ph.HE2011

Time-Dependent Searches for Point Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String and 22-String Configurations of IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper presents searches for flaring sources of neutrinos using the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, a search is performed over the entire parameter space of ene…

astro-ph.HE2013

Search for time-independent neutrino emission from astrophysical sources with 3 years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +277

We present the results of a search for neutrino point sources using the IceCube data collected between April 2008 and May 2011 with three partially completed configurations of the…

astro-ph.HE2015

Search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector

IceCube collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274

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 fir…

hep-ex2013

Search for Neutrinos from Annihilating Dark Matter in the Direction of the Galactic Center with the 40-String IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +269

A search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Galactic Center region has been performed with the 40-string configuration of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory usi…

astro-ph.IM2012

IceTop: The surface component of IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +280

IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1 km2. The detector allows a detailed exploration of the…

astro-ph.HE2010

IceCube Collaboration Contributions to the 2009 International Cosmic Ray Conference

R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou, T. Abu-Zayyad +256

IceCube Collaboration Contributions to the 2009 International Cosmic Ray Conference

astro-ph.HE2013

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part VI: Ice Properties, Reconstruction and Future Developments

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278

Papers on ice properties, reconstruction and future developments submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.

astro-ph.HE2013

Search for neutrino-induced particle showers with IceCube-40

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +287

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 200…

astro-ph.HE2013

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +275

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 ener…

astro-ph.HE2011

Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

IceCube has become the first neutrino telescope with a sensitivity below the TeV neutrino flux predicted from gamma-ray bursts if GRBs are responsible for the observed cosmic-ray f…

astro-ph.HE2012

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +257

In this paper we present the results of searches for periodic neutrino emission from a catalog of binary systems. Such modulation, observed in the photon flux, would be caused by t…

astro-ph.HE2012

Cosmic Ray Composition and Energy Spectrum from 1-30 PeV Using the 40-String Configuration of IceTop and IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +271

The mass composition of high energy cosmic rays depends on their production, acceleration, and propagation. The study of cosmic ray composition can therefore reveal hints of the or…

astro-ph.HE2013

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part I: Point Source Searches

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278

Papers on point source searches submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.

astro-ph.HE2012

A Search for UHE Tau Neutrinos with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +252

The first dedicated search for ultra-high energy (UHE) tau neutrinos of astrophysical origin was performed using the IceCube detector in its 22-string configuration with an instrum…

astro-ph.HE2010

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18,000 up-going atmospheric muon neutrino events i…

astro-ph.HE2012

Search for Galactic PeV Gamma Rays with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274

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…

hep-ph2012

Use of event-level neutrino telescope data in global fits for theories of new physics

P. Scott, C. Savage, J. Edsjö +275

We present a fast likelihood method for including event-level neutrino telescope data in parameter explorations of theories for new physics, and announce its public release as part…

astro-ph.HE2011

Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Context. Transient neutrino sources such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are hypothesized to emit bursts of high-energy neutrinos on a time-scale of \lesssim 100 s.…

astro-ph.HE2013

An Absence of Neutrinos Associated with Cosmic Ray Acceleration in Gamma-Ray Bursts

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +259

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as a leading candidate for acceleration of ultra high-energy cosmic rays, which would be accompanied by emission of TeV neutrinos produce…

nucl-ex2008

A new measurement of the structure functions and in virtual Compton scattering at 0.33 (GeV/c)

A1 Collaboration, P. Janssens, L. Doria +36

The cross section of the reaction has been measured at (GeV/c). The experiment was performed using the electron beam of the MAMI accelerator and…

astro-ph.HE2013

Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +275

We report on results of an all-sky search for high-energy neutrino events interacting within the IceCube neutrino detector conducted between May 2010 and May 2012. The search follo…

astro-ph.HE2011

Observation of Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays at Multiple Angular Scales with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

Between May 2009 and May 2010, the IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole recorded 32 billion muons generated in air showers produced by cosmic rays with a median energy of 20…

astro-ph.IM2013

Improvement in Fast Particle Track Reconstruction with Robust Statistics

M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +277

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…

astro-ph.HE2012

Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +268

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 contain…

astro-ph.HE2012

Lateral Distribution of Muons in IceCube Cosmic Ray Events

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +277

In cosmic ray air showers, the muon lateral separation from the center of the shower is a measure of the transverse momentum that the muon parent acquired in the cosmic ray interac…

astro-ph.HE2011

Neutrino analysis of the September 2010 Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

We present the results for a search of high-energy muon neutrinos with the IceCube detector in coincidence with the Crab nebula flare reported on September 2010 by various experime…

astro-ph.HE2012

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

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +255

We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum with the IceTop air shower array, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The data…

astro-ph.HE2011

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper describes the response of the IceCube neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole to outbursts of MeV neutrinos from the core collapse of nearby massive star…

astro-ph.IM2010

Calibration and Characterization of the IceCube Photomultiplier Tube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +256

Over 5,000 PMTs are being deployed at the South Pole to compose the IceCube neutrino observatory. Many are placed deep in the ice to detect Cherenkov light emitted by the products…

astro-ph.HE2013

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part V: Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Searches

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278

Papers on neutrino oscillation and supernova searches submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.

physics.data-an2012

An improved method for measuring muon energy using the truncated mean of dE/dx

IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +277

The measurement of muon energy is critical for many analyses in large Cherenkov detectors, particularly those that involve separating extraterrestrial neutrinos from the atmospheri…

astro-ph.IM2011

Background studies for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

The detection of acoustic signals from ultra-high energy neutrino interactions is a promising method to measure the tiny flux of cosmogenic neutrinos expected on Earth. The energy…

astro-ph.HE2014

IceCube Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in nearby Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters

M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +276

We present the results of a first search for self-annihilating dark matter in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters using a sample of high-energy neutrinos acquired in 339.8 days of…

astro-ph.HE2013

First observation of PeV-energy neutrinos with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +281

We report on the observation of two neutrino-induced events which have an estimated deposited energy in the IceCube detector of 1.04 0.16 and 1.14 0.17 PeV, respectivel…

astro-ph.HE2011

Constraints on high-energy neutrino emission from SN 2008D

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +259

SN 2008D, a core collapse supernova at a distance of 27 Mpc, was serendipitously discovered by the Swift satellite through an associated X-ray flash. Core collapse supernovae have…

astro-ph.HE2011

Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Halo with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Self-annihilating or decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo might produce high energy neutrinos detectable with neutrino telescopes. We have conducted a search for such a signal…

astro-ph.HE2013

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part IV: Searches for Dark Matter and Exotic Particles

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278

Papers on searches for Dark Matter and exotic particles submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.

astro-ph.HE2011

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

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +261

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 km detector currently taking data at the South Pole. One of the main strategies used to look for astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube…