Publications (22)
Search for a light sterile neutrino with 7.5 years of IceCube DeepCore data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420
We present a search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using 7.5 years of data from the IceCube DeepCore detector. The analysis uses a sample of 21,914 events with energies between 5…
The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)
IceCube-Gen2, :, R. Abbasi +452
IceCube-Gen2 is a planned next-generation neutrino observatory at the South Pole that builds upon the successful design of IceCube. Integrating two complementary detection technolo…
Improved modeling of in-ice particle showers for IceCube event reconstruction
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +415
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory relies on an array of photomultiplier tubes to detect Cherenkov light produced by charged particles in the South Pole ice. IceCube data analyses de…
Search for Continuous and Transient Neutrino Emission Associated with IceCube's Highest-Energy Tracks: An 11-Year Analysis
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +406
IceCube alert events are neutrinos with a moderate-to-high probability of having astrophysical origin. In this study, we analyze 11 years of IceCube data and investigate 122 alert…
Citizen Science for IceCube: Name that Neutrino
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +412
Name that Neutrino is a citizen science project where volunteers aid in classification of events for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an immense particle detector at the geographi…
IceCube Search for Neutrino Emission from X-ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +421
The recent IceCube detection of TeV neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068 suggests that active galactic nuclei (AGN) could make a sizable contribution to the dif…
The IceCube Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)
IceCube, :, R. Abbasi +403
The IceCube Observatory at the South Pole has been operating in its full configuration since May 2011 with a duty cycle of about 99%. Its main component consists of a cubic-kilomet…
Search for 10--1000 GeV neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +405
We present the results of a search for 10--1,000 GeV neutrinos from 2,268 gamma-ray bursts over 8 years of IceCube-DeepCore data. This work probes burst physics below the photosphe…
All-Sky Search for Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Emission with 10 Years of IceCube Cascade Events
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +403
We present the results of a time-dependent search for neutrino flares in data collected by IceCube between May 2011 and 2021. This data set contains cascade-like events originating…
Searching for Decoherence from Quantum Gravity at the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +401
Neutrino oscillations at the highest energies and longest baselines provide a natural quantum interferometer with which to study the structure of spacetime and test the fundamental…
Methods and stability tests associated with the sterile neutrino search using improved high-energy event reconstruction in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +419
We provide supporting details for the search for a 3+1 sterile neutrino using data collected over eleven years at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The analysis uses atmospheric mu…
Characterization of the Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Flux using Starting Track Events in IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +415
A measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino spectrum is presented using IceCube data collected from 2011-2022 (10.3 years). We developed novel detection techniques to searc…
Observation of Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +401
We report on a measurement of astrophysical tau neutrinos with 9.7 years of IceCube data. Using convolutional neural networks trained on images derived from simulated events, seven…
Search for joint multimessenger signals from potential galactic cosmic-ray accelerators with HAWC and IceCube
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +489
The origin of high-energy galactic cosmic rays is yet to be understood, but some galactic cosmic-ray accelerators can accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV energies. The high-energy cos…
Probing the connection between IceCube neutrinos and MOJAVE AGN
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are prime candidate sources of the high-energy, astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube. This is demonstrated by the real-time multi-messenger dete…
Search for correlations of high-energy neutrinos detected in IceCube with radio-bright AGN and gamma-ray emission from blazars
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +400
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory sends realtime neutrino alerts with high probability of being astrophysical in origin. We present a new method to correlate these events and possib…
Acceptance Tests of more than 10 000 Photomultiplier Tubes for the multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules of the IceCube Upgrade
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420
More than 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with a diameter of 80 mm will be installed in multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules (mDOMs) of the IceCube Upgrade. These have been tested…
A search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using improved high-energy event reconstruction in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +419
This Letter presents the result of a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using 10.7 years of IceCube data. We analyze atmospheric muon neutrinos that traverse the Earth with energies rangi…
Search for Extended Sources of Neutrino Emission in the Galactic Plane with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +404
The Galactic plane, harboring a diffuse neutrino flux, is a particularly interesting target to study potential cosmic-ray acceleration sites. Recent gamma-ray observations by HAWC…
Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing with Improved IceCube DeepCore Calibration and Data Processing
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +404
We describe a new data sample of IceCube DeepCore and report on the latest measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations obtained with data recorded between 2011-2019. The sampl…
Search for neutrino emission from hard X-ray AGN with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +422
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos since they provide environments rich in matter and photon targets where cosmic r…
Exploration of mass splitting and muon/tau mixing parameters for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +421
We present the first three-parameter fit to a 3+1 sterile neutrino model using 7.634 years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory on charged-current i…