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hep-ex2022

Low Energy Event Reconstruction in IceCube DeepCore

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +381

The reconstruction of event-level information, such as the direction or energy of a neutrino interacting in IceCube DeepCore, is a crucial ingredient to many physics analyses. Algo…

astro-ph.HE2018

Search for Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during its first Observing Run, ANTARES and IceCube

ANTARES, IceCube, LIGO +1589

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-th…

hep-ex2017

Search for Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions with IceCube DeepCore

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +317

As atmospheric neutrinos propagate through the Earth, vacuum-like oscillations are modified by Standard-Model neutral- and charged-current interactions with electrons. Theories bey…

astro-ph.HE2014

Multipole analysis of IceCube data to search for dark matter accumulated in the Galactic halo

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +299

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 detecte…

astro-ph.HE2021

Searches for neutrinos from cosmic-ray interactions in the Sun using seven years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +358

Cosmic-ray interactions with the solar atmosphere are expected to produce particle showers which in turn produce neutrinos from weak decays of mesons. These solar atmospheric neutr…

astro-ph.HE2017

An All-Sky Search for Three Flavors of Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +314

We present the results and methodology of a search for neutrinos produced in the decay of charged pions created in interactions between protons and gamma-rays during the prompt emi…

hep-ex2022

Density of GeV muons in air showers measured with IceTop

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +376

We present a measurement of the density of GeV muons in near-vertical air showers using three years of data recorded by the IceTop array at the South Pole. Depending on the shower…

astro-ph.HE2015

Search for Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Emission with IceCube-DeepCore

M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +309

We present the results of a search for astrophysical sources of brief transient neutrino emission using IceCube and DeepCore data acquired between May 15th 2012 and April 30th 2013…

astro-ph.HE2020

Characteristics of the diffuse astrophysical electron and tau neutrino flux with six years of IceCube high energy cascade data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +358

We report on the first measurement of the astrophysical neutrino flux using particle showers (cascades) in IceCube data from 2010 -- 2015. Assuming standard oscillations, the astro…

hep-ex2021

A Convolutional Neural Network based Cascade Reconstruction for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +364

Continued improvements on existing reconstruction methods are vital to the success of high-energy physics experiments, such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. In IceCube, further…

hep-ex2020

Development of an analysis to probe the neutrino mass ordering with atmospheric neutrinos using three years of IceCube DeepCore data

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +331

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 osci…

astro-ph.HE2019

Search for Sources of Astrophysical Neutrinos Using Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +351

Low background searches for astrophysical neutrino sources anywhere in the sky can be performed using cascade events induced by neutrinos of all flavors interacting in IceCube with…

astro-ph.HE2017

First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

We present the results of the first IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the center of the Earth. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), candidates for dark matter…

astro-ph.HE2016

Search for correlations between the arrival directions of IceCube neutrino events and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +863

This paper presents the results of different searches for correlations between very high-energy neutrino candidates detected by IceCube and the highest-energy cosmic rays measured…

astro-ph.IM2017

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part VI: IceCube-Gen2, the Next Generation Neutrino Observatory

Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +356

Papers on research & development towards IceCube-Gen2, the next generation neutrino observatory at South Pole, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017,…

hep-ex2020

Measurement of the high-energy all-flavor neutrino-nucleon cross section with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +361

The flux of high-energy neutrinos passing through the Earth is attenuated due to their interactions with matter. The interaction rate is modulated by the neutrino interaction cross…

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.HE2015

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part II: Atmospheric and Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Searches of All Flavors

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

Papers on atmospheric and astrophysical diffuse neutrino searches of all flavors submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Col…

astro-ph.HE2018

Differential limit on the extremely-high-energy cosmic neutrino flux in the presence of astrophysical background from nine years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +330

We report a quasi-differential upper limit on the extremely-high-energy (EHE) neutrino flux above GeV based on an analysis of nine years of IceCube data. The astro…

astro-ph.HE2015

Searches for Time Dependent Neutrino Sources with IceCube Data from 2008 to 2012

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +304

In this paper searches for flaring astrophysical neutrino sources and sources with periodic emission with the IceCube neutrino telescope are presented. In contrast to time integrat…

astro-ph.HE2016

Anisotropy in Cosmic-Ray Arrival Directions in the Southern Hemisphere with Six Years of Data from the IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +314

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has accumulated a total of 318 billion cosmic-ray induced muon events between May 2009 and May 2015. This data set was used for a detailed analysis…

astro-ph.HE2022

Search for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Galactic X-ray Binaries with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +379

We present the first comprehensive search for high-energy neutrino emission from high- and low-mass X-ray binaries conducted by IceCube. Galactic X-ray binaries are long-standing c…

hep-ex2021

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

M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +373

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…

astro-ph.CO2014

Search for non-relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +288

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a large Cherenkov detector instrumenting of Antarctic ice. The detector can be used to search for signatures of particle phys…

astro-ph.HE2020

Combined search for neutrinos from dark matter self-annihilation in the Galactic Centre with ANTARES and IceCube

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +495

We present the results of the first combined dark matter search targeting the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. For dark matter particles with mass…

astro-ph.HE2021

IceCube Data for Neutrino Point-Source Searches Years 2008-2018

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +370

IceCube has performed several all-sky searches for point-like neutrino sources using track-like events, including a recent time-integrated analysis using 10 years of IceCube data.…

hep-ex2022

First Search for Unstable Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +380

We present a search for an unstable sterile neutrino by looking for a matter-induced signal in eight years of atmospheric data collected from 2011 to 2019 at the IceCube Ne…

physics.comp-ph2021

LeptonInjector and LeptonWeighter: A neutrino event generator and weighter for neutrino observatories

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +362

We present a high-energy neutrino event generator, called LeptonInjector, alongside an event weighter, called LeptonWeighter. Both are designed for large-volume Cherenkov neutrino…

astro-ph.HE2017

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part IV: Searches for Beyond the Standard Model Physics

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312

Papers on searches for beyond the standard model physics, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the IceCube Collaboration

astro-ph.HE2015

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part V: Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Searches

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

Papers on neutrino oscillations and supernova searches submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.

astro-ph.HE2016

Search for Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a diffuse flux of TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrinos at 5.7σ significance from an all-flavor search. The direct detection of tau neutrin…

astro-ph.HE2017

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part V: Solar flares, Supernovae, Event reconstruction, Education & Outreach

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312

Papers on solar flares, supernovae, event reconstruction and education & outreach, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the…

hep-ph2019

Search for steady point-like sources in the astrophysical muon neutrino flux with 8 years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +325

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…

astro-ph.HE2015

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

Recently, IceCube found evidence for a diffuse signal of astrophysical neutrinos in an energy range of to the -scale. The origin of those events, b…

astro-ph.HE2018

Search for neutrinos from decaying dark matter with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +327

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…

astro-ph.HE2020

ANTARES and IceCube Combined Search for Neutrino Point-like and Extended Sources in the Southern Sky

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +498

A search for point-like and extended sources of cosmic neutrinos using data collected by the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes is presented. The data set consists of all the…

astro-ph.HE2021

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021)

Gen2 Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +437

IceCube-Gen2 is a planned extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The extension is optimized to search for sources of astrophysical neutrinos from TeV to E…

hep-ex2017

Search for Neutrinos from Dark Matter Self-Annihilations in the center of the Milky Way with 3 years of IceCube/DeepCore

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +310

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 si…

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.HE2016

Search for Sources of High Energy Neutrons with Four Years of Data from the IceTop Detector

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +308

IceTop is an air shower array located on the Antarctic ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. IceTop can detect an astrophysical flux of neutrons from Galactic sources as an exces…

astro-ph.HE2017

Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

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 a…

astro-ph.HE2014

Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +294

A search for high-energy neutrinos interacting within the IceCube detector between 2010 and 2012 provided the first evidence for a high-energy neutrino flux of extraterrestrial ori…

hep-ex2019

Measurements using the inelasticity distribution of multi-TeV neutrino interactions in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +330

Inelasticity--the fraction of a neutrino's energy transferred to hadrons--is a quantity of interest in the study of astrophysical and atmospheric neutrino interactions at multi-TeV…

astro-ph.HE2017

Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays Observed by IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +303

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…

astro-ph.HE2017

All-sky search for time-integrated neutrino emission from astrophysical sources with 7 years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306

Since the recent detection of an astrophysical flux of high energy neutrinos, the question of its origin has not yet fully been answered. Much of what is known about this flux come…

astro-ph.IM2019

Design and Performance of the first IceAct Demonstrator at the South Pole

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +393

In this paper we describe the first results of a compact imaging air-Cherenkov telescope, IceAct, operating in coincidence with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube) at the ge…

hep-ex2022

Strong constraints on neutrino nonstandard interactions from TeV-scale disappearance at IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +380

We report a search for nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By reconstructin…

astro-ph.HE2015

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part I: Point Source Searches

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

Papers on point source searches submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.

astro-ph.HE2014

Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Results for Initial LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration +1185

We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neu…

astro-ph.HE2021

A search for neutrino emission from cores of Active Galactic Nuclei

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +376

The sources of the majority of the high-energy astrophysical neutrinos observed with the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole are unknown. So far, only a gamma-ray blazar w…

astro-ph.HE2017

A Search for Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Six Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +320

We present a search for coincidence between IceCube TeV neutrinos and fast radio bursts (FRBs). During the search period from 2010 May 31 to 2016 May 12, a total of 29 FRBs with 13…

astro-ph.HE2015

Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible w…

hep-ex2017

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +314

Neutrinos interact only very weakly, so they are extremely penetrating. However, the theoretical neutrino-nucleon interaction cross section rises with energy such that, at energies…

astro-ph.HE2015

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part IV: Searches for Dark Matter and Exotic Particles

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

Papers on searches for dark matter and exotic particles submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.

hep-ex2019

Measurement of Atmospheric Tau Neutrino Appearance with IceCube DeepCore

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +327

We present a measurement of atmospheric tau neutrino appearance from oscillations with three years of data from the DeepCore sub-array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This ana…

astro-ph.HE2015

Searches for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306

Various extensions of the Standard Model motivate the existence of stable magnetic monopoles that could have been created during an early high-energy epoch of the Universe. These p…

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for GeV-scale Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun with IceCube DeepCore

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +376

The Sun provides an excellent target for studying spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering due to its high matter density and abundant hydrogen content. Dark matter particles f…

hep-ex2015

First combined search for neutrino point-sources in the Southern Hemisphere with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes

ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert +426

We present the results of searches for point-like sources of neutrinos based on the first combined analysis of data from both the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. The combi…

astro-ph.HE2022

Framework and Tools for the Simulation and Analysis of the Radio Emission from Air Showers at IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +382

The Surface Enhancement of the IceTop air-shower array will include the addition of radio antennas and scintillator panels, co-located with the existing ice-Cherenkov tanks and cov…

astro-ph.HE2022

Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with Eight Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +380

We present an all-sky 90\% confidence level upper limit on the cosmic flux of relativistic magnetic monopoles using 2886 days of IceCube data. The analysis was optimized for monopo…

hep-ex2021

A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +362

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. The main goal of IceCube is the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and the identification of their s…

astro-ph.HE2015

Detection of a Type IIn Supernova in Optical Follow-up Observations of IceCube Neutrino Events

M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +331

The IceCube neutrino observatory pursues a follow-up program selecting interesting neutrino events in real-time and issuing alerts for electromagnetic follow-up observations. In Ma…

astro-ph.HE2017

Search for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +310

The IceCube neutrino observatory has established the existence of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos inconsistent with the expectation from atmospheric backgrounds at a…

astro-ph.HE2017

The IceCube Realtime Alert System

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

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…

hep-ex2018

Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +319

Lorentz symmetry is a fundamental space-time symmetry underlying the Standard Model of particle physics and gravity. However, unified theories, such as string theory, allow for vio…

astro-ph.HE2014

Searches for Extended and Point-like Neutrino Sources with Four Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

We present results on searches for point-like sources of neutrinos using four years of IceCube data, including the first year of data from the completed 86-string detector. The tot…

astro-ph.HE2020

Velocity independent constraints on spin-dependent DM-nucleon interactions from IceCube and PICO

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +419

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 thei…

astro-ph.HE2020

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

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +361

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 out…

hep-ex2017

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +305

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 GeV. DeepCor…

hep-ex2015

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

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 regio…

hep-ex2019

Efficient propagation of systematic uncertainties from calibration to analysis with the SnowStorm method in IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +357

Efficient treatment of systematic uncertainties that depend on a large number of nuisance parameters is a persistent difficulty in particle physics experiments. Where low-level eff…

astro-ph.HE2015

Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309

Results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have recently provided compelling evidence for the existence of a high energy astrophysical neutrino flux utilizing a dominantly South…

astro-ph.HE2019

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

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +332

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 Observa…

astro-ph.HE2015

Measurement of the Atmospheric Spectrum with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +308

We present a measurement of the atmospheric spectrum at energies between 0.1 TeV and 100 TeV using data from the first year of the complete IceCube detector. Atmospheric $ν…

astro-ph.IM2015

IceCube-Gen2 - The Next Generation Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole: Contributions to ICRC 2015

Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +337

Papers submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration.

astro-ph.HE2016

Lowering IceCube's Energy Threshold for Point Source Searches in the Southern Sky

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +317

Observation of a point source of astrophysical neutrinos would be a "smoking gun" signature of a cosmic-ray accelerator. While IceCube has recently discovered a diffuse flux of ast…

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.HE2019

Detection of the Temporal Variation of the Sun's Cosmic Ray Shadow with the IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +326

We report on the observation of a deficit in the cosmic ray flux from the directions of the Moon and Sun with five years of data taken by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Between…

astro-ph.HE2016

Characterization of the Atmospheric Muon Flux in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

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…

astro-ph.HE2021

Search for multi-flare neutrino emissions in 10 years of IceCube data from a catalog of sources

IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +375

A recent time-integrated analysis of a catalog of 110 candidate neutrino sources revealed a cumulative neutrino excess in the data collected by IceCube between April 6, 2008 and Ju…

astro-ph.HE2017

Observation and Characterization of a Cosmic Muon Neutrino Flux from the Northern Hemisphere using six years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309

The IceCube Collaboration has previously discovered a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux using neutrino events with interaction vertices contained within the instrumented volu…

astro-ph.HE2020

Constraints on Neutrino Emission from Nearby Galaxies Using the 2MASS Redshift Survey and IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +354

The distribution of galaxies within the local universe is characterized by anisotropic features. Observatories searching for the production sites of astrophysical neutrinos can tak…

astro-ph.HE2019

Investigation of two Fermi-LAT gamma-ray blazars coincident with high-energy neutrinos detected by IceCube

S. Garrappa, S. Buson, A. Franckowiak +338

After the identification of the gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 as the first compelling IceCube neutrino source candidate, we perform a systematic analysis of all high-energy neutrin…

astro-ph.HE2022

Search for Spatial Correlations of Neutrinos with Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

The ANTARES collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +1042

For several decades, the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) has been an unsolved question of high-energy astrophysics. One approach for solving this puzzle is to corr…

astro-ph.HE2017

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part III: Cosmic Rays

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312

Papers on cosmic-ray measurements submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the IceCube Collaboration

hep-ph2016

Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +315

We present an improved event-level likelihood formalism for including neutrino telescope data in global fits to new physics. We derive limits on spin-dependent dark matter-proton s…

astro-ph.HE2019

Constraints on Minute-Scale Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Sources

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +331

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 n…

hep-ex2018

Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6-56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +314

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…

astro-ph.HE2017

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1931

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merg…

astro-ph.HE2017

Extending the search for muon neutrinos coincident with gamma-ray bursts in IceCube data

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +305

We present an all-sky search for muon neutrinos produced during the prompt -ray emission of 1172 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The detection of…

astro-ph.HE2014

IceCube-Gen2: A Vision for the Future of Neutrino Astronomy in Antarctica

Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +325

The recent observation by the IceCube neutrino observatory of an astrophysical flux of neutrinos represents the "first light" in the nascent field of neutrino astronomy. The observ…

astro-ph.HE2020

A Search for MeV to TeV Neutrinos from Fast Radio Bursts with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +354

We present two searches for IceCube neutrino events coincident with 28 fast radio bursts (FRBs) and one repeating FRB. The first improves upon a previous IceCube analysis -- search…

astro-ph.HE2015

Flavor Ratio of Astrophysical Neutrinos above 35 TeV in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

A diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos above has been observed at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Here we extend this analysis to probe the astrophysical f…

astro-ph.HE2017

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part II: Properties of the Atmospheric and Astrophysical Neutrino Flux

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312

Papers on the properties of the atmospheric and astrophysical neutrino flux submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the IceCube…

astro-ph.HE2015

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array: Joint Contribution to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +884

We have conducted three searches for correlations between ultra-high energy cosmic rays detected by the Telescope Array and the Pierre Auger Observatory, and high-energy neutrino c…

astro-ph.HE2021

Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +378

Ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) have infrared luminosities , making them the most luminous objects in the infrared sky. These dust…

astro-ph.HE2020

The IceCube high-energy starting event sample: Description and flux characterization with 7.5 years of data

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +362

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has established the existence of a high-energy all-sky neutrino flux of astrophysical origin. This discovery was made using events interacting with…

astro-ph.HE2021

Search for GeV Neutrino Emission During Intense Gamma-Ray Solar Flares with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +364

Solar flares convert magnetic energy into thermal and non-thermal plasma energy, the latter implying particle acceleration of charged particles such as protons. Protons are injecte…

astro-ph.HE2019

Search for transient optical counterparts to high-energy IceCube neutrinos with Pan-STARRS1

E. Kankare, M. Huber, S. J. Smartt +345

In order to identify the sources of the observed diffuse high-energy neutrino flux, it is crucial to discover their electromagnetic counterparts. IceCube began releasing alerts for…

hep-ex2019

Combined sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering with JUNO, the IceCube Upgrade, and PINGU

Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +440

The ordering of the neutrino mass eigenstates is one of the fundamental open questions in neutrino physics. While current-generation neutrino oscillation experiments are able to pr…