Publications (42)
Evidence for Neutrino Emission from X-Ray-bright Active Galactic Nuclei with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +429
Recently, IceCube reported neutrino emission from the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068. Using 13.1 years of IceCube data, we present a follow-up search for neutrino sources in the northern…
Estimating the sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to probe the interior of the Earth using atmospheric neutrino oscillations
The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +421
The IceCube Upgrade is a densely instrumented central region of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, deployed during the 2025-26 polar season. It will reduce the detector's energy thr…
Measuring the Spectra of High Energy Neutrinos with a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Telescope
D. Hooper, H. Nunokawa, O. L. G. Peres +1
We investigate the potential of a future kilometer-scale neutrino telescope such as the proposed IceCube detector in the South Pole, to measure and disentangle the yet unknown comp…
Pluto's atmosphere from the 29 June 2015 ground-based stellar occultation at the time of the New Horizons flyby
B. Sicardy, J. Talbot, E. Meza +65
We present results from a multi-chord Pluto stellar occultation observed on 29 June 2015 from New Zealand and Australia. This occurred only two weeks before the NASA New Horizons f…
High-energy neutrino emission from the Milky Way
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +440
The Milky Way hosts astrophysical objects that accelerate cosmic rays to energies beyond the reach of terrestrial particle accelerators. It remains a longstanding goal to locate th…
Measurement of the mean number of muons with energies above 500 GeV in air showers detected with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +413
We present a measurement of the mean number of muons with energies larger than 500 GeV in near-vertical extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with primary energies between…
Characterization of the Three-Flavor Composition of Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +429
Neutrinos oscillate over cosmic distances. Using 11.4 years of IceCube data, the flavor composition of the all-sky neutrino flux from 5\,TeV--10\,PeV is studied. We report the firs…
Constraints on the Correlation of IceCube Neutrinos with Tracers of Large-Scale Structure
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +430
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed extragalactic astrophysical neutrinos with an apparently isotropic distribution. Only a small fraction of the observed astrophysical n…
A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…
SUSY In The Sky: Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Neutralinos
C. Barbot, M. Drees, F. Halzen +1
In models where the ultra-high energy cosmic ray problem is solved by top-down scenarios, a significant flux of ultra-high energy neutralinos is predicted. We calculate the number…
Improved measurements of the TeV-PeV extragalactic neutrino spectrum from joint analyses of IceCube tracks and cascades
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory has discovered the presence of a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux at energies of TeV and beyond using neutrino induced muon tracks an…
Cosmic-ray Antinuclei as Messengers of New Physics: Status and Outlook for the New Decade
P. von Doetinchem, K. Perez, T. Aramaki +59
The precise measurement of cosmic-ray antinuclei serves as an important means for identifying the nature of dark matter and other new astrophysical phenomena, and could be used wit…
Evidence for a Spectral Break or Curvature in the Spectrum of Astrophysical Neutrinos from 5 TeV--10 PeV
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
We report improved measurements of the all flavor astrophysical neutrino spectrum with IceCube by combining complementary neutrino samples in two independent analyses. Both analyse…
Planning the Future of U.S. Particle Physics (Snowmass 2013): Chapter 4: Cosmic Frontier
J. L. Feng, S. Ritz, J. J. Beatty +18
These reports present the results of the 2013 Community Summer Study of the APS Division of Particles and Fields ("Snowmass 2013") on the future program of particle physics in the…
Indirect Detection of Dark Matter WIMPs in a Liquid Argon TPC
A. Bueno, R. Cid, S. Navas-Concha +2
We assess the prospects for indirect detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles using a large Liquid Argon TPC detector. Signal events will consist of energetic electron (an…
Neutrinos Associated With Cosmic Rays of Top-Down Origin
C. Barbot, M. Drees, F. Halzen +1
Top-down models of cosmic rays produce more neutrinos than photons and more photons than protons. In these models, we reevaluate the fluxes of neutrinos associated with the highest…
Sensitivity Projections for Low-Mass Dark Matter Annihilation with the IceCube Upgrade
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +412
The IceCube Upgrade, an extension designed to enhance the IceCube Neutrino Observatory's detection of neutrinos with energies between 1 GeV and 500 GeV, will markedly improve IceCu…
Evidence for neutrino emission from X-ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere using Enhanced Starting Track Events with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +428
IceCube recently reported the observation of TeV neutrinos from the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC~1068, and the corresponding neutrino flux is significantly higher than the upper limit…
Identification and Denoising of Radio Signals from Cosmic-Ray Air Showers using Convolutional Neural Networks
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +426
Radio pulses generated by cosmic-ray air showers can be used to reconstruct key properties like the energy and depth of the electromagnetic component of cosmic-ray air showers. Rad…
WavePID: Low-energy flavor identification using single-PMT time series in IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +416
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer detector at the South Pole, identifies neutrino flavor through event morphology. Sparse photon detection makes this classificati…
High-Energy Neutrino Tomography of the Earth's Interior with IceCube
The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +417
The Earth's interior reflects its geological evolution, from accretion to present-day dynamics. Its structure drives the geodynamo in the outer core, generating the magnetic field…
Stellar occultations enable milliarcsecond astrometry for Trans-Neptunian objects and Centaurs
F. L. Rommel, F. Braga-Ribas, J. Desmars +66
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and Centaurs are remnants of our planetary system formation, and their physical properties have invaluable information for evolutionary theories. Ste…
The IceCube Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025)
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +426
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…
IceCube Second Track Data Release IceTracks-DR2: Data from 2008-2022 for Neutrino Source Searches
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +412
We present IceCube's latest release of muon track data for neutrino point-source searches, extending the previously published 10-year dataset to cover 14 years of observations (Apr…
Neutrinos From Individual Gamma-Ray Bursts in the BATSE Catalog
D. Guetta, D. Hooper, J. Alvarez-Muniz +2
We calculate the neutrino emission from individual gamma-ray bursts observed by the BATSE detector on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. Neutrinos are produced by photoproduction o…
Search for GeV-scale Dark Matter from the Galactic Center with IceCube-DeepCore
The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +431
Models describing dark matter as a novel particle often predict that its annihilation or decay into Standard Model particles could produce a detectable neutrino flux in regions of…
Probing neutrino emission at GeV energies from compact binary mergers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +415
The advent of multi-messenger astronomy has allowed for new types of source searches by neutrino detectors. We present the results of the search for 0.5-100 GeV astrophysical neutr…
The LED calibration systems for the mDOM and D-Egg sensor modules of the IceCube Upgrade
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +432
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, instrumenting about 1 km of deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole, is due to be enhanced with the IceCube Upgrade. The IceCube Upgrad…
CP Studies and Non-Standard Higgs Physics
S. Kraml, E. Accomando, A. G. Akeroyd +163
There are many possibilities for new physics beyond the Standard Model that feature non-standard Higgs sectors. These may introduce new sources of CP violation, and there may be mi…
Deep Search for Joint Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube During the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo
The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +2209
The discovery of joint sources of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves has been a primary target for the LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and IceCube observatories. The joint detection…
Limits on GeV-scale WIMP Annihilation in Dwarf Spheroidals with IceCube DeepCore
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +428
Dark matter is approximately five times more abundant than baryonic matter in the universe, but its physical nature continues to elude physicists. One potential candidate for dark…
All-sky neutrino point-source search with IceCube combined track and cascade data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
Despite extensive efforts, discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrino sources remains elusive. We present an event-level simultaneous maximum likelihood analysis of tracks and…
Limiting the Parameter Space for Unstable eV-scale Neutrinos Using IceCube Data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +422
This Letter extends a recent IceCube sterile neutrino search to include unstable sterile neutrinos within the context of a model termed 3+1+Decay, which expands upon the 3+1 model…
The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025)
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +465
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…
Phenomenology of High Energy Neutrinos in Low-Scale Quantum Gravity Models
J. Alvarez-Muniz, F. Halzen, T. Han +1
We show that neutrino telescopes, optimized for detecting neutrinos of TeV to PeV energy, can reveal threshold effects associated with TeV-scale gravity. The signature is an increa…
Neural posterior estimation of the neutrino direction in IceCube using transformer-encoded normalizing flows on the sphere
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +411
IceCube is a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector located at the geographic South Pole. A precise directional reconstruction of IceCube neutrinos is vital for associations with…
Constraining the Prompt Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Combining IceCube's Cascade and Track Samples
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +428
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a diffuse flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos for more than a decade. A relevant background to the astrophysical flux is promp…
Search for High-Energy Neutrinos From the Sun Using Ten Years of IceCube Data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
In this Letter, we present the results of a search for high-energy neutrinos produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles trapped in the Sun. Using 9.3 and 10.4 years of d…
A Search for Millimeter-Bright Blazars as Astrophysical Neutrino Sources
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
The powerful jets of blazars have been historically considered as likely sites of high-energy cosmic-ray acceleration. However, particulars of the launched jet and the locations of…
Section on Prospects for Dark Matter Detection of the White Paper on the Status and Future of Ground-Based TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy
J. Buckley, E. A. Baltz, G. Bertone +18
This is a report on the findings of the dark matter science working group for the white paper on the status and future of TeV gamma-ray astronomy. The white paper was commissioned…
IceCube Real-time Searches for High-energy Neutrinos Coincident with LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Alerts in O4a
The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +418
Gravitational-wave events from mergers of compact objects are a predicted source of high-energy neutrinos. Using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, we search for neutrinos…
Prompt Searches for Very-High-Energy γ-Ray Counterparts to IceCube Astrophysical Neutrino Alerts
J. Abhir, A. Biland, K. Brand +817
The search for sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can be significantly advanced through a multi-messenger approach, which seeks to detect the gamma rays that accompany…