Publications (202)
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…
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…
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…
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…
Eta-nuclear bound states revisited
E. Friedman, A. Gal, J. Mareš
The strong energy dependence of the s-wave eta-N scattering amplitude at and below threshold, as evident in coupled-channels K-matrix fits and chiral models that incorporate the S1…
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…
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…
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…
Onset of -meson binding in the He isotopes
N. Barnea, E. Friedman, A. Gal
The onset of binding (548) mesons in nuclei is studied in the He isotopes by doing precise and few-body stochastic variational method calculations for two semi…
Medium effects in K^+ nucleus interaction from consistent analysis of integral and differential cross sections
E. Friedman, A. Gal, J. Mares
Self consistency in the analysis of transmission measurements for K^+ on several nuclei in the momentum range of 500-700 MeV/c is achieved with a "t_{eff}(rho)rho" potential and ne…
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…
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…
Constraints on the Diffuse Flux of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos from Four Years of Askaryan Radio Array Data in Two Stations
ARA Collaboration, P. Allison, S. Archambault +71
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultra-high energy (UHE, eV) neutrino detector designed to observe neutrinos by searching for the radio waves emitted by the relativi…
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,…
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…
A Search for IceCube sub-TeV Neutrinos Correlated with Gravitational-Wave Events Detected By LIGO/Virgo
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +384
The LIGO/Virgo collaboration published the catalogs GWTC-1, GWTC-2.1 and GWTC-3 containing candidate gravitational-wave (GW) events detected during its runs O1, O2 and O3. These GW…
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…
Unified optical-model approach to low-energy antiproton annihilation on nuclei and to antiprotonic atoms
C. J. Batty, E. Friedman, A. Gal
A successful unified description of nuclear interactions near E=0 is achieved using a optical potential within a folding model, , wh…
and deeply bound atomic states
E. Friedman, A. Gal
The strongly absorptive optical potentials which have been deduced from the strong-interaction level shifts and widths in X-ray spectra of and atoms pr…
Experiments with atoms
C. J. Batty, E. Friedman, A. Gal
Experiments with atoms are proposed in order to study the nuclear interaction of hyperons. The production of in the (, ) reaction, the stopp…
amplitudes below threshold constrained by multinucleon absorption
E. Friedman, A. Gal
Six widely different subthreshold scattering amplitudes obtained in SU(3) chiral-model EFT approaches by fitting to low-energy and threshold data are employed in optical-po…
- nucleus relativistic mean field potentials consistent with kaonic atoms
E. Friedman, A. Gal, J. Mares +1
atomic data are used to test several models of the nucleus interaction. The t() optical potential, due to coupled channel models incorporating the (1405) dy…
In-medium nuclear interactions of low-energy hadrons
E. Friedman, A. Gal
Experimental and theoretical developments of the last decade in the study of exotic atoms and some related low-energy reactions are reviewed, in order to provide information on the…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Testing in-medium dynamics on pionic atoms
E. Friedman, A. Gal
A general algorithm for handling the energy dependence of meson-nucleon amplitudes in the nuclear medium has been recently applied to antikaons and to eta mesons. Here we test this…
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…
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…
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
In-medium Eta-Nucleon interactions and Eta nuclear bound states
A. Cieplý, E. Friedman, A. Gal +1
The in-medium Eta-N interaction near and below threshold is constructed from a free-space chirally-inspired meson-baryon coupled-channel model that captures the physics of the N(15…
Few-body calculations of -nuclear quasibound states
N. Barnea, E. Friedman, A. Gal
We report on precise hyperspherical-basis calculations of and quasibound states, using energy dependent interaction potentials derived from coupled-channel mod…
Saturation of low-energy antiproton annihilation on nuclei
A. Gal, E. Friedman, C. J. Batty
Recent measurements of very low-energy ( MeV/c) annihilation on light nuclei reveal apparent suppression of annihilation upon increasing the atomic charge a…
Nuclear medium effects from hadronic atoms
E. Friedman, A. Gal
The state of the art in the study of pionic, kaonic and Sigmionic atoms, along with the in-medium nuclear interactions deduced for these hadrons, is reviewed. A special emphasis is…
Pionic charge exchange on the proton from 40 to 250 MeV
J. Breitschopf, M. Bauer, H. Clement +6
The total cross sections for pionic charge exchange on hydrogen were measured using a transmission technique on thin CH2 and C targets. Data were taken for pi- lab energies from 39…
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…
Low Energy Analyzing Powers in Pion-Proton Elastic Scattering
R. Meier, M. Cröni, R. Bilger +17
Analyzing powers of pion-proton elastic scattering have been measured at PSI with the Low Energy Pion Spectrometer LEPS as well as a novel polarized scintillator target. Angular di…
Constraining High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Supernovae with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +384
Core-collapse supernovae are a promising potential high-energy neutrino source class. We test for correlation between seven years of IceCube neutrino data and a catalog containing…
The pion-nucleon term from pionic atoms
E. Friedman, A. Gal
Earlier work suggested that the in-medium threshold isovector amplitude gets renormalized in pionic atoms by about 30% away from its free-space value, relati…
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…
Renormalization of the isovector amplitude in pionic atoms
E. Friedman, A. Gal
The extraction of the isovector s-wave pi N amplitude from pionic atoms is studied with special emphasis on uncertainties and their dependence on the assumptions made regarding the…
Proof of principle of a high-spatial-resolution, resonant-response gamma-ray detector for Gamma Resonance Absorption in 14N
M. Brandis, M. B. Goldberg, D. Vartsky +7
The development of a mm-spatial-resolution, resonant-response detector based on a micrometric glass capillary array filled with liquid scintillator is described. This detector was…
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…
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…
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…
Overview of pion-nucleus interaction at low energies
E. Friedman
Predictions of the existence of well-defined deeply bound pionic atom states for heavy nuclei and the eventual observation of such states by the (d,3He) reaction have revived inter…
Observation of Seasonal Variations of the Flux of High-Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +389
Atmospheric muon neutrinos are produced by meson decays in cosmic-ray-induced air showers. The flux depends on meteorological quantities such as the air temperature, which affects…
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…
hypernuclear potentials beyond linear density dependence
E. Friedman, A. Gal
In a recent paper [PLB 837 (2023) 137669] we showed that all measured (, ) pairs of binding energies in -hypernuclei across the periodic table, $12\leq A \le…
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…
Low-Energy Antinucleon-Nucleus Interaction Revisited
E. Friedman
Annihilation cross sections of antiprotons and antineutrons on the proton between 50 and 400 MeV/c show Coulomb focusing below 200 MeV/c and almost no charge-dependence above 200 M…
Antineutron and antiproton nuclear interactions at very low energies
E. Friedman
Experimental annihilation cross sections of antineutrons and antiprotons at very low energies are compared. Features of Coulomb focusing are observed for annihilation on p…
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…
Searches for Neutrinos from LHAASO ultra-high-energy γ-ray sources using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +387
Galactic PeVatrons are Galactic sources theorized to accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV in energy. The accelerated cosmic rays are expected to interact hadronically with nearby ambie…
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…
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…
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…
D-Egg: a Dual PMT Optical Module for IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +389
The D-Egg, an acronym for ``Dual optical sensors in an Ellipsoid Glass for Gen2,'' is one of the optical modules designed for future extensions of the IceCube experiment at the Sou…
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…
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…
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…
Observation of In-ice Askaryan Radiation from High-Energy Cosmic Rays
ARA Collaboration, N. Alden, S. Ali +74
We present the first experimental evidence for in-ice Askaryan radiation -- coherent charge-excess radio emission -- from high-energy particle cascades developing in the Antarctic…
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…
Multi- hypernuclei
D. Gazda, E. Friedman, A. Gal +1
Relativistic mean field calculations of multi- hypernuclei are performed by adding mesons to particle-stable configurations of nucleons, and hyperons. For…
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…
Antiprotonic Potentials from Global Fits to the PS209 Data
E. Friedman, A. Gal
The experimental results for strong interaction effects in antiprotonic atoms by the PS209 collaboration consist of high quality data for several sequences of isotopes along the pe…
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…
nuclear bound states in a dynamical model
J. Mareš, E. Friedman, A. Gal
A comprehensive data base of K- atom level shifts and widths is re-analyzed in order to study the density dependence of the Kbar-nuclear optical potential. Significant departure fr…
A Search for Coincident Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +382
This paper presents the results of a search for neutrinos that are spatially and temporally coincident with 22 unique, non-repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and one repeating FRB…
Elastic scattering of low energy pions by nuclei and the in-medium isovector pi N amplitude
E. Friedman, M. Bauer, J. Breitschopf +9
Measurements of elastic scattering of 21.5 MeV pi+ and pi- by Si, Ca, Ni and Zr were made using a single arm magnetic spectrometer. Absolute calibration was made by parallel measur…
Multi- nuclei and kaon condensation
D. Gazda, E. Friedman, A. Gal +1
We extend previous relativistic mean-field (RMF) calculations of multi- nuclei, using vector boson fields with SU(3) PPV coupling constants and scalar boson fields constrai…
Sensitivity of the As-Built Askaryan Radio Array to Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos
ARA Collaboration, N. Alden, S. Ali +71
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino observatory designed to detect the impulsive radio waves produced by relativistic particle cascades in the Ant…
Antiproton-nucleus potentials from global fits to antiprotonic X-rays and radiochemical data
E. Friedman, ., A. Gal +1
We report on global fits of optical-model parameters to 90 data points for X-rays and 17 data points of radiochemical data put together. With the help of separate fits to…
Triboelectric Backgrounds to radio-based UHE Neutrino Exeperiments
J. A. Aguilar, A. Anker, P. Allison +114
The proposed IceCube-Gen2 (ICG2) seeks to instrument ~500 sq. km of Antarctic ice near the geographic South Pole with radio antennas, in order to observe the highest energy (E>1 Ee…
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…
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…
Search for neutrino lines from dark matter annihilation and decay with IceCube
The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +393
Dark Matter particles in the Galactic Center and halo can annihilate or decay into a pair of neutrinos producing a monochromatic flux of neutrinos. The spectral feature of this sig…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Evidence for partial chiral symmetry restoration from pionic atoms
E. Friedman
Extensive data on strong interaction effects in pionic atoms are analyzed with a density-dependent isovector scattering amplitude suggested recently by Weise to result from a densi…
Constraints on populations of neutrino sources from searches in the directions of IceCube neutrino alerts
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +380
Beginning in 2016, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has sent out alerts in real time containing the information of high-energy (~TeV) neutrino candidate events with…
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…
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…
Searches for Connections between Dark Matter and High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +376
In this work, we present the results of searches for signatures of dark matter decay or annihilation into Standard Model particles, and secret neutrino interactions with dark matte…
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…
Narrow deeply bound atomic states
E. Friedman, A. Gal
Using optical potentials fitted to a comprehensive set of strong interaction level shifts and widths in atoms, we predict that the atomic levels which are inaccessible…
Compatibility of recent -nuclear bound state signals
E. Friedman, A. Gal
J-PARC E05 reported recently a hint of a nuclear state in the spectrum, bound by $B_{Î^-}=8.9\pm 1.4 {^{+3.8}_{-3…
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…
IceCat-1: the IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +390
We present a catalog of likely astrophysical neutrino track-like events from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube began reporting likely astrophysical neutrinos in 2016 and th…
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…
Revisiting the hypertriton lifetime puzzle
A. Pérez-Obiol, D. Gazda, E. Friedman +1
Conflicting values of the hypertriton (H) lifetime were extracted in recent relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. The ALICE Collaboration's reported H lif…
Constraints on the threshold K- nuclear potential from FINUDA (stopped K-, pi-) hypernuclear spectra
A. Cieplý, E. Friedman, A. Gal +1
1s(Lambda) hypernuclear formation rates in stopped K- reactions on several p-shell targets are derived from hypernuclear formation spectra measured recently by the FINUDA Collabora…
Constraints on Nucleus Dynamics from Dirac Phenomenology of Atoms
J. Mares, E. Friedman, A. Gal +1
Strong interaction level shifts and widths in atoms are analyzed by using a nucleus optical potential constructed within the relativistic mean field approach. The analy…
Limits on Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A from MeV to PeV using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +382
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been considered a possible source of high-energy neutrinos. While no correlations have yet been detected between high-energy neutrinos and GRBs, t…
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…