Publications (151)
Measurement of the energy spectrum with IceCube-79
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +306
IceCube is a neutrino observatory deployed in the glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. The energy unfolding described in this paper is based on data taken with IceCube…
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…
Constraints on ultra-high-energy cosmic ray sources from a search for neutrinos above 10 PeV with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309
We report constraints on the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) above GeV, based on an analysis of seven years of IceCube data. This analysis efficiently sele…
Computational Techniques for the Analysis of Small Signals in High-Statistics Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +368
The current and upcoming generation of Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes---collecting unprecedented quantities of neutrino events---can be used to explore subtle effects in osc…
The contribution of Fermi-2LAC blazars to the diffuse TeV-PeV neutrino flux
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +319
The recent discovery of a diffuse cosmic neutrino flux extending up to PeV energies raises the question of which astrophysical sources generate this signal. One class of extragalac…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Development of a Quality Assurance Process for the SoLid Experiment
Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, G. Ban +53
The SoLid experiment has been designed to search for an oscillation pattern induced by a light sterile neutrino state, utilising the BR2 reactor of SCKCEN, in Belgium. The…
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…
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…
Search for Very-Short-Baseline Oscillations of Reactor Antineutrinos with the SoLid Detector
Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, L. Arnold +57
In this letter we report the first scientific result based on antineutrinos emitted from the BR2 reactor at SCK CEN. The SoLid experiment uses a novel type of highly granular detec…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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
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.
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…
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 5.7Ï significance from an all-flavor search. The direct detection of tau neutrin…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
A novel segmented-scintillator antineutrino detector
Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, L. Arnold +53
The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new d…
Observation of Cosmic Ray Anisotropy with the IceTop Air Shower Array
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +273
We report on the observation of anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays at PeV energies. The analysis is based on data taken between 2009 and 2012 with the…
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…
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.
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…
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…
First combined search for neutrino point-sources in the Southern Hemisphere with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes
ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SoLid: A short baseline reactor neutrino experiment
SoLid Collaboration, Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis +59
The SoLid experiment, short for Search for Oscillations with a Lithium-6 detector, is a new generation neutrino experiment which tries to address the key challenges for high precis…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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