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Publications (28)

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…