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Publications (118)

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.HE2026

Observations of the Fermi bubbles and the Galactic center excess with the DArk Matter Particle Explorer

F. Alemanno, Q. An, P. Azzarello +145

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne high-energy particle detector that surveys the -ray sky above with a peak acceptance of $\sim 0.2~\rm…

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.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…

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.HE2024

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…

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.HE2024

Search for Continuous and Transient Neutrino Emission Associated with IceCube's Highest-Energy Tracks: An 11-Year Analysis

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +406

IceCube alert events are neutrinos with a moderate-to-high probability of having astrophysical origin. In this study, we analyze 11 years of IceCube data and investigate 122 alert…

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.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.HE2025

Measurement of separate electron and positron spectra from 10 GeV to 20GeV with the geomagnetic field on DAMPE

DAMPE Collaboration, F. Alemanno, Q. An +148

The cosmic-ray (CR) electrons and positrons in space are of great significance for studying the origin and propagation of cosmic-rays. The satellite-borne experiment DArk Matter Pa…

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.…

astro-ph.HE2024

Observation of Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +401

We report on a measurement of astrophysical tau neutrinos with 9.7 years of IceCube data. Using convolutional neural networks trained on images derived from simulated events, seven…

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.IM2024

Acceptance Tests of more than 10 000 Photomultiplier Tubes for the multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules of the IceCube Upgrade

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420

More than 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with a diameter of 80 mm will be installed in multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules (mDOMs) of the IceCube Upgrade. These have been tested…

astro-ph.HE2024

Observation of a spectral hardening in cosmic ray boron spectrum with the DAMPE space mission

DAMPE Collaboration, F. Alemanno, C. Altomare +143

Secondary cosmic ray fluxes are important probes of the propagation and interaction of high-energy particles in the Galaxy. Recent measurements of primary and secondary cosmic ray…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

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.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…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

All-Sky Search for Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Emission with 10 Years of IceCube Cascade Events

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +403

We present the results of a time-dependent search for neutrino flares in data collected by IceCube between May 2011 and 2021. This data set contains cascade-like events originating…

astro-ph.HE2022

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…

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.IM2022

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…

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

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…

hep-ex2024

A search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using improved high-energy event reconstruction in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +419

This Letter presents the result of a 3+1 sterile neutrino search using 10.7 years of IceCube data. We analyze atmospheric muon neutrinos that traverse the Earth with energies rangi…

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.HE2025

Precision cross-sections for advancing cosmic-ray physics and other applications: a comprehensive programme for the next decade

D. Maurin, L. Audouin, E. Berti +32

Cosmic-ray physics in the GeV-to-TeV energy range has entered a precision era thanks to recent data from space-based experiments. However, the poor knowledge of nuclear reactions,…

astro-ph.HE2022

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…

hep-ex2025

Precision cross-sections for advancing cosmic-ray physics. Input to the 2026 ESPPU from the XSCRC community

S. Mariani, L. Audouin, E. Berti +32

The latest generation of cosmic-ray direct detection experiments is providing a wealth of high-precision data, stimulating a very rich and active debate in the community on the rel…

astro-ph.HE2024

Citizen Science for IceCube: Name that Neutrino

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +412

Name that Neutrino is a citizen science project where volunteers aid in classification of events for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an immense particle detector at the geographi…

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…

hep-ex2019

Hybrid detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos with the next-generation neutrino detectors at the South Pole

S. Toscano, P. Coppin, K. D. de Vries +2

In 2013 the IceCube collaboration announced the discovery of a cosmic neutrino flux up to PeV energies, validating neutrino astronomy as the next promising observational technique…

astro-ph.HE2024

Measurement of the cosmic p+He energy spectrum from 50 GeV to 0.5 PeV with the DAMPE space mission

DAMPE Collaboration, F. Alemanno, C. Altomare +152

Recent observations of the light component of the cosmic-ray spectrum have revealed unexpected features that motivate further and more precise measurements up to the highest energi…

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for Light-Mass Fractionally Charged Particles in Space with DAMPE Experiment

F. Alemanno, Q. An, P. Azzarello +144

Free Fractionally Charged Particles (FCPs) are predicted by some theories beyond or extended to the standard model. FCPs have been widely searched for by underground and space-base…

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.HE2022

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Measurement of the cosmic ray nickel energy spectrum from 10 GeV/n to 2 TeV/n with the DAMPE

F. Alemanno, Q. An, P. Azzarello +144

Nickel, one of the most tightly bound nuclei alongside iron, is the most abundant heavy element beyond iron in cosmic rays. With DAMPE's excellent charge resolution and broad energ…

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-ex2024

Exploration of mass splitting and muon/tau mixing parameters for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +421

We present the first three-parameter fit to a 3+1 sterile neutrino model using 7.634 years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory on charged-current i…

hep-ex2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Diverse properties of electron Forbush decreases revealed by the Dark Matter Particle Explorer

F. Alemanno, Q. An, P. Azzarello +147

The Forbush decrease (FD) of cosmic rays is an important probe of the interplanetary environment disturbed by solar activities. In this work, we study the properties of 8 FDs elect…

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.HE2024

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…

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…

hep-ex2023

Searching for Decoherence from Quantum Gravity at the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +401

Neutrino oscillations at the highest energies and longest baselines provide a natural quantum interferometer with which to study the structure of spacetime and test the fundamental…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2022

Searches for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +378

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are considered as promising sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) due to their large power output. Observing a neutrino flux from GRBs would off…

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.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.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 Astrophysical Neutrinos from 1FLE Blazars with IceCube

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

The majority of astrophysical neutrinos have undetermined origins. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed astrophysical neutrinos but has not yet identified their sources. B…

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.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…

astro-ph.HE2023

The IceCube Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)

IceCube, :, R. Abbasi +403

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.HE2024

Search for 10--1000 GeV neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +405

We present the results of a search for 10--1,000 GeV neutrinos from 2,268 gamma-ray bursts over 8 years of IceCube-DeepCore data. This work probes burst physics below the photosphe…

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.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.HE2025

Search for joint multimessenger signals from potential galactic cosmic-ray accelerators with HAWC and IceCube

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +489

The origin of high-energy galactic cosmic rays is yet to be understood, but some galactic cosmic-ray accelerators can accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV energies. The high-energy cos…

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for Extended Sources of Neutrino Emission in the Galactic Plane with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +404

The Galactic plane, harboring a diffuse neutrino flux, is a particularly interesting target to study potential cosmic-ray acceleration sites. Recent gamma-ray observations by HAWC…

astro-ph.HE2020

Search for PeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Southern Hemisphere with 5 Years of Data from the IceCube Observatory

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

The measurement of diffuse PeV gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane would provide information about the energy spectrum and propagation of Galactic cosmic rays, and the detec…

astro-ph.HE2021

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

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

This list of contributions to the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Berlin, Germany (12-23 July 2021) summarizes the latest results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.…

hep-ex2025

Search for Quantum Gravity Using Astrophysical Neutrino Flavour with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +378

Along their long propagation from production to detection, neutrino states undergo quantum interference which converts their types, or flavours. High-energy astrophysical neutrinos…

hep-ex2021

All-flavor constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions and generalized matter potential with three years of IceCube DeepCore data

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

We report constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) from the observation of atmospheric neutrinos with IceCube, limiting all individual coupling strengths from a singl…

astro-ph.HE2019

Neutrino astronomy with the next generation IceCube Neutrino Observatory

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +399

The past decade has welcomed the emergence of cosmic neutrinos as a new messenger to explore the most extreme environments of the universe. The discovery measurement of cosmic neut…

astro-ph.HE2022

First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +359

Since the discovery of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, searches for their origins have focused primarily at TeV-PeV energies. Compared to sub-TeV searches, high-ener…

hep-ex2024

Methods and stability tests associated with the sterile neutrino search using improved high-energy event reconstruction in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +419

We provide supporting details for the search for a 3+1 sterile neutrino using data collected over eleven years at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The analysis uses atmospheric mu…

astro-ph.HE2024

Characterization of the Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Flux using Starting Track Events in IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +415

A measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino spectrum is presented using IceCube data collected from 2011-2022 (10.3 years). We developed novel detection techniques to searc…

hep-ex2020

Searching for eV-scale sterile neutrinos with eight years of atmospheric neutrinos at the IceCube neutrino telescope

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

We report in detail on searches for eV-scale sterile neutrinos, in the context of a 3+1 model, using eight years of data from the IceCube neutrino telescope. By analyzing the recon…

astro-ph.HE2020

A search for time-dependent astrophysical neutrino emission with IceCube data from 2012 to 2017

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +361

High-energy neutrinos are unique messengers of the high-energy universe, tracing the processes of cosmic-ray acceleration. This paper presents analyses focusing on time-dependent n…

hep-ex2021

Detection of a particle shower at the Glashow resonance with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +382

The Glashow resonance describes the resonant formation of a boson during the interaction of a high-energy electron antineutrino with an electron, peaking at an antineutrino e…

astro-ph.HE2023

IceCube search for neutrinos coincident with gravitational wave events from LIGO/Virgo run O3

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +378

Using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, we searched for high-energy neutrino emission from the gravitational-wave events detected by advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors dur…

astro-ph.HE2020

IceCube Search for Neutrinos Coincident with Compact Binary Mergers from LIGO-Virgo's First Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +374

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, we search for high-energy neutrino emission coincident with compact binary mergers observed by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave (GW) de…

astro-ph.HE2018

Joint constraints on Galactic diffuse neutrino emission from ANTARES and IceCube

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi +454

The existence of diffuse Galactic neutrino production is expected from cosmic ray interactions with Galactic gas and radiation fields. Thus, neutrinos are a unique messenger offeri…

astro-ph.HE2019

All-Sky Measurement of the Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays at 10 TeV and Mapping of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +400

We present the first full-sky analysis of the cosmic ray arrival direction distribution with data collected by the HAWC and IceCube observatories in the Northern and Southern hemis…

astro-ph.HE2024

Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +382

We report three searches for high energy neutrino emission from astrophysical objects using data recorded with IceCube between 2011 and 2020. Improvements over previous work includ…

hep-ex2025

Investigation of hadronic cross sections of cosmic ray carbon and oxygen on BGO from 200 GeV to 10 TeV energy at the DAMPE experiment

F. Alemanno, Q. An, P. Azzarello +143

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has made significant progress in measuring the fluxes of cosmic rays. These new measurements are pivotal in advancing our understanding of…

hep-ex2022

Detection of astrophysical tau neutrino candidates in IceCube

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

High-energy tau neutrinos are rarely produced in atmospheric cosmic-ray showers or at cosmic particle accelerators, but are expected to emerge during neutrino propagation over cosm…

astro-ph.HE2024

Improved modeling of in-ice particle showers for IceCube event reconstruction

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +415

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory relies on an array of photomultiplier tubes to detect Cherenkov light produced by charged particles in the South Pole ice. IceCube data analyses de…

astro-ph.HE2019

Time-integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +357

This paper presents the results from point-like neutrino source searches using ten years of IceCube data collected between Apr.~6, 2008 and Jul.~10, 2018. We evaluate the significa…

astro-ph.HE2020

Measurements of the Time-Dependent Cosmic-Ray Sun Shadow with Seven Years of IceCube Data -- Comparison with the Solar Cycle and Magnetic Field Models

M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +376

Observations of the time-dependent cosmic-ray Sun shadow have been proven as a valuable diagnostic for the assessment of solar magnetic field models. In this paper, seven years of…