Publications (33)
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…
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…
Probing the PeV Region in the Astrophysical Neutrino Spectrum using from the Southern Sky
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +425
IceCube has observed a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux over the energy region from a few TeV to a few PeV. At PeV energies, the spectral shape is not yet well measured due to t…
VERITAS and multiwavelength observations of the Blazar B3 2247+381 in response to an IceCube neutrino alert
Atreya Acharyya, Colin B. Adams, Priyadarshini Bangale +494
While the sources of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory are still largely unknown, one of the promising methods used towards under…
Probing the connection between IceCube neutrinos and MOJAVE AGN
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are prime candidate sources of the high-energy, astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube. This is demonstrated by the real-time multi-messenger dete…
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…
Search for Extremely-High-Energy Neutrinos and First Constraints on the Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Proton Fraction with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +423
We present a search for the diffuse extremely-high-energy neutrino flux using years of IceCube data. The nonobservation of neutrinos with energies well above $10 \, \mathrm{…
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…
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…
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…
Time-Integrated Southern-Sky Neutrino Source Searches with 10 Years of IceCube Starting-Track Events at Energies Down to 1 TeV
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +423
In the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a signal of astrophysical neutrinos is obscured by backgrounds from atmospheric neutrinos and muons produced in cosmic-ray interactions. IceCub…
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…
Search for a light sterile neutrino with 7.5 years of IceCube DeepCore data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420
We present a search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino using 7.5 years of data from the IceCube DeepCore detector. The analysis uses a sample of 21,914 events with energies between 5…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Search for neutrino doublets and triplets using 11.4 years of IceCube data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +423
We report a search for high-energy astrophysical neutrino multiplets, detections of multiple neutrino clusters in the same direction within 30 days, based on an analysis of 11.4 ye…
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…
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…
Seasonal Variations of the Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Spectrum measured with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +425
This study presents an energy-dependent analysis of seasonal variations in the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum, using 11.3 years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. B…
Search for neutrino emission from hard X-ray AGN with IceCube
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +422
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos since they provide environments rich in matter and photon targets where cosmic r…
All-sky neutrino point-source search with IceCube combined track and cascade data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
Despite extensive efforts, discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrino sources remains elusive. We present an event-level simultaneous maximum likelihood analysis of tracks and…
Limiting the Parameter Space for Unstable eV-scale Neutrinos Using IceCube Data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +422
This Letter extends a recent IceCube sterile neutrino search to include unstable sterile neutrinos within the context of a model termed 3+1+Decay, which expands upon the 3+1 model…
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…
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…
Measurement of the inelasticity distribution of neutrino-nucleon interactions for with IceCube DeepCore
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +425
We report a study of the inelasticity distribution in the scattering of neutrinos of energy GeV off nucleons. Using atmospheric muon neutrinos detected in IceCube's sub-ar…
Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with IceCube DeepCore
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +421
The observation of neutrino oscillations has established that neutrinos have non-zero masses. This phenomenon is not explained by the Standard Model of particle physics, but one vi…
Search for High-Energy Neutrinos From the Sun Using Ten Years of IceCube Data
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
In this Letter, we present the results of a search for high-energy neutrinos produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles trapped in the Sun. Using 9.3 and 10.4 years of d…
A Search for Millimeter-Bright Blazars as Astrophysical Neutrino Sources
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424
The powerful jets of blazars have been historically considered as likely sites of high-energy cosmic-ray acceleration. However, particulars of the launched jet and the locations of…
IceCube Search for Neutrino Emission from X-ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +421
The recent IceCube detection of TeV neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068 suggests that active galactic nuclei (AGN) could make a sizable contribution to the dif…
Observation of Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy in the Southern Hemisphere with 12 yr of Data Collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +434
We analyzed the 7.92 cosmic-ray-induced muon events collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory from May 13, 2011, when the fully constructed experiment started t…