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Publications (33)

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

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

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{…

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.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

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…

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…

hep-ex2024

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…

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.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…

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.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.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.HE2025

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…

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.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.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

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-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…

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

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

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.HE2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…