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Publications (106)

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…

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…

hep-ex2022

Low Energy Event Reconstruction in IceCube DeepCore

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +381

The reconstruction of event-level information, such as the direction or energy of a neutrino interacting in IceCube DeepCore, is a crucial ingredient to many physics analyses. Algo…

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.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.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{…

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.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…

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…

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…

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.IM2022

SNGuess: A method for the selection of young extragalactic transients

N. Miranda, J. C. Freytag, J. Nordin +7

With a rapidly rising number of transients detected in astronomy, classification methods based on machine learning are increasingly being employed. Their goals are typically to obt…

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…

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…

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…

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.HE2023

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)

IceCube-Gen2, :, R. Abbasi +452

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.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.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.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…

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.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…

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…

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.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.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.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.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.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…

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…

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…

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-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…

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…

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.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…

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.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.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…

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…

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…

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.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…

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.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-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

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.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…

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…

astro-ph.SR2025

CoSEE-Cat: A Comprehensive Solar Energetic Electron event Catalogue obtained from combined in situ and remote-sensing observations from Solar Orbiter -- Catalogue description and first statistical results

A. Warmuth, F. Schuller, R. Gómez-Herrero +39

(abridged) The acceleration of particles at the Sun and their propagation through interplanetary space are key topics in heliophysics. Specifically, solar energetic electrons (SEEs…

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.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.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.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.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.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…

astro-ph.IM2019

Transient processing and analysis using : Alert Management, Photometry and Evaluation of Lightcurves

J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, J. van Santen +18

Both multi-messenger astronomy and new high-throughput wide-field surveys require flexible tools for the selection and analysis of astrophysical transients. We here introduce the A…

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…

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-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.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.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 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.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…

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…

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.IM2026

Photometric classification of supernovae detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility using noise augmentation

A. Townsend, J. Nordin, M. Kowalski +27

Modern time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), detect far more extragalactic transients than can be spectroscopically classified. Photometric classificati…

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.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.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.HE2021

Improved Characterization of the Astrophysical Muon-Neutrino Flux with 9.5 Years of IceCube Data

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +376

We present a measurement of the high-energy astrophysical muon-neutrino flux with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The measurement uses a high-purity selection of ~650k neutrino-i…

hep-ex2023

Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing with Improved IceCube DeepCore Calibration and Data Processing

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +404

We describe a new data sample of IceCube DeepCore and report on the latest measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations obtained with data recorded between 2011-2019. The sampl…

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…

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.HE2022

Searching for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Galaxy Clusters with IceCube

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

Galaxy clusters have the potential to accelerate cosmic rays (CRs) to ultra-high energies via accretion shocks or embedded CR acceleration sites. CRs with energies below the Hillas…

astro-ph.HE2024

Search for sub-TeV Neutrino Emission from Novae with IceCube-DeepCore

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +383

The understanding of novae, the thermonuclear eruptions on the surfaces of white dwarf stars in binaries, has recently undergone a major paradigm shift. Though the bolometric lumin…

hep-ex2022

Graph Neural Networks for Low-Energy Event Classification & Reconstruction in IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +380

IceCube, a cubic-kilometer array of optical sensors built to detect atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos between 1 GeV and 1 PeV, is deployed 1.45 km to 2.45 km below the surfac…

astro-ph.HE2023

Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +385

The origin of high-energy cosmic rays, atomic nuclei that continuously impact Earth's atmosphere, has been a mystery for over a century. Due to deflection in interstellar magnetic…

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…

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…