Publications (102)
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part V: Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Searches
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278
Papers on neutrino oscillation and supernova searches submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.
IceCube Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in nearby Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters
M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +276
We present the results of a first search for self-annihilating dark matter in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters using a sample of high-energy neutrinos acquired in 339.8 days of…
Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube
A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1410
The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up…
Automated Real-Time Classification and Decision Making in Massive Data Streams from Synoptic Sky Surveys
S. G. Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, C. Donalek +4
The nature of scientific and technological data collection is evolving rapidly: data volumes and rates grow exponentially, with increasing complexity and information content, and t…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part IV: Searches for Dark Matter and Exotic Particles
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278
Papers on searches for Dark Matter and exotic particles submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Power counting in relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory
T. Fuchs, J. Gegelia, G. Japaridze +1
We consider a renormalization scheme for relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory which provides a simple and consistent power counting for renormalized diagrams. As an appli…
Search for sterile neutrino mixing using three years of IceCube DeepCore data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +305
We present a search for a light sterile neutrino using three years of atmospheric neutrino data from the DeepCore detector in the energy range of approximately GeV. DeepCor…
Hadron structure in manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory
T. Fuchs, M. R. Schindler, J. Gegelia +1
We briefly outline the so-called extended on-mass-shell renormalization scheme for manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory which provides a simple and consis…
Measurement of the energy spectrum with IceCube-79
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +306
IceCube is a neutrino observatory deployed in the glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. The energy unfolding described in this paper is based on data taken with IceCube…
Determining neutrino oscillation parameters from atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of IceCube DeepCore data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301
We present a measurement of neutrino oscillations via atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of data of the completed IceCube neutrino detector. DeepCore, a regio…
Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309
Results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have recently provided compelling evidence for the existence of a high energy astrophysical neutrino flux utilizing a dominantly South…
Observation of the cosmic-ray shadow of the Moon with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +280
We report on the observation of a significant deficit of cosmic rays from the direction of the Moon with the IceCube detector. The study of this "Moon shadow" is used to characteri…
Constraints on ultra-high-energy cosmic ray sources from a search for neutrinos above 10 PeV with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309
We report constraints on the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) above GeV, based on an analysis of seven years of IceCube data. This analysis efficiently sele…
Measurement of the Atmospheric Spectrum with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +308
We present a measurement of the atmospheric spectrum at energies between 0.1 TeV and 100 TeV using data from the first year of the complete IceCube detector. Atmospheric $ν…
IceCube-Gen2 - The Next Generation Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole: Contributions to ICRC 2015
Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +337
Papers submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration.
The contribution of Fermi-2LAC blazars to the diffuse TeV-PeV neutrino flux
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +319
The recent discovery of a diffuse cosmic neutrino flux extending up to PeV energies raises the question of which astrophysical sources generate this signal. One class of extragalac…
Searches for high-energy neutrino emission in the Galaxy with the combined IceCube-AMANDA detector
IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +268
We report on searches for neutrino sources at energies above 200 GeV in the Northern sky of the galactic plane, using the data collected by the South Pole neutrino telescopes IceCu…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part III: Cosmic Rays
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278
Papers on cosmic rays submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Search for Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions with IceCube DeepCore
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +317
As atmospheric neutrinos propagate through the Earth, vacuum-like oscillations are modified by Standard-Model neutral- and charged-current interactions with electrons. Theories bey…
Multipole analysis of IceCube data to search for dark matter accumulated in the Galactic halo
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +299
Dark matter which is bound in the Galactic halo might self-annihilate and produce a flux of stable final state particles, e.g. high energy neutrinos. These neutrinos can be detecte…
An All-Sky Search for Three Flavors of Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +314
We present the results and methodology of a search for neutrinos produced in the decay of charged pions created in interactions between protons and gamma-rays during the prompt emi…
Measurement of the Atmospheric flux in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274
We report the first measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux in the energy range between approximately 80 GeV and 6 TeV, using data recorded during the first year of o…
Lowering IceCube's Energy Threshold for Point Source Searches in the Southern Sky
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +317
Observation of a point source of astrophysical neutrinos would be a "smoking gun" signature of a cosmic-ray accelerator. While IceCube has recently discovered a diffuse flux of ast…
Search for Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Emission with IceCube-DeepCore
M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +309
We present the results of a search for astrophysical sources of brief transient neutrino emission using IceCube and DeepCore data acquired between May 15th 2012 and April 30th 2013…
Energy Reconstruction Methods in the IceCube Neutrino Telescope
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +285
Accurate measurement of neutrino energies is essential to many of the scientific goals of large-volume neutrino telescopes. The fundamental observable in such detectors is the Cher…
Search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector
IceCube collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274
We have performed a search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the center of the Sun with the 79-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the fir…
Pion Generalized Dipole Polarizabilities by Virtual Compton Scattering
C. Unkmeir, A. Ocherashvili, T. Fuchs +2
We present a calculation of the cross section and the event generator of the reaction . This reaction is sensitive to the pion generalized dipole polarizabilities, n…
Characterization of the Atmospheric Muon Flux in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Muons produced in atmospheric cosmic ray showers account for the by far dominant part of the event yield in large-volume underground particle detectors. The IceCube detector, with…
IceTop: The surface component of IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +280
IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1 km2. The detector allows a detailed exploration of the…
First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
We present the results of the first IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the center of the Earth. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), candidates for dark matter…
Observation and Characterization of a Cosmic Muon Neutrino Flux from the Northern Hemisphere using six years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309
The IceCube Collaboration has previously discovered a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux using neutrino events with interaction vertices contained within the instrumented volu…
Search for correlations between the arrival directions of IceCube neutrino events and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +863
This paper presents the results of different searches for correlations between very high-energy neutrino candidates detected by IceCube and the highest-energy cosmic rays measured…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part VI: IceCube-Gen2, the Next Generation Neutrino Observatory
Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +356
Papers on research & development towards IceCube-Gen2, the next generation neutrino observatory at South Pole, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017,…
Search for neutrino-induced particle showers with IceCube-40
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +287
We report on the search for neutrino-induced particle-showers, so-called cascades, in the IceCube-40 detector. The data for this search was collected between April 2008 and May 200…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part II: Atmospheric and Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Searches of All Flavors
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on atmospheric and astrophysical diffuse neutrino searches of all flavors submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Col…
Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +315
We present an improved event-level likelihood formalism for including neutrino telescope data in global fits to new physics. We derive limits on spin-dependent dark matter-proton s…
Searches for Time Dependent Neutrino Sources with IceCube Data from 2008 to 2012
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +304
In this paper searches for flaring astrophysical neutrino sources and sources with periodic emission with the IceCube neutrino telescope are presented. In contrast to time integrat…
Anisotropy in Cosmic-Ray Arrival Directions in the Southern Hemisphere with Six Years of Data from the IceCube Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +314
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has accumulated a total of 318 billion cosmic-ray induced muon events between May 2009 and May 2015. This data set was used for a detailed analysis…
Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6-56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +314
We present a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters using three years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The DeepCore infill array in the center…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part I: Point Source Searches
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278
Papers on point source searches submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory
A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1931
The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merg…
Extending the search for muon neutrinos coincident with gamma-ray bursts in IceCube data
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +305
We present an all-sky search for muon neutrinos produced during the prompt -ray emission of 1172 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The detection of…
IceCube-Gen2: A Vision for the Future of Neutrino Astronomy in Antarctica
Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +325
The recent observation by the IceCube neutrino observatory of an astrophysical flux of neutrinos represents the "first light" in the nascent field of neutrino astronomy. The observ…
Real-Time Data Mining of Massive Data Streams from Synoptic Sky Surveys
S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, C. Donalek +4
The nature of scientific and technological data collection is evolving rapidly: data volumes and rates grow exponentially, with increasing complexity and information content, and t…
Flavor Ratio of Astrophysical Neutrinos above 35 TeV in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300
A diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos above has been observed at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Here we extend this analysis to probe the astrophysical f…
Search for non-relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +288
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a large Cherenkov detector instrumenting of Antarctic ice. The detector can be used to search for signatures of particle phys…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array: Joint Contribution to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +884
We have conducted three searches for correlations between ultra-high energy cosmic rays detected by the Telescope Array and the Pierre Auger Observatory, and high-energy neutrino c…
Pion electroproduction, PCAC, chiral Ward identities, and the axial form factor revisited
T. Fuchs, S. Scherer
We re-investigate Adler's PCAC relation in the presence of an external electromagnetic field within the framework of QCD coupled to external fields. We discuss pion electroproducti…
Improvement in Fast Particle Track Reconstruction with Robust Statistics
M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +277
The IceCube project has transformed one cubic kilometer of deep natural Antarctic ice into a Cherenkov detector. Muon neutrinos are detected and their direction inferred by mapping…
Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +268
We present the first results in the search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the IceCube detector, a subsurface neutrino telescope located in the South Polar ice cap contain…
Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Follow-Up Program Using Neutrino Triggers from IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +537
We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescope…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part V: Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Searches
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on neutrino oscillations and supernova searches submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Lateral Distribution of Muons in IceCube Cosmic Ray Events
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +277
In cosmic ray air showers, the muon lateral separation from the center of the shower is a measure of the transverse momentum that the muon parent acquired in the cosmic ray interac…
High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, A. Albert, M. André +1387
We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on Sept. 14th, 2015. We search…
Search for Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a diffuse flux of TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrinos at 5.7Ï significance from an all-flavor search. The direct detection of tau neutrin…
Renormalization of relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory and power counting
T. Fuchs, J. Gegelia, G. Japaridze +1
We discuss a renormalization scheme for relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory which provides a simple and consistent power counting for renormalized diagrams. The method i…
Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center with IceCube-79
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310
The Milky Way is expected to be embedded in a halo of dark matter particles, with the highest density in the central region, and decreasing density with the halo-centric radius. Da…
An improved method for measuring muon energy using the truncated mean of dE/dx
IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +277
The measurement of muon energy is critical for many analyses in large Cherenkov detectors, particularly those that involve separating extraterrestrial neutrinos from the atmospheri…
Power counting in baryon chiral perturbation theory including vector mesons
T. Fuchs, M. R. Schindler, J. Gegelia +1
It is demonstrated that using a suitable renormalization condition one obtains a consistent power counting in manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory includi…
Searches for small-scale anisotropies from neutrino point sources with three years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300
Recently, IceCube found evidence for a diffuse signal of astrophysical neutrinos in an energy range of to the -scale. The origin of those events, b…
First observation of PeV-energy neutrinos with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +281
We report on the observation of two neutrino-induced events which have an estimated deposited energy in the IceCube detector of 1.04 0.16 and 1.14 0.17 PeV, respectivel…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part III: Cosmic Rays
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on cosmic rays submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Search for Neutrinos from Dark Matter Self-Annihilations in the center of the Milky Way with 3 years of IceCube/DeepCore
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +310
We present a search for a neutrino signal from dark matter self-annihilations in the Milky Way using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube). In 1005 days of data we found no si…
The IceProd Framework: Distributed Data Processing for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +284
IceCube is a one-gigaton instrument located at the geographic South Pole, designed to detect cosmic neutrinos, iden- tify the particle nature of dark matter, and study high-energy…
Search for Sources of High Energy Neutrons with Four Years of Data from the IceTop Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +308
IceTop is an air shower array located on the Antarctic ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. IceTop can detect an astrophysical flux of neutrons from Galactic sources as an exces…
Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301
We present results from an analysis looking for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube neutrino telescope. Gravitationally trapped dark matter in the Sun's core can a…
Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +294
A search for high-energy neutrinos interacting within the IceCube detector between 2010 and 2012 provided the first evidence for a high-energy neutrino flux of extraterrestrial ori…
Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays Observed by IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +303
The core mission of the IceCube Neutrino observatory is to study the origin and propagation of cosmic rays. IceCube, with its surface component IceTop, observes multiple signatures…
Search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with the IceCube 59-string configuration
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +287
A search for high-energy neutrinos was performed using data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory from May 2009 to May 2010, when the array was running in its 59-string con…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Instrumentation and Online Systems
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +350
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer-scale high-energy neutrino detector built into the ice at the South Pole. Construction of IceCube, the largest neutrino detect…
All-sky search for time-integrated neutrino emission from astrophysical sources with 7 years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306
Since the recent detection of an astrophysical flux of high energy neutrinos, the question of its origin has not yet fully been answered. Much of what is known about this flux come…
A combined maximum-likelihood analysis of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux measured with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310
Evidence for an extraterrestrial flux of high-energy neutrinos has now been found in multiple searches with the IceCube detector. The first solid evidence was provided by a search…
Development of a General Analysis and Unfolding Scheme and its Application to Measure the Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301
We present the development and application of a generic analysis scheme for the measurement of neutrino spectra with the IceCube detector. This scheme is based on regularized unfol…
Measurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +272
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1 km^3 in size, is now complete with 86 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted by ch…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part II: Atmospheric and Diffuse UHE Neutrino Searches of All Flavors
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278
Papers on atmospheric and diffuse UHE neutrino searches of all flavors submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Search for time-independent neutrino emission from astrophysical sources with 3 years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +277
We present the results of a search for neutrino point sources using the IceCube data collected between April 2008 and May 2011 with three partially completed configurations of the…
Search for Neutrinos from Annihilating Dark Matter in the Direction of the Galactic Center with the 40-String IceCube Neutrino Observatory
The IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +269
A search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Galactic Center region has been performed with the 40-string configuration of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory usi…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part I: Point Source Searches
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on point source searches submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Results for Initial LIGO-Virgo and IceCube
The IceCube Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration +1185
We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neu…
Virtual Compton Scattering off the Pseudoscalar Meson Octet
T. Fuchs, B. Pasquini, C. Unkmeir +1
We present a calculation of the virtual Compton scattering amplitude for the pseudoscalar meson octet in the framework of chiral perturbation theory at . We calculat…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part VI: Ice Properties, Reconstruction and Future Developments
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +278
Papers on ice properties, reconstruction and future developments submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300
We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible w…
Measurement of the multi-TeV neutrino cross section with IceCube using Earth absorption
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +314
Neutrinos interact only very weakly, so they are extremely penetrating. However, the theoretical neutrino-nucleon interaction cross section rises with energy such that, at energies…
Probing the origin of cosmic-rays with extremely high energy neutrinos using the IceCube Observatory
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +275
We have searched for extremely high energy neutrinos using data taken with the IceCube detector between May 2010 and May 2012. Two neutrino induced particle shower events with ener…
Observation of Cosmic Ray Anisotropy with the IceTop Air Shower Array
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +273
We report on the observation of anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays at PeV energies. The analysis is based on data taken between 2009 and 2012 with the…
Cosmic Ray Composition and Energy Spectrum from 1-30 PeV Using the 40-String Configuration of IceTop and IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +271
The mass composition of high energy cosmic rays depends on their production, acceleration, and propagation. The study of cosmic ray composition can therefore reveal hints of the or…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part IV: Searches for Dark Matter and Exotic Particles
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on searches for dark matter and exotic particles submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Searches for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306
Various extensions of the Standard Model motivate the existence of stable magnetic monopoles that could have been created during an early high-energy epoch of the Universe. These p…
Atmospheric and Astrophysical Neutrinos above 1 TeV Interacting in IceCube
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed primarily to search for high-energy (TeV--PeV) neutrinos produced in distant astrophysical objects. A search for ~TeV neu…
Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +501
On February 17 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with comi…
All-flavour Search for Neutrinos from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Milky Way with IceCube/DeepCore
IceCube collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +319
We present the first IceCube search for a signal of dark matter annihilations in the Milky Way using all-flavour neutrino-induced particle cascades. The analysis focuses on the Dee…
First combined search for neutrino point-sources in the Southern Hemisphere with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes
ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, A. Albert +426
We present the results of searches for point-like sources of neutrinos based on the first combined analysis of data from both the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. The combi…
Search for Galactic PeV Gamma Rays with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
IceCube collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274
Gamma-ray induced air showers are notable for their lack of muons, compared to hadronic showers. Hence, air shower arrays with large underground muon detectors can select a sample…
Use of event-level neutrino telescope data in global fits for theories of new physics
P. Scott, C. Savage, J. Edsjö +275
We present a fast likelihood method for including event-level neutrino telescope data in parameter explorations of theories for new physics, and announce its public release as part…
Axial, induced pseudoscalar, and pion-nucleon form factors in manifestly Lorentz-invariant chiral perturbation theory
M. R. Schindler, T. Fuchs, J. Gegelia +1
We calculate the nucleon form factors G_A and G_P of the isovector axial-vector current and the pion-nucleon form factor G_piN in manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturb…
Detection of a Type IIn Supernova in Optical Follow-up Observations of IceCube Neutrino Events
M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +331
The IceCube neutrino observatory pursues a follow-up program selecting interesting neutrino events in real-time and issuing alerts for electromagnetic follow-up observations. In Ma…
Search for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +310
The IceCube neutrino observatory has established the existence of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos inconsistent with the expectation from atmospheric backgrounds at a…
The IceCube Realtime Alert System
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301
Following the detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in 2013, their origin is still unknown. Aiming for the identification of an electromagnetic counterpart of a rapidly…
Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +275
We report on results of an all-sky search for high-energy neutrino events interacting within the IceCube neutrino detector conducted between May 2010 and May 2012. The search follo…
Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +319
Lorentz symmetry is a fundamental space-time symmetry underlying the Standard Model of particle physics and gravity. However, unified theories, such as string theory, allow for vio…