Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

Abstract

A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18,000 up-going atmospheric muon neutrino events in IceCube. Boosted decision trees were used for event selection to reject mis-reconstructed atmospheric muons and obtain a sample of up-going muon neutrino events. Background contamination in the final event sample is less than one percent. This is the first measurement of atmospheric neutrinos up to 400 TeV, and is fundamental to understanding the impact of this neutrino background on astrophysical neutrino observations with IceCube. The measured spectrum is consistent with predictions for the atmospheric muon neutrino plus muon antineutrino flux.

arXiv comment19 pages, 24 figures, added background simulation to distribution plots, clarified a few points in the text

References in corpus (27)

• Global QCD Analysis of Parton Structure of the Nucleon: CTEQ5 Parton Distributions
• SVD Approach to Data Unfolding
• Cosmic ray event generator Sibyll 2.1
• First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope
• Calculation of atmospheric neutrino flux using the interaction model calibrated with atmospheric muon data
• The IceCube Data Acquisition System: Signal Capture, Digitization, and Timestamping
• Prompt neutrino fluxes from atmospheric charm
• Flux of Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Calibration and Characterization of the IceCube Photomultiplier Tube
• A three-dimensional calculation of atmospheric neutrinos
• Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA
• IceCube: An Instrument for Neutrino Astronomy
• Models of the Knee in the Energy Spectrum of Cosmic Rays
• Measurement of the Anisotropy of Cosmic Ray Arrival Directions with IceCube
• Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II
• Light tracking through ice and water -- Scattering and absorption in heterogeneous media with Photonics
• Enhanced signal of astrophysical tau neutrinos propagating through Earth
• The Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos between 2 and 200 TeV with the AMANDA-II Detector
• The prompt lepton cookbook
• Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope
• Atmospheric neutrino flux supported by recent muon experiments
• Estimating the angular resolution of tracks in neutrino telescopes based on a likelihood analysis
• Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes from Atmospheric Neutrino Data
• Optical Properties of Deep Ice at the South Pole - Absorption
• Study of cosmic ray interaction model based on atmospheric muons for the neutrino flux calculation
• Implementation of a Gauss convoluted Pandel PDF for track reconstruction in Neutrino Telescopes
• Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes

Cited by in corpus (113)

• Implication of neutrino backgrounds on the reach of next generation dark matter direct detection experiments
• Testing the Hadronuclear Origin of PeV Neutrinos Observed with IceCube
• Diffuse Neutrino Intensity from the Inner Jets of Active Galactic Nuclei: Impacts of External Photon Fields and the Blazar Sequence
• TeV-PeV Neutrinos from Low-Power Gamma-Ray Burst Jets inside Stars
• Characteristics of the diffuse astrophysical electron and tau neutrino flux with six years of IceCube high energy cascade data
• Constraining High-Energy Cosmic Neutrino Sources: Implications and Prospects
• The high energy neutrino cross-section in the Standard Model and its uncertainty
• Time-Integrated Searches for Point-like Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String IceCube Detector
• Testing the Dark Matter Scenario for PeV Neutrinos Observed in IceCube
• New Class of High-Energy Transients from Crashes of Supernova Ejecta with Massive Circumstellar Material Shells
• Cosmic Neutrino Pevatrons: A Brand New Pathway to Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics
• Measurements of the atmospheric neutrino flux by Super-Kamiokande: energy spectra, geomagnetic effects, and solar modulation
• Constraining Very Heavy Dark Matter Using Diffuse Backgrounds of Neutrinos and Cascaded Gamma Rays
• High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: Prospects for Coincident Detection with Gravitational Waves
• High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics: Status and Perspectives
• A Search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector
• Search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with the IceCube 59-string configuration
• Demystifying the PeV Cascades in IceCube: Less (Energy) is More (Events)
• Influence of hadronic interaction models and the cosmic ray spectrum on the high energy atmospheric muon and neutrino flux
• Directional Dark Matter Detection Beyond the Neutrino Bound
• Subphotospheric Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Role of Neutrons
• Measurement of the Atmospheric ${\nu }_e$ flux in IceCube
• Constraints and tests of the OPERA superluminal neutrinos
• Hidden Negative Energies in Strongly Accelerated Universes
• Diffuse PeV neutrino emission from Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies
• On The Origin of IceCube's PeV Neutrinos
• Measurement of the Atmospheric ${\nu }_e$ Spectrum with IceCube
• What IceCube data tell us about neutrino emission from star-forming galaxies (so far)
• Neutrino Events at IceCube and the Fermi Bubbles
• Searching for sterile neutrinos in ice
• IceCat-1: the IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
• Probing the tidal disruption flares of massive black holes with high-energy neutrinos
• Measurement of the atmospheric ${\nu }_{\mu }$ energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 200 TeV with the ANTARES telescope
• An improved method for measuring muon energy using the truncated mean of dE/dx
• Testing the very-short-baseline neutrino anomalies at the solar sector
• Constraining Sterile Neutrinos with AMANDA and IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data
• Extragalactic star-forming galaxies with hypernovae and supernovae as high-energy neutrino and gamma-ray sources: the case of the 10 TeV neutrino data
• Mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the Telescope Array Surface Detector Data
• Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program
• Development of a General Analysis and Unfolding Scheme and its Application to Measure the Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube
• Non-standard interactions with high-energy atmospheric neutrinos at IceCube
• First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector
• Time-Dependent Searches for Point Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String and 22-String Configurations of IceCube
• Searches for sterile neutrinos with IceCube DeepCore
• Superluminal Neutrinos at OPERA Confront Pion Decay Kinematics
• Neutrino signal from a population of Seyfert galaxies
• Galaxy Clusters as Reservoirs of Heavy Dark Matter and High-Energy Cosmic Rays: Constraints from Neutrino Observations
• Improvement in Fast Particle Track Reconstruction with Robust Statistics
• Neutrinos in IceCube/KM3NeT as probes of Dark Matter Substructures in Galaxy Clusters
• Towards High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy. A Historical Review
• High-energy neutrino fluxes and flavor ratio in the Earth's atmosphere
• Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Results for Initial LIGO-Virgo and IceCube
• High-Energy Extragalactic Neutrino Astrophysics
• Neutrinos from captured dark matter annihilation in a galactic population of neutron stars
• Exploring ν_τ- ν_s mixing with cascade events in DeepCore
• Search for neutrino-induced particle showers with IceCube-40
• High Energy Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles
• Probing the Structure of Jet Driven Core-Collapse Supernova and Long Gamma Ray Burst Progenitors with High Energy Neutrinos
• Observation of Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates with IceCube
• Constraining the Violation of Equivalence Principle with IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data
• Intrinsic charm contribution to the prompt atmospheric neutrino flux
• Measurement of the atmospheric ${\nu }_e$ and ${\nu }_{\mu }$ energy spectra with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
• Constraints to a Galactic Component of the Ice Cube cosmic neutrino flux from ANTARES
• Exploring the Earth matter effect with atmospheric neutrinos in ice
• Describing the Observed Cosmic Neutrinos by Interactions of Nuclei with Matter
• Neutrino telescopes and high-energy cosmic neutrinos
• Solving inverse problems with the unfolding program TRUEE: Examples in astroparticle physics
• On the robustness of IceCube's bound on sterile neutrinos in the presence of non-standard interactions
• JUNO sensitivity to low energy atmospheric neutrino spectra
• Constraints on Neutrino Velocities Revisited
• High Energy Neutrinos from the Gravitational Wave event GW150914 possibly associated with a short Gamma-Ray Burst
• Probing Large Extra Dimensions With IceCube
• Neutrino Emission in Jet Propagation Process
• Mapping the dominant regions of the phase space associated with $c\bar{c}$ production relevant for the Prompt Atmospheric Neutrino Flux
• Searching for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Galaxy Clusters with IceCube
• Testing Violations of Lorentz Invariance with Cosmic Rays
• GeV-TeV gamma-rays and neutrinos from the Nova V407 Cygni
• The highest energy neutrinos: first evidence for cosmic origin
• Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies with IceCube
• Neutrino Dispersion Relations from a Dark Energy Model
• High energy cosmic-ray interactions with particles from the Sun
• Unstable Gravitino Dark Matter - Prospects for Indirect and Direct Detection
• Neutrino fluxes from Dark Matter in the HESS J1745-290 source at the Galactic Center
• The Reactor Anomaly after Daya Bay and RENO
• Measurement of the ${\nu }_{\mu }$ energy spectrum with IceCube-79
• Neutrinos and cosmic rays
• Establishing the astrophysical origin of a signal in a neutrino telescope
• Measuring Oscillations with A Million Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Background Dependent Lorentz Violation: Natural Solutions to the Theoretical Challenges of the OPERA Experiment
• Constraints on the primordial power spectrum of small scales using the neutrino signals from the dark matter decay
• High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: A Glimpse of the Promised Land
• Nonthermal processes and neutrino emission from the black hole GRO J0422+32 in a bursting state
• Distinguishing among dark matter annihilation channels with neutrino telescopes
• Beaming neutrino and antineutrinos across the Earth to disentangle neutrino mixing parameters
• Recent Highlights from IceCube
• Recent results from the ANTARES neutrino telescope
• Neutrino Astronomy - A Review of Future Experiments
• Constraints on Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation from IceCube Results
• PeV neutrinos from wind breakouts of type II supernovae
• Can a Single High-energy Neutrino from Gamma-ray Bursts be a Discovery?
• The First Year IceCube-DeepCore Results
• Gamma-rays and neutrinos from dense environment of massive binary systems in open clusters
• Photodisintegrated gamma rays and neutrinos from heavy nuclei in the gamma-ray burst jet of GRB 130427A
• Neutrinos from collapsars
• Testing the Special Relativity Theory with Neutrino interactions
• A 20 GeVs transparent neutrino astronomy from the North Pole?
• Olber's Paradox for Superluminal Neutrinos: Constraining Extreme Neutrino Speeds at TeV-ZeV Energies with the Diffuse Neutrino Background
• Cosmic-ray physics with IceCube
• IceCube: Neutrino Physics from GeV - PeV
• Uncovering neutrinos from cosmic ray factories: the Multi Point Source method
• Neutrino Splitting and Density-Dependent Dispersion Relations
• Gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes from Heavy Dark Matter in the Galactic Center
• Astrophysical neutrino results