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hep-ph2026

Estimating High-Energy Neutrino Effective Areas from Muon Propagation

Stephan A. Meighen-Berger

Neutrino telescopes observe neutrinos through the muons produced by charged-current interactions. Most of those muons are born kilometers outside the detector, and how much energy…

hep-ph2026

Astrophysical Neutrino Sources as Colliders

Carlos A. Argüelles, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Bhaskar Dutta +6

High-energy neutrinos arise from processes at large center-of-mass energies, offering a window to test physics at comparable scales or beyond those accessible in collider experimen…

hep-ph2026

Dark matter energy exchange in stars orbiting supermassive black holes

Stephan A. Meighen-Berger, R. Andrew Gustafson, Nicole F. Bell +3

Stars on tight orbits around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center pass through regions where the dark matter~(DM) density may be strongly enhanced. We compute the orb…

hep-ph2026

Towards Measuring the CP-Violating Phase with Atmospheric Neutrinos

John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, Matthew J. Dolan +2

We propose a new approach to measuring the CP-violating phase in neutrino mixing using atmospheric neutrinos, differing significantly from prior work. We develop an up-down flux ra…

hep-ph2025

New Multi-messenger Probe of Dark Matter-Nucleon Interactions from Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Ray Acceleration

Stephan A. Meighen-Berger, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Matheus Hostert

It has been suggested that the density of dark matter (DM) halo can be highly enhanced around supermassive black holes at the centers of massive galaxies. If real, these DM \emph{s…

hep-ex2025

NuBench: An Open Benchmark for Deep Learning-Based Event Reconstruction in Neutrino Telescopes

Rasmus F. Orsoe, Stephan Meighen-Berger, Jeffrey Lazar +5

Neutrino telescopes are large-scale detectors designed to observe Cherenkov radiation produced from neutrino interactions in water or ice. They exist to identify extraterrestrial n…

hep-ph2025

Measuring the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with Next Generation Neutrino Detectors

Stephan A. Meighen-Berger, Jayden L. Newstead, Louis E. Strigari

We investigate the capabilities of upcoming kiloton-scale neutrino detectors, such as Hyper-Kamiokande, in determining the primary cosmic ray spectrum. These detectors provide full…

hep-ph2025

Can local White Dwarfs constrain Dark Matter interactions?

Pooja Bhattacharjee, Sandra Robles, Stephan A. Meighen-Berger +1

We investigate whether nearby white dwarfs (WDs) can constrain dark matter (DM) interactions with ordinary matter. As experimental sensitivity improves, driven by the Gaia mission,…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Extending the Dark Matter Reach of Water Cherenkov Detectors using Jupiter

Sandra Robles, Stephan A. Meighen-Berger

We propose the first method for water Cherenkov detectors to constrain GeV-scale dark matter (DM) below the solar evaporation mass. While previous efforts have highlighted the Sun…

hep-ph2024

Enhancing DUNE's solar neutrino capabilities with neutral-current detection

Stephan A. Meighen-Berger, Jayden L. Newstead, John F. Beacom +2

We show that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) has the potential to make a precise measurement of the total active flux of 8B solar neutrinos via neutral-current (NC)…

hep-ph2023★ 3 cited

New Signal of Atmospheric Tau Neutrino Appearance: Sub-GeV Neutral-Current Interactions in JUNO

Stephan A. Meighen-Berger, John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell +1

We propose the first practical method to detect atmospheric tau neutrino appearance at sub-GeV energies, which would be an important test of oscillations and o…

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for high-energy neutrinos from magnetars with IceCube

Ava Ghadimi, Marcos Santander

Neutron stars with very strong magnetic fields are known as magnetars. There are multiple theories that predict magnetars may be able to emit high-energy (HE) neutrinos through had…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

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.HE2023★ 307 cited

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…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Prometheus: An Open-Source Neutrino Telescope Simulation

Jeffrey Lazar, Stephan Meighen-Berger, Christian Haack +3

Neutrino telescopes are gigaton-scale neutrino detectors comprised of individual light-detection units. Though constructed from simple building blocks, they have opened a new windo…

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.HE2023★ 31 cited

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.HE2023★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 13 cited

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…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation with IceCube and P-ONE

Kruteesh Desai, Ruohan Li, Stephan Meighen-Berger

We present a new search for weakly interacting massive particles utilizing ten years of public IceCube data, setting more stringent bounds than previous IceCube analysis on massive…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 58 cited

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.IM2022★ 12 cited

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.HE2022★ 11 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

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…