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most citedCharacterization of the Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Flux using Starting Track Events in IceCube

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astro-ph.HE2026

Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Infrared Flares

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +415

IceCube has detected a diffuse flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. While its astrophysical origin is unknown, a significant neutrino emission has been observed from the ga…

hep-ex2026

Planck-Scale Constraints on Quantum Gravity-Induced Neutrino Decoherence with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +415

Many quantum gravity theories predict spacetime fluctuations at the Planck scale. Neutrinos, which interact only via the weak force and gravity, propagate over long distances witho…

hep-ph2026

Domain Adaptation against Background Sculpting in Anomaly Detection at the LHC

Vincent Benne, Marie Hein, Michael Krämer +3

Weakly supervised anomaly detection has been shown to be an effective tool for model-agnostic searches for new physics, especially in the context of resonance searches. However, co…

astro-ph.HE2026

Time-Integrated Searches for Sub-TeV Neutrino Sources with IceCube-DeepCore

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +418

We have developed techniques for a competitive sub-TeV time-integrated neutrino search and applied it to 11.1 years of IceCube-DeepCore data. The DeepCore subarray lowers the sensi…

astro-ph.HE2026

IceCube neutrino point-source searches in the direction of the KM3NeT ultra-high-energy event

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +416

While still under construction, the KM3NeT Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss (ARCA) detector recorded a 200 PeV neutrino on February 13th, 2023. This event is…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for Neutrinos from Tidal Disruption Events with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +417

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are theorized to produce high-energy neutrinos through photohadronic interactions between accelerated protons and multi-wavelength photons in the acc…

hep-ex2026

Searching for Extra Dimensions and Copies of the Standard Model with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +418

The hierarchy problem remains an open question in particle physics. A number of theories that address this problem lower the fundamental scale of gravity, resulting in observable c…

astro-ph.HE2026

Astrophysical Sensitivity Projections for the IceCube Upgrade

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +417

Embedded in the South Pole's glacial ice, IceCube detects neutrino-induced Cherenkov light using an array of digital optical modules equipped with single photomultiplier tubes (PMT…

physics.ins-det2026

WavePID: Low-energy flavor identification using single-PMT time series in IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +417

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer detector at the South Pole, identifies neutrino flavor through event morphology. Sparse photon detection makes this classificati…

hep-ex2026

Estimating the sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to probe the interior of the Earth using atmospheric neutrino oscillations

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +421

The IceCube Upgrade is a densely instrumented central region of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, deployed during the 2025-26 polar season. It will reduce the detector's energy thr…

astro-ph.HE2026

High-energy neutrino emission from the Milky Way

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420

The Milky Way hosts astrophysical objects that accelerate cosmic rays to energies beyond the reach of terrestrial particle accelerators. It remains a longstanding goal to locate th…

astro-ph.HE2026

High-Energy Neutrino Tomography of the Earth's Interior with IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +417

The Earth's interior reflects its geological evolution, from accretion to present-day dynamics. Its structure drives the geodynamo in the outer core, generating the magnetic field…

astro-ph.HE2026

IceCube Real-time Searches for High-energy Neutrinos Coincident with LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Alerts in O4a

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +418

Gravitational-wave events from mergers of compact objects are a predicted source of high-energy neutrinos. Using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, we search for neutrinos…

astro-ph.HE2026

IceCube Second Track Data Release IceTracks-DR2: Data from 2008-2022 for Neutrino Source Searches

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +412

We present IceCube's latest release of muon track data for neutrino point-source searches, extending the previously published 10-year dataset to cover 14 years of observations (Apr…

cs.LG2026

Uncovering Hidden Systematics in Neural Network Models for High Energy Physics

Lucie Flek, Philipp Alexander Jungs, Akbar Karimi +6

Neural networks (NNs) are inherently multidimensional classifiers that learn complex, non-linear relationships among input observables. While their flexibility enables unprecedente…

hep-ex2026

Sensitivity Projections for Low-Mass Dark Matter Annihilation with the IceCube Upgrade

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +412

The IceCube Upgrade, an extension designed to enhance the IceCube Neutrino Observatory's detection of neutrinos with energies between 1 GeV and 500 GeV, will markedly improve IceCu…

cs.LG2026

Shapes are not enough: CONSERVAttack and its use for finding vulnerabilities and uncertainties in machine learning applications

Philip Bechtle, Lucie Flek, Philipp Alexander Jung +7

In High Energy Physics, as in many other fields of science, the application of machine learning techniques has been crucial in advancing our understanding of fundamental phenomena.…

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.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.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…

astro-ph.HE2025

Constraints on the Population of Common Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube During the Third Observing Run of the LIGO and Virgo Detectors

Doğa Veske, Zsuzsa Márka, Albert Zhang

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.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.HE2025

Towards the Composition of sub-PeV Cosmic Rays at IceCube

Julian Saffer

With the implementation of a low-energy trigger, the surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is able to record cosmic-ray induced air showers with a primary energy of a f…

cs.LG2025

MiniFool -- Physics-Constraint-Aware Minimizer-Based Adversarial Attacks in Deep Neural Networks

Lucie Flek, Oliver Janik, Philipp Alexander Jung +8

In this paper, we present a new algorithm, MiniFool, that implements physics-inspired adversarial attacks for testing neural network-based classification tasks in particle and astr…