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astro-ph.HE2016★ 198 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 195 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 823 cited

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…

hep-ex2016★ 58 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 270 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 50 cited

Signal yields, energy resolution, and recombination fluctuations in liquid xenon

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo +98

This work presents an analysis of monoenergetic electronic recoil peaks in the dark-matter-search and calibration data from the first underground science run of the Large Undergrou…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 323 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 39 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 1.6k cited

Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo +98

We report constraints on spin-independent weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon scattering using a 3.35e4 kg-day exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experime…

physics.ins-det2016★ 55 cited

Low-energy (0.7-74 keV) nuclear recoil calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment using D-D neutron scattering kinematics

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +104

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment is a dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC) operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 514 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2016

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…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 7 cited

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…

hep-ex2016★ 74 cited

PINGU: A Vision for Neutrino and Particle Physics at the South Pole

Gen2 Collaboration

The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed low-energy in-fill extension to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. With detection technology modeled closely on t…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 62 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 37 cited

Chromatographic separation of radioactive noble gases from xenon

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +96

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment operates at the Sanford Underground Research Facility to detect nuclear recoils from the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Partic…

hep-ex2016★ 214 cited

Searches for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector

The IceCube Collaboration

The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy in the approximate 320 GeV to 20 TeV r…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 118 cited

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…

hep-ex2016★ 166 cited

Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +99

We present the first experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon elastic cross sections from LUX data acquired in 2013. LUX is a dual-phase xenon time projection ch…

physics.ins-det2016★ 98 cited

Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects

R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795

This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline…

physics.ins-det2016★ 58 cited

Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF

R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795

A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF

astro-ph.HE2016★ 151 cited

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…

hep-ph2016★ 136 cited

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…