A Search For Atmospheric Neutrino-Induced Cascades with IceCube
Abstract
The IceCube detector is an all-flavor neutrino telescope. For several years IceCube has been detecting muon tracks from charged-current muon neutrino interactions in ice. However, IceCube has yet to observe the electromagnetic or hadronic particle showers or "cascades" initiated by charged or neutral-current neutrino interactions. The first detection of such an event signature will likely come from the known flux of atmospheric electron and muon neutrinos. A search for atmospheric neutrino-induced cascades was performed using a full year of IceCube data. Reconstruction and background rejection techniques were developed to reach, for the first time, an expected signal-to-background ratio ~1 or better.
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@article{arxiv.0910.0215,
title = {A Search For Atmospheric Neutrino-Induced Cascades with IceCube},
author = {Michelangelo D'Agostino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0215},
year = {2019}
}
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From the Proceedings of the 31st ICRC, Lodz 2009