Probing the origin of cosmic-rays with extremely high energy neutrinos using the IceCube Observatory
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-17 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We have searched for extremely high energy neutrinos using data taken with the IceCube detector between May 2010 and May 2012. Two neutrino induced particle shower events with energies around 1 PeV were observed, as reported previously. In this work, we investigate whether these events could originate from cosmogenic neutrinos produced in the interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays with ambient photons while propagating through intergalactic space. Exploiting IceCube's large exposure for extremely high energy neutrinos and the lack of observed events above 100 PeV, we can rule out the corresponding models at more than 90% confidence level. The model independent quasi-differential 90% CL upper limit, which amounts to GeV cm s sr at 1 EeV, provides the most stringent constraint in the energy range from 10 PeV to 10 EeV. Our observation disfavors strong cosmological evolution of the highest energy cosmic ray sources such as the Fanaroff-Riley type II class of radio galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.1310.5477,
title = {Probing the origin of cosmic-rays with extremely high energy neutrinos using the IceCube Observatory},
author = {IceCube Collaboration and M. G. Aartsen and R. Abbasi and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and J. A. Aguilar and M. Ahlers and D. Altmann and C. Arguelles and J. Auffenberg and X. Bai and M. Baker and S. W. Barwick and V. Baum and R. Bay and J. J. Beatty and J. Becker Tjus and K. -H. Becker and S. BenZvi and P. Berghaus and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and A. Bernhard and D. Z. Besson and G. Binder and D. Bindig and M. Bissok and E. Blaufuss and J. Blumenthal and D. J. Boersma and C. Bohm and D. Bose and S. Böser and O. Botner and L. Brayeur and H. -P. Bretz and A. M. Brown and R. Bruijn and J. Casey and M. Casier and D. Chirkin and A. Christov and B. Christy and K. Clark and F. Clevermann and S. Coenders and S. Cohen and D. F. Cowen and A. H. Cruz Silva and M. Danninger and J. Daughhetee and J. C. Davis and M. Day and C. De Clercq and S. De Ridder and P. Desiati and K. D. de Vries and M. de With and T. DeYoung and J. C. Díaz-Vélez and M. Dunkman and R. Eagan and B. Eberhardt and J. Eisch and S. Euler and P. A. Evenson and O. Fadiran and A. R. Fazely and A. Fedynitch and J. Feintzeig and T. Feusels and K. Filimonov and C. Finley and T. Fischer-Wasels and S. Flis and A. Franckowiak and K. Frantzen and T. Fuchs and T. K. Gaisser and J. Gallagher and L. Gerhardt and L. Gladstone and T. Glüsenkamp and A. Goldschmidt and G. Golup and J. G. Gonzalez and J. A. Goodman and D. Góra and D. T. Grandmont and D. Grant and P. Gretskov and J. C. Groh and A. Groß and C. Ha and A. Haj Ismail and P. Hallen and A. Hallgren and F. Halzen and K. Hanson and D. Heereman and D. Heinen and K. Helbing and R. Hellauer and S. Hickford and G. C. Hill and K. D. Hoffman and R. Hoffmann and A. Homeier and K. Hoshina and W. Huelsnitz and P. O. Hulth and K. Hultqvist and S. Hussain and A. Ishihara and E. Jacobi and J. Jacobsen and K. Jagielski and G. S. Japaridze and K. Jero and O. Jlelati and B. Kaminsky and A. Kappes and T. Karg and A. Karle and M. Kauer and J. L. Kelley and J. Kiryluk and J. Kläs and S. R. Klein and J. -H. Köhne and G. Kohnen and H. Kolanoski and L. Köpke and C. Kopper and S. Kopper and D. J. Koskinen and M. Kowalski and M. Krasberg and A. Kriesten and K. Krings and G. Kroll and J. Kunnen and N. Kurahashi and T. Kuwabara and M. Labare and H. Landsman and M. J. Larson and M. Lesiak-Bzdak and M. Leuermann and J. Leute and J. Lünemann and O. Macías and J. Madsen and G. Maggi and R. Maruyama and K. Mase and H. S. Matis and F. McNally and K. Meagher and M. Merck and T. Meures and S. Miarecki and E. Middell and N. Milke and J. Miller and L. Mohrmann and T. Montaruli and R. Morse and R. Nahnhauer and U. Naumann and H. Niederhausen and S. C. Nowicki and D. R. Nygren and A. Obertacke and S. Odrowski and A. Olivas and A. Omairat and A. O'Murchadha and L. Paul and J. A. Pepper and C. Pérez de los Heros and C. Pfendner and D. Pieloth and D. Pieloth and E. Pinat and J. Posselt and P. B. Price and G. T. Przybylski and L. Rädel and M. Rameez and K. Rawlins and P. Redl and R. Reimann and E. Resconi and W. Rhode and M. Ribordy and M. Richman and B. Riedel and J. P. Rodrigues and C. Rott and T. Ruhe and B. Ruzybayev and D. Ryckbosch and S. M. Saba and H. -G. Sander and M. Santander and S. Sarkar and K. Schatto and F. Scheriau and T. Schmidt and M. Schmitz and S. Schoenen and S. Schöneberg and A. Schönwald and A. Schukraft and L. Schulte and O. Schulz and D. Seckel and Y. Sestayo and S. Seunarine and R. Shanidze and C. Sheremata and M. W. E. Smith and D. Soldin and G. M. Spiczak and C. Spiering and M. Stamatikos and T. Stanev and N. A. Stanisha and A. Stasik and T. Stezelberger and R. G. Stokstad and A. Stößl and E. A. Strahler and R. Ström and G. W. Sullivan and H. Taavola and I. Taboada and A. Tamburro and A. Tepe and S. Ter-Antonyan and G. Tešić and S. Tilav and P. A. Toale and M. N. Tobin and S. Toscano and E. Unger and M. Usner and S. Vallecorsa and N. van Eijndhoven and A. Van Overloop and J. van Santen and M. Vehring and M. Voge and M. Vraeghe and C. Walck and T. Waldenmaier and M. Wallraff and Ch. Weaver and M. Wellons and C. Wendt and S. Westerhoff and N. Whitehorn and K. Wiebe and C. H. Wiebusch and D. R. Williams and H. Wissing and M. Wolf and T. R. Wood and K. Woschnagg and D. L. Xu and X. W. Xu and J. P. Yanez and G. Yodh and S. Yoshida and P. Zarzhitsky and J. Ziemann and S. Zierke and M. Zoll},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5477},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
A follow-up analysis to the report published in PRL 111 (2013) 021103. 15 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, the version accepted for publication in Physical Review D