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The recent detection of TeV neutrino sources by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory demonstrates the detector's advanced capabilities in detecting high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. At lower energies, down to the GeV range, a variety of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Yukiho Kobayashi

The flux, spectrum and angular distribution of the excess neutrino signal detected by IceCube between 50TeV and 2PeV are inconsistent with those expected for Galactic sources. The coincidence of the excess,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 E. Waxman

Instrumenting a gigaton of ice at the geographic South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been at the forefront of groundbreaking scientific discoveries over the past decade. These include the observation of a flux of TeV-PeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Tianlu Yuan

IceCube is a large neutrino telescope of the next generation to be constructed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet near the South Pole. We present the conceptual design and the sensitivity of the IceCube detector to predicted fluxes of neutrinos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Karle

IceCube is a 1 km$^3$ neutrino detector now being built at the South Pole. Its 4800 optical modules will detect Cherenkov radiation from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. IceCube will search for neutrinos of astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Spencer R. Klein

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range. These neutrinos have an isotropic distribution on the sky, and therefore, likely originate from extragalactic sources. Active Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Sreetama Goswami , George C. Privon , Marcos Santander

The IceCube Observatory is a km^3 neutrino telescope currently under construction at the geographic South Pole. It will comprise 4800 optical sensors deployed on 80 vertical strings between 1450 and 2450 meters under the ice surface.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Paolo Desiati

We discuss the status of the kilometer-scale neutrino detector IceCube and its low energy upgrade Deep Core and review its scientific potential for particle physics. We subsequently appraise IceCube's potential for revealing the enigmatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-08 Francis Halzen

The IceCube collaboration has recently reported the observation of two events with energies in excess of 1 PeV. While an atmospheric origin of these events cannot be ruled out at this time, this pair of showers may potentially represent the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-09 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper

Very recently, the IceCube Collaboration reported a flux of neutrinos in the energy range 50 TeV < E_\nu < 2 PeV, which departs from expectations from atmospheric background at the 5.7\sigma level. This flux is in remarkable agreement with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-09 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Thomas C. Paul , Luiz H. M. da Silva , Diego F. Torres , Brian J. Vlcek

The diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos has been measured by the IceCube Observatory from TeV to PeV energies. We show that an improved characterization of this flux at the lower energies, TeV and sub-TeV, reveals important information on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Ke Fang , John S. Gallagher , Francis Halzen

Galactic PeVatrons are Galactic sources theorized to accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV in energy. The accelerated cosmic rays are expected to interact hadronically with nearby ambient gas or the interstellar medium, resulting in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , N. Aggarwal , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , J. M. Alameddine , A. A. Alves , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , Y. Ashida , S. Athanasiadou , S. N. Axani , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , M. Baricevic , S. W. Barwick , V. Basu , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , K. -H. Becker , J. Becker Tjus , J. Beise , C. Bellenghi , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , F. Bontempo , J. Y. Book , J. Borowka , C. Boscolo Meneguolo , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , E. Bourbeau , J. Braun , B. Brinson , J. Brostean-Kaiser , R. T. Burley , R. S. Busse , M. A. Campana , E. G. Carnie-Bronca , Y. L. Chang , C. Chen , Z. Chen , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , L. Classen , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , A. Connolly , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , P. Correa , S. Countryman , D. F. Cowen , C. Dappen , P. Dave , C. De Clercq , J. J. 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Vandenbroucke , N. van Eijndhoven , D. Vannerom , J. van Santen , J. Vara , J. Veitch-Michaelis , S. Verpoest , D. Veske , C. Walck , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , P. Weigel , A. Weindl , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , M. Weyrauch , N. Whitehorn , C. H. Wiebusch , N. Willey , D. R. Williams , M. Wolf , G. Wrede , J. Wulff , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , E. Yildizci , S. Yoshida , S. Yu , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang , P. Zhelnin

Given that gamma rays with energies larger than TeV are severely absorbed by background radiation fields, for many extragalactic sources, the GeV-TeV gamma-ray observations are the messengers that are closest in energy to the TeV-PeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Ming-Xuan Lu , Yun-Feng Liang , Xuerui Ouyang , Rong-Lan Li , Xiang-Gao Wang

IceCube, a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope will be capable of probing neutrino-nucleon interactions in the ultrahigh energy regime, far beyond the energies reached by colliders. In this article we introduce a new observable that combines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matias M. Reynoso , Oscar A. Sampayo

Blazars constitute the vast majority of extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. They can also contribute a sizable fraction of the diffuse astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube. In the past few years, the real-time alert system of IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Saikat Das , Soebur Razzaque , Nayantara Gupta

Searches for spatial associations between high-energy neutrinos observed at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and known astronomical objects may hold the key to establishing the neutrinos' origins and the origins of hadronic cosmic rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-05 Gregory S. Vance , Kimberly L. Emig , Cecilia Lunardini , Rogier A. Windhorst

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory opened the window on neutrino astronomy by discovering high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in 2013 and identifying the first compelling astrophysical neutrino source, the blazar TXS0506+056, in 2017. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Brian Clark

The IceCube (IC) collaboration recently reported the detection of TeV-PeV extraterrestrial neutrinos whose origin is yet unknown. By the photon-neutrino connection in $pp$ and $p\gamma$ interactions, we use the \fermi-LAT observations to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Bin Wang , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zhuo Li

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has provided new insights into the high-energy universe, in particular, unveiling neutrinos from the galactic plane. However, galactic neutrino sources are still unresolved. The recent detection of multi-PeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-09 Matthias Thiesmeyer , Tianlu Yuan , Leo Seen , Lu Lu , Albrecht Karle

Searches for astrophysical neutrino sources in IceCube rely on an unbinned likelihood that consists of an energy and spatial component. Accurate modeling of the detector, ice, and spatial distributions leads to improved directional and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Leo Seen , Tianlu Yuan , Lu Lu , Matthias Thiesmeyer , Albrecht Karle