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The 1 km$^3$ IcCube neutrino observatory was built to find high-energy neutrinos that are associated with the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Its 5,160 optical sensors detect Cherenkov light from the charged particles produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-02 Spencer R. Klein

The IceCube neutrino observatory has been successfully operating in its full configuration for almost 15 years and is characterized by a remarkably high stability and uptime. During this time, it has made many groundbreaking observations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Alexander Kappes

In 2016, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory launched its realtime program. When a neutrino candidate of likely astrophysical origin is detected, a public alert is issued, typically within one minute. These alerts allow the astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Giacomo Sommani , Tianlu Yuan

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer-sized detector designed to detect neutrinos of astrophysical origin. However, muons created by cosmic rays interacting in the atmosphere pose a significant background for these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Sarah Mancina , Manuel Silva

GRB 221009A is the brightest Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) ever observed. The observed extremely high flux of high and very-high-energy photons provide a unique opportunity to probe the predicted neutrino counterpart to the electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-23 Karlijn Kruiswijk , Bennett Brinson , Rachel Procter-Murphy , Jessie Thwaites , Nora Valtonen-Mattila

IceCube analyses which look for an astrophysical neutrino signal in the southern sky face a large background of atmospheric muons and neutrinos created by cosmic ray air showers. By selecting starting events in the southern sky, atmospheric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Sarah Mancina , Manuel Silva

ANTARES is the largest high-energy neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. A search for neutrinos in coincidence with gamma-ray bursts using ANTARES data from late 2007 to 2011 is presented here. An extended maximum likelihood ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-19 Julia Schmid

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 at the South Pole detects Cherenkov light emitted by charged secondary particles created by primary neutrino interactions. Double pulse waveforms can arise from charged current interactions of astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Wei Tian , Fuyudi Zhang , Donglian Xu

In view of the advent of large-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube, the future Hyper-Kamiokande and the ones proposed for the Laguna project in Europe, we re-examine the determination of the directional position of a Galactic supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-15 T. Mühlbeier , H. Nunokawa , R. Zukanovich Funchal

The ANTARES telescope has the opportunity to detect transient neutrino sources, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), core-collapse supernovae (SNe), flares of active galactic nuclei (AGNs)... To enhance the sensitivity to these sources, we are…

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is an array of 5,160 photomultipliers (PMTs) deployed on 86 strings at 1.5-2.5 km depth within the ice at the South Pole. The main goal of the IceCube experiment is the detection of an astrophysical neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Juan A. Aguilar

The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported the observation of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The angular distribution of events is consistent with an isotropic arrival direction of neutrinos which is expected for an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Markus Ahlers , Francis Halzen

Although kilometer-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments, their conceptual design is very much anchored to the observational fact that Nature produces protons and photons with energies in excess of 10^{20} eV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Francis Halzen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a kilometer-scale detector currently under construction at the South Pole. The full detector will comprise 5,160 photomultipliers (PMTs) deployed on 86 strings from 1.45-2.45 km deep within the ice. As of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Juan A. Aguilar

A search for cosmic neutrino sources using the data collected with the ANTARES neutrino telescope between early 2007 and the end of 2015 is performed. For the first time, all neutrino interactions --charged and neutral current interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-06 ANTARES Collaboration , A. Albert , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , T. Avgitas , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , B. Belhorma , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , S. Bourret , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , S. Celli , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Díaz , A. Deschamps , G. De Bonis , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , I. El Bojaddaini , N. El Khayati , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer , A. Ettahiri , F. Fassi , I. Felis , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , V. Giordano , H. Glotin , T. Grégoire , R. Gracia Ruiz , K. Graf , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , C. Hugon , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , M. de Jong , M. Jongen , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kießling , A. Kouchner , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , C. Lachaud , R. Lahmann , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , M. Lotze , S. Loucatos , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , R. Mele , K. Melis , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , S. Navas , E. Nezri , M. Organokov , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , L. Quinn , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Saldaña , I. Salvadori , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , F. Schüssler , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , D. Turpin , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , D. Vivolo , A. Vizzoca , J. Wilms , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

The search for the sources of cosmic rays is a three-fold assault, using charged cosmic rays, gamma rays and neutrinos. The first conceptual ideas to detect high energy neutrinos date back to the late fifties. The long evolution towards…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Christian Spiering

We demonstrate that atmospheric neutrino data accumulated with the AMANDA and the partially deployed IceCube experiments constrain the allowed parameter space for a hypothesized fourth sterile neutrino beyond the reach of a combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Arman Esmaili , Francis Halzen , O. L. G. Peres

This talk sketches the main milestones of the path towards cubic kilometer neutrino telescopes. It starts with the first conceptual ideas in the late 1950s and describes the emergence of concepts for detectors with a realistic discovery…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-28 Christian Spiering

IceCube has performed several all-sky searches for point-like neutrino sources using track-like events, including a recent time-integrated analysis using 10 years of IceCube data. This paper accompanies the public data release of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-28 IceCube Collaboration , R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , C. Alispach , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , I. Ansseau , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , S. Axani , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , A. Barbano , S. W. Barwick , B. Bastian , V. Basu , V. Baum , S. Baur , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , K. -H. Becker , J. Becker Tjus , C. Bellenghi , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , C. Bohm , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , E. Bourbeau , J. Bourbeau , F. Bradascio , J. Braun , S. Bron , J. Brostean-Kaiser , A. Burgman , J. Buscher , R. S. Busse , M. A. Campana , T. Carver , C. Chen , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , K. Clark , L. Classen , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , P. Correa , D. F. Cowen , R. Cross , P. Dave , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , H. Dembinski , K. Deoskar , S. De Ridder , A. 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