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We briefly review the main results of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory one decade after the discovery of cosmic neutrinos. We emphasize the importance of multimessenger observations, most prominently for the discovery of neutrinos from our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Ke Fang , Francis Halzen

The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos by IceCube marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. Yet, the origin and production mechanisms of these neutrinos remain an open question. With the observation of several neutrino events with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Lua F. T. Airoldi , Gustavo F. S. Alves , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Gabriel M. Salla , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

A surprisingly large flux of extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos was discovered by the IceCube experiment. While the flux of muon neutrinos with energies $E>100$ TeV is consistent with the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EBL)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 M. Bouyahiaoui , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

In this work we use a multi-messenger approach to determine if the high energy diffuse neutrino flux observed by the IceCube Observatory can originate from $\gamma$-ray sources powered by Cosmic Rays interactions with gas. Typical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Andrea Palladino , Anatoli Fedynitch , Rasmus W. Rasmussen , Andrew M. Taylor

We quantitatively address whether IceCube, a kilometer-scale neutrino detector under construction at the South Pole, can observe neutrinos pointing back at the accelerators of the Galactic cosmic rays. The photon flux from candidate sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Francis Halzen , Alexander Kappes , Aongus O'Murchadha

We present a search in IceCube data for neutrino emission from Galactic TeV gamma-ray sources detected by the HAWC gamma-ray observatory. HAWC serves as the excellent instrument to complement IceCube with its energy range extending to very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-26 Ali Kheirandish , Joshua Wood

The recent study on the the 6-year up-going muon neutrinos by the IceCube Collaboration and the multi-messenger analyses support the hypothesis of a two-component scenario explaining the diffuse TeV-PeV neutrino flux. Depending on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-14 Marco Chianese

The cumulative emission resulting from hadronic cosmic-ray interactions in star-forming galaxies (SFGs) has been proposed as the dominant contribution to the astrophysical neutrino flux at TeV to PeV energies reported by IceCube. The same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-25 Keith Bechtol , Markus Ahlers , Mattia Di Mauro , Marco Ajello , Justin Vandenbroucke

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

The diffuse background of very high energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos recently discovered with IceCube is compatible with that expected from cosmic ray interactions in the Galactic interstellar medium plus that expected from hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-11 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar

Astrophysical sources of ultrahigh energy neutrinos yield tau neutrino fluxes due to neutrino oscillations. We study in detail the contribution of tau neutrinos with energies above $10^6$ GeV relative to the contribution of the other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Jones , I. Mocioiu , I. Sarcevic , M. H. Reno

The Km3NET collaboration has recently reported the detection of a neutrino event with energy in excess of 100 PeV. This detection is in 2.5-3$\sigma$ tension with the upper limit on the neutrino flux at this energy imposed by IceCube and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Andrii Neronov , Foteini Oikonomou , Dmitri Semikoz

Blazars have been suggested as possible neutrino sources long before the recent IceCube discovery of high-energy neutrinos. We re-examine this possibility within a new framework built upon the blazar simplified view and a self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 P. Padovani , M. Petropoulou , P. Giommi , E. Resconi

The energy spectrum of high-energy neutrinos reported by the IceCube collaboration shows a dip between 400 TeV and 1 PeV. One intriguing explanation is that high-energy neutrinos scatter with the cosmic neutrino background through a $\sim$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-16 Ayuki Kamada , Hai-Bo Yu

The detection of astrophysical very high energy (VHE) neutrinos in the range of TeV-PeV energies by the IceCube observatory has opened a new season in high energy astrophysics. Energies ~PeV imply that the neutrinos are originated from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-08 Behrouz Khiali , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The astrophysical neutrinos recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino telescope have the highest detected neutrino energies --- from TeV to PeV --- and travel the longest distances --- up to a few Gpc, the size of the observable Universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-30 Mauricio Bustamante

Astrophysical sources of neutrinos detected by large-scale neutrino telescopes remain uncertain. While there exist statistically significant observational indications that a part of the neutrino flux is produced by blazars, numerous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Y. Y. Kovalev , A. V. Plavin , S. V. Troitsky

The existence of astrophysical neutrinos with energies of tens of TeV and higher has been reliably established by the IceCube experiment; the first confirmations of this discovery are being obtained with the ANTARES and Baikal-GVD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Sergey Troitsky

In 2017, IceCube detected a high energy neutrino in coincidence with the blazar TXS 0506+056. In a follow up analysis of archival data, evidence for previous neutrino emission from the blazar during 2014-15 was found. In this analysis, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Erin O'Sullivan , Chad Finley

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected several hundred high-energy neutrinos from cosmic sources. Despite numerous studies searching for their origin, it is still not known which sources emit them. A few likely individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Pouya M. Kouch , Talvikki Hovatta , Elina Lindfors , Ioannis Liodakis , Karri I. I. Koljonen , Alessandro Paggi