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Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and other rare-event physics searches, like dark matter detection, have been especially furthered by increasing sensitivity to low-energy particle interactions. Experiments using…

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IceCube collaboration has seen an unexpected population of high energy neutrinos compatible with an astrophysical origin. We consider two categories of events that can help to diagnose cosmic neutrinos: double pulse, that may allow us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Andrea Palladino , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco L. Villante , Francesco Vissani

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory utilizes the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles produced in interactions of neutrinos with ice nucleons to detect neutrino events. "Starting events", where this interaction vertex is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Vedant Basu , Aswathi Balagopal V. , Albrecht Karle

IceCube has discovered a flux of astrophysical neutrinos, and more recently has used muon-neutrino datasets to present evidence for one source; a flaring blazar known as TXS 0506+056. However, the sources responsible for the majority of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Steve Sclafani , Mirco Hünnefeld

In this contribution we summarize the selected highlights of IceCube in the domain of high-energy astrophysics and particle physics. We discuss the highest-energy neutrino detection and its interpretation after 4 years of data. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Teresa Montaruli

Context: Hadronic models, involving matter (proton or nuclei) acceleration in blazar jets, imply high energy photon and neutrino emissions due to interactions of high-energy protons with matter and/or radiation in the source environment.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Tchernin , J. A. Aguilar , A. Neronov , T. Montaruli

While high-energy astrophysical neutrinos are well-established, their flavor composition remains relatively unconstrained. In IceCube, long muon tracks from $\nu_\mu$ charged-current interactions are easily identified but the detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Kaustav Dutta , Sebastian Böser , Martin Rongen

We present a summary of the flavor composition measurements for the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. IceCube has identified candidate astrophysical tau neutrinos through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Neha Lad , D. F. Cowen

Models that produce a flux of semi-relativistic or relativistic boosted dark matter at large neutrino detectors are well-motivated extensions beyond the minimal weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) paradigm. Current and upcoming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 Joshua Berger

Recent IceCube search results for sterile neutrino increased tension between the combined appearance and disappearance experiments. On the other hand, MiniBooNE latest data confirms at $4.9\sigma$ CL the short-baseline oscillation anomaly.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Luis Salvador Miranda , Soebur Razzaque

The IceCube collaboration has observed the first steady-state point source of high-energy neutrinos, coming from the active galaxy NGC 1068. If neutrinos interacted strongly enough with dark matter, the emitted neutrinos would have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 James M. Cline , Matteo Puel

The diffuse neutrino flux measured in IceCube is comparable with the ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) flux, which has led to the concept of a unified origin of high-energy neutrino and UHECR backgrounds. We construct a generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Shigeru Yoshida , Kohta Murase

High-energy neutrinos from decays of mesons, produced in collisions of cosmic ray particles with air nuclei, form unavoidable background for detection of astrophysical neutrinos. More precise calculations of the high-energy neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-28 T. S. Sinegovskaya , E. V. Ogorodnikova , S. I. Sinegovsky

Recently, the KM3NeT collaboration detected an astrophysical neutrino event, KM3-230213A, with an energy of approximately $220~\rm PeV$, providing unprecedented insights into the ultra-high-energy Universe. In this study, we introduce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Roberto Aloisio , Antonio Ambrosone , Carmelo Evoli

In this paper the sensitivity of a future kilometer-sized neutrino detector to detect and measure the diffuse flux of high energy neutrinos is evaluated. Event rates in established detection channels, such as muon events from charged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marek Kowalski

Blazars are prime candidate sources for the high energy neutrinos recently detected by IceCube. Being one of the brightest sources in the extragalactic X-ray and $\gamma$-ray sky as well as one of the nearest blazars to Earth, Mrk 421 is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Maria Petropoulou , Stefan Coenders , Stavros Dimitrakoudis

Since 2013 IceCube cascade showers sudden overabundance have shown a fast flavor change above 30-60 TeV up to PeV energy. This flavor change from dominant muon tracks at TeVs to shower events at higher energies, has been indebted to a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-14 Daniele Fargion , Pietro Oliva

Neutrinos from blazars can originate from inelastic scatterings between protons within their jets and sub-GeV dark matter (DM) around them, explaining IceCube detections of neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 that are otherwise challenging for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Andrea Giovanni De Marchi , Alessandro Granelli , Jacopo Nava , Filippo Sala

The flux of high-energy neutrinos passing through the Earth is attenuated due to their interactions with matter. Their transmission probability is modulated by the neutrino interaction cross section and affects the arrival flux at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Tianlu Yuan

Recent observations of isotropic diffuse backgrounds by Fermi and IceCube allow us to get more insight into distant very-high-energy (VHE) and ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray/neutrino emitters, including cosmic-ray accelerators/sources.…

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