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With construction halfway complete, IceCube is already the most sensitive neutrino telescope ever built. A rearrangement of the final holes of IceCube with increased spacing has been discussed recently to optimize the high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 D. Besson , R. Nahnhauer , P. B. Price , D. Tosi , J. Vandenbroucke , B. Voigt

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

Construction of the cubic-kilometer neutrino detector IceCube at the South Pole has been completed in December 2010. It forms a lattice of 5160 photomultiplier tubes monitoring a gigaton of the deep Antarctic ice for particle induced…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 K. Helbing

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) experiment aims to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrinos (>10 PeV) using radio detection techniques. To enhance ARA's capabilities, a new RFSoC-based DAQ, ARA-Next, is in the early stages of development.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Pawan Giri , Ilya Kravchenko , Patrick Allison , Amy L. Connolly

The ARIANNA detector aims to detect neutrinos with energies above \SI{e16}{eV} by instrumenting 0.5 Teratons of ice with a surface array of a thousand independent radio detector stations in Antarctica. The Antarctic ice is transparent to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Christian Glaser

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino detector instrumenting a gigaton of ice at the geographic South Pole in Antarctica. On average, 8 track-like high-energy neutrino events with a high probability of being astrophysical are detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Martina Karl

IceCube has observed 80 astrophysical neutrino candidates in the energy range 0.02 < E_\nu/PeV < 2. Deep inelastic scattering of these neutrinos with nucleons on Antarctic ice sheet probe center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s} \sim$ 1 TeV. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-06 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Carlos Garcia Canal , Jorge F. Soriano

This paper investigates the physics reach of the IceCube neutrino detector when it will have collected a data set of order one million atmospheric neutrinos with energies in the 0.1 \sim 10^4 TeV range. The paper consists of three parts. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , F. Halzen , M. Maltoni

The planned in-ice radio array of IceCube-Gen2 at the South Pole will provide unprecedented sensitivity to ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos in the EeV range. The ability of the detector to measure the neutrino's energy and direction is of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Nils Heyer , Christian Glaser , Thorsten Glüsenkamp

IceCube-Gen2, the next generation extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, offers a unique scientific potential for cosmic-ray physics at PeV to EeV energies complementing the main science case of neutrino astronomy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Frank G. Schroeder

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is a Cherenkov detector that continuously monitors a cubic kilometer of instrumented glacial ice for neutrino interactions in the sub-TeV to EeV energy range. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Hans Niederhausen

A surface array of radio antennas will enhance the performance of the IceTop array and enable new, complementary science goals. First, the accuracy for cosmic-ray air showers will be increased since the radio array provides a calorimetric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Frank G. Schröder

The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, with energies above 100 PeV, may soon be within reach of upcoming neutrino telescopes. We present a robust framework to compute the statistical significance of point-source discovery via the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante , Victor B. Valera

The IceCube telescope has detected diffuse neutrino emission, 20 events of which were reported to be above 60~TeV. In this paper, we fit the diffuse neutrino spectrum using Poisson statistics, which are the most appropriate for the low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Lee Yacobi , Dafne Guetta , Ehud Behar

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory features both a kilometer-cubed detector between 1.45 and 2.45 km depth and an array of ice-filled tanks, called IceTop, located at the surface. The presence of both detectors at the same location allows for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Delia Tosi , Hershal Pandya

We show that the measurements of 10 GeV atmospheric neutrinos by an upcoming array of densely packed phototubes buried deep inside the IceCube detector at the South Pole can be used to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy for values of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-11 Olga Mena , Irina Mocioiu , Soebur Razzaque

Astrophysical neutrinos in the EeV range (particularly those generated by the interaction of cosmic rays with the cosmic microwave background) promise to be a valuable tool to study astrophysics and particle physics at the highest energies.…

The IceCube neutrino telescope monitors one cubic kilometer of deep Antarctic ice by detecting Cherenkov photons emitted from charged secondaries produced when neutrinos interact in the ice. The geometry of the detector, which comprises a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Lutz Köpke

IceCube is an all-flavor, cubic kilometer neutrino telescope currently under construction in the deep glacial ice at the South Pole. Its embedded optical sensors detect Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-15 Michelangelo D'Agostino

Tau neutrinos are expected to comprise roughly one third of both the astrophysical and cosmogenic neutrino flux, but currently the flavor ratio is poorly constrained and the expected flux at energies above $10^{17}$ eV is low. We present a…