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In 2013, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the geographic South Pole detected evidence for a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux above ~60 TeV. To this day, IceCube has operated with full detector configuration for more than 6…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Donglian Xu

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has measured an isotropic astrophysical neutrino flux through various detection channels for over 12 years. IceCube has also detected neutrino emission from the Galactic plane at the 4.5$\sigma$ significance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Jesse Osborn , Albrecht Karle

I will discuss the motivations for Neutrino Astronomy and its prospects given the current experimental scenario, which is the main focus of this paper. I will also go through the first results of the IceCube detector deep in the ice and of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Teresa Montaruli

In multi-messenger astronomy, rapid investigation of interesting transients is imperative. As an observatory with a 4$\pi$ steradian field of view and $\sim$99\% uptime, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a unique facility to follow up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , C. Alispach , A. A. Alves , N. M. Amin , R. An , 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 , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , E. Bourbeau , J. Bourbeau , F. Bradascio , J. Braun , S. Bron , J. Brostean-Kaiser , A. Burgman , R. S. Busse , M. A. Campana , C. Chen , 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. Desai , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , M. de With , T. DeYoung , S. Dharani , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , H. Dujmovic , M. Dunkman , M. A. DuVernois , E. Dvorak , T. Ehrhardt , P. Eller , R. Engel , J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , S. Fahey , A. R. Fazely , S. Fiedlschuster , A. T. Fienberg , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , L. Fischer , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , E. Friedman , A. Fritz , P. Fürst , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , S. Garrappa , L. Gerhardt , A. Ghadimi , C. Glaser , T. Glauch , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , J. G. Gonzalez , S. Goswami , D. Grant , T. Grégoire , Z. Griffith , S. Griswold , M. Gündüz , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , R. Halliday , L. Halve , F. Halzen , M. Ha Minh , K. Hanson , J. Hardin , A. A. Harnisch , A. Haungs , S. Hauser , D. Hebecker , K. Helbing , F. Henningsen , E. C. Hettinger , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , C. Hill , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , T. Hoinka , B. Hokanson-Fasig , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , M. Huber , T. Huber , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , S. In , N. Iovine , A. Ishihara , M. Jansson , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , B. J. P. Jones , R. Joppe , D. Kang , W. Kang , X. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , U. Katz , M. Kauer , M. Kellermann , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , J. Kim , K. Kin , T. Kintscher , J. Kiryluk , S. R. Klein , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , P. Koundal , M. Kovacevich , M. Kowalski , K. Krings , G. Krückl , N. Kurahashi , A. Kyriacou , C. Lagunas Gualda , J. L. Lanfranchi , M. J. Larson , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , K. Leonard , A. Leszczyńska , Y. Li , Q. R. Liu , E. Lohfink , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , A. Ludwig , W. Luszczak , Y. Lyu , W. Y. Ma , J. Madsen , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , P. Mallik , S. Mancina , I. C. Mariş , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , F. McNally , K. Meagher , A. Medina , M. Meier , S. Meighen-Berger , J. Merz , J. Micallef , D. Mockler , G. Momenté , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , R. Morse , M. Moulai , R. Naab , R. Nagai , U. Naumann , J. Necker , L. V. Nguyên , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke Pollmann , M. Oehler , A. Olivas , E. O'Sullivan , H. Pandya , D. V. Pankova , N. Park , G. K. Parker , E. N. Paudel , P. Peiffer , C. Pérez de los Heros , S. Philippen , D. Pieloth , S. Pieper , A. Pizzuto , M. Plum , Y. Popovych , A. Porcelli , M. Prado Rodriguez , P. B. Price , B. Pries , G. T. Przybylski , C. Raab , A. Raissi , M. Rameez , K. Rawlins , I. C. Rea , A. Rehman , R. Reimann , M. Renschler , G. Renzi , E. Resconi , S. Reusch , W. Rhode , M. Richman , B. Riedel , S. Robertson , G. Roellinghoff , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , D. Rysewyk Cantu , I. Safa , S. E. Sanchez Herrera , A. Sandrock , J. Sandroos , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , K. Satalecka , M. Scharf , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , P. Schlunder , T. Schmidt , A. Schneider , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , S. Shefali , M. Silva , B. Skrzypek , B. Smithers , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , D. Soldin , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , J. Stachurska , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , R. Stein , J. Stettner , A. Steuer , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , T. Stuttard , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , F. Tenholt , S. Ter-Antonyan , S. Tilav , F. Tischbein , K. Tollefson , L. Tomankova , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , M. Tselengidou , C. F. Tung , A. Turcati , R. Turcotte , C. F. Turley , J. P. Twagirayezu , B. Ty , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , J. Vandenbroucke , D. van Eijk , N. van Eijndhoven , D. Vannerom , J. van Santen , S. Verpoest , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , A. Wallace , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , A. Weindl , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , M. Weyrauch , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , M. Wolf , K. Woschnagg , G. Wrede , J. Wulff , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , S. Yoshida , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang

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

For about a decade the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been observing a high-energy diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux. At these energies, an important source of background are the prompt atmospheric neutrinos produced in decays of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-15 Jakob Böttcher

The IceCube observatory located at the South Pole is a cubic-kilometre optical Cherenkov telescope primarily designed for the detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. IceCube became fully operational in 2010, after a seven-year…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-20 Markus Ahlers , Klaus Helbing , Carlos Pérez de los Heros

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a one-cubic-kilometer-sized neutrino telescope deployed deep in the Antarctic ice at the South Pole. One of IceCube's major goals is finding the origins of astrophysical high-energy neutrinos. In 2022,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Chiara Bellenghi , Martin Ha Minh , Tomas Kontrimas , Elena Manao , Rasmus Ørsøe , Martin Wolf

The evidence of a new population of diffuse high-energy neutrinos, obtained by IceCube, has opened a new era in the field of neutrino physics. Up to now the events detected are still without any source counterpart. The detected events are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Andrea Palladino , Carlo Mascaretti , Francesco Vissani

Gamma-ray emission from the plane of the Milky Way is understood as partly originating from the interaction of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. The same interaction is expected to produce a corresponding flux of neutrinos. In 2023,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Ludwig Neste , Mirco Hünnefeld , Chad Finley

Kilometer-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments covering nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and astronomy. Examples of their multidisciplinary missions include the search for the particle nature of dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Halzen

The recent association between IC-170922A and the blazar TXS0506+056 highlights the importance of real-time observations for identifying possible astrophysical neutrino sources. Thanks to its near-100\% duty cycle, 4$\pi$ steradian field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-13 Kevin Meagher , Alex Pizzuto , Justin Vandenbroucke

Multi-messenger high-energy astrophysics has currently achieved the potential to unravel the origin of cosmic rays and how sources accelerate them, their relation to the diffuse radiation in the extra-galactic space, and their role to forge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Teresa Montaruli

IceCube has observed neutrinos above 100 TeV at a level significantly above the steeply falling background of atmospheric neutrinos. The astrophysical signal is seen both in the high-energy starting event analysis from the whole sky and as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Thomas K. Gaisser

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s; by the 1970s, it was realized that kilometer-scale neutrino detectors were required. The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data. The IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-15 Francis Halzen , Spencer R. Klein

Decades of progress have culminated in first light for high-energy neutrino astronomy: the identification of the first astrophysical sources of TeV-PeV neutrinos by the IceCube neutrino telescope, the active galactic nuclei NGC 1068 and TXS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Lisa Johanna Schumacher , Mauricio Bustamante , Matteo Agostini , Foteini Oikonomou , Elisa Resconi

The IceCube observatory is the first cubic kilometre scale instrument in the field of high-energy neutrino astronomy and cosmic rays. In 2009, following five successful deployment seasons, IceCube consisted of 59 strings of optical modules…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Klas Hultqvist

With the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux in the 0.1 PeV to PeV range from beyond the Earth's atmosphere with the IceCube detector, neutrino astronomy has achieved a major breakthrough in the exploration of the high-energy universe.…

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

IceCube has discovered a flux of astrophysical neutrinos and presented evidence for the first neutrino sources, a flaring blazar known as TXS 0506+056 and the active galaxy NGC 1068. However, the sources responsible for the majority of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 Stephen Sclafani , Mirco Huennefeld

First evidence of high-energy astrophysical neutrino observation with the IceCube detector from May 2010 to May 2012 is presented. Selecting for high-energy neutrino events with vertices well contained in the detector volume, the analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Naoko Kurahashi