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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

Extensive air showers are detectable by radio signals with a radio surface detector. A promising theory of the dominant emission process is the coherent synchrotron radiation emitted by e+ e- shower particles in the Earth's magnetic field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-23 Jan Auffenberg , Dave Besson , Tom Gaisser , Klaus Helbing , Timo Karg , Albrecht Karle , Ilya Kravchenko

Neutrino telescopes are opening new opportunities in observational high energy astrophysics. In these detectors, atmospheric muons from primary cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere play an important role. They provide the most abundant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 G. Carminati , M. Bazzotti , S. Biagi , S. Cecchini , T. Chiarusi , A. Margiotta , M. Sioli , M. Spurio

The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory is a Cherenkov detector instrumented in a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. IceCube's primary scientific goal is the detection of TeV neutrino emissions from astrophysical sources. At the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-01 Shiqi Yu , Jessie Micallef

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments roughly one cubic kilometer of deep, glacial ice below the geographic South Pole with 5160 optical sensors to register the Cherenkov light of passing relativistic, charged particles. Since its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Martin Rongen

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

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

The IceCube collaboration is building a cubic kilometer scale neutrino telescope at a depth of 2 km at the geographic South Pole, utilizing the clear Antarctic ice as a Cherenkov medium to detect cosmic neutrinos. The IceCube observatory is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Timo Karg

Realtime analyses are necessary to identify the source of high energy neutrinos. As an observatory with a 4$\pi$ steradian field of view and near-100% duty cycle, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a unique facility for investigating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Alex Pizzuto , Abhishek Desai , Raamis Hussain

We demonstrate that the South Pole kilometer-scale neutrino observatory IceCube can detect multi-TeV gamma rays continuously over a large fraction of the southern sky. While not as sensitive as pointing atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper

IceCube-Gen2, the next generation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, will consist of three co-located arrays: a deep Optical Array and a more shallow and larger Radio Array for neutrino detection in the ice, and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-12 Frank G. Schröder

The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located in the Mediterranean Sea, and the IceCube neutrino observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, both search for cosmic neutrino events with an instantaneous full-sky field of view. The different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Giulia Illuminati

IceTop, the surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, consists of 162 ice-Cherenkov tanks distributed over an area of 1km$^2$. Besides being used as a veto for the in-ice neutrino detector, IceTop is a powerful cosmic-ray detector.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Hrvoje Dujmovic , Alan Coleman , Marie Oehler

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

We discuss the possibility that the IceCube neutrino telescope might be observing the Fermi Bubbles. If the bubbles discovered in gamma rays originate from accelerated protons, they should be strong emitters of high energy (> GeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Cecilia Lunardini , Soebur Razzaque , Kristopher T. Theodoseau , Lili Yang

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

The interaction of high energy cosmic rays with the Earth's atmosphere produces extensive air showers of secondary particles with a large muon component. By exploiting the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to high energy muons, it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Marcos Santander

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

The atmospheric neutrino data collected by the IceCube experiment and its low-energy extension DeepCore provide a unique opportunity to probe the neutrino sector of the Standard Model. In the low energy range the experiment have observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-14 Arman Esmaili , Francis Halzen , O. L. G. Peres

The IceCube neutrino detector is a cubic kilometer TeV to PeV neutrino detector under construction at the geographic South Pole. The dominant population of neutrinos detected in IceCube is due to meson decay in cosmic-ray air showers. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 The IceCube Collaboration , A. Achterberg