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Observation of a point source of astrophysical neutrinos would be a "smoking gun" signature of a cosmic-ray accelerator. While IceCube has recently discovered a diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos, no localized point source has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-28 IceCube Collaboration , M. G. Aartsen , K. Abraham , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , D. Altmann , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , I. Ansseau , G. Anton , M. Archinger , C. Arguelles , T. C. Arlen , J. Auffenberg , S. Axani , X. Bai , S. W. Barwick , V. Baum , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , J. Becker Tjus , K. -H. Becker , S. BenZvi , P. Berghaus , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , A. Bernhard , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , M. Bissok , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , D. J. Boersma , C. Bohm , M. Börner , F. Bos , D. Bose , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Braun , L. Brayeur , H. -P. Bretz , A. Burgman , N. Buzinsky , J. Casey , M. Casier , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , A. Christov , K. Clark , L. Classen , S. Coenders , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , D. F. Cowen , A. H. Cruz Silva , J. Daughhetee , J. C. Davis , M. Day , J. P. A. M. de André , C. De Clercq , E. del Pino Rosendo , H. Dembinski , S. De Ridder , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , M. de With , T. DeYoung , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , V. di Lorenzo , H. Dujmovic , J. P. Dumm , M. Dunkman , B. Eberhardt , T. Ehrhardt , B. Eichmann , S. Euler , P. A. Evenson , S. Fahey , A. R. Fazely , J. Feintzeig , J. Felde , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , S. Flis , C. -C. Fösig , T. Fuchs , T. K. Gaisser , R. Gaior , J. Gallagher , L. Gerhardt , K. Ghorbani , L. Gladstone , M. Glagla , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , G. Golup , J. G. Gonzalez , D. Góra , D. Grant , Z. Griffith , C. Ha , C. Haack , A. Haj Ismail , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , E. Hansen , B. Hansmann , T. Hansmann , K. Hanson , D. Hebecker , D. Heereman , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , K. Holzapfel , A. Homeier , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , M. Huber , W. Huelsnitz , K. Hultqvist , S. In , A. Ishihara , E. Jacobi , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , K. Jero , B. J. P. Jones , M. Jurkovic , A. Kappes , T. Karg , A. Karle , U. Katz , M. Kauer , A. Keivani , J. L. Kelley , J. Kemp , A. Kheirandish , M. Kim , T. Kintscher , J. Kiryluk , S. R. Klein , G. Kohnen , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , R. Konietz , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , K. Krings , M. Kroll , G. Krückl , C. Krüger , J. Kunnen , S. Kunwar , N. Kurahashi , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , J. L. Lanfranchi , M. J. Larson , D. Lennarz , M. Lesiak-Bzdak , M. Leuermann , J. Leuner , L. Lu , J. Lünemann , J. Madsen , G. Maggi , K. B. M. Mahn , S. Mancina , M. Mandelartz , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , H. S. Matis , R. Maunu , F. McNally , K. Meagher , M. Medici , M. Meier , A. Meli , T. Menne , G. Merino , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , E. Middell , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , M. Moulai , R. Nahnhauer , U. Naumann , G. Neer , H. Niederhausen , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke Pollmann , A. Olivas , A. Omairat , A. O'Murchadha , T. Palczewski , H. Pandya , D. V. Pankova , Ö. Penek , J. A. Pepper , C. Pérez de los Heros , C. Pfendner , D. Pieloth , E. Pinat , J. Posselt , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , M. Quinnan , C. Raab , L. Rädel , M. Rameez , K. Rawlins , R. Reimann , M. Relich , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Richman , B. Riedel , S. Robertson , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , D. Rysewyk , L. Sabbatini , A. Sandrock , J. Sandroos , S. Sarkar , K. Satalecka , M. Schimp , P. Schlunder , T. Schmidt , S. Schoenen , S. Schöneberg , A. Schönwald , L. Schumacher , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , D. Soldin , M. Song , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stahlberg , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , A. Stasik , A. Steuer , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stößl , R. Ström , N. L. Strotjohann , G. W. Sullivan , M. Sutherland , H. Taavola , I. Taboada , J. Tatar , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , G. Tešić , S. Tilav , P. A. Toale , M. N. Tobin , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , M. Tselengidou , A. Turcati , E. Unger , M. Usner , S. Vallecorsa , J. Vandenbroucke , N. van Eijndhoven , S. Vanheule , M. van Rossem , J. van Santen , J. Veenkamp , M. Vehring , M. Voge , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , A. Wallace , M. Wallraff , N. Wandkowsky , Ch. Weaver , C. Wendt , S. Westerhoff , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , S. Wickmann , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , L. Wille , D. R. Williams , L. Wills , H. Wissing , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , M. Zoll

The detection of high-energy tau neutrinos remains a critical challenge in neutrino astronomy, limited by inadequate angular resolution and sensitivity in current detectors like IceCube and KM3NeT. We present a modular water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Monong Yu , Yiren Chen , Lei Wang , Shiping Zhao , Xingyu Li , Qiang Yuan , Yi Zhang , Guang Yang

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a sample of high purity, primarily atmospheric, muon neutrino events over 11 years from all directions below the horizon, spanning the energy range 500 GeV to 100 TeV. While this sample was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Alex Wen

In 2018, the IceCube collaboration reported evidence for the identification of a blazar as an astrophysical neutrino source. That evidence is briefly summarised here before focusing on the prospects of tau neutrino physics in IceCube, both…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-04 Daan van Eijk

Neutrinos are key to probing the deep structure of matter and the high-energy Universe. Yet, until recently, their interactions had only been measured at laboratory energies up to about 350 GeV. An opportunity to measure their interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Mauricio Bustamante , Amy Connolly

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube and the potential to constrain source models of ultra-high energy cosmic rays provide the motivation to develop instruments for the observation of neutrinos above $10^7$ GeV. Among the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Eliza Gazda , Eleanor Judd , John F. Krizmanic , Evgeny Kutzenzov , Oscar Romero Matamala , Patrick J. Reardon , Lawrence Wiencke

The IceCube Neutrino Detector observes tens of thousands of atmospheric neutrinos every year with its low energy extension DeepCore, covering the neutrino energy range from GeV to TeV. These neutrinos can be used to study particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Anatoli Fedynitch , Juan-Pablo Yáñez

This conference proceeding discusses new results arising from atmospheric neutrino detection in the Super-Kamiokande and IceCube experiments. Super-Kamiokande has measured atmospheric neutrinos in the energy range of 100 MeV-10 TeV and uses…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-03 E. O'Sullivan

The largest tau neutrino dataset to date is IceCube's atmospheric tau neutrino appearance dataset containing $>1,000$ tau neutrino and antineutrino events as determined by a fit to a standard three-flavor oscillation framework. On an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-17 Peter B. Denton

Astrophysical and atmospheric neutrinos are important probes of the powerful accelerators that produce cosmic-rays with EeV energies. Understanding these accelerators is a key goal of neutrino observatories, along with searches for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-07 Spencer R. Klein

Upward and horizontal tau Air-showers emerging from the Earth crust or mountain chains are the most powerful signals of Ultra High Energy UHE neutrinos nu_{tau}, bar\nu_{tau} and bar{nu}_e at PeVs and higher energy. The multiplicity in tau…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniele Fargion

We analyze the high-energy neutrino events observed by IceCube, aiming to probe the initial flavor of cosmic neutrinos. We study the track-to-shower ratio of the subset with energy above 60 TeV, where the signal is expected to dominate and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-01 A. Palladino , G. Pagliaroli , F. L. Villante , F. Vissani

The IceCube experiment has recently released 3 years of data of the first ever detected high-energy (>30 TeV) neutrinos, which are consistent with an extraterrestrial origin. In this talk, we compute the compatibility of the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Olga Mena , Aaron C. Vincent

IceCube is a 1 km$^3$ neutrino observatory being built to study neutrino production in active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants, and a host of other astrophysical sources. High-energy neutrinos may signal the sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Spencer R. Klein

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube in the TeV-PeV energy range motivates the development of instruments for observing these particles at higher energies. Moreover, the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) neutrinos could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Oscar Fernando Romero Matamala

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole detects Cherenkov light emitted by charged secondary particles created by primary neutrino interactions. Double pulse waveforms can arise from charged current interactions of astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Wei Tian , Fuyudi Zhang , Donglian Xu

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed primarily to search for high-energy (TeV--PeV) neutrinos produced in distant astrophysical objects. A search for $\gtrsim 100$~TeV neutrinos interacting inside the instrumented volume has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-14 M. G. Aartsen , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , D. Altmann , T. Anderson , C. Arguelles , T. C. Arlen , J. Auffenberg , X. Bai , S. W. Barwick , V. Baum , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , J. Becker Tjus , K. -H. Becker , S. BenZvi , P. Berghaus , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , A. Bernhard , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , M. Bissok , E. Blaufuss , J. Blumenthal , D. J. Boersma , C. Bohm , F. Bos , D. Bose , S. Böser , O. Botner , L. Brayeur , H. -P. Bretz , A. M. Brown , N. Buzinsky , J. Casey , M. Casier , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , A. Christov , B. Christy , K. Clark , L. Classen , F. Clevermann , S. Coenders , D. F. Cowen , A. H. Cruz Silva , J. Daughhetee , J. C. Davis , M. Day , J. P. A. M. de André , C. De Clercq , S. De Ridder , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , M. de With , T. DeYoung , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , M. Dunkman , R. Eagan , B. Eberhardt , B. Eichmann , J. Eisch , S. Euler , P. A. Evenson , O. Fadiran , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , J. Feintzeig , J. Felde , T. Feusels , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , T. Fischer-Wasels , S. Flis , A. Franckowiak , K. Frantzen , T. Fuchs , T. K. Gaisser , R. Gaior , J. Gallagher , L. Gerhardt , D. Gier , L. Gladstone , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , G. Golup , J. G. Gonzalez , J. A. Goodman , D. Góra , D. Grant , P. Gretskov , J. C. Groh , A. Groß , C. Ha , C. Haack , A. Haj Ismail , P. Hallen , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , K. Hanson , D. Hebecker , D. Heereman , D. Heinen , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , D. Hellwig , S. Hickford , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , A. Homeier , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , W. Huelsnitz , P. O. Hulth , K. Hultqvist , S. Hussain , A. Ishihara , E. Jacobi , J. Jacobsen , K. Jagielski , G. S. Japaridze , K. Jero , O. Jlelati , M. Jurkovic , B. Kaminsky , A. Kappes , T. Karg , A. Karle , M. Kauer , A. Keivani , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , J. Kiryluk , J. Kläs , S. R. Klein , J. -H. Köhne , G. Kohnen , H. Kolanoski , A. Koob , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , A. Kriesten , K. Krings , G. Kroll , M. Kroll , J. Kunnen , N. Kurahashi , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , D. T. Larsen , M. J. Larson , M. Lesiak-Bzdak , M. Leuermann , J. Leute , J. Lünemann , J. Madsen , G. Maggi , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , H. S. Matis , R. Maunu , F. McNally , K. Meagher , M. Medici , A. Meli , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , E. Middell , E. Middlemas , N. Milke , J. Miller , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , R. Morse , R. Nahnhauer , U. Naumann , H. Niederhausen , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke , S. Odrowski , A. Olivas , A. Omairat , A. O'Murchadha , T. Palczewski , L. Paul , Ö. Penek , J. A. Pepper , C. Pérez de los Heros , C. Pfendner , D. Pieloth , E. Pinat , J. Posselt , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , J. Pütz , M. Quinnan , L. Rädel , M. Rameez , K. Rawlins , P. Redl , I. Rees , R. Reimann , M. Relich , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Richman , B. Riedel , S. Robertson , J. P. Rodrigues , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , B. Ruzybayev , D. Ryckbosch , S. M. Saba , H. -G. Sander , J. Sandroos , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , K. Schatto , F. Scheriau , T. Schmidt , M. Schmitz , S. Schoenen , S. Schöneberg , A. Schönwald , A. Schukraft , L. Schulte , O. Schulz , D. Seckel , Y. Sestayo , S. Seunarine , R. Shanidze , M. W. E. Smith , D. Soldin , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , N. A. Stanisha , A. Stasik , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stößl , E. A. Strahler , R. Ström , N. L. Strotjohann , G. W. Sullivan , H. Taavola , I. Taboada , A. Tamburro , A. Tepe , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , G. Tešić , S. Tilav , P. A. Toale , M. N. Tobin , D. Tosi , M. Tselengidou , E. Unger , M. Usner , S. Vallecorsa , N. van Eijndhoven , J. Vandenbroucke , J. van Santen , M. Vehring , M. Voge , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , M. Wallraff , Ch. Weaver , M. Wellons , C. Wendt , S. Westerhoff , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , C. Wichary , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , H. Wissing , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , P. Zarzhitsky , J. Ziemann , S. Zierke , M. Zoll

Efforts to detect ultrahigh energy neutrinos are driven by several objectives: What is the origin of astrophysical neutrinos detected with IceCube? What are the sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays? Do the ANITA detected events point to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Anthony M. Brown , Abraham D. Falcone , Mosè Mariotti , Ignacio Taboada

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory provides the opportunity to perform unique measurements of cosmic-ray air showers with its combination of a surface array and a deep detector. Electromagnetic particles and low-energy muons ($\sim$GeV) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Stef Verpoest , Dennis Soldin , Sam De Ridder

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects atmospheric muon neutrinos above 100 GeV at a rate of about 100 000 per year. These neutrinos originate from decays of charged pions and kaons in cosmic ray air showers. Their flux depends on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-06 Patrick Heix , Serap Tilav , Christopher Wiebusch , Marit Zöcklein