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A significant neutrino event with an estimated energy between $72\,\mathrm{PeV}$ and $2.6\,\mathrm{EeV}$ was recently observed by the KM3NeT experiment (KM3-230213A). When interpreted as cosmogenic in origin, this event can provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 A. R. Alhebsi , Arjen van Vliet , Domenik Ehlert , Satyendra Thoudam

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

We study the possibility of the highest energy neutrino event with 220 PeV energy, detected recently by the KM3NeT experiment to be originating from heavy dark matter (DM) decay. Considering a heavy right handed neutrino (RHN) DM for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Debasish Borah , Nayan Das , Nobuchika Okada , Prantik Sarmah

Instrumenting a gigaton of ice at the geographic South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been at the forefront of groundbreaking scientific discoveries over the past decade. These include the observation of a flux of TeV-PeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Tianlu Yuan

The existence of astrophysical neutrinos with energies of tens of TeV and higher has been reliably established by the IceCube experiment; the first confirmations of this discovery are being obtained with the ANTARES and Baikal-GVD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Sergey Troitsky

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

The recent observation of the ultrahigh-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A by the KM3NeT experiment offers a compelling avenue to explore physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we explore a simplest possibility that this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Kazunori Kohri , Partha Kumar Paul , Narendra Sahu

KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the detection of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin. Thanks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 The KM3NeT Collaboration , S. Aiello , S. E. Akrame , F. Ameli , E. G. Anassontzis , M. Andre , G. Androulakis , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. Aublin , T. Avgitas , C. Bagatelas , G. Barbarino , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , A. Belias , E. Berbee , A. van den Berg , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , A. Biagioni , C. Biernoth , J. Boumaaza , S. Bourret , M. Bouta , M. Bouwhuis , C. Bozza , H. Brânzas , M. Bruchner , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , E. Buis , R. Buompane , J. Busto , D. Calvo , A. Capone , S. Celli , M. Chabab , N. Chau , S. Cherubini , V. Chiarella , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Cocimano , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , M. Colomer Molla , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , G. Cuttone , A. D'Onofrio , R. Dallier , C. De Sio , I. Di Palma , A. F. Díaz , D. Diego-Tortosa , C. Distefano , A. Domi , R. Donà , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , M. Dörr , M. Durocher , T. Eberl , D. van Eijk , I. El Bojaddaini , H. Eljarrari , D. Elsaesser , A. Enzenhöfer , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , M. D. Filipovic , L. A. Fusco , T. Gal , A. Garcia , F. Garufi , L. Gialanella , E. Giorgio , A. Giuliante , S. R. Gozzini , R. Gracia , K. Graf , D. Grasso , T. Grégoire , G. Grella , S. Hallmann , H. Hamdaoui , H. van Haren , T. Heid , A. Heijboer , A. Hekalo , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hofestädt , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , M. Jongen , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , M. Kadler , P. Kalaczynski , O. Kalekin , U. F. Katz , N. R. Khan Chowdhury , D. Kiessling , E. N. Koffeman , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner , M. Kreter , V. Kulikovskiy , M. Kunhikannan-Kannichankandy , R. Lahmann , G. Larosa , R. Le Breton , F. Leone , E. Leonora , G. Levi , M. Lincetto , A. Lonardo , F. Longhitano , D. Lopez Coto , M. Lotze , L. Maderer , G. Maggi , J. Manczak , K. Mannheim , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , C. Markou , L. Martin , J. A. Martínez-Mora , A. Martini , F. Marzaioli , R. Mele , K. W. Melis , P. Migliozzi , E. Migneco , P. Mijakowski , L. S. Miranda , C. M. Mollo , M. Morganti , M. Moser , A. Moussa , R. Muller , M. Musumeci , L. Nauta , S. Navas , C. A. Nicolau , C. Nielsen , B. Ó Fearraigh , M. Organokov , A. Orlando , S. Ottonello , V. Panagopoulos , G. Papalashvili , R. Papaleo , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , M. Perrin-Terrin , P. Piattelli , K. Pikounis , O. Pisanti , C. Poirè , G. Polydefki , V. Popa , M. Post , T. Pradier , G. Pühlhofer , S. Pulvirenti , L. Quinn , F. Raffaelli , N. Randazzo , S. Razzaque , D. Real , L. Resvanis , J. Reubelt , G. Riccobene , M. Richer , L. Rigalleau , A. Rovelli , M. Saffer , I. Salvadori , D. F. E. Samtleben , A. Sánchez Losa , M. Sanguineti , A. Santangelo , D. Santonocito , P. Sapienza , J. Schumann , V. Sciacca , J. Seneca , I. Sgura , R. Shanidze , A. Sharma , F. Simeone , A. Sinopoulou , B. Spisso , M. Spurio , D. Stavropoulos , J. Steijger , S. M. Stellacci , B. Strandberg , D. Stransky , T. Stüven , M. Taiuti , F. Tatone , Y. Tayalati , E. Tenllado , T. Thakore , A. Trovato , E. Tzamariudaki , D. Tzanetatos , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , E. de Wolf , D. Zaborov , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

KM3NeT has recently reported an event where a muon of energy $120^{+110}_{-60}$ PeV was observed at its ARCA detector, which can stem from a very high-energy neutrino interaction in the vicinity of the detector. Besides revolutionizing our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Ranjini Mondol , Subhadip Bouri , Akash Kumar Saha , Ranjan Laha

The detection of a $\simeq220$~PeV muon neutrino event by the KM3NeT telescope offers an unprecedented opportunity to probe the Universe at extreme energies. A photopion interaction origin of the neutrino requires a parent cosmic-ray energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Saikat Das , Bing Zhang , Soebur Razzaque , Siyao Xu

We entertain the possibility that transient astrophysical sources can produce a flux of dark particles that induce ultra-high-energy signatures at neutrino telescopes such as IceCube and KM3NeT. We construct scenarios where such ``dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Yasaman Farzan , Matheus Hostert

The KM3NeT experiment has recently observed a neutrino with an energy around 100PeV, and IceCube has detected five neutrinos with energies above 1PeV. While there are no known astrophysical sources, exploding primordial black holes could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-18 Michael J. Baker , Joaquim Iguaz Juan , Aidan Symons , Andrea Thamm

We study the origin of the ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino event KM3-230213A detected by KM3NeT, focusing on MRC 0614-083 which has been pinpointed as the closest blazar to the neutrino localization exhibiting variable multi-wavelength…

High energy neutrino astrophysics has come of age with the discovery by IceCube of neutrinos in the TeV to PeV energy range attributable to extragalactic sources at cosmological distances. At such energies, astrophysical neutrinos must have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 P. Meszaros

Recently, the KM3NeT Collaboration announced the detection of a 220 PeV neutrino from the celestial coordinates RA=94.3\degree~ and Dec=-7.8\degree~ on 13 February 2023 at 01:16:47 UTC \cite{KM3NeT:2025npi}. The source for this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-27 Ruiqi Wang , Jie Zhu , Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

Recently, the IceCube collaboration made a big announcement of the first discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. Their origin is a new interesting mystery in astroparticle physics. The present multimessenger data may give us hints of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 Kohta Murase

Developments in neutrino astronomy have been to a great extent motivated by the search for the sources of the cosmic rays, leading at a very early stage to the concept of a cubic kilometer neutrino detector. Almost four decades later such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Francis Halzen

Individual astrophysical sources previously detected in neutrinos are limited to the Sun and the supernova 1987A, whereas the origins of the diffuse flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos remain unidentified. On 22 September 2017 we detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 The IceCube , Fermi-LAT , MAGIC , AGILE , ASAS-SN , HAWC , H. E. S. S , INTEGRAL , Kanata , Kiso , Kapteyn , Liverpool telescope , Subaru , Swift/NuSTAR , VERITAS , VLA/17B-403 teams

This work discusses the perspectives to observe fluxes of high energy astrophysical neutrinos with the planned km3 telescopes. On the basis of the observations of GeV and TeV gamma-rays, and of ultra high energy cosmic rays, it is possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Lipari

The IceCube neutrino observatory, a cubic-kilometer particle detector at the South Pole, first announced the discovery of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range in 2013, followed in 2017 by the detection of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Marcos Santander