The IceCube high-energy starting event sample: Description and flux characterization with 7.5 years of data - INSPIRE

DataBETA

The IceCube high-energy starting event sample: Description and flux characterization with 7.5 years of data

IceCube

Collaboration

Nov 6, 2020

57 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 022002

e-Print:

2011.03545 [astro-ph.HE]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022002 (publication)

Experiments:

ICECUBE

View in:

ADS Abstract Service

reference search389 citations

Citations per year

Abstract: (arXiv)

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has established the existence of a high-energy all-sky neutrino flux of astrophysical origin. This discovery was made using events interacting within a fiducial region of the detector surrounded by an active veto and with reconstructed energy above 60 TeV, commonly known as the high-energy starting event sample, or HESE. We revisit the analysis of the HESE sample with an additional 4.5 years of data, newer glacial ice models, and improved systematics treatment. This paper describes the sample in detail, reports on the latest astrophysical neutrino flux measurements, and presents a source search for astrophysical neutrinos. We give the compatibility of these observations with specific isotropic flux models proposed in the literature as well as generic power-law-like scenarios. Assuming

\nu_e:\nu_\mu:\nu_\tau=1:1:1

, and an equal flux of neutrinos and antineutrinos, we find that the astrophysical neutrino spectrum is compatible with an unbroken power law, with a preferred spectral index of

{2.87}^{+0.20}_{-0.19}

for the

68.3\%

confidence interval.

Note:

57 pages, 33 figures, 14 tables, additionally this work is accompanied by papers titled "Measurement of Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos in IceCube's High-Energy Starting Events" and "Measurement of the high-energy all-flavor neutrino-nucleon cross section with IceCube"

neutrino: flux
neutrino: spectrum
neutrino: atmosphere
neutrino: flavor
cosmic radiation: UHE
cosmic radiation: spectrum
messenger
neutral current
charged current
dark matter

References(215)

Figures(50)

[1]

Particle physics from stars

Georg G. Raffelt
(
- Munich, Max Planck Inst.
)

- Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci. 49 (1999) 163-216
•
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9903472
•
DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev.nucl.49.1.163

[2]

New solar opacities, abundances, helioseismology, and neutrino fluxes

- Astrophys.J.Lett. 621 (2005) L85-L88
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0412440
•
DOI:
- 10.1086/428929

[3]

Nobel Lecture: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Observation of flavor change for solar neutrinos

Arthur B. McDonald
(
- Queen's U., Kingston
)

- Rev.Mod.Phys. 88 (2016) 3, 030502
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/RevModPhys.88.030502

[4]

Observation of a Neutrino Burst from the Supernova SN 1987a

Kamiokande-II

Collaboration

•

K. Hirata
(
- Tokyo U., ICEPP
)

et al.

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 58 (1987) 1490-1493,
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 ( 1987) 1490-1493 and Tokyo Univ. - UT-ICEPP-87-01 (87,REC.MAR.) 12p,
- IN *SYRACUSE 1987, PROCEEDINGS, GRAND UNIFICATION* 425-434.,
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1490

[5]

Angular Distribution of Events From Sn1987a

IMB

Collaboration

•

C.B. Bratton

et al.

- Phys.Rev.D 37 (1988) 3361
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.37.3361

[6]

Supernova mechanisms

H.A. Bethe
(
- Cornell U., LNS
)

- Rev.Mod.Phys. 62 (1990) 801-866
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/RevModPhys.62.801

[7]

Neutrino Mass Limits From Sn1987a

W.David Arnett
(
- Chicago U., EFI and
- Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.
)
,
Jonathan L. Rosner
(
- Chicago U., EFI and
- Chicago U.
)

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 58 (1987) 1906
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1906

[8]

Implications of the Supernova Sn1987a Neutrino Signals

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 60 (1988) 1789
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.1789

[9]

A Limit on the Neutrino-neutrino Scattering Cross-section From the Supernova

Aneesh Manohar
(
- MIT, LNS
)

- Phys.Lett.B 192 (1987) 217
•
DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91171-3

[10]

Limits on the Neutrino Magnetic Moment from SN 1987a

J.M. Lattimer
(
- SUNY, Stony Brook
)
,
J. Cooperstein
(
- Brookhaven
)

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 23-26,
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 2633 (erratum)
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.23

[10]

Limits on the Neutrino Magnetic Moment from SN 1987a

J.M. Lattimer
(
- SUNY, Stony Brook
)
,
J. Cooperstein
(
- Brookhaven
)

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 23-26,
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 2633 (erratum)
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.23

[11]

Bounds on Exotic Particle Interactions from SN 1987a

Georg Raffelt
(
- UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. and
- LLNL, Livermore
)
,
David Seckel
(
- UC, Santa Cruz
)

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 60 (1988) 1793
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.1793

[12]

Axions from SN 1987a

Michael S. Turner
(
)

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 60 (1988) 1797
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.1797

[13]

Particle astrophysics with high-energy neutrinos

- Phys.Rept. 258 (1995) 173-236,
- Phys.Rept. 271 (1996) 355-356 (erratum)
•
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9410384
•
DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-1573(95)00003-Y

[13]

Particle astrophysics with high-energy neutrinos

- Phys.Rept. 258 (1995) 173-236,
- Phys.Rept. 271 (1996) 355-356 (erratum)
•
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9410384
•
DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-1573(95)00003-Y

[14]

Cosmic rays and particle physics

T.K. Gaisser

[15]

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

- Rev.Mod.Phys. 83 (2011) 907-942
•
e-Print:
- 1103.0031
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/RevModPhys.83.907

[16]

The Astrophysics of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

Kumiko Kotera
(
- Chicago U., KICP
)
,
Angela V. Olinto
(
- Chicago U., KICP
)

- Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys. 49 (2011) 119-153
•
e-Print:
- 1101.4256
•
DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev-astro-081710-102620

[17]

Probing Particle Physics with IceCube

Markus Ahlers
(
- Bohr Inst.
)
,
Klaus Helbing
(
- Wuppertal U.
)
,
Carlos Pérez de los Heros
(
- Uppsala U.
)

- Eur.Phys.J.C 78 (2018) 11, 924
•
e-Print:
- 1806.05696
•
DOI:
- 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6369-9

[18]

Fundamental Physics with High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos

Markus Ackermann
(
- DESY
)
,
Markus Ahlers
(
- Bohr Inst.
)
,
Luis Anchordoqui
(
- Lehman Coll.
)
,
Mauricio Bustamante
(
- DESY, Zeuthen and
- Wurzburg U.
)
,
Amy Connolly
(
- Ohio State U., CCAPP
)

et al.

- Bull.Am.Astron.Soc. 51 (2019) 215
•
e-Print:
- 1903.04333

[19]

Fundamental physics with high-energy cosmic neutrinos today and in the future

Carlos A. Argüelles
(
- MIT
)
,
Mauricio Bustamante
(
- Bohr Inst. and
- DARK Cosmology Ctr.
)
,
Ali Kheirandish
(
- Wisconsin U., Madison
)
,
Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
(
- Valencia U., IFIC
)
,
Jordi Salvado
(
- Barcelona U. and
- ICC, Barcelona U.
)

et al.

- PoS ICRC2019 (2020) 849
•
e-Print:
- 1907.08690
•
DOI:
- 10.22323/1.358.0849

[20]

Testing Relativity with High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos

- Phys.Rev.D 89 (2014) 4, 043005
•
e-Print:
- 1308.6344
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.043005

[21]

New Physics in Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 115 (2015) 161303
•
e-Print:
- 1506.02043
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.161303

[22]

Spectral and Spatial Distortions of PeV Neutrinos from Scattering with Dark Matter

Jonathan H. Davis
(
- Paris, Inst. Astrophys.
)
,
Joseph Silk
(
- Paris, Inst. Astrophys. and
- Johns Hopkins U. and
- Oxford U. and
- IRFU, Saclay
)

e-Print:
- 1505.01843

[23]

Short-baseline neutrino oscillations, Planck, and IceCube

e-Print:
- 1605.06506

1-25 of 215
1
2
3
4
5
•••
9
25 / page