Highlights from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Collaboration
Sep 22, 2023
16 pages
Published in:
  • PoS ICRC2023 (2024) 017
Contribution to:
  • Published: Sep 22, 2023
e-Print:
Report number:
  • PoS-ICRC2023-017
Experiments:

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Abstract: (SISSA)
As IceCube surpasses a decade of operation in the full detector configuration, results that drive forward the fields of neutrino astronomy, cosmic ray physics, multi-messenger astronomy, particle physics, and beyond continue to emerge at an accelerated pace. IceCube data is dominated by background events, and thus teasing out the signal is the common challenge to most analyses. Statistical accumulation of data, along with better understanding of the background fluxes, the detector, and continued development of our analysis tools have produced many profound results that were presented at ICRC2023. Highlights covered here include the first neutrino observation of the Galactic Plane, the first observation of a steady emission neutrino point source NGC1068, new characterizations of the cosmic ray flux and its secondary particles, and a possible new era in measuring the energy spectrum of the diffuse astrophysical flux. IceCube is poised to make more discoveries and drive fields forward in the near future with many novel analyses coming online.
Note:
  • Presented at the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023). See arXiv:2307.13047 for all IceCube contributions
  • cosmic radiation: flux
  • IceCube
  • background
  • energy spectrum
  • observatory
  • statistical
  • on-line
  • galaxy