First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data
Since the discovery of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, searches for their origins have focused primarily at TeV-PeV energies. Compared to sub-TeV searches, high-energy searches benefit from an increase in the neutrino cross section, improved angular resolution on the neutrino directio...
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author | Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Jr, AAA Amin, NM Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Arguelles, C Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal, A Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baum, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, JB Bellenghi, C BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Boeser, S Botner, O Boettcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Burgman, A Busse, RS Campana, MA Chen, C Sarkar, S |
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author_facet | The IceCube Collaboration Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Jr, AAA Amin, NM Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Arguelles, C Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal, A Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baum, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, JB Bellenghi, C BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Boeser, S Botner, O Boettcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Burgman, A Busse, RS Campana, MA Chen, C Sarkar, S |
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description | Since the discovery of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, searches for their origins have focused primarily at TeV-PeV energies. Compared to sub-TeV searches, high-energy searches benefit from an increase in the neutrino cross section, improved angular resolution on the neutrino direction, and a reduced background from atmospheric neutrinos and muons. However, the focus on high energy does not preclude the existence of sub-TeV neutrino emission where IceCube retains sensitivity. Here we present the first all-flavor search from IceCube for transient emission of low-energy neutrinos, focusing on the energy region of 5.6-100 GeV using three years of data obtained with the IceCube-DeepCore detector. We find no evidence of transient neutrino emission in the data, thus leading to a constraint on the volumetric rate of astrophysical transient sources in the range of ∼ 705-2301 Gpc-3 yr-1 for sources following a subphotospheric energy spectrum with a mean energy of 100 GeV and a bolometric energy of 1052 erg. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:40c5a914-e822-4e75-b415-9430200fd1bc2023-01-18T09:31:22ZFirst all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore dataJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:40c5a914-e822-4e75-b415-9430200fd1bcEnglishSymplectic ElementsIOP Publishing2022Abbasi, RAckermann, MAdams, JAguilar, JAAhlers, MAhrens, MAlispach, CJr, AAAAmin, NMAndeen, KAnderson, TAnsseau, IAnton, GArguelles, CAxani, SBai, XBalagopal, ABarbano, ABarwick, SWBastian, BBasu, VBaum, VBaur, SBay, RBeatty, JJBecker, K-HTjus, JBBellenghi, CBenZvi, SBerley, DBernardini, EBesson, DZBinder, GBindig, DBlaufuss, EBlot, SBoeser, SBotner, OBoettcher, JBourbeau, EBourbeau, JBradascio, FBraun, JBron, SBrostean-Kaiser, JBurgman, ABusse, RSCampana, MAChen, CSarkar, SThe IceCube CollaborationSince the discovery of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, searches for their origins have focused primarily at TeV-PeV energies. Compared to sub-TeV searches, high-energy searches benefit from an increase in the neutrino cross section, improved angular resolution on the neutrino direction, and a reduced background from atmospheric neutrinos and muons. However, the focus on high energy does not preclude the existence of sub-TeV neutrino emission where IceCube retains sensitivity. Here we present the first all-flavor search from IceCube for transient emission of low-energy neutrinos, focusing on the energy region of 5.6-100 GeV using three years of data obtained with the IceCube-DeepCore detector. We find no evidence of transient neutrino emission in the data, thus leading to a constraint on the volumetric rate of astrophysical transient sources in the range of ∼ 705-2301 Gpc-3 yr-1 for sources following a subphotospheric energy spectrum with a mean energy of 100 GeV and a bolometric energy of 1052 erg. |
spellingShingle | Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Jr, AAA Amin, NM Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Arguelles, C Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal, A Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baum, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, JB Bellenghi, C BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Boeser, S Botner, O Boettcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Burgman, A Busse, RS Campana, MA Chen, C Sarkar, S First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data |
title | First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data |
title_full | First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data |
title_fullStr | First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data |
title_full_unstemmed | First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data |
title_short | First all-flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3-years of IceCube DeepCore data |
title_sort | first all flavor search for transient neutrino emission using 3 years of icecube deepcore data |
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