Journal article
Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube
Physical review letters, v 115(8), pp 081102-081102
2015
PMID: 26340177
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Abstract
Results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have recently provided compelling evidence for the existence of a high energy astrophysical neutrino flux utilizing a dominantly Southern Hemisphere data set consisting primarily of nu(e) and nu(tau) charged-current and neutral-current ( cascade) neutrino interactions. In the analysis presented here, a data sample of approximately 35 000 muon neutrinos from the Northern sky is extracted from data taken during 659.5 days of live time recorded between May 2010 and May 2012. While this sample is composed primarily of neutrinos produced by cosmic ray interactions in Earth's atmosphere, the highest energy events are inconsistent with a hypothesis of solely terrestrial origin at 3.7 sigma significance. These neutrinos can, however, be explained by an astrophysical flux per neutrino flavor at a level of Phi(E-nu) = 9.9(-3.4)(+3.9) x 10(-19) GeV-1 cm(-2) sr(-1) s(-1) (E-nu/100 TeV)(-2), consistent with IceCube's Southern-Hemisphere-dominated result. Additionally, a fit for an astrophysical flux with an arbitrary spectral index is performed. We find a spectral index of 2.2(-0.2)(+0.2), which is also in good agreement with the Southern Hemisphere result.
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- Title
- Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube
- Creators
- Maryon Ahrens - FysikumChristian Bohm - Stockholm UniversityJonathan P. Dumm - Stockholm UniversityChad Finley - Stockholm UniversitySamuel Flis - Stockholm UniversityPer Olof Hulth - Stockholm UniversityKlas Hultqvist - Stockholm UniversityChristian Walck - Stockholm UniversityMartin Wolf - FysikumMarcel Zoll - Stockholm UniversityIceCube Collaboration
- Publication Details
- Physical review letters, v 115(8), pp 081102-081102
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000359872800003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84940657840
- Other Identifier
- 991019169518504721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Physics, Multidisciplinary