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1. A Search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

Author: J. Feintzeig, M. Ono, John Clem, Anatoli Fedynitch, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, J. L. Bazo Alba, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, H. G. Sander, M. Labare, S. R. Klein, B. D. Fox, T. Feusels, S. H. Seo, Chun Xu, Thomas Meures, J. J. Beatty, T. Glüsenkamp, Carsten Rott, J. Miller, G. Stephens, M. Bissok, S. Westerhoff, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, Larissa Paul, M. Merck, J. M. Joseph, Xianwu Xu, J. P. Dumm, L. Gerhardt, C. Bohm, H. Landsman, Jenni Adams, K. Laihem, D. Heinen, A. Marotta, K. Hoshina, C. Colnard, Glenn Spiczak, C. Pérez de los Heros, Stijn Buitink, M. Stamatikos, C. Ha, F. Clevermann, J. Posselt, A. Silvestri, J. Auffenberg, U. Naumann, K. Rawlins, S. Hickford, A. Piegsa, R. G. Stokstad, J. K. Becker, P. B. Price, P. Roth, M. L. Benabderrahmane, M. V. D'Agostino, K. Mase, G. W. Sullivan, Karen Andeen, Ch. Weaver, R. Wischnewski, K. Schatto, Simona Toscano, A. Goldschmidt, A. Stössl, T. O. B. Schmidt, R. Morse, M. M. Foerster, J. C. Gallagher, G. Kohnen, N. Kurahashi, M. Dierckxsens, R. W. Ellsworth, D. J. Boersma, Reina H. Maruyama, B. Ruzybayev, J. Petrovic, T. Griesel, D. Z. Besson, S. Bechet, W. Huelsnitz, Chad Finley, James Madsen, Allan Hallgren, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, R. Nahnhauer, Sandro Kopper, T. R. Wood, Albrecht Karle, K. Wiebe, D. Tosi, B. Semburg, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, M. J. Larson, S. Panknin, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Takao Kuwabara, T. Krings, L. Demirörs, K. Helbing, D. Bertrand, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, M. Krasberg, P. Redl, O. Engdegård, J. A. Goodman, A. Schönwald, S.J. Lafebre, Fabian Kislat, D. Altmann, S. Yoshida, S. W. Barwick, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, T. Denger, E. A. Strahler, Dariusz Gora, K. Meagher, Gerald Przybylski, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, B. Christy, H. Taavola, M. Olivo, Dmitry Chirkin, Elisa Resconi, M. Zoll, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Berdermann, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, A. Van Overloop, A. Ishihara, J. W. Nam, I. Taboada, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, K. Han, M. Schunck, Daniel Bindig, Teresa Montaruli, A. Hajismail, A. Homeier, D. R. Nygren, J. van Santen, M. Wallraff, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Stür, E. Middell, S. Odrowski, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, Christopher Wiebusch, A. Franckowiak, M. Gurtner, J. Blumenthal, Pratik Majumdar, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, G. Kroll, J. Daughhetee, Axel Groß, Hermann Kolanoski, P. Nießen, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, P. Berghaus, S. M. Movit, Ph. Herquet, Olga Botner, K.-H. Becker, T. Straszheim, Subir Sarkar, S. Hussain, T. Fischer-Wasels, Aongus O'Murchadha, S. Euler, Kael Hanson, S. Seunarine, D. J. Koskinen, J. Dreyer, A. Schukraft, D. Rutledge, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Y. Abdou, Michael J. Baker, L. Gladstone, Paolo Desiati, D. Seckel, Dirk Ryckbosch, M. Voge, Damian Pieloth, O. Depaepe, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, D. Hubert, A. M. Brown, S. Stoyanov, Rasha Abbasi, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, J. Lünemann, L. Köpke, Segev BenZvi, R. C. Bay, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Wolfgang Rhode, Timo Karg, F. Rothmaier, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, Christian Spiering, Justin Vandenbroucke, Martin Wolf, J.-P. Hülß, H. S. Matis, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, M. Kowalski, M. Danninger, T. Kowarik, A. Tamburro, Xinhua Bai, Markus Ahlers, R. Porrata, Q. Swillens, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, A. Schultes, Peter Mészáros, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, S. Böser, David A. Williams, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, F. Descamps, A. Tepe, R. Franke, C. Walck, H. A. B. Johansson, Thomas K. Gaisser, and G. B. Yodh
Subjects: SELECTION, AMANDA, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Amanda, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, Selection, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ICE, Ice, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic-Rays, Solar neutrino problem, COSMIC-RAYS, MODEL, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, TELESCOPES, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Model, Telescopes, Lepton
Abstract: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 km$^{3}$ detector currently taking data at the South Pole. One of the main strategies used to look for astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube is the search for a diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos from unresolved sources. A hard energy spectrum of neutrinos from isotropically distributed astrophysical sources could manifest itself as a detectable signal that may be differentiated from the atmospheric neutrino background by spectral measurement. This analysis uses data from the IceCube detector collected in its half completed configuration which operated between April 2008 and May 2009 to search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos. A total of 12,877 upward going candidate neutrino events have been selected for this analysis. No evidence for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos was found in the data set leading to a 90 percent C.L. upper limit on the normalization of an $E^{-2}$ astrophysical $\nu_{\mu}$ flux of $8.9 \times 10^{-9} \ \mathrm{GeV \ cm^{-2} \ s^{-1} \ sr^{-1}}$. The analysis is sensitive in the energy range between $35 \ \mathrm{TeV} - 7 \ \mathrm{PeV}$. The 12,877 candidate neutrino events are consistent with atmospheric muon neutrinos measured from 332 GeV to 84 TeV and no evidence for a prompt component to the atmospheric neutrino spectrum is found., Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2016
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2. Calibration and Characterization of the IceCube Photomultiplier Tube

Author: Ignacio Taboada, C. Pérez de los Heros, F. Rothmaier, Peter Mészáros, Matthias Geisler, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, M. R. Duvoort, Darren Grant, B. Ruzybayev, F. Descamps, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, H. Miyamoto, Jay Gallagher, J. van Santen, Y. Hasegawa, P. Nießen, A. Tepe, R. L. Imlay, M. Labare, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, R. Franke, C. Walck, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, R. Ehrlich, Dirk Ryckbosch, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, K. Wiebe, Christian Bohm, M. Krasberg, M. V. D'Agostino, Axel Groß, Q. Swillens, David A. Schneider, A. Olivas, John Clem, Jon Dumm, A. Goldschmidt, G. C. Hill, M. Matusik, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, Michael J. Baker, J. Dreyer, S. Seunarine, J. M. Joseph, A. Laundrie, G. Stephens, Spencer Klein, S. Westerhoff, P. B. Price, Thomas Meures, L. Gladstone, J. J. Beatty, D. Seckel, O. Tarasova, A. Piegsa, Jenni Adams, M. Danninger, A. R. Fazely, P. A. Toale, Klas Hultqvist, N. Milke, C. Ha, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, M. Merck, H. Landsman, M. L. Benabderrahmane, D. Rutledge, S. Yoshida, J. Posselt, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, Stijn Buitink, T. O. B. Schmidt, George Japaridze, J.-P. Hülß, T. Kowarik, Christian Spiering, Carsten Rott, P. Roth, R. Nahnhauer, Dave Nygren, H. S. Matis, S. H. Seo, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Knops, Justin Vandenbroucke, R. J. Lauer, M. Bissok, O. Engdegård, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, A. Tamburro, Takao Kuwabara, N. Kitamura, D. Wahl, K. Mase, Reina H. Maruyama, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Wolfgang Rhode, Karen Andeen, D. Berley, C. De Clercq, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, B. Voigt, Xinhua Bai, Christopher Wiebusch, Xianwu Xu, R. Morse, P. Robl, B. Christy, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, L. Demirörs, J. L. Kelley, Laura C. Bradley, P. Zarzhitsky, P. Berghaus, S. Schlenstedt, O. Depaepe, G. Kroll, Markus Ahlers, K. Rawlins, R. Wischnewski, E. Blaufuss, S. Euler, S. Stoyanov, Dmitry Chirkin, R. Lehmann, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, A. Van Overloop, C. Terranova, O. Fadiran, G. W. Sullivan, Alexander Kappes, A.C. Pohl, Damian Pieloth, H. Wissing, J. Lünemann, S. M. Movit, R. Porrata, James Madsen, T. Krings, D. Hubert, Elisa Resconi, Nathan Whitehorn, E. A. Strahler, J. Berdermann, Ph. Herquet, R. C. Bay, R. W. Ellsworth, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, S. Cohen, M. Ono, D. J. Boersma, T. DeYoung, J. L. Bazo Alba, Kael Hanson, J. K. Becker, T. Abu-Zayyad, J. W. Nam, Hermann Kolanoski, A. Schultes, L. Köpke, T. Straszheim, Pratik Majumdar, H. G. Sander, S. Odrowski, A. Homeier, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, C. Colnard, M. M. Foerster, Larissa Paul, Aya Ishihara, S. Bechet, T. Feusels, Steven W. Barwick, S.J. Lafebre, P. Redl, J. E. Jacobsen, Teresa Montaruli, P. Sandstrom, Allan Hallgren, Paolo Desiati, J. Auffenberg, L. Gerhardt, Rasha Abbasi, Chun Xu, R. Ganugapati, K. Hoshina, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Karl-Heinz Kampert, D. F. Cowen, Kirill Filimonov, Glenn Spiczak, Chris Wendt, Albrecht Karle, M. Kowalski, M. Ribordy, Chad Finley, Subir Sarkar, U. Naumann, A. Silvestri, K. H. Becker, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, J. Petrovic, R. M. Gunasingha, Michael Stamatikos, K. Meagher, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, S. Panknin, Y. Abdou, Fabian Kislat, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Timo Karg, D. Z. Besson, J. Haugen, M. Schunck, C. Roucelle, K. Kuehn, D. Bertrand, M. Wallraff, M. Gurtner, B. D. Fox, Dirk Lennarz, Henrik J. Johansson, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, Anna Franckowiak, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, D. Tosi, Gerald Przybylski, M. Inaba, K. Han, Olga Botner, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, Cherenkov, ddc:530, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Cosmic rays, Cherenkov radiation, Physics, Ice, PMT, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Photonics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business
Abstract: Over 5,000 PMTs are being deployed at the South Pole to compose the IceCube neutrino observatory. Many are placed deep in the ice to detect Cherenkov light emitted by the products of high-energy neutrino interactions, and others are frozen into tanks on the surface to detect particles from atmospheric cosmic ray showers. IceCube is using the 10-inch diameter R7081-02 made by Hamamatsu Photonics. This paper describes the laboratory characterization and calibration of these PMTs before deployment. PMTs were illuminated with pulses ranging from single photons to saturation level. Parameterizations are given for the single photoelectron charge spectrum and the saturation behavior. Time resolution, late pulses and afterpulses are characterized. Because the PMTs are relatively large, the cathode sensitivity uniformity was measured. The absolute photon detection efficiency was calibrated using Rayleigh-scattered photons from a nitrogen laser. Measured characteristics are discussed in the context of their relevance to IceCube event reconstruction and simulation efforts., 40 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2016
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3. THE TAIWAN-AMERICAN OCCULTATION SURVEY PROJECT STELLAR VARIABILITY. I. DETECTION OF LOW-AMPLITUDE δ SCUTI STARS

Author: Nicholas J. Wright, Matthew J. Lehner, Byeong-Cheol Lee, Shiang-Yu Wang, Megan E. Schwamb, K. H. Cook, H. C. Lin, R. Porrata, T. S. Axelrod, S. L. Marshall, Rahul Dave, John Rice, Dong-Woo Kim, Jaemann Kyeong, Charles Alcock, C.-Y. Wen, Wen Ping Chen, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Federica B. Bianco, N. K. Coehlo, Typhoon Lee, J.-H. Wang, Yong-Ik Byun, S. K. King, and Pavlos Protopapas
Subjects: Physics, Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm, media_common.quotation_subject, Fast Fourier transform, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Occultation, Stars, Amplitude, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, 020204 information systems, 0103 physical sciences, Magnitude (astronomy), 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Variable star, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common
Abstract: We analyzed data accumulated during 2005 and 2006 by the Taiwan-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) in order to detect short-period variable stars (periods of
Published: 2010
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4. NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY AND COSMIC RAYS AT THE SOUTH POLE: LATEST RESULTS FROM AMANDA AND PERSPECTIVES FOR ICECUBE

Author: P. Ekström, P. Berghaus, M. Kestel, T. DeYoung, D. Z. Besson, T. J. Sumner, R. H. Minor, A. R. Fazely, S. Böser, Kael Hanson, S. Patton, P. Niessen, I. Taboada, R. G. Stokstad, T. Castermans, Carlos Pena-Garay, K. Hultqvist, R. Wischnewski, R. Hardtke, J. K. Becker, C. Pérez de los Heros, T. Becka, Yi Wang, Paolo Desiati, D. R. Nygren, P. O. Hulth, D. Steele, R. W. Ellsworth, T. Hauschildt, Johan Lundberg, S. Schlenstedt, T. Straszheim, Adam Bouchta, J. L. Kelley, Christian Bohm, David A. Schneider, Allan Hallgren, H. Wissing, P. Miocinovic, D.W. Atlee, Kyle T. Mandli, J. Cavin, J. W. Nam, George Japaridze, R. Ganugapati, D. Hays, L. Thollander, D. F. Cowen, A. Achterberg, Jodi Cooley, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, R. Porrata, Marek Kowalski, A. Silvestri, R. Paulos, S. H. Seo, T. Stezelberger, J. Yeck, Elisa Resconi, Hakki Ögelman, A. C. Pohl, Pawel Marciniewski, H. Leich, J. Pretz, P. B. Price, Peter Mészáros, S. Stoyanov, R. Ehrlich, D. Seckel, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, S. Hundertmark, M. Krasberg, M. Hellwig, H. G. Sander, B. Collin, K. Rawlins, Heiko Geenen, Torsten Harenberg, D. Hardtke, M. Ribordy, K. Helbing, Kurt Woschnagg, R. Koch, I. Liubarsky, Christian Spiering, Ph. Olbrechts, C. T. Day, J. Hodges, James Madsen, Paul Evenson, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, S. Richter, J. Rodríguez Martino, C. H. Wiebusch, K. Münich, N. Langer, C. De Clercq, A. W. Jones, John Clem, Soebur Razzaque, L. Gerhardt, Dmitry Chirkin, M. Solarz, Olga Botner, S. Yoshida, T. Neunhöffer, Albrecht Karle, T. Messarius, Anna Davour, Justin Vandenbroucke, Elisa Bernardini, M. Bartelt, A. J. Smith, R. M. Gunasingha, J. Ahrens, Y. Minaeva, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, W. R. Edwards, R. Morse, N. Kitamura, D. Bertrand, William Carithers, R. Schwarz, C.P. Burgess, M. Walter, T. Burgess, Todor Stanev, Janet Jacobsen, J. A. Coarasa, R. Nahnhauer, R. C. Bay, H. Miyamoto, Xinhua Bai, John N. Bahcall, Jean Gallagher, Glenn Spiczak, S. R. Klein, A. Gross, L. C. Voicu, G. Kohnen, Othmane Bouhali, B. Hughey, K. H. Sulanke, Michael Stamatikos, D. Turčan, C. Walck, J. M. Joseph, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Wolfgang Wagner, K. Kuehn, W. Chinowsky, N. van Eijndhoven, K. Schinarakis, Gerald Przybylski, H. S. Matis, Matthias Leuthold, P. Herquet, P. Steffen, J. E. Sopher, Francis Halzen, Jan Conrad, T. Feser, O. Tarasova, K. Hoshina, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Hubert, L. Köpke, J. Bergmans, S. Tilav, K. H. Kampert, H. Kawai, C. P. McParland, E. Kujawski, A. Goldschmidt, K.-H. Becker, and H. Albrecht
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Coincidence, law.invention, Telescope, Neutrino detector, law, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino
Abstract: The AMANDA neutrino telescope has been in operation at the South Pole since 1996. The present final array configuration, operational since 2000, consists of 677 photomultiplier tubes arranged in 19 strings, buried at depths between 1500 and 2000 m in the ice. The most recent results on a multi-year search for point sources of neutrinos will be shown. The study of events triggered in coincidence with the surface array SPASE and AMANDA provided a result on cosmic ray composition. Expected improvements from IceCube/IceTop will also be discussed.
Published: 2005
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5. Propagation of muon induced Cherenkov photons through a diffusive medium

Author: R. Porrata
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Point source, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Neutrino, Light scattering, Cherenkov radiation, Analytic function, Computational physics
Abstract: Analytic functions are derived that describe the arrival time distribution of photons (photoelectrons) induced by the passage of a high energy muon through a detector containing a Cherenkov medium that has scattering and absorptive properties. These functions, derived in the diffusive approximation, are as yet the best analytic descriptions of photon propagation from a moving point source of photons. As such, usage of these functions within the context of likelihood or other reconstruction algorithms will increase the pointing accuracy of neutrino telescopes that are embedded in ice or submerged in water.
Published: 2005
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6. Results from the AMANDA neutrino telescope

Author: P. Niessen, I. Taboada, Y. Minaeva, C.P. Burgess, D. Bertrand, P. Ekström, K. Rawlins, T. Becka, James Madsen, M. Kestel, J. L. Kelley, C. P. McParland, T. DeYoung, P. B. Price, T. Burgess, T. Neunhöffer, M. Ribordy, A. Karle, A. Goldschmidt, S. Böser, Elisa Resconi, Gerald Przybylski, R. Porrata, Kurt Woschnagg, A. Silvestri, D. Steele, Glenn Spiczak, D. F. Cowen, A. Gross, L. Gerhardt, Dmitry Chirkin, T. Messarius, D. J. Boersma, Torsten Harenberg, Othmane Bouhali, Ph. Olbrecht, Hakki Ögelman, B. Hughey, J. W. Nam, Matthias Leuthold, D. R. Nygren, M. Solarz, K. Helbing, Kyle T. Mandli, P. Steffen, J. Rodríguez Martino, R. C. Bay, Jan Conrad, T. Feser, S. Tilav, R. Nahnhauer, J. Ahrens, C. H. Wiebusch, R. Ganugapati, C. Walck, R. Hardtke, J. K. Becker, Olga Botner, L. Thollander, T. Hauschildt, David A. Schneider, C. Spiering, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, M. Bartelt, P. Miocinovic, Adam Bouchta, C.P. de los Heros, Allan Hallgren, G. C. Hill, K. Münich, Heiko Geenen, Xinhua Bai, K.-H. Becker, T. Castermans, K. Hultqvist, H. Albrecht, C. De Clercq, Karl-Heinz Sulanke, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, S. Hundertmark, James E. Braun, M. Walter, Ph. Herquet, Kael Hanson, Yi Wang, Paolo Desiati, M. Krasberg, H. Leich, S. Schlenstedt, Joseph T. Hodges, H. S. Matis, Francis Halzen, K. Kuehn, K. Schinarakis, Jodi Cooley, S. Richter, M. Hellwig, H. G. Sander, B. Collin, D. Hubert, I. Liubarsky, L. Köpke, R. Morse, K. H. Kampert, R. Schwarz, Wolfgang Rhode, M. Kowalski, Elisa Bernardini, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, Michael Stamatikos, P. O. Hulth, H. Wissing, Wolfgang Wagner, A. C. Pohl, Pawel Marciniewski, Anna Davour, and Janet Jacobsen
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Dark matter, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, law.invention, Telescope, Neutrino detector, law, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino
Abstract: The Amanda neutrino telescope at the South Pole has been taking data since 1996. Stepwise upgraded, it reached its final stage in January 2000. We present results from the search for extraterrestrial neutrinos, neutrinos from dark matter annihilation and magnetic monopoles.
Published: 2004
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7. Measurement of the cosmic ray composition at the knee with the SPASE-2/AMANDA-B10 detectors

Author: T. Messarius, M. Solarz, A. Silvestri, Freddy Binon, T. Burgess, S. Böser, J. P Dewulf, P. B. Price, A. C. Pohl, Y. Minaeva, R. Schwarz, Hakki Ögelman, J. Rodríguez Martino, Kyle T. Mandli, I. Taboada, D. Bertrand, T. O. B. Schmidt, J. Ahrens, K. Rawlins, D. J. Boersma, A. Biron, Kurt Woschnagg, P. Ekström, R. Nahnhauer, M. Hellwig, Matthias Leuthold, Paul Evenson, D. R. Nygren, E. Andres, H. G. Sander, P. Steffen, C. P. McParland, Dmitry Chirkin, Michael Stamatikos, James Madsen, Jan Conrad, T. Feser, R. Porrata, T. DeYoung, Staffan Carius, I. Liubarsky, M. Ribordy, Xinhua Bai, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, Gerald Przybylski, Glenn Spiczak, D. Ross, R. Engel, K.-H. Becker, K. H. Sulanke, B. Hughey, T. Neunhöffer, R. Hardtke, T. Becka, M. Gaug, James Kim, Albrecht Karle, R. Morse, R. C. Bay, P. Niessen, Todor Stanev, Yajun Wang, S. Schlenstedt, R. Ganugapati, D. Hubert, C. Wiedemann, Olga Botner, D. Steele, C. Walck, Ph. Herquet, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, D. F. Cowen, Marek Kowalski, P. Miocinovic, Kael Hanson, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, L. Köpke, Paolo Desiati, Ph. Olbrechts, H. Leich, C. Pérez de los Heros, T. Castermans, Wolfgang Rhode, C. De Clercq, Christopher Wiebusch, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, Othmane Bouhali, W. Wu, David A. Schneider, G. C. Hill, Heiko Geenen, Pawel Marciniewski, Anna Davour, Janet Jacobsen, Wolfgang Wagner, P. O. Hulth, H. Wissing, Elisa Bernardini, Jim Hinton, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, P. Lindahl, Christian Spiering, S. Hundertmark, K. Rochester, K. Kuehn, Alan Watson, J. I. Lamoureux, K. Schinarakis, Jodi Cooley, T. Hauschildt, K. Hultqvist, S. Young, T. Miller, J. Lloyd-Evans, Adam Bouchta, S. Richter, H. S. Matis, Allan Hallgren, Francis Halzen, E. Dickinson, and Elisa Resconi
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays, Mass composition, Neutrino astronomy, Atomic mass, Air shower, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Neutrino, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: The mass composition of high-energy cosmic rays at energies above 1015 eV can provide crucial information for the understanding of their origin. Air showers were measured simultaneously with the SPASE-2 air shower array and the AMANDA-B10 Cherenkov telescope at the South Pole. This combination has the advantage to sample almost all high-energy shower muons and is thus a new approach to the determination of the cosmic ray composition. The change in the cosmic ray mass composition was measured versus existing data from direct measurements at low energies. Our data show an increase of the mean log atomic mass 〈lnA〉 by about 0.8 between 500 TeV and 5 PeV. This trend of an increasing mass through the "knee" region is robust against a variety of systematic effects. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Published: 2004
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8. Muon track reconstruction and data selection techniques in AMANDA

Author: P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, C. Pérez de los Heros, T. Becka, M. Kestel, Kurt Woschnagg, T. DeYoung, Dmitry Chirkin, Staffan Carius, D. Steele, S. Böser, Jodi Cooley, Matthias Leuthold, Elisa Bernardini, D. R. Nygren, R. Ganugapati, P. Herquet, D. F. Cowen, Marek Kowalski, P. Steffen, M. Solarz, Jan Conrad, T. Feser, S. Richter, I. Taboada, T. Castermans, H. S. Matis, K. Rawlins, M. Hellwig, P. Miocinovic, Yajun Wang, H. G. Sander, Francis Halzen, Michael Stamatikos, S. Schlenstedt, C. P. McParland, R. Hardtke, Markus Gaug, B. Collin, D. J. Boersma, James Madsen, C. Wiedemann, A. Goldschmidt, I. Liubarsky, David A. Schneider, A. Silvestri, J. P Dewulf, G. C. Hill, R. G. Stokstad, C. H. Wiebusch, Hakki Ögelman, R. Wischnewski, P. Lindahl, Christian Spiering, Y. Minaeva, R. C. Bay, K.-H. Becker, M. Ribordy, K. Helbing, Heiko Geenen, R. Nahnhauer, J. Rodríguez Martino, K. Kuehn, K. Schinarakis, T. Burgess, Othmane Bouhali, T. Messarius, R. Morse, L. Gerhardt, J. Ahrens, Ph. Olbrechts, K. Münich, K. Hultqvist, T. Neunhöffer, Albrecht Karle, A. Biron, Glenn Spiczak, Xinhua Bai, J. W. Nam, L. Thollander, B. Hughey, H. Leich, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, R. Schwarz, Kael Hanson, Paolo Desiati, R. Porrata, A. C. Pohl, Gerald Przybylski, K. H. Sulanke, Olga Botner, D. Bertrand, C. De Clercq, S. W. Barwick, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Torsten Harenberg, Elisa Resconi, J. K. Becker, T. Hauschildt, Adam Bouchta, Allan Hallgren, Ole Streicher, S. Hundertmark, J. I. Lamoureux, P. Niessen, D. Hubert, Axel Groß, L. Köpke, D. Ross, Pawel Marciniewski, Anna Davour, Janet Jacobsen, Wolfgang Wagner, P. O. Hulth, H. Wissing, Wolfgang Rhode, and P. Ekström
Subjects: Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array, Physics, AMANDA, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Neutrino astrophysics, Neutrino telescope, Track reconstruction, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Muon neutrino, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Instrumentation, Lepton
Abstract: The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a high-energy neutrino telescope operating at the geographic South Pole. It is a lattice of photo-multiplier tubes buried deep in the polar ice between 1500m and 2000m. The primary goal of this detector is to discover astrophysical sources of high energy neutrinos. A high-energy muon neutrino coming through the earth from the Northern Hemisphere can be identified by the secondary muon moving upward through the detector. The muon tracks are reconstructed with a maximum likelihood method. It models the arrival times and amplitudes of Cherenkov photons registered by the photo-multipliers. This paper describes the different methods of reconstruction, which have been successfully implemented within AMANDA. Strategies for optimizing the reconstruction performance and rejecting background are presented. For a typical analysis procedure the direction of tracks are reconstructed with about 2 degree accuracy., 40 pages, 16 Postscript figures, uses elsart.sty
Published: 2004
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9. Calibration and survey of AMANDA with the SPASE detectors

Author: G. M. Splczak, Yajun Wang, S. Schlenstedt, P. Niessen, D. Bertrand, C. Wiedemann, I. Taboada, R. C. Bay, L. Gerhardt, P. Ekström, David A. Schneider, Ph. Herquet, T. Becka, C. Pérez de los Heros, Xinhua Bai, T. Messarius, G. C. Hill, Kael Hanson, C. Wiebusch, S. Böser, Todor Stanev, Staffan Carius, K. Rawlins, R. Schwarz, Ph. Olbrechts, Heiko Geenen, Matthias Leuthold, D. R. Nygren, M. Gaug, James Madsen, Paolo Desiati, K. H. Sulanke, D. Steele, P. Steffen, Jodi Cooley, R. Porrata, R. Ganugapati, C. P. McParland, R. Engel, A. Biron, Elisa Bernardini, Hakki Ögelman, Jan Conrad, T. Feser, Kyle T. Mandli, D. F. Cowen, S. Young, Marek Kowalski, P. B. Price, Jim Hinton, A. Goldschmidt, Gerald Przybylski, A. Silvestri, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. Ribordy, M. Hellwig, H. G. Sander, Kurt Woschnagg, L. Köpke, Paul Evenson, B. Hughey, T. Neunhöffer, James Kim, Albrecht Karle, Y. Minaeva, R. Hardtke, Dmitry Chirkin, R. G. Stokstad, K.-H. Becker, R. Wischnewski, S. Richter, I. Liubarsky, J. Rodríguez Martino, Ch. Weinheimer, H. Leich, T. DeYoung, Othmane Bouhali, P. Miocinovic, Wolfgang Rhode, J. Ahrens, A. C. Pohl, Michael Stamatikos, W. Wu, R. Morse, D. Ross, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, K. Kuehn, K. Schinarakis, H. S. Matis, Freddy Binon, T. Burgess, Francis Halzen, Olga Botner, P. Lindahl, Christian Spiering, K. Rochester, Alan Watson, P. O. Hulth, H. Wissing, Wolfgang Wagner, M. Solarz, Pawel Marciniewski, T. Hauschildt, Anna Davour, J. Lloyd-Evans, Janet Jacobsen, K. Hultqvist, Adam Bouchta, Allan Hallgren, P. Romenesko, Elisa Resconi, D. Martello, T. Castermans, C. De Clercq, S. W. Barwick, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, S. Hundertmark, J. I. Lamoureux, T. C. Miller, and P. Doksus
Subjects: Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Detector, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Particle detector, Air shower, Neutrino detector, Cosmic rays, Neutrino telescopes, Coincident, Instrumentation
Abstract: We report on the analysis of air showers observed in coincidence by the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino detector array (AMANDA-B10) and the South Pole Air Shower Experiment (SPASE-1 and SPASE-2). We discuss the use of coincident events for calibration and survey of the deep AMANDA detector as well as the response of AMANDA to muon bundles. This analysis uses data taken during 1997 when both SPASE-1 and SPASE-2 were in operation to provide a stereo view of AMANDA. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Published: 2004
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10. Fast CCD Photometry in the Taiwan-America Occultation Survey

Author: K. H. Cook, C. Liang, Z. W. Zhang, Yong-Ik Byun, C.-Y. Wen, Typhoon Lee, S. K. King, S. L. Marshall, Jack J. Lissauer, A. Wang, R. Porrata, Matthew J. Lehner, I. de Pater, Shiang-Yu Wang, Charles Alcock, J. Giammarco, Rahul Dave, John Rice, and Wen Ping Chen
Subjects: Physics, Solar System, Astronomy, Observational techniques, Astronomy and Astrophysics, QB1-991, solar system, Methods observational, Occultation, methods, Photometry (optics), kuiper belt objects, photometric, Space and Planetary Science, observational, techniques, Remote sensing
Abstract: We describe the efforts of the Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) project to develop a data acquisition and analysis scheme for fast CCD imaging photometry. The TAOS project aims to conduct a census of the Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs) by detecting chance stellar occultation events by these small bodies in the outer reach of the solar system. An array of telescopes, each with fast optics (f/2) of 0.5 m aperture and equipped with a 2K CCD camera (3 square degrees FOV), have been set up in central Taiwan to monitor a couple thousand stars simultaneously. By reading out the CCD chip sequentially a few rows of pixels at a time (pause-and-shift), it is possible to achieve stellar photometry with a sampling rate up to several hertz. Here we report how such a setup has been used to observe the SX Phoenicis type variable CY Aqr to illustrate the potential usefulness of the TAOS database in stellar variability studies.
Published: 2003

11. TAOS: The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey

Author: R. Porrata, J. Giammarco, John Rice, C.-Y. Wen, Yong-Ik Byun, Wen Ping Chen, Matthew J. Lehner, S. K. King, A. Wang, Jack J. Lissauer, Jeffrey D. Goldader, K. H. Cook, Shiang-Yu Wang, Rahul Dave, I. de Pater, Charles Alcock, S. L. Marshall, and Typhoon Lee
Subjects: Stars, Planetary science, Pixel, Ccd camera, Space and Planetary Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monitoring system, Occultation, Geology, Remote sensing
Abstract: The Taiwanese—American Occultation Survey (TAOS) seeks to determine the number and size spectrum for small (~ 3 km) bodies in the Kuiper Belt. This will be accomplished by searching for the brief occultations of bright stars (R ~ 14) by these objects. We have designed and built a special purpose photometric monitoring system for this purpose. TAOS comprises four 50 cm telescopes, each equipped with a 2048 × 2048 pixel CCD camera, in a compact array located in the central highlands of Taiwan. TAOS will monitor up to 3, 000 stars at 5 Hz. The system will go into scientific operation at the end of 2003.
Published: 2003
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12. Status of the AMANDA experiment

Author: P. Ekström, S. Hundertmark, L. Gray, D. M. Lowder, G. C. Hill, Lars Bergström, E. Andres, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, Staffan Carius, P. Askebjer, T. Miller, D. R. Nygren, P. Lindahl, D. F. Cowen, Steven W. Barwick, P. B. Price, A. Richards, R. Schwarz, Adam Bouchta, C. Pérez de los Heros, Allan Hallgren, Kurt Woschnagg, E. Schneider, C. H. Wiebusch, A. W. Jones, R. Porrata, Ole Streicher, E. Dalberg, R. Morse, A. Karle, R. C. Bay, S. P. Hart, J. E. Jacobsen, V. Kandahai, A. Biron, I. Liubarsky, C. Spiering, P. Niessen, Francis Halzen, C. Walck, H. Rubinstein, G. B. Yodh, Pawel Marciniewski, Yuan He, P. O. Hulth, R. Wischnewski, Caroline Costa, T. Thon, D. Potter, T. Mikolajski, and Ariel Goobar
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, High energy, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Neutrino telescope, Detector, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, law.invention, Telescope, Neutrino detector, Transmission (telecommunications), law, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: The AMANDA high energy neutrino telescope has successfully been increased in size from four detector strings to ten detector springs during the 1996/1997 season. The first upward going muon-neutrino candidates have been reconstructed from the 1996 year's four-string data. Three new detector strings will be deployed during 1997/1998 to 2350 metres depth.
Published: 1999
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13. The AMANDA neutrino telescope

Author: E.C. Andrés, P. Askebjer, S.W. Barwick, R.C. Bay, L. Bergström, A. Biron, J. Booth, O. Botner, A. Bouchta, S. Carius, M. Carlson, W. Chinowsky, D. Chirkin, J. Conrad, C.G.S. Costa, D. Cowen, E. Dalberg, T. DeYoung, J. Edsjö, P. Ekström, A. Goobar, L. Gray, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, R. Hardtke, S. Hart, Y. He, C.P. de los Heros, G. Hill, P.O. Hulth, S. Hundertmark, J. Jacobsen, A. Jones, V. Kandhadai, A. Karle, J. Kim, H. Leich, M. Leuthold, P. Lindahl, I. Liubarsky, P. Loaiza, D. Lowder, P. Marciniewski, T.C. Miller, P. Miocinovic, P.C. Mock, R. Morse, M. Newcomer, P. Niessen, D. Nygren, R. Porrata, D. Potter, P.B. Price, G. Przybylski, W. Rhode, S. Richter, J. Rodriguez, P. Romenesko, D. Ross, H. Rubinstein, T. Schmidt, E. Schneider, R. Schwarz, U. Schwendicke, G. Smoot, M. Solarz, V. Sorin, C. Spiering, P. Steffen, R. Stokstad, O. Streicher, I. Taboada, T. Thon, S. Tilav, C. Walck, C.H. Wiebusch, R. Wischnewski, K. Woschnagg, W. Wu, G. Yodh, and S. Young
Subjects: Particle physics, High energy, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Neutrino telescope, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), law, Physics, Muon, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Detector, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Early results, Space and Planetary Science, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino
Abstract: With an effective telescope area of order $10^4$ m$^2$ for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near $\sim$50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe early results on the calibration of natural deep ice as a particle detector as well as on AMANDA's performance as a neutrino telescope., Comment: 12 pages, Latex2.09, uses espcrc2.sty and epsf.sty, 13 postscript files included. Talk presented at the 18th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 98), Takayama, Japan, June 1998
Published: 1998
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14. Calibration and survey of AMANDA with the SPASE detectors

Author: J. Ahrens, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, R. C. Bay, T. Becka, K. H. Becker, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, F. Binon, A. Biron, S. Boser, O. Botner, A. Bouchta, O. Bouhali, T. Burgess, S. Carius, T. Castermans, D. C.h.i.r.k.i.n.J. Conrad, J. Cooley, D. F. Cowen, A. Davour, C. De Clercq, T. DeYoung, P. Desiati, J. P. Dewulf, E. Dickinson, P. Doksus, P. Ekstrom, R. Engel, P. Evenson, T. Feser, T. K. Gaisser, R. Ganugapati, M. Gaug, H. Geenen, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, R. Hardtke, T. Hauschildt, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G. C. Hill, J. A. Hinton, B. Hughey, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hundertmark, J. Jacobsen, A. Karle, J. Kim, L. Kopke, M. Kowalski, K. Kuehn, J. I. Lamoureux, H. Leich, M. Leuthold, P. Lindahl, I. Liubarsky, J. Lloyd Evans, J. Madsen, K. Mandli, P. Marciniewski, H. S. Matis, C. P. McParland, T. Messarius, T. C. Miller, Y. Minaeva, P. MioWinovic, P. C. Mock, R. Morse, T. Neunhoffer, P. Niessen, D. R. Nygren, H. O. gelman, P.h. Olbrechts, C. Perez de los Heros, A. C. Pohl, R. Porrata, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, S. Richter, K. Rochester, J. Rodrıguez Martino, P. Romenesko, D. Ross, H. G. Sander, T. Schmidt, K. Schinarakis, S. Schlenstedt, D. Schneider, R. Schwarz, A. Silvestri, M. Solarz, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, D. Steele, P. Steffen, R. G. Stokstad, K. H. Sulanke, I. Taboada, S. Tilav, C. Walck, W. Wagner, Y. R. Wang, A. A. Watson, C. Weinheimer, C. H. Wiebusch, C. Wiedemann, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, W. Wu, G. Yodh, S. Young, MARTELLO, Daniele, J., Ahren, X., Bai, S. W., Barwick, R. C., Bay, T., Becka, K. H., Becker, E., Bernardini, D., Bertrand, F., Binon, A., Biron, S., Boser, O., Botner, A., Bouchta, O., Bouhali, T., Burge, S., Cariu, T., Casterman, Conrad, D. C. h. i. r. k. i. n. J., J., Cooley, D. F., Cowen, A., Davour, C., De Clercq, T., Deyoung, P., Desiati, J. P., Dewulf, E., Dickinson, P., Doksu, P., Ekstrom, R., Engel, P., Evenson, T., Feser, T. K., Gaisser, R., Ganugapati, M., Gaug, H., Geenen, L., Gerhardt, A., Goldschmidt, A., Hallgren, F., Halzen, K., Hanson, R., Hardtke, T., Hauschildt, M., Hellwig, P., Herquet, G. C., Hill, J. A., Hinton, B., Hughey, P. O., Hulth, K., Hultqvist, S., Hundertmark, J., Jacobsen, A., Karle, J., Kim, L., Kopke, M., Kowalski, K., Kuehn, J. I., Lamoureux, H., Leich, M., Leuthold, P., Lindahl, I., Liubarsky, J., Lloyd Evan, J., Madsen, K., Mandli, P., Marciniewski, Martello, Daniele, H. S., Mati, C. P., Mcparland, T., Messariu, T. C., Miller, Y., Minaeva, P., Miowinovic, P. C., Mock, R., Morse, T., Neunhoffer, P., Niessen, D. R., Nygren, H. O., Gelman, Olbrechts, P. h., C., Perez de los Hero, A. C., Pohl, R., Porrata, P. B., Price, G. T., Przybylski, K., Rawlin, E., Resconi, W., Rhode, M., Ribordy, S., Richter, K., Rochester, J., Rodrıguez Martino, P., Romenesko, D., Ro, H. G., Sander, T., Schmidt, K., Schinaraki, S., Schlenstedt, D., Schneider, R., Schwarz, A., Silvestri, M., Solarz, G. M., Spiczak, C., Spiering, M., Stamatiko, T., Stanev, D., Steele, P., Steffen, R. G., Stokstad, K. H., Sulanke, I., Taboada, S., Tilav, C., Walck, W., Wagner, Y. R., Wang, A. A., Watson, C., Weinheimer, C. H., Wiebusch, C., Wiedemann, R., Wischnewski, H., Wissing, K., Woschnagg, W., Wu, G., Yodh, and S., Young
Subjects: Neutrino telescopes, Cosmic ray
Abstract: We report on the analysis of air showers observed in coincidence by the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino detector array (AMANDA-B10) and the South Pole Air Shower Experiment (SPASE-1 and SPASE-2). We discuss the use of coincident events for calibration and survey of the deep AMANDA detector as well as the response of AMANDA to muon bundles. This analysis uses data taken during 1997 when both SPASE-1 and SPASE-2 were in operation to provide a stereo view of AMANDA.
Published: 2004

15. IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae ( Corrigendum )

Author: J. W. Nam, D. R. Nygren, T. Abu-Zayyad, S. Odrowski, R. Ström, C. Pérez de los Heros, J. Auffenberg, K. Mase, Thomas Meures, M. Labare, P. Berghaus, P. B. Price, C. Ha, S. Euler, S. Panknin, C. Wendt, M. Merck, Christian Spiering, S. Seunarine, Ch. Weaver, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, T. O. B. Schmidt, Larissa Paul, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Henrik J. Johansson, M. L. Benabderrahmane, F. Descamps, A. Tepe, M. Kowalski, Chad Finley, Naoko Kurahashi, M. Danninger, Aongus O'Murchadha, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, D. Berley, Justin Vandenbroucke, R. Franke, C. Walck, G. C. Hill, J. L. Bazo Alba, Timo Karg, M. J. Larson, D. Rutledge, H. Köhne, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, T. Kowarik, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Damian Pieloth, A. M. Brown, Michael J. Baker, D. Bertrand, T. Griesel, A. Marotta, T. Feusels, T. R. Wood, Fabian Kislat, D. Z. Besson, Xinhua Bai, M. Schunck, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, Martin Wolf, K. Andeen, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, A. Silvestri, D. Seckel, K. Wiebe, J. E. Jacobsen, L. Köpke, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Jenni Adams, Takao Kuwabara, F. Clevermann, Q. Swillens, Marcos Santander, M. Voge, Markus Ahlers, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, F. Rothmaier, P. A. Toale, K.-H. Becker, Matt Dunkman, Simona Toscano, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, J. P. Yanez, L. Gerhardt, R. W. Ellsworth, K. Rawlins, A. Schönwald, N. Milke, George Japaridze, R. Porrata, B. Christy, A. Olivas, K. Hultqvist, T. Fischer-Wasels, James Madsen, Seth M. Cohen, Darren Grant, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, G. W. Sullivan, A. Piegsa, A. Ishihara, Nathan Whitehorn, D. Altmann, O. Engdegård, Dmitry Chirkin, J. J. Beatty, J. S. Gallagher, K. Meagher, Anatoli Fedynitch, D. J. Boersma, A. Franckowiak, S. Bechet, D. Tosi, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, I. Taboada, A. Schultes, T. Stanev, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Dirk Ryckbosch, J. Feintzeig, L. Demirörs, Elisa Resconi, M. Richman, K. H. Kampert, P. Redl, Teresa Montaruli, C. Colnard, J. Berdermann, B. Hoffmann, Peter Mészáros, B. Ruzybayev, Carsten Rott, R. J. Lauer, M. M. Allen, S. Hussain, R. Nahnhauer, M. Stamatikos, A. Hajismail, J. Miller, M. Bissok, M. Wallraff, D. J. Koskinen, H. Taavola, C. De Clercq, T. Degner, J. K. Becker, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, S. Hickford, Douglas Cowen, Gerald Przybylski, K. Beattie, Xianwu Xu, A. S. Richard, C. Bohm, S. Böser, David A. Williams, A. Van Overloop, R. G. Stokstad, Markus Ackermann, M. Zoll, A. Goldschmidt, J. van Santen, O. Schulz, R. Wischnewski, J.-P. Hülß, L. Schulte, S. W. Barwick, M. Gurtner, S. Westerhoff, Donglian Xu, H. S. Matis, Kirill Filimonov, A. Homeier, M. Vehring, Axel Groß, Thorsten Glusenkamp, Segev BenZvi, J. Blumenthal, S. M. Movit, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Posselt, K. Han, M. Stüer, A. Tamburro, Spencer Klein, E. Jakobi, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, Allan Hallgren, W. Huelsnitz, H. G. Sander, Sandro Kopper, J. Daughhetee, J. Petrovic, A. Karle, Subir Sarkar, O. Fadiran, Olga Botner, K. Hoshina, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, K. Singh, A. H. Cruz Silva, Chun Xu, Glenn Spiczak, K. Helbing, V. Baum, S. H. Seo, A. Stößl, U. Naumann, Wolfgang Rhode, Stijn Buitink, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, R. Morse, Reina H. Maruyama, Dariusz Gora, B. D. Fox, J. Lünemann, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, M. Dierckxsens, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, N. van Eijndhoven, H. Wissing, G. Kroll, Daniel Bindig, Kael Hanson, Paolo Desiati, Rasha Abbasi, M. Krasberg, S. Yoshida, E. A. Strahler, Hermann Kolanoski, H. Landsman, R. Hellauer, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, M. V. D'Agostino, J. P. Rodrigues, and T. Stezelberger
Subjects: Physics, Supernova, Low energy, Web of science, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Instrumentation (computer programming), Sensitivity (control systems), Neutrino
Abstract: Keywords: neutrinos ; supernovae: general ; instrumentation: detectors ; errata ; addenda Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-198916doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117810eView record in Web of Science Record created on 2014-05-19, modified on 2017-05-12
Published: 2014
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16. UV and optical light transmission properties in deep ice at the South Pole

Author: H. Rubinstein, Ariel Goobar, P. O. Hulth, P. Askebjer, B. Erlandsson, Lars Bergström, S. Hundertmark, Staffan Carius, H. Heukenkamp, R. Wischnewski, R. Porrata, E. Dalberg, L. Gray, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, A. Karle, Francis Halzen, J. E. Jacobsen, I. Liubarsky, D. M. Lowder, Ch. Spiering, Th. Thon, E. Schneider, Q. Sun, V. Kandhadai, A. Richards, S. W. Barwick, C. Walck, G. B. Yodh, P. B. Price, Adam Bouchta, Allan Hallgren, Ole Streicher, Thomas F. Miller, and R. Morse
Subjects: Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array, Physics, business.industry, Gamma ray, Scattering length, Laser, Light scattering, law.invention, Wavelength, Geophysics, Optics, law, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, business, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Order of magnitude
Abstract: Both absorption and scattering of light at wavelengths 410 to 610 nanometers were measured in the South Pole ice at depths 0.8 to 1 kilometer with the laser calibration system of the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA). At the shortest wavelengths the absorption lengths exceeded 200 meters - an order of magnitude longer than has been reported for laboratory ice. The absorption shows a strong wavelength dependence while the scattering length is found to be independent of the wavelength, consistent with the hypothesis of a residual density of air bubbles in the ice. The observed linear decrease of the inverse scattering length with depth is compatible with an earlier measurement by the AMANDA collaboration (at ∼515 nanometers).
Published: 1997
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17. Status of the AMANDA and BAIKAL neutrino telescopes

Author: P. Askebjer, S.W. Barwick, R. Bay, L. Bergström, A. Bouchta, S. Carius, E. Dahlberg, K. Engel, B. Erlandsson, A. Goobar, L. Gray, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, H. Heukenkamp, P.O. Hulth, S. Hundertmark, J. Jacobsen, S. Johansson, V. Kandhadai, A. Karle, I. Liubarsky, D. Lowder, T. Mikolajski, T.C. Miller, P. Mock, R. Morse, D. Nygren, R. Porrata, P.B. Price, A. Richards, H. Rubinstein, E. Schneider, C. Spiering, O. Streicher, Q. Sun, T. Thon, S. Tilav, C. Walck, C. Wiebusch, R. Wischnewski, G. Yodh, I.A. Belolaptikov, L.B. Bezrukov, B.A. Borisovets, N.M. Budnev, A.G. Chensky, I.A. Danilchenko, Zh.-A.M. Djilkibaev, V.I. Dobrynin, G.V. Domogatsky, A.A. Doroshenko, S.V. Fialkovsky, O.N. Gaponenko, A.A. Garus, T.A. Gress, S.B. Ignat'ev, A.M. Klabukov, A.I. Klimov, S.I. Klimushin, A.P. Koshechkin, V.F. Kulepov, L.A. Kuzmichev, B.K. Lubsandorzhiev, M.B. Milenin, R.R. Mirgazov, A.V. Moroz, N.I. Moseiko, S.A. Nikiforov, E.A. Osipova, D. Pandel, A.I. Panfilov, Yu.V. Parfenov, A.A. Pavlov, D.P. Petukhov, K.A. Pocheikin, P.G. Pokhil, P.A. Pokolev, M.I. Rosanov, V.Yu. Rubzov, S.I. Sinegovsky, I.A. Sokalski, Ch. Spiering, and B.A. Tarashansky
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Neutrino, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Published: 1997
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18. Optical Properties of the South Pole Ice at Depths Between 0.8 and 1 Kilometer

Author: I. Liubarsky, P. B. Price, D. M. Lowder, J. E. Jacobsen, Lars Bergström, Staffan Carius, K. Engel, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, Ariel Goobar, L. Gray, P. O. Hulth, C. Walck, G. B. Yodh, Adam Bouchta, E. Schneider, B. Erlandsson, Allan Hallgren, Q. Sun, Francis Halzen, A. Coulthard, V. Kandhadai, Steven W. Barwick, R. Morse, R. Porrata, Thomas F. Miller, P. Askebjer, A. Richards, Sverker Johansson, and H. Rubinstein
Subjects: Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array, Physics, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Scattering, Attenuation length, Particle detector, Core (optical fiber), Optics, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, business, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract: The optical properties of the ice at the geographical South Pole have been investigated at depths between 0.8 and 1 kilometer. The absorption and scattering lengths of visible light ( approximately 515 nanometers) have been measured in situ with the use of the laser calibration setup of the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) neutrino detector. The ice is intrinsically extremely transparent. The measured absorption length is 59 +/- 3 meters, comparable with the quality of the ultrapure water used in the Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven and Kamiokande proton-decay and neutrino experiments and more than twice as long as the best value reported for laboratory ice. Because of a residual density of air bubbles at these depths, the trajectories of photons in the medium are randomized. If the bubbles are assumed to be smooth and spherical, the average distance between collisions at a depth of 1 kilometer is about 25 centimeters. The measured inverse scattering length on bubbles decreases linearly with increasing depth in the volume of ice investigated.
Published: 1995
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19. AMANDA: status report from the 1993-94 campaign and optical properties of the South Pole ice

Author: P. B. Price, Ariel Goobar, J. E. Jacobsen, I. Liubarsky, R. Porrata, C. Walck, Staffan Carius, G. B. Yodh, Q. Sun, L. Gray, Adam Bouchta, P. Askebjer, Allan Hallgren, S. W. Barwick, B. Erlandsson, Thomas F. Miller, K. Engel, A. Coulthard, Lars Bergström, A. Richards, Francis Halzen, R. Morse, Sverker Johansson, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, E. Schneider, H. Rubinstein, V. Kandhadai, D. M. Lowder, and P. O. Hulth
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Photon, business.industry, Detector, Attenuation length, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Optics, Volume (thermodynamics), Inverse scattering problem, Density of air, Neutrino, business, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract: We report the first results of the AMANDA detector. During the antarctic summer 1993-94 four strings were deployed between 0.8 an 1 km depth, each equipped with 20 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). A laser source was used to investigate the optical properties of the ice in situ. We find that the ice is intrinsically extremely transparent. The measured absorption length is 59 ± 3 m, i.e. comparable with the quality of the ultra-pure water used in the IMB and Kamiokande proton-decay and neutrino experiments [1,2] and more than two times longer than the best value reported for laboratory ice [3]. Due to a residual density of air bubbles at these depths, the motion of photons in the medium is randomized. For spherical, smooth bubbles we find that, at 1 km depth, the average distance between collisions is about 25 cm. The measured inverse scattering length on bubbles decreases linearly with increasing depth in the volume of ice investigated.
Published: 1995
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20. The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore

Author: T. Griesel, K. Wiebe, Carsten Rott, Dave Nygren, J. Miller, M. Bissok, Xianwu Xu, S. Boeser, C. Ha, K. Rawlins, P. Berghaus, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Jay Gallagher, J. K. Becker, R. Nahnhauer, Q. Swillens, Christian Bohm, Aongus O'Murchadha, James Madsen, Jon Dumm, S. Euler, T. Waldenmaier, Thomas Meures, Joanna Kiryluk, A. Stoessl, M. Kowalski, M. Danninger, T. Kowarik, C. Walck, R. Ström, J. Petrovic, A. Olivas, A. Gross, Ignacio Taboada, Teresa Montaruli, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, K. Andeen, M. V. D'Agostino, Timo Karg, Chris Wendt, M. Stamatikos, Damian Pieloth, M. Labare, P. B. Price, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, M. J. Larson, M. Merck, A. M. Brown, Takao Kuwabara, A. Tamburro, Xinhua Bai, Markus Ahlers, Allan Hallgren, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. Richman, Fabian Kislat, B. Christy, S. Seunarine, R. Porrata, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, T. R. Wood, Seth M. Cohen, N. Milke, George Japaridze, R. J. Lauer, W. Huesnitz, Nathan Whitehorn, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, C. De Clercq, T. Degner, Tim Ruhe, D. Rutledge, M. Walter, Peter Mészáros, O. Engdegård, Kurt Woschnagg, Klas Hultqvist, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, J. A. Goodman, D. Z. Besson, R. Wischnewski, B. Semburg, H. G. Sander, K. Helbing, Markus Ackermann, A. Schultes, Segev BenZvi, Paul Evenson, J. Feintzeig, S. Westerhoff, C. Colnard, Spencer Klein, Aya Ishihara, H. Wissing, A. Marotta, Larissa Paul, Chun Xu, J. Auffenberg, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, M. Stueer, Daniel Bindig, B. Hoffmann, F. Descamps, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Dmitry Chirkin, H. Taavola, K. Beattie, Albrecht Karle, A. Silvestri, Christian Spiering, A. Tepe, A. H. Cruz Silva, Stijn Buitink, A. Piegsa, Ch. Weaver, O. Schulz, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, S. H. Seo, Dariusz Gora, Hermann Kolanoski, R. Franke, K. Han, Elisa Resconi, Alexander Kappes, A. Franckowiak, Matt Dunkman, K. Mase, J. Berdermann, D. Altmann, K. Meagher, Kael Hanson, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, T. Fischer-Wasels, Justin Vandenbroucke, Chad Finley, R. Morse, G. W. Sullivan, Wolfgang Rhode, M. Schunck, D. Berley, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, S. M. Movit, R. Hellauer, T. Abu-Zayyad, Rasha Abbasi, H. Landsman, Dirk Ryckbosch, J. P. Huelss, Martin Wolf, S. Bechet, T. Gluesenkamp, L. Demiroers, M. M. Allen, S. Hussain, Simona Toscano, J. H. Koehne, F. Rothmaier, A. Van Overloop, R. W. Ellsworth, Steven W. Barwick, F. Clevermann, P. Redl, D. J. Koskinen, Donglian Xu, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Darren Grant, M. Olivo, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, A. Goldschmidth, M. Ribordy, J. P. Yanez, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, F. A. Fedynitch, Jenni Adams, S. Panknin, J. L. Bazo Alba, J. Luenemann, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, J. J. Beatty, S. Tilav, T. Feusels, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, J. Dreyer, Subir Sarkar, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, R. G. Stokstad, J. Posselt, Y. Abdou, L. Gerhardt, K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, J. W. Nam, Glenn Spiczak, Reina H. Maruyama, D. Bose, E. Jacobi, U. Naumann, Paolo Desiati, K. H. Becker, D. J. Boersma, J. Blumenthal, H. S. Matis, E. A. Strahler, G. C. Hill, Michael J. Baker, L. Gladstone, Dirk Heinen, D. Seckel, S. Miarecki, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, R. C. Bay, J. van Santen, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, M. Krasberg, Olga Botner, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, Henrik J. Johansson, S. Yoshida, N. van Eijndhoven, G. Kroll, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, D. Tosi, Gerald Przybylski, M. Zoll, A. Haj Ismail, B. D. Fox, Naoko Kurahashi, D. Bertrand, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, M. Gurtner, S. Odrowski, M. Dierckxsens, B. Ruzybayev, C. Pérez de los Heros, Physics, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Antartica, Generator, Astrophysics, Neutrino telescope, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Antarctica, DeepCore, Detector, IceCube, Neutrino, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Ice, ICE, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), GENERATOR, Supernova, Air shower, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, ddc:540, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The IceCube neutrino observatory in operation at the South Pole, Antarctica, comprises three distinct components: a large buried array for ultrahigh energy neutrino detection, a surface air shower array, and a new buried component called DeepCore. DeepCore was designed to lower the IceCube neutrino energy threshold by over an order of magnitude, to energies as low as about 10 GeV. DeepCore is situated primarily 2100 m below the surface of the icecap at the South Pole, at the bottom center of the existing IceCube array, and began taking physics data in May 2010. Its location takes advantage of the exceptionally clear ice at those depths and allows it to use the surrounding IceCube detector as a highly efficient active veto against the principal background of downward-going muons produced in cosmic-ray air showers. DeepCore has a module density roughly five times higher than that of the standard IceCube array, and uses photomultiplier tubes with a new photocathode featuring a quantum efficiency about 35% higher than standard IceCube PMTs. Taken together, these features of DeepCore will increase IceCube's sensitivity to neutrinos from WIMP dark matter annihilations, atmospheric neutrino oscillations, galactic supernova neutrinos, and point sources of neutrinos in the northern and southern skies. In this paper we describe the design and initial performance of DeepCore., Comment: 22 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2012
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21. Background studies for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole

Author: T. Denger, H. Taavola, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, K. Han, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, J. J. Beatty, B. Semburg, A. Piegsa, M. Krasberg, C. Pérez de los Heros, H. Wissing, K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, Glenn Spiczak, J. Posselt, Daniel Bindig, S. M. Movit, J. Auffenberg, U. Naumann, S. Yoshida, J. M. Clem, P. Zarzhitsk, A. Van Overloop, Ch. Weaver, Reina H. Maruyama, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, O. Depaepe, P. B. Price, Chad Finley, T. Griesel, M. Ono, S. Stoyanov, K.-H. Becker, J. L. Bazo Alba, Peter Mészáros, M. Kowalski, J. Luenemann, K. Rawlins, T. Feusels, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, L. Gerhardt, Larissa Paul, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, D. Bose, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. Danninger, K. Wiebe, T. Fischer-Wasels, James Madsen, A. Schukraft, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, Segev BenZvi, D. Z. Besson, Spencer Klein, T. Kowarik, A. Marotta, Thomas Meures, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, R. C. Bay, J. M. Joseph, M. Ribordy, H. S. Matis, E. A. Strahler, Kurt Woschnagg, N. van Eijndhoven, Dirk Ryckbosch, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Paul Evenson, Teresa Montaruli, P. Roth, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, M. J. Larson, Albrecht Karle, D. Tosi, J. P. Rodrigues, Anatoli Fedynitch, Stijn Buitink, T. Stezelberger, P. Niessen, A. Tamburro, D. Turcan, M. Dierckxsens, Jenni Adams, Christian Spiering, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, Fabian Kislat, Xinhua Bai, S. Boeser, Justin Vandenbroucke, I. Taboada, Francis Halzen, C. Ha, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, R. Morse, K. Mase, J. L. Kelley, O. Fadiran, M. Merck, G. Kroll, Markus Ahlers, K. Meagher, B. D. Fox, Wolfgang Rhode, M. L. Benabderrahmane, J. Dreyer, T. Abu-Zayyad, A. Franckowiak, S. Seunarine, Y. Abdou, Carsten Rott, J. Miller, J. P. Huelss, Ph. Herquet, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, A. Stoessl, M. Bissok, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, R. G. Stokstad, D. Rutledge, S. Bechet, R. Porrata, Pratik Majumdar, Gerald Przybylski, J. van Santen, R. Wischnewski, P. Redl, D. Heinen, Xianwu Xu, Martin Wolf, C. Colnard, C. Bohm, K. Laihem, M. Stamatikos, M. Olivo, T. Straszheim, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, D. Bertrand, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, L. Demiroers, J. K. Becker, Takao Kuwabara, Kael Hanson, J. Petrovic, H. G. Sander, B. Christy, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, Chun Xu, F. Rothmaier, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, A. Ishihara, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, A. Schultes, P. Berghaus, Timo Karg, B. Ruzybayev, M. M. Foerster, Rasha Abbasi, M. Wallraff, J. Blumenthal, A. Goldschmidt, S. Euler, M. Voge, J. C. Gallagher, M. Gurtner, Darren Grant, S. Panknin, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, M. Stüer, A. M. Brown, Paolo Desiati, Allan Hallgren, J. A. Goodman, Sandro Kopper, N. Milke, Olga Botner, George Japaridze, O. Engdegård, Aongus O'Murchadha, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, Henrik J. Johansson, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, T. Gluesenkamp, Simona Toscano, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, R. W. Ellsworth, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Michael J. Baker, J. W. Nam, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, S. H. Seo, Subir Sarkar, D. R. Nygren, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, S. Odrowski, D. J. Boersma, S.J. Lafebre, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, J. Daughhetee, J. H. Koehne, F. Clevermann, J. P. Yanez, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, Q. Swillens, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, David A. Williams, S. W. Barwick, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, F. Descamps, A. Tepe, R. Franke, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, A. Gross, M. Labare, A. Silvestri, Karen Andeen, R. Nahnhauer, M. Schunck, K. Kuehn, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, T. Krings, Hermann Kolanoski, H. Landsman, M. V. D'Agostino, and Elementary Particle Physics
Subjects: Signals, TELESCOPE, Absolute noise level, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, law.invention, IceCube, Telescope, Acoustic neutrino detection, Neutrino flux limit, law, SIGNALS, 0103 physical sciences, WATER, Detection theory, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Acoustic neutrino detector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Water, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geodesy, Noise, Neutrino detector, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, ddc:540, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The detection of acoustic signals from ultra-high energy neutrino interactions is a promising method to measure the tiny flux of cosmogenic neutrinos expected on Earth. The energy threshold for this process depends strongly on the absolute noise level in the target material. The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS), deployed in the upper part of four boreholes of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has monitored the noise in Antarctic ice at the geographic South Pole for more than two years down to 500 m depth. The noise is very stable and Gaussian distributed. Lacking an in-situ calibration up to now, laboratory measurements have been used to estimate the absolute noise level in the 10 to 50 kHz frequency range to be smaller than 20 mPa. Using a threshold trigger, sensors of the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup registered acoustic pulse-like events in the IceCube detector volume and its vicinity. Acoustic signals from refreezing IceCube holes and from anthropogenic sources have been used to localize acoustic events. Monte Carlo simulations of sound propagating from the established sources to the SPATS sensors have allowed to check corresponding model expectations. An upper limit on the neutrino flux at energies $E_��> 10^{11}$ GeV is derived from acoustic data taken over eight months., 17 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2012
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22. Erratum: Constraints on the extremely-high energy cosmic neutrino flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 data [Phys. Rev. D83, 092003 (2011)]

Author: J. A. Aguilar, Dariusz Gora, T. Denger, H. Taavola, C. Colnard, J.-P. Hülß, A. Tepe, K.-H. Becker, T. Fischer-Wasels, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, J. C. Davis, H. S. Matis, I. Taboada, K. Han, Pratik Majumdar, Thorsten Glusenkamp, A. Tamburro, M. Vehring, A. Piegsa, C. Ha, Marek Kowalski, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, P. B. Price, D. Turcan, T. O. B. Schmidt, J. J. Beatty, T. R. Wood, Paul Evenson, Francis Halzen, X. Bai, H. Landsman, C. B. Finley, J. Auffenberg, Dmitry Chirkin, S. M. Movit, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Dirk Ryckbosch, R. Ehrlich, O. Fadiran, Q. Swillens, J. Posselt, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Stijn Buitink, D. Heinen, O. Schulz, W. Huelsnitz, S. H. Seo, M. Gurtner, Ch. Weaver, G. Stephens, Henrik J. Johansson, A. Van Overloop, S. Westerhoff, S. Sarkar, K. Helbing, M. Labare, M. Ribordy, P. Zarzhitsky, A. Stössl, J. Petrovic, D. Z. Besson, P. Berghaus, J. van Santen, Carsten Rott, M. Bissok, N. van Eijndhoven, K. Mase, Christian Spiering, S. Euler, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Xianwu Xu, M. Dierckxsens, Axel Groß, Y. Sestayo, Reina H. Maruyama, Surujhdeo Seunarine, A. Marotta, C. Bohm, Justin Vandenbroucke, Damian Pieloth, T. Krings, Chun Xu, D. Hubert, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, J. M. Joseph, A. M. Brown, Paraic A. Kenny, D. Bertrand, M. Ono, E. A. Strahler, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, P. Nießen, Larissa Paul, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Ishihara, F. Clevermann, Jenni Adams, P. Herquet, J. L. Bazo Alba, Timo Karg, C. H. Wiebusch, T. Stanev, M. Schunck, K. Schatto, S. R. Klein, Martin Wolf, P. O. Hulth, G. Kohnen, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, L. Köpke, Segev BenZvi, P. Roth, Hermann Kolanoski, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, S. Hickford, M. Stamatikos, R. G. Stokstad, R. J. Lauer, M. Wallraff, M. Voge, B. Semburg, D. Rutledge, R. Wischnewski, J.-H. Köhne, F. Rothmaier, R. Morse, T. Feusels, H. Wissing, K. D. Hoffman, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, C. De Clercq, G. W. Sullivan, J. P. Rodrigues, Darren Grant, Anatoli Fedynitch, James E. Braun, D. Tosi, G. Kroll, Daniel Bindig, T. Straszheim, Marcos Santander, M. Stür, A. Schönwald, O. Depaepe, B. D. Fox, J. W. Nam, T. Stezelberger, K. H. Kampert, K. Wiebe, S. Böser, S. W. Barwick, Wolfgang Rhode, J. S. Miller, K. Beattie, K. Rawlins, S. Stoyanov, K. Meagher, L. Gerhardt, A. Olivas, T. Griesel, S. Odrowski, S. Bechet, C. Wendt, James Madsen, J. Lünemann, D. R. Nygren, A. Goldschmidt, P. Redl, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, R. C. Bay, K. Woschnagg, F. Descamps, Gerald Przybylski, Michael J Larson, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Janet Jacobsen, M. M. Foerster, Teresa Montaruli, Kirill Filimonov, Kael Hanson, R. Franke, C. Walck, J. Blumenthal, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Olga Botner, Anna Franckowiak, Rasha Abbasi, Paolo Desiati, M. Krasberg, S. Yoshida, K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, D. F. Cowen, U. Naumann, A. O'Murchadha, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, S. Panknin, Fabian Kislat, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Nathan Whitehorn, A. Homeier, J. Daughhetee, A. Karle, B. Ruzybayev, P. Meszaros, Markus Ahlers, R. Porrata, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, A. Schultes, J. M. Clem, Jon Dumm, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, T. Kowarik, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Matthias Danninger, J. D. Eisch, O. Engdegård, M. D. Baker, A. Silvestri, David R. Williams, J. S. Gallagher, Karen Andeen, R. Nahnhauer, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, J. K. Becker, H. G. Sander, Thomas Meures, M. Merck, L. Demirörs, A. R. Fazely, J. L. Kelley, Simona Toscano, R. W. Ellsworth, Allan Hallgren, T. Kuwabara, M. V. D'Agostino, Sandro Kopper, S.J. Lafebre, and A. Rizzo
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Massless particle, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation flux, COSMIC cancer database, Neutrino detector, Flux, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Neutrino, Lepton
Published: 2011
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23. First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

Author: F. Clevermann, K. Mase, J. Blumenthal, K. Han, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, D. Z. Besson, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, Hg Sander, G. W. Sullivan, H. Wissing, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, Daniel Bindig, Olga Botner, C. Pérez de los Heros, M. Krasberg, T. Straszheim, D. J. Boersma, Rasha Abbasi, S. Panknin, A. Piegsa, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, S. Seunarine, H. Taavola, J. M. Clem, J. M. Joseph, Peter Mészáros, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, P. B. Price, S.J. Lafebre, D. Rutledge, A. Gross, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, T. O. B. Schmidt, Stijn Buitink, S. Yoshida, Joanna Kiryluk, D. Tosi, Ph. Herquet, Timo Karg, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, M. Kowalski, J. Auffenberg, Christian Spiering, O. Depaepe, K. Rawlins, Larissa Paul, S. H. Seo, Gerald Przybylski, R. Morse, M. Danninger, H. S. Matis, K. Hoshina, S. M. Movit, S. Stoyanov, S. Bechet, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, L. Koepke, Thomas Meures, Aongus O'Murchadha, T. Fischer-Wasels, Kael Hanson, Justin Vandenbroucke, Henrik J. Johansson, Glenn Spiczak, Albrecht Karle, James Madsen, A. Van Overloop, K. Beattie, Ch. Weaver, M. Labare, T. Griesel, T. Krings, M. Merck, Dmitry Chirkin, T. Kowarik, A. Silvestri, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, A. Schukraft, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, K. Meagher, O. Fadiran, O. Schulz, Chun Xu, J. W. Nam, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Martin Wolf, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, E. A. Strahler, K. Laihem, J. van Santen, K. Wiebe, U. Naumann, Dirk Ryckbosch, Teresa Montaruli, K. Schatto, P. Redl, K. H. Becker, J. J. Beatty, M. Ono, M. V. D'Agostino, G. Kohnen, D. R. Nygren, A. Tamburro, Chad Finley, F. Rothmaier, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Paolo Desiati, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, B. Voigt, J. L. Bazo Alba, Karen Andeen, T. Gluesenkamp, Simona Toscano, S. Odrowski, Xinhua Bai, O. Engdegård, J. Luenemann, K. H. Kampert, N. van Eijndhoven, T. Abu-Zayyad, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, R. W. Ellsworth, Darren Grant, M. Stamatikos, J. Posselt, Michael J. Baker, L. Demiroers, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, T. Feusels, Hermann Kolanoski, M. Voge, Pratik Majumdar, Carsten Rott, C. Ha, Elisa Resconi, M. J. Larson, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, J. Berdermann, A. Marotta, Kirill Filimonov, J. Miller, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Fabian Kislat, G. Kroll, J. K. Becker, M. Dierckxsens, L. Gerhardt, R. Nahnhauer, J-P Huelss, Reina H. Maruyama, L. Gladstone, P. Roth, A. Goldschmidt, R. Lehmann, M. Bissok, Subir Sarkar, Segev BenZvi, Spencer Klein, D. Seckel, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, R. Porrata, M. M. Foerster, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, Anatoli Fedynitch, J. C. Gallagher, Takao Kuwabara, D. Bertrand, A. Franckowiak, Xianwu Xu, R. Ehrlich, B. Christy, G. Stephens, A. Olivas, A. Ishihara, Allan Hallgren, C. Bohm, S. Westerhoff, A. R. Fazely, O. Tarasova, Tyce DeYoung, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, S. Hussain, Sandro Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, A. Schultes, Kara Hoffman, D. Heinen, C. Colnard, H. Landsman, P. Niessen, S. Boeser, Yolanda Sestayo de la Cerra, J. Dreyer, I. Taboada, Y. Abdou, M. Wallraff, M. Gurtner, Wolfgang Rhode, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, B. D. Fox, P. Berghaus, S. Euler, A. Homeier, David A. Williams, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, A. M. Brown, S. W. Barwick, Christopher Wiebusch, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, J. Daughhetee, F. Descamps, J-H Koehne, A. Tepe, R. Franke, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Q. Swillens, B. Ruzybayev, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, M. Schunck, Jenni Adams, K. Kuehn, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, J. Petrovic, M. Olivo, and J. A. Goodman
Subjects: HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, SELECTION, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High-energy neutrinos, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Cosmic ray, Elementary particle, Astrophysics, Particle detector, IceCube, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), SCATTERING, ddc:530, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, SPECTRUM, ICE, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Massless particle, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino detector, AMANDA-II, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lepton
Abstract: We report on the first search for atmospheric and for diffuse astrophysical neutrino-induced showers (cascades) in the IceCube detector using 257 days of data collected in the year 2007-2008 with 22 strings active. A total of 14 events with energies above 16 TeV remained after event selections in the diffuse analysis, with an expected total background contribution of $8.3\pm 3.6$. At 90% confidence we set an upper limit of $E^2\Phi_{90%CL}, Comment: 14 pages, 16 figures
Published: 2011
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24. Constraints on the extremely-high energy cosmic neutrino flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 data

Author: S. Bechet, T. Abu-Zayyad, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, P. Redl, F. Clevermann, M. Olivo, Pratik Majumdar, B. Ruzybayev, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, A. Piegsa, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, N. Milke, George Japaridze, O. Engdegård, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, Larissa Paul, A. Gross, A. Stössl, Albrecht Karle, A. Schönwald, K. Meagher, Thomas Meures, Elisa Resconi, J. Berdermann, Peter Mészáros, K. Rawlins, A. Homeier, M. Merck, J. Auffenberg, C. Ha, Christopher Wiebusch, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Denger, B. D. Fox, J. K. Becker, M. Diercksens, Dariusz Gora, Jon Dumm, Segev BenZvi, H. Taavola, J. Daughhetee, A. Van Overloop, N. van Eijndhoven, P. B. Price, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, Ch. Weaver, K.-H. Becker, J. van Santen, Spencer Klein, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, M. Kowalski, Takao Kuwabara, Q. Swillens, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, K. Hoshina, T. O. B. Schmidt, James Madsen, M. M. Foerster, J. M. Joseph, Aongus O'Murchadha, M. Danninger, T. Fischer-Wasels, B. Christy, J. C. Gallagher, A. Ishihara, Chad Finley, D. Z. Besson, T. R. Wood, Glenn Spiczak, Kara Hoffman, K. Han, R. Ehrlich, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, A. Silvestri, T. Kowarik, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, A. Olivas, U. Naumann, Michael J. Baker, Allan Hallgren, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Stijn Buitink, L. Gladstone, Sandro Kopper, D. Seckel, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, M. Ono, D. Bertrand, M. Voge, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, P. A. Toale, Teresa Montaruli, Karen Andeen, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, Dmitry Chirkin, J. L. Bazo Alba, G. Kroll, A. Tamburro, Anatoli Fedynitch, Wolfgang Rhode, Simona Toscano, Xinhua Bai, S. M. Movit, R. Morse, Dirk Ryckbosch, Christian Spiering, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, R. W. Ellsworth, C. Pérez los de Heros, John Clem, I. Taboada, P. Berghaus, M. Wallraff, Todor Stanev, T. Feusels, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, M. Labare, Ph. Herquet, C. Wendt, Justin Vandenbroucke, J. L. Kelley, M. Gurtner, S. Euler, M. J. Larson, F. Descamps, S. H. Seo, J. E. Jacobsen, D. Heinen, H. Landsman, Marcos Santander, C. Colnard, J.-P. Hülß, R. Nahnhauer, Fabian Kislat, Markus Ahlers, H. G. Sander, A. Tepe, L. Gerhardt, T. Glüsenkamp, Subir Sarkar, J. Dreyer, Carsten Rott, A. Marotta, Kael Hanson, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, A. M. Brown, R. Franke, C. Walck, H. A. B. Johansson, S. Seunarine, J. Miller, Chun Xu, Martin Wolf, H. S. Matis, M. Bissok, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, A. Franckowiak, P. Roth, Y. Abdou, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, D. Rutledge, R. Porrata, D. J. Boersma, L. Köpke, Xianwu Xu, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, F. Rothmaier, D. Turcan, C. Bohm, Francis Halzen, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, M. Ribordy, S.J. Lafebre, L. Demirörs, R. J. Lauer, M. V. D'Agostino, Darren Grant, P. Nießen, Paolo Desiati, M. Stamatikos, P. Zarzhitsky, C. De Clercq, S. Böser, David A. Williams, S. W. Barwick, O. Fadiran, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, A. Goldschmidt, Yolanda Sestayo de la Cerra, T. Griesel, Jenni Adams, K. Wiebe, A. Schultes, M. Krasberg, T. Krings, E. A. Strahler, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, Hermann Kolanoski, J. Petrovic, S. Yoshida, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, T. Straszheim, Timo Karg, Rasha Abbasi, W. Huelsnitz, J. W. Nam, D. R. Nygren, S. Odrowski, K. Helbing, K. Mase, S. Panknin, M. Schunck, O. Depaepe, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, S. Stoyanov, B. Semburg, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, Daniel Bindig, M. Stür, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, J. Lünemann, J. Blumenthal, Olga Botner, R. C. Bay, D. Tosi, Gerald Przybylski, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, J. J. Beatty, J. Posselt, and Reina H. Maruyama
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Rays, Astrophysics, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Spectrum, ddc:530, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, SPECTRUM, COSMIC cancer database, RAYS, Massless particle, Neutrino detector, Physics and Astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Lepton
Abstract: We report on a search for extremely-high energy neutrinos with energies greater than $10^6$ GeV using the data taken with the IceCube detector at the South Pole. The data was collected between April 2008 and May 2009 with the half completed IceCube array. The absence of signal candidate events in the sample of 333.5 days of livetime significantly improves model independent limit from previous searches and allows to place a limit on the diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with an $E^{-2}$ spectrum in the energy range $2.0 \times 10^{6}$ $-$ $6.3 \times 10^{9}$ GeV to a level of $E^2 \phi \leq 3.6 \times 10^{-8}$ ${\rm GeV cm^{-2} sec^{-1}sr^{-1}}$., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures. This corresponds to the paper Phys.Rev.D 83, 092003(2011), and its erratum Phys.Rev.D 84, 079902(2011)
Published: 2011
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25. Measurement of acoustic attenuation in South Pole ice

Author: A. Piegsa, P. Roth, L. Gustafsson, J. L. Kelley, K.-H. Becker, Markus Ahlers, Larissa Paul, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, K. Kuehn, K. Beattie, Albrecht Karle, O. Schulz, K. Meagher, T. Krings, K. Mase, Christian Spiering, R. Porrata, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, E. A. Strahler, A. Schukraft, Delia Tosi, S. Hussain, Timo Karg, B. Semburg, S. Knops, Justin Vandenbroucke, J. H. Koehne, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, P. B. Price, Gerald Przybylski, Dirk Ryckbosch, F. Clevermann, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Gross, Dirk Lennarz, Hermann Kolanoski, H. Wissing, A. Schultes, J. M. Clem, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, D. J. Boersma, A. Van Overloop, J. J. Beatty, J. P. Rodrigues, Dj. Koskinen, T. Stezelberger, T. O. B. Schmidt, C. Ha, M. Kowalski, J. P. Yanez, Henrik J. Johansson, M. L. Benabderrahmane, M. Danninger, P. Berghaus, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, S. Panknin, Kurt Woschnagg, F. Rothmaier, Paul Evenson, G. W. Sullivan, S.J. Lafebre, A. Silvestri, S. Euler, M. Stamatikos, Fabian Kislat, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, Darren Grant, H. Landsman, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, Takao Kuwabara, T. Kowarik, B. Christy, A. Tamburro, B. Voigt, Anna Franckowiak, Xinhua Bai, W. Huelsnitz, K. Helbing, Christopher Wiebusch, Dmitry Chirkin, M. V. D'Agostino, K. Schatto, J. Posselt, G. Kohnen, Damian Pieloth, M. Ono, D. Hubert, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, A. Ishihara, Thomas Meures, Karen Andeen, M. Merck, Alexander Kappes, A. Goldschmidt, J. L. Bazo Alba, J. Luenemann, Yolanda Sestayo de la Cerra, L. Demiroers, K. Wiebe, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, R. Nahnhauer, T. Feusels, K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, T. Abu-Zayyad, O. Tarasova, K. Han, J. E. Jacobsen, Glenn Spiczak, Pratik Majumdar, J. K. Becker, Reina H. Maruyama, Carsten Rott, L. Gerhardt, R. Ehrlich, M. Matusik, T. Gluesenkamp, Spencer Klein, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, U. Naumann, Olga Botner, A. Olivas, R. W. Ellsworth, M. Bissok, M. M. Foerster, B. Ruzybayev, R. Ganugapati, Laura C. Bradley, E. Blaufuss, M. R. Duvoort, J. C. Gallagher, D. F. Cowen, Kara Hoffman, R. L. Imlay, S. H. Seo, Xianwu Xu, O. Depaepe, S. Stoyanov, Allan Hallgren, C. Bohm, S. M. Movit, K. Laihem, N. Milke, George Japaridze, David A. Schneider, O. Engdegård, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Michael J. Baker, Elisa Resconi, P. Niessen, L. Gladstone, J. Berdermann, H. S. Matis, D. Seckel, S. Boeser, S. Tilav, I. Taboada, Wolfgang Rhode, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, R. C. Bay, M. Labare, T. Straszheim, J. van Santen, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, D. Turcan, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, S. Bechet, Francis Halzen, P. Redl, P. Zarzhitsky, J. W. Nam, J. P. Huelss, O. Fadiran, Karl-Heinz Kampert, H. G. Sander, Kirill Filimonov, D. R. Nygren, S. Odrowski, Chun Xu, J. M. Joseph, Rasha Abbasi, Peter Mészáros, Stijn Buitink, R. Morse, B. D. Fox, D. Bertrand, M. Wallraff, M. Gurtner, C. Roucelle, D. Z. Besson, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, J. Auffenberg, Chad Finley, C. Colnard, Jenni Adams, Subir Sarkar, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, J. Petrovic, R. M. Gunasingha, A. Slipakaj, R. J. Lauer, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, C. De Clercq, David A. Williams, M. Krasberg, S. W. Barwick, Q. Swillens, S. Yoshida, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, N. van Eijndhoven, M. Ribordy, S. Schlenstedt, G. Kroll, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, R. Lehmann, F. Descamps, Ph. Herquet, A. Tepe, R. Franke, Kael Hanson, C. Walck, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Paolo Desiati, S. Seunarine, D. Rutledge, K. Rawlins, James Madsen, A. Homeier, Teresa Montaruli, M. Schunck, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Tuscaloosa), University of Alabama [Tuscaloosa] (UA), University of Oxford [Oxford], University of Wuppertal, University of Delaware [Newark], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Irvine], University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California-University of California, University of California, Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Dept. of Astronomy, Science Faculty CP230, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas [Lawrence] (KU), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Stockholm University, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, University Park, Technische Universität Dortmund [Dortmund] (TU), École Polytechnique Fédérale, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [PennState], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Utrecht], Utrecht University [Utrecht], Southern University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Physics [Edmonton], University of Alberta, University of Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Christchurch] (DPA), University of Canterbury [Christchurch], Université de Mons (UMons), Chiba University, University of Alaska [Anchorage], University of the West Indies, Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta], Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Acoustic attenuation, Acoustics, Ice, Neutrino astronomy, South Pole, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], ice, FOS: Physical sciences, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], Lambda, 01 natural sciences, neutrino astronomy, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Optics, Spectrum, 0103 physical sciences, acoustics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Attenuation, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Transmitter, Attenuation length, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geodesy, Amplitude, Attenuation coefficient, ddc:540, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, acoustic attenuation
Abstract: Using the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) and a retrievable transmitter deployed in holes drilled for the IceCube experiment, we have measured the attenuation of acoustic signals by South Pole ice at depths between 190 m and 500 m. Three data sets, using different acoustic sources, have been analyzed and give consistent results. The method with the smallest systematic uncertainties yields an amplitude attenuation coefficient alpha = 3.20 \pm 0.57 km^(-1) between 10 and 30 kHz, considerably larger than previous theoretical estimates. Expressed as an attenuation length, the analyses give a consistent result for lambda = 1/alpha of ~1/300 m with 20% uncertainty. No significant depth or frequency dependence has been found., Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures, published in Astroparticle Physics, 2010
Published: 2011
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26. Search for dark matter from the Galactic halo with the IceCube neutrino telescope

Author: Christian Spiering, C. Ha, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Justin Vandenbroucke, Albrecht Karle, B. D. Fox, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, K. Meagher, Takao Kuwabara, T. Straszheim, B. Christy, J. J. Beatty, Martin Wolf, A. Ishihara, John Clem, M. Labare, Peter Mészáros, J. Posselt, P. Niessen, Anatoli Fedynitch, A. Piegsa, A. Marotta, Reina H. Maruyama, Segev BenZvi, Rasha Abbasi, Spencer Klein, S. Boeser, I. Taboada, T. Denger, H. Taavola, Aongus O'Murchadha, W. Huelsnitz, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, N. van Eijndhoven, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, M. Dierckxsens, M. Stüer, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, J. P. Huelss, K. Helbing, O. Tarasova, L. Demiroers, D. Bertrand, K. H. Kampert, M. Stamatikos, R. Porrata, P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, G. Kroll, David A. Williams, Kara Hoffman, N. Milke, George Japaridze, H. S. Matis, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Michael J. Baker, D. Heinen, C. Colnard, Kurt Woschnagg, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, O. Fadiran, L. Gladstone, Timo Karg, M. Schunck, A. Goldschmidt, A. Schultes, Jon Dumm, D. Seckel, M. Voge, Paul Evenson, M. Wallraff, M. Gurtner, J. Auffenberg, Dmitry Chirkin, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, M. Kowalski, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, O. Engdegård, A. Van Overloop, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Elisa Resconi, K. Kuehn, S. H. Seo, M. Danninger, Wolfgang Rhode, Ch. Weaver, F. Rothmaier, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, S. M. Movit, J. Berdermann, T. Kowarik, Karen Andeen, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, Chad Finley, S. W. Barwick, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Tamburro, B. Voigt, J. Petrovic, Xinhua Bai, M. Ono, K. Rawlins, P. Roth, J. L. Bazo Alba, P. Berghaus, M. Krasberg, James Madsen, J. Luenemann, D. Z. Besson, S. Euler, T. Griesel, T. Feusels, T. Abu-Zayyad, K. Wiebe, Q. Swillens, Damian Pieloth, B. Ruzybayev, D. Hubert, A. M. Brown, Pratik Majumdar, J. E. Jacobsen, Marcos Santander, L. Gerhardt, A. Rizzo, Teresa Montaruli, O. Depaepe, S. Stoyanov, S. Yoshida, M. Vehring, D. F. Cowen, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, R. Nahnhauer, A. Homeier, S. Bechet, Christopher Wiebusch, R. C. Bay, P. Redl, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, K.-H. Becker, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, F. Descamps, J. Daughhetee, A. Tepe, Kirill Filimonov, T. Fischer-Wasels, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, J. H. Koehne, R. Franke, C. Walck, F. Clevermann, Dirk Ryckbosch, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, J. K. Becker, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, S. Seunarine, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, D. Rutledge, Carsten Rott, B. Semburg, J. Miller, M. Bissok, Ph. Herquet, Xianwu Xu, C. Bohm, H. Wissing, M. M. Foerster, J. C. Gallagher, Daniel Bindig, Kael Hanson, J. van Santen, Allan Hallgren, Sandro Kopper, Paolo Desiati, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, A. Gross, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, M. V. D'Agostino, A. Silvestri, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, K. Mase, Subir Sarkar, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, Jenni Adams, S. Hickford, A. Schoenwald, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, S. Panknin, J. W. Nam, J. M. Joseph, D. R. Nygren, S. Odrowski, Thomas Meures, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, M. J. Larson, M. Merck, Fabian Kislat, A. Franckowiak, Stijn Buitink, K. Hoshina, L. Koepke, Glenn Spiczak, R. Morse, U. Naumann, T. Gluesenkamp, Simona Toscano, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, R. W. Ellsworth, D. J. Boersma, S.J. Lafebre, H. G. Sander, Chun Xu, Henrik J. Johansson, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, H. Landsman, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Yolanda Sestayo de la Cerra, T. Krings, E. A. Strahler, Hermann Kolanoski, D. Tosi, Gerald Przybylski, J. Blumenthal, K. Han, Olga Botner, and Larissa Paul
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, Galactic halo, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma-Ray Emission, Hot dark matter, Astronomy, Cosmic-Rays, Dark matter halo, Particles, Neutrino detector, Anisotropy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Halo, Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy
Abstract: Self-annihilating or decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo might produce high energy neutrinos detectable with neutrino telescopes. We have conducted a search for such a signal using 276 days of data from the IceCube 22-string configuration detector acquired during 2007 and 2008. The effect of halo model choice in the extracted limit is reduced by performing a search that considers the outer halo region and not the Galactic Center. We constrain any large-scale neutrino anisotropy and are able to set a limit on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section of ⟨σAv⟩≃10-22 cm3 s-1 for weakly interacting massive particle masses above 1 TeV, assuming a monochromatic neutrino line spectrum., Physical Review D ; Volume 84, Issue 2
Published: 2011
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27. RECENT RESULTS FROM AMANDA

Author: W. Wu, E. Schneider, D. M. Lowder, G. C. Hill, D. Schneider, Y. D. He, K. Rawlins, P. Askebjer, P. B. Price, D. Bierenbaum, T. Scheider, T. O. B. Schmidt, James Madsen, M. Hellwig, E. Andres, H. G. Sander, Glenn Spiczak, H. Rubinstein, Kurt Woschnagg, P. Ekström, M. M. Boyce, R. Schwarz, F. M. Newcomer, C. Walck, R. Hardtke, R. Porrata, G. B. Yodh, C. Pérez de los Heros, Albrecht Karle, I. Liubarsky, A. Mihalyi, Staffan Carius, P. Lindahl, R. C. Bay, P. Niessen, S. Young, P. Romenesko, Ariel Goobar, Christian Spiering, N. Starinsky, B. Erlandsson, H. S. Matis, D. Steele, D. F. Cowen, D. Chirkin, S. Hundertmark, A. Biron, Stefan Richter, Marek Kowalski, M. Solarz, T. Mikolajski, S. Tilav, H. Heukenkamp, P. C. Mock, P. Miocinovic, C. H. Wiebusch, J. Ludvig, D. Ross, K. H. Becker, L. Gray, Xinhua Bai, J. Booth, L. Thollander, A. Silvestri, I. Taboada, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, H. Leich, T. C. Miller, R. Morse, J. E. Jacobsen, B. Koci, T. Thon, Lars Bergström, Kael Hanson, J. Rodríguez Martino, Hakki Ögelman, Adam Bouchta, Steven W. Barwick, A. Richards, Francis Halzen, Paolo Desiati, Allan Hallgren, J. P Dewulf, Ole Streicher, T. Neunhöffer, M. Vander Donckt, Olga Botner, V. Kandhadai, Wolfgang Rhode, P. Loaiza, A. Goldschmidt, Y. Minaeva, G. Barouch, M. Gaug, Caroline Costa, Ch. Weinheimer, Matthias Leuthold, D. R. Nygren, P. Steffen, L. Köpke, Jan Conrad, T. Feser, H. Haase, Jodi Cooley, E. Dalberg, D. Bertrand, A. Chen, Joakim Edsjö, Q. Sun, C. Reed, J. Dailing, P. Doksus, Nicholas G. Usechak, J. Kim, T. De Young, P. O. Hulth, H. Wissing, and Pawel Marciniewski
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Charged current
Abstract: We present results based on data taken in 1997 with the 302-PMT Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array-B10 ("AMANDA-B10") array. Atmospheric neutrinos created in the northern hemisphere are observed indirectly through their charged current interactions which produce relativistic, Cherenkov-light-emitting upgoing muons in the South Pole ice cap. The reconstructed angular distribution of these events is in good agreement with expectation and demonstrates the viability of this ice-based device as a neutrino telescope.
Published: 2001
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28. Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

Author: J. W. Nam, Carsten Rott, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, Dave Nygren, J. Miller, S. Seunarine, M. Bissok, S. Odrowski, D. Rutledge, Xianwu Xu, John Clem, J. Petrovic, C. Walck, A. Piegsa, K. Singh, D. Z. Besson, Q. Swillens, T. Krings, A. Van Overloop, K. Mase, E. A. Strahler, M. Ono, J. L. Bazo Alba, T. Feusels, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, D. Bertrand, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, J. E. Jacobsen, M. Labare, Marcos Santander, K. Rawlins, S. Hussain, N. van Eijndhoven, C. Ha, L. Gerhardt, Hermann Kolanoski, D. J. Koskinen, M. V. D'Agostino, M. L. Benabderrahmane, O. Depaepe, H. G. Sander, James Madsen, Klas Hultqvist, S. Stoyanov, T. DeYoung, R. Nahnhauer, J. van Santen, P. B. Price, G. Stephens, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, Jay Gallagher, Ignacio Taboada, S. Panknin, S. Westerhoff, S. Bechet, Chun Xu, Anatoli Fedynitch, Thorsten Glusenkamp, O. Tarasova, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, J. M. Joseph, Axel Groß, F. Descamps, M. Wallraff, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, Takao Kuwabara, M. Stamatikos, T. Straszheim, R. Ehrlich, J. Lünemann, M. Gurtner, Teresa Montaruli, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Tepe, S. Schlenstedt, A. Olivas, B. Christy, P. Redl, Timo Karg, R. C. Bay, Peter Mészáros, G. Kroll, Christian Spiering, R. Franke, T. O. B. Schmidt, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Stijn Buitink, Larissa Paul, M. Ribordy, Tim Ruhe, R. Lehmann, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, J. P. Rodrigues, Jenni Adams, T. Stezelberger, K. Hoshina, Justin Vandenbroucke, W. Huelsnitz, A. Marotta, Glenn Spiczak, Rasha Abbasi, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, H. Landsman, S. H. Seo, Albrecht Karle, J.-P. Hülß, U. Naumann, R. Morse, D. Berley, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, K. H. Becker, Karl-Heinz Kampert, M. Dierckxsens, S. Hickford, Kurt Woschnagg, Kirill Filimonov, B. Ruzybayev, H. S. Matis, Paul Evenson, R. G. Stokstad, K. Helbing, K. Wiebe, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, P. Berghaus, A. Goldschmidt, R. Wischnewski, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, K. Meagher, F. Clevermann, B. D. Fox, D. Turcan, S. Euler, M. J. Larson, B. Semburg, Francis Halzen, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, P. Zarzhitsky, Fabian Kislat, Dmitry Chirkin, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Martin Wolf, O. Fadiran, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, H. Taavola, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, C. Colnard, Aya Ishihara, J. J. Beatty, M. Krasberg, J. Auffenberg, R. J. Lauer, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, Christian Bohm, A. Franckowiak, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, T. Abu-Zayyad, Aongus O'Murchadha, J. Posselt, F. Rothmaier, M. Schunck, Ch. Weaver, C. De Clercq, A. Schukraft, Pratik Majumdar, S. Böser, K. Laihem, L. Köpke, Matthias Geisler, Reina H. Maruyama, Segev BenZvi, M. Matusik, Dirk Ryckbosch, S. Yoshida, Chad Finley, Spencer Klein, Darren Grant, Ph. Herquet, G. W. Sullivan, G. C. Hill, D. F. Cowen, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, S. M. Movit, M. R. Duvoort, Michael J. Baker, Kael Hanson, K. Kuehn, P. Roth, Steven W. Barwick, Wolfgang Rhode, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, Paolo Desiati, A. R. Fazely, P. A. Toale, L. Demirörs, P. Nießen, A. Homeier, Christopher Wiebusch, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, M. Kowalski, M. Danninger, T. Kowarik, A. Tamburro, B. Voigt, Xinhua Bai, M. Voge, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, R. Porrata, Subir Sarkar, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Thomas Meures, A. Schultes, M. Merck, Karen Andeen, Simona Toscano, R. W. Ellsworth, J. K. Becker, D. J. Boersma, S.J. Lafebre, Chris Wendt, M. M. Foerster, A. Silvestri, Allan Hallgren, J. Blumenthal, N. Milke, George Japaridze, K. Han, O. Engdegård, Olga Botner, Elisa Resconi, Henrik J. Johansson, J. Berdermann, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, D. Tosi, and Gerald Przybylski
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Deep Ice, South-Pole, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), ddc:530, Muon neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Flux, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Optical-Properties, Detector, Solar neutrino problem, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Telescopes
Abstract: A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18,000 up-going atmospheric muon neutrino events in IceCube. Boosted decision trees were used for event selection to reject mis-reconstructed atmospheric muons and obtain a sample of up-going muon neutrino events. Background contamination in the final event sample is less than one percent. This is the first measurement of atmospheric neutrinos up to 400 TeV, and is fundamental to understanding the impact of this neutrino background on astrophysical neutrino observations with IceCube. The measured spectrum is consistent with predictions for the atmospheric muon neutrino plus muon antineutrino flux., Comment: 19 pages, 24 figures, added background simulation to distribution plots, clarified a few points in the text
Published: 2010
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29. Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

Author: T. Straszheim, Ph. Herquet, Rasha Abbasi, J. Petrovic, H. Taavola, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, M. Ono, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, P. B. Price, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, B. Semburg, Aongus O'Murchadha, M. Schunck, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, K. Beattie, D. Tosi, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, J. L. Bazo Alba, N. Milke, O. Schulz, Kael Hanson, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, F. Clevermann, George Japaridze, S. Seunarine, D. Rutledge, Michael J. Baker, T. Feusels, M. Voge, Fabian Kislat, L. Gladstone, T. O. B. Schmidt, D. Seckel, Karen Andeen, O. Engdegård, Larissa Paul, J. M. Joseph, J. E. Jacobsen, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, Marcos Santander, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, M. Ribordy, H. Landsman, K. Rawlins, Peter Mészáros, L. Gerhardt, Gerald Przybylski, G. W. Sullivan, C. Roucelle, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, A. Franckowiak, D. Z. Besson, R. J. Lauer, James Madsen, Stijn Buitink, Paolo Desiati, A. Homeier, R. Porrata, Kurt Woschnagg, K. Kuehn, Christopher Wiebusch, J. W. Nam, C. Ha, A. Piegsa, M. Dierckxsens, Elisa Resconi, S. M. Movit, Paul Evenson, G. Stephens, M. L. Benabderrahmane, S. Westerhoff, J. Berdermann, O. Tarasova, K. Hoshina, R. Morse, Teresa Montaruli, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, C. De Clercq, Glenn Spiczak, M. Krasberg, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, J. Dreyer, K. Han, D. R. Nygren, David A. Williams, Christian Spiering, D. Bertrand, A. Schultes, J. M. Clem, Jon Dumm, Jenni Adams, Dmitry Chirkin, Dirk Lennarz, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, S. Bechet, S. W. Barwick, Y. Abdou, S. Odrowski, S. Knops, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, M. Labare, S. Yoshida, Takao Kuwabara, A. Van Overloop, H. G. Sander, Albrecht Karle, Olga Botner, Subir Sarkar, Justin Vandenbroucke, S. Hussain, R. Wischnewski, P. Redl, L. Demirörs, B. Ruzybayev, A. Marotta, D. J. Koskinen, N. van Eijndhoven, J. van Santen, S. Hickford, B. Christy, Chun Xu, A. Ishihara, R. G. Stokstad, M. Danninger, W. Huelsnitz, P. Roth, Axel Groß, M. Wallraff, T. Kowarik, M. Kowalski, Q. Swillens, Martin Wolf, K. Helbing, M. Gurtner, S. Schlenstedt, A. Silvestri, Henrik J. Johansson, G. Kroll, T. Abu-Zayyad, J. K. Becker, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, R. Lehmann, A. Tamburro, B. Voigt, Xinhua Bai, K. Mase, K. Meagher, Pratik Majumdar, B. D. Fox, P. Berghaus, F. Rothmaier, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, M. M. Foerster, J. C. Gallagher, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, S. Böser, S. H. Seo, S. Euler, J.-P. Hülß, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Allan Hallgren, H. S. Matis, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, D. F. Cowen, J. P. Rodrigues, S. Panknin, T. Stezelberger, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, Damian Pieloth, M. V. D'Agostino, D. Hubert, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, F. Descamps, P. Zarzhitsky, A. Tepe, R. Franke, O. Fadiran, C. Pérez de los Heros, C. Walck, L. Köpke, Segev BenZvi, M. Matusik, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Spencer Klein, T. Krings, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, E. A. Strahler, Timo Karg, M. Stamatikos, Wolfgang Rhode, Hermann Kolanoski, G. Wikström, A. Goldschmidt, T. Griesel, K. Wiebe, T. Glüsenkamp, Carsten Rott, J. Miller, K.-H. Becker, M. Bissok, Xianwu Xu, C. Bohm, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Dirk Ryckbosch, I. Taboada, M. R. Duvoort, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, P. Nießen, J. Auffenberg, Ch. Weaver, J. J. Beatty, Nathan Whitehorn, Chad Finley, J. Posselt, Reina H. Maruyama, Laura C. Bradley, C. Colnard, O. Depaepe, S. Stoyanov, J. Lünemann, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, D. J. Boersma, S.J. Lafebre, Thomas Meures, M. Merck, A. R. Fazely, S. Cohen, Simona Toscano, R. W. Ellsworth, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: FLUX, HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, SELECTION, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Field (physics), Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Limits, DEEP, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Lattice, Magnetic monopole, Flux, Field, Astrophysics, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], LIMITS, 0103 physical sciences, DETECTORS, ddc:530, FIELD, 010306 general physics, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), Engineering (miscellaneous), Selection, Cherenkov radiation, Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Detector, ICE, Ice, Deep, Detectors, MODEL, High-Energy Neutrinos, Physics and Astronomy, 13. Climate action, Beta (plasma physics), Speed of light, Model
Abstract: We present the search for Cherenkov signatures from relativistic magnetic monopoles in data taken with the AMANDA-II detector, a neutrino telescope deployed in the Antarctic ice cap at the Geographic South Pole. The non-observation of a monopole signal in data collected during the year 2000 improves present experimental limits on the flux of relativistic magnetic monopoles: Our flux limit varies between 3.8x10(-17) cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) (for monopoles moving at the vacuum speed of light) and 8.8x10(-16) cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) (for monopoles moving at a speed beta=v/c=0.76, just above the Cherenkov threshold in ice). These limits apply to monopoles that are energetic enough to penetrate the Earth and enter the detector from below the horizon. The limit obtained for monopoles reaching the detector from above the horizon is less stringent by roughly an order of magnitude, due to the much larger background from down-going atmospheric muons. This looser limit is however valid for a larger class of magnetic monopoles, since the monopoles are not required to pass through the Earth.
Published: 2010
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30. Limits on a muon flux from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun from the IceCube 22-string detector

Author: C. Pérez de los Heros, B. D. Fox, T. Krings, Jenni Adams, J.-P. Hülß, E. Blaufuss, N. van Eijndhoven, D. Bertrand, J. Tooker, M. Wallraff, M. Gurtner, H. S. Matis, R. Gozzini, J. W. Nam, Hermann Kolanoski, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, A. Tepe, C. Roucelle, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, Thomas Meures, M. Schunck, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, M. C. Stoufer, S. Schlenstedt, D. Turcan, N. Milke, Francis Halzen, George Japaridze, D. R. Nygren, S. Odrowski, R. Ehrlich, S. M. Movit, Laura C. Bradley, M. Merck, K. Wiebe, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, G. Kroll, B. Semburg, C. Terranova, H. Wissing, A. Olivas, P. Roth, O. Fadiran, M. R. Duvoort, R. Lehmann, R. Wischnewski, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, D. Rutledge, S. Panknin, R. Porrata, K. Rawlins, P. Berghaus, O. Depaepe, S. Stoyanov, Ph. Herquet, O. Engdegård, K. Kuehn, Carsten Rott, T. Straszheim, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Christopher Wiebusch, Q. Swillens, Fabian Kislat, Karen Andeen, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, M. Bissok, J. M. Clem, S. Euler, D. Z. Besson, K. Beattie, Jon Dumm, J. van Santen, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, Timo Karg, Kael Hanson, M. Danninger, O. Schulz, Y. Hasegawa, Xianwu Xu, T. Abu-Zayyad, S. Seunarine, L. Demirörs, T. Kowarik, A. Homeier, J. Lünemann, Elisa Resconi, Dirk Lennarz, E. Middell, H. Landsman, R. W. Ellsworth, Elisa Bernardini, R. Nahnhauer, A. Tamburro, C. Bohm, K. Mase, B. Voigt, P. Nießen, Johan Lundberg, Pratik Majumdar, K.-H. Becker, J. Berdermann, Rasha Abbasi, M. Ribordy, Xinhua Bai, Teresa Montaruli, J. Dreyer, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, R. C. Bay, Y. Abdou, B. Ruzybayev, Damian Pieloth, R. L. Imlay, Peter Mészáros, J. Petrovic, M. V. D'Agostino, D. Hubert, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, R. M. Gunasingha, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, W. Huelsnitz, Subir Sarkar, Paolo Desiati, David A. Schneider, R. Ganugapati, A. C. Pohl, C. Ha, J. J. Beatty, T. Castermans, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Dirk Ryckbosch, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, Michael J. Baker, D. F. Cowen, Larissa Paul, K. Helbing, D. Breder, D. J. Boersma, L. Gladstone, C. T. Day, K. Hoshina, D. Seckel, P. B. Price, R. J. Lauer, L. Köpke, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, A. Silvestri, M. Stamatikos, M. Krasberg, Glenn Spiczak, E. A. Strahler, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, C. De Clercq, I. Taboada, David A. Williams, Albrecht Karle, S.J. Lafebre, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, Spencer Klein, T. O. B. Schmidt, C. P. McParland, Reina H. Maruyama, Jens Madsen, S. W. Barwick, A. Wiedemann, O. Tarasova, K. Meagher, J. Auffenberg, M. Kowalski, Todor Stanev, Takao Kuwabara, C. Wendt, A. Goldschmidt, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, J. K. Becker, W. R. Edwards, F. Descamps, H. Miyamoto, S. Hussain, Kurt Woschnagg, D. J. Koskinen, Paul Evenson, R. Franke, C. Walck, A. Lucke, M. M. Foerster, Christian Spiering, B. Christy, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Wolfgang Rhode, J. C. Gallagher, J. M. Joseph, Allan Hallgren, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, S. Bechet, S. Yoshida, A. Ishihara, J. Bolmont, R. Morse, P. Redl, Dmitry Chirkin, Chad Finley, S. Knops, Alexander Kappes, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, Justin Vandenbroucke, F. Rothmaier, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, H. G. Sander, Chun Xu, Karl-Heinz Sulanke, G. W. Sullivan, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, D. Tosi, Gerald Przybylski, M. Inaba, M. Labare, Henrik J. Johansson, Axel Groß, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, Anna Franckowiak, S. H. Seo, N. Potthoff, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, M. Ono, J. L. Bazo Alba, K. Han, T. Feusels, Olga Botner, J. E. Jacobsen, L. Gerhardt, A. Piegsa, S. J. Patton, A. Van Overloop, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Cosmic rays, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Annihilation, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Massless particle, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Other gauge bosons, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Lepton
Abstract: A search for muon neutrinos from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the 22-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino detector using data collected in 104.3 days of live-time in 2007. No excess over the expected atmospheric background has been observed. Upper limits have been obtained on the annihilation rate of captured lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP) WIMPs in the Sun and converted to limits on the LKP-proton cross-sections for LKP masses in the range 250 -- 3000 GeV. These results are the most stringent limits to date on LKP annihilation in the Sun., 6 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2010
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31. First search for extremely high energy cosmogenic neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Author: Henrik J. Johansson, Laura C. Bradley, F. Clevermann, O. Depaepe, D. Z. Besson, Peter Mészáros, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, S. Stoyanov, H. Landsman, K.-H. Becker, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, G. W. Sullivan, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, J. Lünemann, R. C. Bay, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Nathan Whitehorn, S. Cohen, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, O. Tarasova, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, N. Milke, George Japaridze, T. Glüsenkamp, M. Schunck, Carsten Rott, C. Ha, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, Takao Kuwabara, T. Straszheim, B. Christy, O. Engdegård, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, M. Ribordy, Christian Spiering, Dirk Ryckbosch, R. Porrata, K. Han, J. Miller, M. Bissok, P. B. Price, S. Knops, Justin Vandenbroucke, Olga Botner, T. O. B. Schmidt, Jenni Adams, M. Krasberg, Elisa Resconi, Todor Stanev, K. Kuehn, J. Berdermann, Rasha Abbasi, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, M. Stamatikos, A. Schultes, C. Colnard, T. Krings, C. Wendt, M. Labare, D. J. Boersma, E. A. Strahler, J. Auffenberg, S. Hickford, F. Descamps, Xianwu Xu, J. M. Clem, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, D. Tosi, S. Yoshida, J.-P. Hülß, A. Tepe, R. G. Stokstad, P. Roth, Joanna Kiryluk, Axel Groß, Dirk Lennarz, Hermann Kolanoski, F. Rothmaier, J. J. Beatty, M. Danninger, R. Franke, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, A. Goldschmidt, Chad Finley, Ph. Herquet, B. Ruzybayev, S.J. Lafebre, A. Silvestri, H. S. Matis, A. Ishihara, C. Walck, R. L. Imlay, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, T. Kowarik, J. Posselt, Dmitry Chirkin, Alexander Kappes, Gerald Przybylski, Kael Hanson, C. Pérez de los Heros, J. Petrovic, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, Karen Andeen, Fabian Kislat, M. R. Duvoort, Christian Bohm, S. R. Klein, David A. Schneider, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, Thomas Meures, C. Roucelle, D. Berley, M. Merck, W. Huelsnitz, G. C. Hill, A. Tamburro, B. Voigt, Xinhua Bai, Reina H. Maruyama, T. Abu-Zayyad, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, S. H. Seo, Pratik Majumdar, K. Helbing, O. Fadiran, R. Nahnhauer, Paolo Desiati, Michael J. Baker, J. van Santen, N. van Eijndhoven, L. Gladstone, M. Kowalski, Timo Karg, L. Demirörs, D. Seckel, P. Nießen, J. K. Becker, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, R. J. Lauer, R. Ganugapati, P. A. Toale, R. W. Ellsworth, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, S. Schlenstedt, D. F. Cowen, G. Kroll, M. Ono, H. G. Sander, P. Berghaus, C. De Clercq, R. Lehmann, A. Franckowiak, A. Homeier, David A. Williams, Subir Sarkar, J. L. Bazo Alba, Christopher Wiebusch, M. M. Foerster, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, D. Bertrand, J. C. Gallagher, K. Wiebe, S. Euler, R. Wischnewski, Allan Hallgren, S. Hussain, T. Feusels, Chun Xu, Larissa Paul, S. W. Barwick, Q. Swillens, E. Blaufuss, J. C. Davis, J. E. Jacobsen, I. Taboada, D. J. Koskinen, Albrecht Karle, L. Gerhardt, K. Meagher, A. Piegsa, S. M. Movit, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, L. Köpke, S. Bechet, P. Redl, K. Hoshina, M. Wallraff, Glenn Spiczak, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, M. Gurtner, M. Matusik, A. Van Overloop, U. Naumann, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Wolfgang Rhode, J. M. Joseph, B. D. Fox, Stijn Buitink, R. Morse, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, K. Rawlins, James Madsen, Teresa Montaruli, K. Mase, S. Böser, S. Seunarine, S. Panknin, D. Rutledge, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, J. W. Nam, D. R. Nygren, S. Odrowski, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, M. V. D'Agostino, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Elementary particle, Astrophysics, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], 01 natural sciences, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], cosmic rays, Spectrum, muon, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, pion, and other elementary particles, Cosmic-Rays, Massless particle, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lepton, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report on the results of the search for extremely-high energy (EHE) neutrinos with energies above $10^7$ GeV obtained with the partially ($\sim$30%) constructed IceCube in 2007. From the absence of signal events in the sample of 242.1 days of effective livetime, we derive a 90% C.L. model independent differential upper limit based on the number of signal events per energy decade at $E^2 \phi_{\nu_e+\nu_\mu+\nu_\tau}\simeq 1.4 \times 10^{-6}$ GeV cm$^{-2}$ sec$^{-1}$ sr$^{-1}$ for neutrinos in the energy range from $3\times10^7$ to $3\times10^9$ GeV., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Published: 2010
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32. The energy spectrum of atmospheric neutrinos between 2 and 200 TeV with the AMANDA-II detector

Author: Laura C. Bradley, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, O. Depaepe, S. Stoyanov, M. R. Duvoort, S. Seunarine, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, J. Lünemann, Peter Mészáros, J. van Santen, R. C. Bay, D. Rutledge, P. Nießen, H. G. Sander, D. Z. Besson, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Chun Xu, P. Roth, J. K. Becker, J. L. Kelley, G. Stephens, Markus Ahlers, S. Westerhoff, S. Bechet, J.-P. Hülß, Jens Madsen, O. Tarasova, J. M. Joseph, M. Krasberg, Stijn Buitink, K. Rawlins, R. Porrata, P. Redl, C. Ha, R. Morse, H. Landsman, J. Auffenberg, Q. Swillens, K. Hoshina, S. Yoshida, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, M. M. Foerster, J. C. Gallagher, H. S. Matis, D. Turcan, Glenn Spiczak, F. Rothmaier, Henrik J. Johansson, Nathan Whitehorn, Matthias Geisler, T. Glüsenkamp, K. Hultqvist, M. Stamatikos, M. V. D'Agostino, M. L. Benabderrahmane, A. Schultes, A. Homeier, Allan Hallgren, Darren Grant, Teresa Montaruli, M. Ono, Francis Halzen, P. Zarzhitsky, T. Abu-Zayyad, J. L. Bazo Alba, Pratik Majumdar, O. Fadiran, U. Naumann, Larissa Paul, A. Silvestri, Carsten Rott, R. Ganugapati, M. Schunck, Ph. Herquet, J. M. Clem, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, T. Feusels, D. F. Cowen, P. B. Price, Christian Spiering, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, T. Krings, E. A. Strahler, Karen Andeen, J. E. Jacobsen, Subir Sarkar, M. Bissok, K. Münich, F. Clevermann, P. Berghaus, A. Goldschmidt, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, Albrecht Karle, S. Panknin, S. Knops, Justin Vandenbroucke, N. Milke, George Japaridze, O. Engdegård, T. O. B. Schmidt, Takao Kuwabara, L. Gerhardt, Hermann Kolanoski, A. Piegsa, S. Euler, J. J. Beatty, M. Kowalski, M. Danninger, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, B. Christy, Fabian Kislat, Xianwu Xu, K.-H. Becker, K. Kuehn, T. Kowarik, Dmitry Chirkin, A. Ishihara, F. Descamps, Alexander Kappes, E. Blaufuss, Anna Franckowiak, R. Nahnhauer, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, Chad Finley, Damian Pieloth, D. J. Boersma, R. L. Imlay, C. Bohm, A. Tepe, D. Hubert, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Elisa Resconi, J. Posselt, J. Berdermann, K. Meagher, A. Tamburro, Dirk Lennarz, G. W. Sullivan, B. Voigt, N. Kemming, James E. Braun, A. Van Overloop, Xinhua Bai, R. Franke, C. Walck, Jenni Adams, S.J. Lafebre, L. Köpke, S. M. Movit, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, K. Schatto, Reina H. Maruyama, W. Huelsnitz, M. Matusik, S. Hussain, D. J. Koskinen, Spencer Klein, J. P. Rodrigues, S. Hickford, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, Anatoli Fedynitch, Thomas Meures, K. Helbing, Dirk Ryckbosch, G. Kohnen, R. Wischnewski, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, M. Merck, M. Ribordy, R. J. Lauer, I. Taboada, J. Petrovic, R. M. Gunasingha, Wolfgang Rhode, Tim Ruhe, C. De Clercq, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, J. Dreyer, Y. Abdou, A. R. Fazely, S. Böser, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, David A. Williams, S. H. Seo, S. W. Barwick, D. Tosi, C. Colnard, C. Pérez de los Heros, M. Labare, S. Cohen, Axel Groß, Timo Karg, R. W. Ellsworth, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, K. Wiebe, Gerald Przybylski, K. Han, Olga Botner, B. D. Fox, D. Bertrand, M. Wallraff, M. Gurtner, C. Roucelle, K. Mase, Christopher Wiebusch, L. Demirörs, B. Ruzybayev, J. W. Nam, Kael Hanson, David A. Schneider, D. R. Nygren, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Paolo Desiati, Michael J. Baker, N. van Eijndhoven, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, S. Schlenstedt, S. Odrowski, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, G. Kroll, T. Straszheim, R. Lehmann, Rasha Abbasi, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Christchurch] (DPA), University of Canterbury [Christchurch], University of Oxford [Oxford], University of Wuppertal, University of Delaware [Newark], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Irvine], University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California-University of California, University of California, Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Dept. of Astronomy, Science Faculty CP230, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas [Lawrence] (KU), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Stockholm University, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, University Park, Technische Universität Dortmund [Dortmund] (TU), École Polytechnique Fédérale, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [PennState], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Utrecht], Utrecht University [Utrecht], Southern University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Physics [Edmonton], University of Alberta, Institute of Immunology, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU), Université de Mons (UMons), Chiba University, University of Alaska [Anchorage], University of the West Indies, Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Tuscaloosa), University of Alabama [Tuscaloosa] (UA), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Particle physics, AMANDA, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Atmospheric neutrinos, Cherenkov radiation, Neural net, Unfolding, neural net, FOS: Physical sciences, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, unfolding, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, atmospheric neutrinos, Cosmic neutrino background, Neutrino detector, ddc:540, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The muon and anti-muon neutrino energy spectrum is determined from 2000-2003 AMANDA telescope data using regularised unfolding. This is the first measurement of atmospheric neutrinos in the energy range 2 - 200 TeV. The result is compared to different atmospheric neutrino models and it is compatible with the atmospheric neutrinos from pion and kaon decays. No significant contribution from charm hadron decays or extraterrestrial neutrinos is detected. The capabilities to improve the measurement of the neutrino spectrum with the successor experiment IceCube are discussed., Comment: submitted to Astroparticle Physics
Published: 2010
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33. Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

Author: J. Auffenberg, Anatoli Fedynitch, Ch. Weaver, Chad Finley, Larissa Paul, C. Colnard, Henrik J. Johansson, M. Schunck, K. Mase, T. Glüsenkamp, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. V. D'Agostino, S. Hussain, Segev BenZvi, P. Roth, Carsten Rott, M. Matusik, D. J. Koskinen, T. Straszheim, Pratik Majumdar, J. Miller, M. Bissok, Spencer Klein, M. Krasberg, K. H. Kampert, O. Depaepe, S. Stoyanov, Tim Ruhe, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, S. Böser, S. Seunarine, Xianwu Xu, D. Z. Besson, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, K. Kuehn, F. Rothmaier, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, M. Dierckxsens, C. Bohm, M. Ono, Karen Andeen, J. Lünemann, S. H. Seo, K. Schatto, G. Kohnen, Albrecht Karle, K. Meagher, M. Voge, D. Rutledge, D. Bertrand, Matthias Geisler, K. Hultqvist, R. C. Bay, M. Stamatikos, D. F. Cowen, K. Hoshina, R. J. Lauer, S. Yoshida, S. Panknin, Nathan Whitehorn, Darren Grant, D. Tosi, J. L. Bazo Alba, J.-P. Hülß, Glenn Spiczak, M. Ribordy, H. Taavola, P. B. Price, Ph. Herquet, Rasha Abbasi, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, C. De Clercq, H. S. Matis, U. Naumann, M. Kowalski, E. Blaufuss, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, T. O. B. Schmidt, J. C. Davis, F. Clevermann, R. Nahnhauer, M. Wallraff, K. Rawlins, David A. Williams, J. J. Beatty, T. Feusels, I. Taboada, Kael Hanson, J. K. Becker, J. W. Nam, W. Huelsnitz, M. Gurtner, Gerald Przybylski, Timo Karg, D. Turcan, S. W. Barwick, Francis Halzen, S. Grullon, M. J. Carson, D. R. Nygren, J. E. Jacobsen, A. Goldschmidt, Kurt Woschnagg, Marcos Santander, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, P. Zarzhitsky, C. Ha, O. Fadiran, M. J. Larson, Fabian Kislat, C. Pérez de los Heros, S. Odrowski, Paul Evenson, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. D. Fox, J. Posselt, K. Helbing, Christian Spiering, M. L. Benabderrahmane, L. Gerhardt, G. W. Sullivan, N. Kemming, M. M. Foerster, Todor Stanev, Paolo Desiati, James Madsen, J. P. Rodrigues, Wolfgang Rhode, S. M. Movit, A. Piegsa, B. Semburg, C. Wendt, James E. Braun, Justin Vandenbroucke, T. Stezelberger, J. Blumenthal, A. Franckowiak, R. Porrata, N. van Eijndhoven, Dmitry Chirkin, J. C. Gallagher, J.-H. Köhne, H. Wissing, K. Han, D. Bose, Alexander Kappes, Reina H. Maruyama, K.-H. Becker, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, F. Descamps, S. Schlenstedt, M. Labare, Peter Mészáros, Paraic A. Kenny, Juanan Aguilar, Takao Kuwabara, A. Tepe, K. Wiebe, G. Kroll, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Olga Botner, Allan Hallgren, R. Lehmann, B. Christy, R. Franke, Martin Wolf, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Seth M. Cohen, C. Walck, A. Schultes, J. Dreyer, A. Ishihara, J. M. Clem, Y. Abdou, A. Marotta, Jon Dumm, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, M. Prikockis, N. Milke, George Japaridze, Dirk Ryckbosch, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, S. Bechet, A. Van Overloop, O. Engdegård, Q. Swillens, A. Silvestri, Teresa Montaruli, M. Danninger, M. R. Duvoort, T. Kowarik, T. Krings, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, J. van Santen, E. A. Strahler, O. Tarasova, P. Redl, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, A. Tamburro, B. Voigt, Hermann Kolanoski, Xinhua Bai, P. Nießen, H. Landsman, Elisa Resconi, Axel Groß, J. Berdermann, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, Subir Sarkar, Kirill Filimonov, D. J. Boersma, P. Berghaus, S.J. Lafebre, Thomas Meures, M. Merck, S. Euler, L. Demirörs, Simona Toscano, R. W. Ellsworth, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, L. Köpke, B. Ruzybayev, J. M. Joseph, Stijn Buitink, A. Homeier, R. Morse, Christopher Wiebusch, Aongus O'Murchadha, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, Jenni Adams, Michael J. Baker, S. Hickford, L. Gladstone, H. G. Sander, R. G. Stokstad, D. Seckel, R. Wischnewski, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Chun Xu, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, J. Petrovic, K. Singh, M. Olivo, and J. A. Goodman
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Solar neutrino problem, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Sidereal time, Measurements of neutrino speed, ddc:530, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Neutrino oscillation
Abstract: A search for sidereal modulation in the flux of atmospheric muon neutrinos in IceCube was performed. Such a signal could be an indication of Lorentz-violating physics. Neutrino oscillation models, derivable from extensions to the Standard Model, allow for neutrino oscillations that depend on the neutrino's direction of propagation. No such direction-dependent variation was found. A discrete Fourier transform method was used to constrain the Lorentz and CPT-violating coefficients in one of these models. Due to the unique high energy reach of IceCube, it was possible to improve constraints on certain Lorentz-violating oscillations by three orders of magnitude with respect to limits set by other experiments., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Revision updates a reference and adds a comment on the 120 degree zenith restriction
Published: 2010
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34. A Close Binary Star Resolved from Occultation by 87 Sylvia

Author: Chi-Long Lin, Zhi-Wei Zhang, W. P. Chen, Sun-Kun King, Hung-Chin Lin, J.-H. Wang, S. Mondal, C. Alcock, T. Axelrod, F. B. Bianco, Y.-I. Byun, N. K. Coehlo, K. H. Cook, R. Dave, I. de Pater, P. Descamps, M. J. Lehner, D.-W. Kim, T. Lee, J. J. Lissauer, S. L. Marshall, R. Porrata, P. Protopapas, J. A. Rice, M. E. Schwamb, S.-Y. Wang, and C.-Y. Wen
Subjects: Physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Position angle, Occultation, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Asteroid, Sky, Binary star, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), media_common
Abstract: The star BD+29 1748 was resolved to be a close binary from its occultation by the asteroid 87 Sylvia on 2006 December 18 UT. Four telescopes were used to observe this event at two sites separated by some 80 km apart. Two flux drops were observed at one site, whereas only one flux drop was detected at the other. From the long-term variation of Sylvia, we inferred the probable shape of the shadow during the occultation, and this in turn constrains the binary parameters: the two components of BD+29 1748 have a projected separation of 0.097" to 0.110" on the sky with a position angle 104 deg to 107 deg. The asteroid was clearly resolved with a size scale ranging from 130 to 290 km, as projected onto the occultation direction. No occultation was detected for either of the two known moonlets of 87 Sylvia., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; submitted to the PASP
Published: 2009

35. Limits on a muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the sun with the IceCube 22-string detector

Author: E. Blaufuss, Jenni Adams, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, J.-P. Hülß, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, M. C. Stoufer, S. Schlenstedt, H. S. Matis, Dirk Ryckbosch, D. Rutledge, R. Wischnewski, H. Leich, D. Turcan, S. M. Movit, Francis Halzen, O. Fadiran, P. Berghaus, Christopher Wiebusch, J. W. Nam, S. Euler, J. Petrovic, M. V. D'Agostino, Albrecht Karle, R. M. Gunasingha, D. R. Nygren, K. Rawlins, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, James Madsen, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Teresa Montaruli, C. Pérez de los Heros, John Heise, M. R. Duvoort, S. Odrowski, Marek Kowalski, P. Roth, J. J. Beatty, A. Piegsa, H. Landsman, M. Krasberg, Joanna Kiryluk, Karen Andeen, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, A. Wiedemann, Christian Bohm, K. Hoshina, Glenn Spiczak, M. Danninger, C. T. Day, David A. Schneider, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, L. Köpke, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, F. Descamps, D. Breder, H. Miyamoto, K. Meagher, Reina H. Maruyama, N. Milke, George Japaridze, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, E. A. Strahler, M. Schunck, K. Mase, T. Kowarik, S. Yoshida, W. R. Edwards, Y. Hasegawa, A. Mohr, Laura C. Bradley, Spencer Klein, Michael J. Baker, S. J. Patton, K. H. Becker, R. Franke, O. Depaepe, M. Tluczykont, L. Gladstone, P. Nießen, R. Nahnhauer, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, B. Voigt, S. Stoyanov, O. Engdegård, C. Walck, A. Lucke, P. B. Price, Peter Mészáros, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, P. A. Toale, S. Grullon, R. Gozzini, Xinhua Bai, John Clem, T. Straszheim, K. Kuehn, S. Seunarine, M. Stamatikos, Carsten Rott, J. Lünemann, D. J. Boersma, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Q. Swillens, S. Panknin, Fabian Kislat, A. Tepe, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, Ph. Herquet, Kael Hanson, C. P. McParland, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, O. Tarasova, T. O. B. Schmidt, M. Bissok, Dirk Lennarz, D. Z. Besson, A. Van Overloop, E. Middell, Karl-Heinz Sulanke, K. Beattie, Wolfgang Rhode, R. Porrata, S. Böser, A. Goldschmidt, Xianwu Xu, Kurt Woschnagg, O. Schulz, C. Roucelle, Elisa Bernardini, R. L. Imlay, Christian Spiering, Konstancja Satalecka, Paul Evenson, M. Ono, S. Knops, Justin Vandenbroucke, Elisa Resconi, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, K. Münich, W. Huelsnitz, J. L. Bazo Alba, Paolo Desiati, J. P. Rodrigues, J. Berdermann, M. Ribordy, S. Bechet, K. Helbing, H. G. Sander, T. Stezelberger, S. Hussain, Chad Finley, D. Bertrand, Dmitry Chirkin, J. K. Becker, T. Feusels, S. Klepser, T. Castermans, Alexander Kappes, J. E. Jacobsen, F. Rothmaier, P. Redl, Rasha Abbasi, L. Gerhardt, R. J. Lauer, C. Ha, K. Hultqvist, Darren Grant, M. M. Foerster, A. Silvestri, Timo Karg, Nathan Whitehorn, I. Taboada, Aya Ishihara, J. Auffenberg, C. De Clercq, T. Burgess, J. Dreyer, J. C. Gallagher, Y. Abdou, S.J. Lafebre, M. L. Benabderrahmane, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, M. Gurtner, David A. Williams, Markus Ackermann, Allan Hallgren, S. W. Barwick, Johan Lundberg, Pratik Majumdar, B. D. Fox, R. Ehrlich, Paraic A. Kenny, Takao Kuwabara, B. Christy, Seth M. Cohen, D. Seckel, J. Bolmont, Karl-Heinz Kampert, R. Ganugapati, A. C. Pohl, Kirill Filimonov, A. Olivas, D. F. Cowen, J. M. Joseph, R. Morse, Subir Sarkar, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, C. Terranova, M. Merck, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, H. Wissing, L. Demirörs, R. W. Ellsworth, S. H. Seo, Hermann Kolanoski, M. Labare, K. Han, Axel Groß, Olga Botner, Henrik J. Johansson, Anna Franckowiak, N. Potthoff, G. Kohnen, D. Tosi, N. van Eijndhoven, Gerald Przybylski, and M. Inaba
Subjects: Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Neutrino Telescope, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Muon, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Neutralino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: A search for muon neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the IceCube 22-string neutrino detector using data collected in 104.3 days of live-time in 2007. No excess over the expected atmospheric background has been observed. Upper limits have been obtained on the annihilation rate of captured neutralinos in the Sun and converted to limits on the WIMP-proton cross-sections for WIMP masses in the range 250 - 5000 GeV. These results are the most stringent limits to date on neutralino annihilation in the Sun., 5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2009
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36. The IceCube data acquisition system: Signal capture, digitization, and timestamping

Author: Chris Wendt, Spencer Klein, Subir Sarkar, J. M. Joseph, A. Laundrie, Chad Finley, D. Bertrand, Ignacio Taboada, C. P. McParland, Albrecht Karle, J. Ludvig, A. Silvestri, E. Kujawski, P. B. Price, T. O. B. Schmidt, S. Klepser, H. Kawai, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Peter Mészáros, Karen Andeen, J. Ahrens, K. Mase, K. Meagher, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, Henrik J. Johansson, A. Goldschmidt, J. Pretz, M. Danninger, Wolfgang Rhode, J. L. Kelley, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, W. Huelsnitz, K. Hoshina, A. Piegsa, Aya Ishihara, Markus Ahlers, M. M. Foerster, Dmitry Chirkin, K. Beattie, O. Schulz, Alexander Kappes, M. Gurtner, K. Helbing, Glenn Spiczak, S. Kleinfelder, Kael Hanson, F. Descamps, H. Miyamoto, R. Morse, B. Hughey, Anna Franckowiak, N. Potthoff, Jay Gallagher, K. H. Becker, Allan Hallgren, A. Meli, Steven W. Barwick, Johan Lundberg, T. Waldenmaier, J. W. Nam, M. Ribordy, R. Porrata, C. Vogt, B. D. Fox, P. Berghaus, J. Auffenberg, S. Euler, K. Laihem, K. Rawlins, Damian Pieloth, George Japaridze, D. Hubert, C. Walck, S. J. Patton, Reina H. Maruyama, M. Labare, D. Z. Besson, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Chance W. Lewis, Paolo Desiati, R. Franke, K. Münich, A. Lucke, K. Kuehn, W. R. Edwards, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, O. Engdegård, Chinh Vu, Dirk Ryckbosch, R. Ganugapati, A. C. Pohl, J. E. Sopher, D. F. Cowen, S. Stoyanov, D. Glowacki, A. Groß, H. F. Chen, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, Carsten Rott, K. Han, H. Wissing, C. Ha, M. Merck, A. Mohr, James Madsen, Soebur Razzaque, T. DeYoung, S. Hussain, L. Köpke, Dave Nygren, R. Nahnhauer, M. Hellwig, A. Van Overloop, Elisa Resconi, C. Roucelle, B. Bingham, Nathan Whitehorn, R. Gozzini, S. Schlenstedt, P. Herquet, S. Odrowski, Marek Kowalski, T. Straszheim, H. S. Matis, R.H. Minor, Joanna Kiryluk, E. Blaufuss, Olga Botner, H. G. Sander, D. Wharton, M. R. Duvoort, A. J. Smith, A. Tepe, O. Tarasova, R. L. Imlay, C. Wiedemann, W.J. Robbins, Julia Becker, D. Turcan, M. Ono, Teresa Montaruli, S. Westerhof, P. Sandstrom, Francis Halzen, T. Burgess, P. Redl, Karl-Heinz Sulanke, B. Christy, R. W. Ellsworth, J. Dreyer, H. Landsman, J. L. Bazo Alba, O. Fadiran, S. Grullon, V. Viscomi, Xianwu Xu, J. P. Dumm, S. Panknin, F. Rothmaier, J. Bolmont, G. Kohnen, D. Breeder, T. Kowarik, O. Depaepe, J.-P. Hülß, D. Leier, D. Tosi, M. Krasberg, Fabian Kislat, T. Messarius, J. P. Rodrigues, J. Lünemann, T. Stezelberger, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, James E. Braun, M. V. D'Agostino, B. Voigt, Darren Grant, T. Feusels, Q. Swillens, M. Baker, L. Demirörs, N. van Eijndhoven, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Kirill Filimonov, C. Song, W. Carithers, J. E. Jacobsen, R. Hardtke, G. W. Sullivan, S. Tilav, Xinhua Bai, M. Olivo, Klas Hultqvist, R. C. Bay, L. Gerhardt, H. Waldmann, C. T. Day, A. Mokhtarani, R. J. Lauer, C. Pérez de los Heros, John Heise, S. Yoshida, S. Seunarine, Christian Spiering, Gerald Przybylski, M. Inaba, E. A. Strahler, S. Böser, M. C. Stoufer, C. De Clercq, Christian Bohm, Konstancja Satalecka, D. Hays, Joseph T. Hodges, T. Becka, Justin Vandenbroucke, D. Rutledge, H. Leich, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, Markus Ackermann, S. M. Movit, S. H. Seo, Rasha Abbasi, D. Berley, John Clem, David A. Schneider, G. C. Hill, A. Muratas, D. J. Boersma, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, Hermann Kolanoski, A. R. Fazely, P. A. Toale, A. W. Jones, T. Castermans, P. Roth, Christopher Wiebusch, Anna Davour, J. Haugen, D. Wahl, Timo Karg, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, M. Tluczykont, T. Kuwabara, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, B. Semburg, Elisa Bernardini, J. Petrovic, R. M. Gunasingha, J. A. Goodman, Jenni Adams, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, Y. Hasegawa, and P. Nießen
Subjects: AMANDA, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Neutrino telescope, Signal, High Energy Physics - Experiment, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Icecube, Data acquisition, Signal digitization, ddc:530, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Physics, business.industry, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Timestamping, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Analog signal, Transmission (telecommunications), Systems design, Timestamp, business, Computer hardware
Abstract: IceCube is a km-scale neutrino observatory under construction at the South Pole with sensors both in the deep ice (InIce) and on the surface (IceTop). The sensors, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), detect, digitize and timestamp the signals from optical Cherenkov-radiation photons. The DOM Main Board (MB) data acquisition subsystem is connected to the central DAQ in the IceCube Laboratory (ICL) by a single twisted copper wire-pair and transmits packetized data on demand. Time calibration is maintained throughout the array by regular transmission to the DOMs of precisely timed analog signals, synchronized to a central GPS-disciplined clock. The design goals and consequent features, functional capabilities, and initial performance of the DOM MB, and the operation of a combined array of DOMs as a system, are described here. Experience with the first InIce strings and the IceTop stations indicates that the system design and performance goals have been achieved., 42 pages, 20 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
Published: 2009
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37. ERRATUM: 'Search for High-Energy Muon Neutrinos from the 'Naked-Eye' GRB 080319B with the Icecube Neutrino Telescope' (2009, ApJ, 701, 1721)

Author: Karl-Heinz Sulanke, A. Piegsa, Karen Andeen, G. W. Sullivan, James E. Braun, S. Grullon, S. Panknin, S. J. Patton, J. M. Joseph, P. Berghaus, Fabian Kislat, R. Nahnhauer, A. Van Overloop, K. H. Kampert, F. Rothmaier, K. Hultqvist, M. V. D'Agostino, C. T. Day, David A. Schneider, K. Han, E. A. Strahler, S. Euler, M. Danninger, Darren Grant, J. L. Kelley, Markus Ahlers, M. Labare, P. Roth, C. P. McParland, Johan Lundberg, M. Ono, J. L. Bazo Alba, Olga Botner, I. Taboada, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, T. Castermans, Chad Finley, N. Milke, Pratik Majumdar, George Japaridze, C. Terranova, Dirk Lennarz, A. Goldschmidt, S. Hussain, T. Feusels, Michael J. Baker, R. Porrata, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, J. E. Jacobsen, R. Morse, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, L. Köpke, L. Gerhardt, D. Z. Besson, Henrik J. Johansson, D. Bertrand, R. Ganugapati, A. C. Pohl, L. Gladstone, D. Seckel, O. Engdegård, J. W. Nam, W. Huelsnitz, Timo Karg, J. M. Clem, D. F. Cowen, S. Schlenstedt, M. R. Duvoort, Anna Franckowiak, N. Potthoff, T. Burgess, Jon Dumm, M. Prikockis, T. Waldenmaier, Joanna Kiryluk, Subir Sarkar, D. R. Nygren, Elisa Resconi, Nathan Whitehorn, P. B. Price, J. Berdermann, G. Stephens, S. Westerhoff, M. Tluczykont, P. Herquet, S. Odrowski, Marek Kowalski, A. Wiedemann, K. Helbing, M. Stamatikos, A. Silvestri, A. Slipak, S. Tilav, Jens Madsen, O. Tarasova, Todor Stanev, C. Wendt, M. Gurtner, T. Kowarik, H. G. Sander, F. Descamps, G. Kohnen, H. Miyamoto, T. O. B. Schmidt, Christian Spiering, Y. Hasegawa, Kael Hanson, D. Tosi, E. Blaufuss, P. Nießen, B. Voigt, R. Franke, K. Münich, C. Walck, D. Rutledge, J. Auffenberg, K.-H. Becker, B. D. Fox, K. Hoshina, S. Knops, Justin Vandenbroucke, Kurt Woschnagg, A. Lucke, Glenn Spiczak, M. M. Foerster, Xinhua Bai, Paul Evenson, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, N. van Eijndhoven, H. Leich, J. C. Gallagher, M. Schunck, W. R. Edwards, A. Schukraft, K. Laihem, Q. Swillens, M. C. Stoufer, Gerald Przybylski, M. Inaba, Paolo Desiati, Reina H. Maruyama, A. Mohr, Dmitry Chirkin, K. Rawlins, Allan Hallgren, Laura C. Bradley, Alexander Kappes, Dirk Ryckbosch, R. L. Imlay, O. Depaepe, M. Krasberg, S. Stoyanov, S. M. Movit, Albrecht Karle, K. Kuehn, J. Lünemann, M. Merck, D. J. Boersma, R. C. Bay, Peter Mészáros, R. Gozzini, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, S. Böser, S. Klepser, A. R. Fazely, A. Tepe, S. Yoshida, K. Meagher, Teresa Montaruli, R. J. Lauer, J.-P. Hülß, C. De Clercq, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, C. Roucelle, K. Beattie, David A. Williams, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, O. Schulz, J. Dreyer, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, O. Fadiran, M. Ribordy, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, C. Ha, M. L. Benabderrahmane, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, Paraic A. Kenny, Takao Kuwabara, B. Semburg, E. Middell, Elisa Bernardini, H. Wissing, B. Christy, A. Ishihara, J. Bolmont, J. Petrovic, R. M. Gunasingha, Axel Groß, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, S. H. Seo, Carsten Rott, T. Straszheim, M. Bissok, Julia Becker, Xianwu Xu, C. Bohm, C. Pérez de los Heros, John Heise, M. Olivo, J. A. Goodman, G. Wikström, T. Griesel, Spencer Klein, D. Breder, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, S. Seunarine, Wolfgang Rhode, Rasha Abbasi, S. Bechet, P. Redl, Jenni Adams, L. Demirörs, Kirill Filimonov, Christopher Wiebusch, S. Hickford, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, S. Cohen, R. W. Ellsworth, J. P. Rodrigues, T. Stezelberger, Y. Abdou, H. Landsman, Konstancja Satalecka, Hermann Kolanoski, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Muon, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Solar neutrino, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Neutrino detector, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Naked eye, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy, 010306 general physics, Gamma-ray burst, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Abstract: We have noticed some mistakes in formulae (A2) and (A5) in the appendix of our paper. The errors are not present in the code used in the analysis and hence none of the plots or results is affected. The correct formulae are below.
Published: 2009
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38. Upper Limits on the Number of Small Bodies in Sedna-Like Orbits by the TAOS Project

Author: Pavlos Protopapas, Wen Ping Chen, Typhoon Lee, Rahul Dave, Megan E. Schwamb, John Rice, Jack J. Lissauer, H. C. Lin, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Federica B. Bianco, K. H. Cook, Tim Axelrod, Matthew J. Lehner, J.-H. Wang, Yong-Ik Byun, N. K. Coehlo, S. L. Marshall, S. K. King, R. Porrata, Shiang-Yu Wang, Charles Alcock, I. de Pater, C.-Y. Wen, and Dae-Won Kim
Subjects: Physics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Number density, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Function (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Occultation, Set (abstract data type), Space and Planetary Science, Simple (abstract algebra), 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We present the results of a search for occultation events by objects at distances between 100 and 1000 AU in lightcurves from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS). We searched for consecutive, shallow flux reductions in the stellar lightcurves obtained by our survey between 7 February 2005 and 31 December 2006 with a total of $\sim4.5\times10^{9}$ three-telescope simultaneous photometric measurements. No events were detected, allowing us to set upper limits on the number density as a function of size and distance of objects in Sedna-like orbits, using simple models., Comment: 25 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2009
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39. First Results From The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)

Author: C.-Y. Wen, Dae-Won Kim, Kem H Cook, John Rice, Tim Axelrod, N. K. Coehlo, S. L. Marshall, Jack J. Lissauer, H.-C. Lin, Megan E. Schwamb, Typhoon Lee, Zhimeng Zhang, I. de Pater, Federica B. Bianco, J.-H. Wang, Yong-Ik Byun, Charles Alcock, Shiang-Yu Wang, S. K. King, Matthew J. Lehner, Soumen Mondal, Rahul Dave, Wen Ping Chen, R. Porrata, and Pavlos Protopapas
Subjects: Physics, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Occultation, Upper and lower bounds
Abstract: Results from the first two years of data from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) are presented. Stars have been monitored photometrically at 4 Hz or 5 Hz to search for occultations by small (~3 km) Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). No statistically significant events were found, allowing us to present an upper bound to the size distribution of KBOs with diameters 0.5 km < D < 28 km., 5 pages, 5 figure, accepted in ApJ
Published: 2008

40. Early optical brightening in GRB 071010B

Author: Megan E. Schwamb, Wen Ping Chen, Charles Alcock, C.-Y. Wen, Z. W. Zhang, Shiang-Yu Wang, Kuiyun Huang, K. H. Cook, Yuji Urata, Rahul Dave, R. Porrata, Y. I. Byun, Federica B. Bianco, S. L. Marshall, Matthew J. Lehner, Typhoon Lee, Jeen-Hwa Wang, and S. K. King
Subjects: Physics, Wavelength, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Time resolution, Astrophysics, Optical emission spectroscopy, Gamma-ray burst, Afterglow
Abstract: We report the detection of early (60-230 s) optical emission of the gamma-ray burst afterglow of GRB 071010B. No significant correlation with the prompt γ-ray emission was found. Our high time resolution data combining with other measurements within 2 days after the burst indicate that GRB 071010B is composed of a weak early brightening (α ~ 0.6), probably caused by the peak frequency passing through the optical wavelengths, followed by a decay (α ~ − 0.51), attributed to continuous energy injection by patchy jets.
Published: 2008

41. Erratum: Multiyear search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II [Phys. Rev. D76, 042008 (2007)]

Author: A. Achterberg, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. Ahrens, K. Andeen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai, B. Baret, S. W. Barwick, R. Bay, K. Beattie, T. Becka, J. K. Becker, K.-H. Becker, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, D. Z. Besson, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, C. Bohm, J. Bolmont, S. Böser, O. Botner, A. Bouchta, J. Braun, T. Burgess, T. Castermans, D. Chirkin, B. Christy, J. Clem, D. F. Cowen, M. V. D’Agostino, A. Davour, C. T. Day, C. De Clercq, L. Demirörs, F. Descamps, P. Desiati, T. DeYoung, J. C. Diaz-Velez, J. Dreyer, J. P. Dumm, M. R. Duvoort, W. R. Edwards, R. Ehrlich, J. Eisch, R. W. Ellsworth, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, A. R. Fazely, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, M. M. Foerster, B. D. Fox, A. Franckowiak, R. Franke, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, R. Ganugapati, H. Geenen, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, J. A. Goodman, R. Gozzini, T. Griesel, A. Groß, S. Grullon, R. M. Gunasingha, M. Gurtner, C. Ha, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Han, K. Hanson, D. Hardtke, R. Hardtke, J. E. Hart, Y. Hasegawa, T. Hauschildt, D. Hays, J. Heise, K. Helbing, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G. C. Hill, J. Hodges, K. D. Hoffman, B. Hommez, K. Hoshina, D. Hubert, B. Hughey, J.-P. Hülß, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hundertmark, M. Inaba, A. Ishihara, J. Jacobsen, G. S. Japaridze, H. Johansson, A. Jones, J. M. Joseph, K.-H. Kampert, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, H. Kawai, J. L. Kelley, F. Kislat, N. Kitamura, S. R. Klein, S. Klepser, G. Kohnen, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, M. Kowalski, T. Kowarik, M. Krasberg, K. Kuehn, M. Labare, H. Landsman, R. Lauer, H. Leich, D. Leier, I. Liubarsky, J. Lundberg, J. Lünemann, J. Madsen, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, T. McCauley, C. P. McParland, A. Meli, T. Messarius, P. Mészáros, H. Miyamoto, A. Mokhtarani, T. Montaruli, A. Morey, R. Morse, S. M. Movit, K. Münich, R. Nahnhauer, J. W. Nam, P. Nießen, D. R. Nygren, H. Ögelman, A. Olivas, S. Patton, C. Peña-Garay, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Piegsa, D. Pieloth, A. C. Pohl, R. Porrata, J. Pretz, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, S. Razzaque, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, A. Rizzo, S. Robbins, P. Roth, F. Rothmaier, C. Rott, D. Rutledge, D. Ryckbosch, H.-G. Sander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, S. Schlenstedt, T. Schmidt, D. Schneider, D. Seckel, B. Semburg, S. H. Seo, Y. Sestayo, S. Seunarine, A. Silvestri, A. J. Smith, M. Solarz, C. Song, J. E. Sopher, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, M. C. Stoufer, S. Stoyanov, E. A. Strahler, T. Straszheim, K.-H. Sulanke, G. W. Sullivan, T. J. Sumner, I. Taboada, O. Tarasova, A. Tepe, L. Thollander, S. Tilav, M. Tluczykont, P. A. Toale, D. Tosi, D. Turčan, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Vandenbroucke, A. Van Overloop, V. Viscomi, B. Voigt, W. Wagner, C. Walck, H. Waldmann, M. Walter, Y.-R. Wang, C. Wendt, C. H. Wiebusch, C. Wiedemann, G. Wikström, D. R. Williams, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, X. W. Xu, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and J. D. Zornoza
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Cosmic ray, Elementary particle, Massless particle, Neutrino detector, Muon collider, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Lepton
Abstract: A search for TeV-PeV muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II data collected between 2000 and 2003 established an upper limit of E2Φ90%C:L
Published: 2008
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42. The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: The Multi-Telescope Robotic Observatory

Author: M. J. Lehner, C.-Y. Wen, J.-H. Wang, S. L. Marshall, M. E. Schwamb, Z.-W. Zhang, F. B. Bianco, J. Giammarco, R. Porrata, C. Alcock, T. Axelrod, Y.-I. Byun, W. P. Chen, K. H. Cook, R. Dave, S.-K. King, T. Lee, H.-C. Lin, S.-Y. Wang, J. A. Rice, and I. de Pater
Subjects: Physics, 020209 energy, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Control software, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Occultation, law.invention, Telescope, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Fully automatic, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) operates four fully automatic telescopes to search for occultations of stars by Kuiper Belt Objects. It is a versatile facility that is also useful for the study of initial optical GRB afterglows. This paper provides a detailed description of the TAOS multi-telescope system, control software, and high-speed imaging., Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2008
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43. The AMANDA Neutrino Detector

Author: A. Biron, V. Kandhadai, P. Lindahl, Christian Spiering, E. Dalberg, C. Pérez de los Heros, V. Sorin, P. Ekström, W. Chinowsky, Y. D. He, J. Booth, U. Schwendicke, Matthias Leuthold, D. R. Nygren, Tony Liss, Steven W. Barwick, Joakim Edsjö, S. Young, P. Niessen, P. Steffen, Staffan Carius, Albrecht Karle, R. Porrata, J. Kim, M. Newcomer, D. F. Cowen, C. Walck, H. Rubinstein, P. Askebjer, G. B. Yodh, W. Wu, E. Schneider, P. B. Price, D. Ross, J. E. Jacobsen, Adam Bouchta, T. O. B. Schmidt, Lars Bergström, M. Solarz, W. Rhode, Francis Halzen, Allan Hallgren, D. M. Lowder, I. Liubarsky, R. Schwarz, G. C. Hill, E. Andres, M. Carlson, Kurt Woschnagg, C. H. Wiebusch, R. Hardtke, Ole Streicher, G. Smoot, S. Tilav, P. C. Mock, Jose Manuel Rodriguez, R. Morse, Dmitry Chirkin, Olga Botner, L. Thollander, T. C. Miller, H. Leich, P. Romenesko, S. Hundertmark, Pawel Marciniewski, P. Miocinovic, L. Gray, R. C. Bay, Caroline Costa, T. DeYoung, Gerald Przybylski, P. O. Hulth, R. G. Stokstad, R. Wischnewski, P. Loaiza, T. Thon, Ariel Goobar, and Stefan Richter
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, Detector, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation
Abstract: The first stage of the AMANDA High Energy Neutrino Detectorat the South Pole, the 302 PMT array AMANDA-B with an expected effectivearea for TeV neutrinos of similar to 10(4) m(2), has been taking datasince 1997. Progress with calibration, investigation of ice properties,as well as muon and neutrino data analysis are described. The next stage20-string detector AMANDA-II with similar to 800 PMTs will be completedin spring 2000.
Published: 1999
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44. Detection of Atmospheric Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 9-String Detector

Author: A. Achterberg, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. Ahrens, K. Andeen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai, B. Baret, S. W. Barwick, R. Bay, K. Beattie, T. Becka, J. K. Becker, K.-H. Becker, M. Beimforde, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, D. Z. Besson, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, C. Bohm, J. Bolmont, S. Böser, O. Botner, A. Bouchta, J. Braun, C. Burgess, T. Burgess, T. Castermans, D. Chirkin, B. Christy, J. Clem, D. F. Cowen, M. V. D’Agostino, A. Davour, C. T. Day, C. De Clercq, L. Demirörs, F. Descamps, P. Desiati, T. DeYoung, J. C. Diaz-Velez, J. Dreyer, J. P. Dumm, M. R. Duvoort, W. R. Edwards, R. Ehrlich, J. Eisch, R. W. Ellsworth, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, A. R. Fazely, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, M. M. Foerster, B. D. Fox, A. Franckowiak, R. Franke, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, R. Ganugapati, H. Geenen, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, J. A. Goodman, R. Gozzini, T. Griesel, S. Grullon, A. Groß, R. M. Gunasingha, M. Gurtner, C. Ha, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Han, K. Hanson, D. Hardtke, R. Hardtke, J. E. Hart, Y. Hasegawa, T. Hauschildt, D. Hays, J. Heise, K. Helbing, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G. C. Hill, J. Hodges, K. D. Hoffman, B. Hommez, K. Hoshina, D. Hubert, B. Hughey, J.-P. Hülß, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hundertmark, M. Inaba, A. Ishihara, J. Jacobsen, G. S. Japaridze, H. Johansson, A. Jones, J. M. Joseph, K.-H. Kampert, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, H. Kawai, J. L. Kelley, F. Kislat, N. Kitamura, S. R. Klein, S. Klepser, G. Kohnen, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, M. Kowalski, T. Kowarik, M. Krasberg, K. Kuehn, M. Labare, H. Landsman, R. Lauer, H. Leich, D. Leier, I. Liubarsky, J. Lundberg, J. Lünemann, J. Madsen, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, T. McCauley, C. P. McParland, K. Meagher, A. Meli, T. Messarius, P. Mészáros, H. Miyamoto, A. Mokhtarani, T. Montaruli, A. Morey, R. Morse, S. M. Movit, K. Münich, R. Nahnhauer, J. W. Nam, P. Nießen, D. R. Nygren, A. Olivas, S. Patton, C. Peña-Garay, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Piegsa, D. Pieloth, A. C. Pohl, R. Porrata, J. Pretz, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, S. Razzaque, P. Redl, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, A. Rizzo, S. Robbins, P. Roth, F. Rothmaier, C. Rott, D. Rutledge, D. Ryckbosch, H.-G. Sander, S. Sarkar, K. Satalecka, S. Schlenstedt, T. Schmidt, D. Schneider, D. Seckel, B. Semburg, S. H. Seo, Y. Sestayo, S. Seunarine, A. Silvestri, A. J. Smith, C. Song, J. E. Sopher, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, M. C. Stoufer, S. Stoyanov, E. A. Strahler, T. Straszheim, K.-H. Sulanke, G. W. Sullivan, T. J. Sumner, I. Taboada, O. Tarasova, A. Tepe, L. Thollander, S. Tilav, M. Tluczykont, P. A. Toale, D. Tosi, D. Turčan, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Vandenbroucke, A. Van Overloop, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, V. Viscomi, B. Voigt, W. Wagner, C. Walck, H. Waldmann, M. Walter, Y.-R. Wang, C. Wendt, C. H. Wiebusch, G. Wikström, D. R. Williams, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, X. W. Xu, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and J. D. Zornoza
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, education.field_of_study, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Detector, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Solar neutrino problem, Astrophysics, Neutrino detector, Astronomia, Measurements of neutrino speed, ddc:530, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, education
Abstract: The IceCube neutrino detector is a cubic kilometer TeV to PeV neutrino detector under construction at the geographic South Pole. The dominant population of neutrinos detected in IceCube is due to meson decay in cosmic-ray air showers. These atmospheric neutrinos are relatively well understood and serve as a calibration and verification tool for the new detector. In 2006, the detector was approximately 10% completed, and we report on data acquired from the detector in this configuration. We observe an atmospheric neutrino signal consistent with expectations, demonstrating that the IceCube detector is capable of identifying neutrino events. In the first 137.4 days of live time, 234 neutrino candidates were selected with an expectation of 211±76.1(syst) ±14.5(stat) events from atmospheric neutrinos. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Published: 2007
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45. Toward hybrid optical / radio / acoustic detection of EeV neutrinos

Author: P. B. Price, R. Nahnhauer, R. Porrata, Justin Vandenbroucke, S. Böser, and D. Z. Besson
Subjects: Physics, History, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Reconstruction algorithm, Astrophysics, Computer Science Applications, Education, Coincident, Hybrid array, ddc:530, Neutrino, Energy (signal processing), Event reconstruction
Abstract: Astrophysical neutrinos at EeV energies promise to be an interesting source for astrophysics and particle physics. Detecting the predicted cosmogenic (Greisen-Zatsepin- Kusmin, GZK) neutrinos at 1016 - 1020 eV would test models of cosmic ray production at these energies and probe particle physics at ~100 TeV center-of-mass energy. IceCube may be able to detect ~10 GZK events per year with an extension including optical, radio, and acoustic receivers sparsely arrayed surrounding the optical core. Such a detector would feature crosscalibration with coincident events and would allow superior background rejection capability, energy and direction resolution, and confidence in discovered signals compared to single-method detectors. We present estimates of the neutrino effective volume for such a hybrid array both with the single-method sub-arrays independently and requiring combinations of sub-arrays to detect the same events. We also present ideas on hybrid event reconstruction and results from a proof-of-principle Monte Carlo test of a hybrid reconstruction algorithm.
Published: 2007
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46. Multiyear search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II

Author: H. Landsman, S. Schlenstedt, J. L. Kelley, John Clem, D. Rutledge, C. Wiedemann, H. Leich, D. J. Boersma, R. Porrata, Konstancja Satalecka, D. Hays, Jenni Adams, L. Gerhardt, George Japaridze, J. Auffenberg, C. Ha, K. Rawlins, Hakki Ögelman, S. H. Seo, J.D. Zornoza, D. Leier, Christian Spiering, Kara Hoffman, Y. Sestayo, Subir Sarkar, A. J. Smith, R. G. Stokstad, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, R. Wischnewski, B. Hommez, Delia Tosi, James Madsen, Soebur Razzaque, P. B. Price, W. Wagner, Joseph T. Hodges, Justin Vandenbroucke, T. Burgess, A. Piegsa, M. Solarz, J. M. Joseph, I. Liubarsky, Ph. Herquet, N. Kitamura, B. Christy, K. Mase, A. Ishihara, T. O. B. Schmidt, J. Bolmont, R. Ehrlich, Kael Hanson, A. Olivas, Teresa Montaruli, T. J. Sumner, G. Kohnen, S. Grullon, R. M. Gunasingha, L. Demirörs, Elisa Resconi, M. Ribordy, E. Blaufuss, S. Böser, J. E. Hart, S. Seunarine, F. Rothmaier, Michael Stamatikos, A. Morey, K. Beattie, B. D. Fox, Kurt Woschnagg, Paul Evenson, P. Berghaus, T. Kowarik, K. Hultqvist, R. W. Ellsworth, J. A. Goodman, Fabian Kislat, N. van Eijndhoven, R. Morse, K. Helbing, A. Franckowiak, Albrecht Karle, Yi Wang, Paolo Desiati, Gerald Przybylski, M. Inaba, D. Z. Besson, T. McCauley, A. Van Overloop, Dmitry Chirkin, S. Robbins, M. C. Stoufer, J. Pretz, M. Krasberg, H. Waldmann, S. M. Movit, V. Viscomi, S. Patton, B. Voigt, Xinhua Bai, Alexander Kappes, M. Hellwig, Hermann Kolanoski, R. Gozzini, P. Meszaros, J. Dreyer, K. Han, M. Labare, A. W. Jones, Elisa Bernardini, K. H. Sulanke, H. G. Sander, P. Roth, A. Tepe, Todor Stanev, S. Yoshida, Olga Botner, A. Mokhtarani, Dawn Williams, K. Hoshina, Carlos Pena-Garay, C. Wendt, Johan Lundberg, Glenn Spiczak, O. Tarasova, H. Miyamoto, John S. Gallagher, M. Tluczykont, Chad Finley, D. Bertrand, D. F. Cowen, J. K. Becker, Christian Bohm, David A. Schneider, J.P. Hulss, H. Kawai, R. Ganugapati, A. C. Pohl, J. E. Sopher, S. R. Klein, D. Berley, G. C. Hill, A. Achterberg, B. Hughey, D. Seckel, K. Kuehn, W. R. Edwards, Heiko Geenen, A. R. Fazely, R. Franke, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, M. Gurtner, C. Walck, T. Karg, M. M. Foerster, S. Klepser, H. A. B. Johansson, T. Hauschildt, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, Ignacio Taboada, Adam Bouchta, C.P. de los Heros, Allan Hallgren, T. Castermans, R. J. Lauer, C. De Clercq, D. R. Nygren, S. Hundertmark, Marek Kowalski, Markus Ackermann, T. Stezelberger, S. W. Barwick, G. W. Sullivan, H. S. Matis, M. V. D'Agostino, C. Song, D. Turcan, F. Descamps, Francis Halzen, O. Fadiran, C. T. Day, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, E. A. Strahler, T. Messarius, A. Gross, A. Silvestri, Karen Andeen, R. Nahnhauer, J. Ahrens, Anna Davour, J. Braun, Janet Jacobsen, P. O. Hulth, J. Eisch, B. Semburg, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, H. Wissing, L. Köpke, Kirill Filimonov, T. Straszheim, M. R. Duvoort, B. Baret, S. Tilav, Y. Hasegawa, K. H. Kampert, C. P. McParland, J. Lünemann, A. Goldschmidt, D. Hardtke, R. C. Bay, K.-H. Becker, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, S. Stoyanov, Dirk Ryckbosch, Carsten Rott, K. Münich, J. W. Nam, L. Thollander, Xianwu Xu, J. P. Dumm, Reina H. Maruyama, H. Wiebusch, R. Hardtke, P. Niessen, John Heise, T. Becka, G. Wikström, and T. Griesel
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Range (particle radiation), Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Spectral line, Astronomia, Neutron detection, ddc:530, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: A search for TeV - PeV muon neutrinos from unresolved sources was performed on AMANDA-II data collected between 2000 and 2003 with an equivalent livetime of 807 days. This diffuse analysis sought to find an extraterrestrial neutrino flux from sources with non-thermal components. The signal is expected to have a harder spectrum than the atmospheric muon and neutrino backgrounds. Since no excess of events was seen in the data over the expected background, an upper limit of E^{2}\Phi_{90% C.L.} < 7.4 x 10^{-8} GeV cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} is placed on the diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with a \Phi \propto E^{-2} spectrum in the energy range 16 TeV to 2.5 PeV. This is currently the most sensitive \Phi \propto E^{-2} diffuse astrophysical neutrino limit. We also set upper limits for astrophysical and prompt neutrino models, all of which have spectra different than \Phi \propto E^{-2}., Comment: 47 pages, 13 figures. This includes the original document and an erratum for the effective area tables
Published: 2007
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47. Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

Author: M. V. D'Agostino, C. Song, Albrecht Karle, C. T. Day, J. Pretz, J. M. Joseph, I. Liubarsky, Matthias Leuthold, K. Hultqvist, D. R. Nygren, R. Ehrlich, A. Olivas, E. A. Strahler, Carlos Pérez de los Heros, Jenni Adams, Marek Kowalski, D. Leier, T. Messarius, Kara Hoffman, Wolfgang Rhode, A. Meli, Christian Bohm, S. H. Seo, J.D. Zornoza, David A. Schneider, K. Kuehn, W. R. Edwards, H. Waldmann, P. Berghaus, Todor Stanev, Dawn Williams, C. Wendt, W. Wagner, T. Feser, Christian Spiering, F. Descamps, P. Roth, H. S. Matis, H. Miyamoto, J. E. Hart, K. Rawlins, D. Berley, M. Ribordy, G. C. Hill, R. G. Stokstad, Joseph T. Hodges, Justin Vandenbroucke, M. Kestel, Johan Lundberg, C. Walck, H. A. B. Johansson, H. Landsman, B. Christy, James Madsen, Soebur Razzaque, K. Helbing, N. Kitamura, Thomas K. Gaisser, G. B. Yodh, R. Morse, D. Turcan, Francis Halzen, N. van Eijndhoven, A. Ishihara, J. Bolmont, D. Seckel, M. Tluczykont, J. Dreyer, Teresa Montaruli, T. Castermans, K. Hoshina, D. Z. Besson, Glenn Spiczak, L. Gerhardt, Gerald Przybylski, S. Klepser, S. Robbins, B. Hommez, Heiko Geenen, A. R. Fazely, Tyce DeYoung, A. Piegsa, P. A. Toale, J. L. Kelley, D. Hays, E. Blaufuss, C. De Clercq, O. Fadiran, D. F. Cowen, B. Hughey, A. W. Jones, R. Ganugapati, A. C. Pohl, J. E. Sopher, K. Mase, T. McCauley, M. C. Stoufer, A. Achterberg, Markus Ackermann, S. W. Barwick, M. Solarz, S. M. Movit, K. Han, John Clem, C.P. Burgess, D. J. Boersma, D. Rutledge, D.W. Atlee, Ignacio Taboada, K. Beattie, Olga Botner, A. Morey, H. Leich, O. Tarasova, Subir Sarkar, X. W. Xu, A. Mokhtarani, Christopher Wiebusch, R. Wischnewski, M. Hellwig, A. Van Overloop, Hermann Kolanoski, R. Porrata, Peter Mészáros, J. P. Hulss, Elisa Bernardini, P. B. Price, K. H. Sulanke, H. G. Sander, T. J. Sumner, L. Demirörs, R. M. Gunasingha, Hakki Ögelman, A. J. Smith, T. O. B. Schmidt, G. Kohnen, T. Stezelberger, R. W. Ellsworth, T. Burgess, John N. Bahcall, S. Seunarine, Michael Stamatikos, S. Grullon, J. A. Goodman, Kurt Woschnagg, B. Voigt, Xinhua Bai, Paul Evenson, Dmitry Chirkin, J. W. Nam, L. Thollander, Karen Andeen, S. Stoyanov, K. Münich, P. Steffen, R. Nahnhauer, J. Lünemann, J. Ahrens, D. Hardtke, R. C. Bay, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, A. Gross, A. Silvestri, M. Walter, A. Rizzo, George Japaridze, S. Hundertmark, G. W. Sullivan, Elisa Resconi, S. Patton, Carlos Pena-Garay, Torsten Harenberg, Kirill Filimonov, Ph. Herquet, John Heise, Damian Pieloth, D. Hubert, T. Becka, K.-H. Becker, H. Wissing, L. Köpke, J. K. Becker, D. Bertrand, S. Böser, H. Kawai, Kael Hanson, S. R. Klein, T. Hauschildt, J. C. Gallagher, Adam Bouchta, Allan Hallgren, G. Wikström, M. Gurtner, T. Straszheim, R. Gozzini, Dirk Ryckbosch, A. Tepe, Yi Wang, Paolo Desiati, P. Niessen, K. H. Kampert, M. Krasberg, B. D. Fox, C. P. McParland, Carsten Rott, S. Yoshida, A. Goldschmidt, J. P. Dumm, J. Eisch, R. Hardtke, M. R. Duvoort, B. Baret, S. Tilav, P. O. Hulth, S. Schlenstedt, Anna Davour, J. Braun, and Janet Jacobsen
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, Sky, Astronomia, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, ddc:530, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy, media_common
Abstract: We report the results of a five-year survey of the northern sky to search for point sources of high energy neutrinos. The search was performed on the data collected with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope in the years 2000 to 2004, with a live-time of 1001 days. The sample of selected events consists of 4282 upward going muon tracks with high reconstruction quality and an energy larger than about 100 GeV. We found no indication of point sources of neutrinos and set 90% confidence level flux upper limits for an all-sky search and also for a catalog of 32 selected sources. For the all-sky search, our average (over declination and right ascension) experimentally observed upper limit \Phi^{0}=(E/TeV)^\gamma d\Phi/dE to a point source flux of muon and tau neutrino (detected as muons arising from taus) is \Phi_{\nu_\mu}^{0} + \Phi_{\nu_\tau}^{0} = 11.1 x 10^{-11} TeV^-1 cm^-2 s^-1, in the energy range between 1.6 TeV and 2.5 PeV for a flavor ratio \Phi_{\nu_\mu}^{0} / \Phi_{\nu_\tau}^{0}= 1 and assuming a spectral index \gamma=2. It should be noticed that this is the first time we set upper limits to the flux of muon and tau neutrinos. In previous papers we provided muon neutrino upper limits only neglecting the sensitivity to a signal from tau neutrinos, which improves the limits by 10% to 16%. The value of the average upper limit presented in this work corresponds to twice the limit on the muon neutrino flux \Phi_{\nu_\mu}^{0} = 5.5 \cdot 10^{-11} TeV^-1 cm^-2 s^-1. A stacking analysis for preselected active galactic nuclei and a search based on the angular separation of the events were also performed. We report the most stringent flux upper limits to date, including the results of a detailed assessment of systematic uncertainties., Comment: 32 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2007
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48. Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project

Author: Megan E. Schwamb, Jack J. Lissauer, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Federica B. Bianco, S. Y. Wang, S. L. Marshall, C.-Y. Wen, Charles Alcock, H. C. Lin, Dae-Won Kim, K. H. Cook, Chien-Cheng Lin, Y. H. Chang, I. de Pater, Andrew H.-J. Wang, Typhoon Lee, Wen Ping Chen, Soumen Mondal, John Rice, Yong-Ik Byun, S. K. King, Nicolai Meinshausen, R. Porrata, J. M. Giammarco, M. J. Lehner, Tim Axelrod, and Rahul Dave
Subjects: Physics, Solar System, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, Occultation, Photometry (optics), Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, Trans-Neptunian object
Abstract: The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to determine the number of small icy bodies in the outer reach of the Solar System by means of stellar occultation. An array of 4 robotic small (D=0.5 m), wide-field (f/1.9) telescopes have been installed at Lulin Observatory in Taiwan to simultaneously monitor some thousand of stars for such rare occultation events. Because a typical occultation event by a TNO a few km across will last for only a fraction of a second, fast photometry is necessary. A special CCD readout scheme has been devised to allow for stellar photometry taken a few times per second. Effective analysis pipelines have been developed to process stellar light curves and to correlate any possible flux changes among all telescopes. A few billion photometric measurements have been collected since the routine survey began in early 2005. Our preliminary result of a very low detection rate suggests a deficit of small TNOs down to a few km size, consistent with the extrapolation of some recent studies of larger (30--100 km) TNOs., 4 pages, 3 figures, IAU Symposium 236
Published: 2006

49. Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of 27 December 2004 with the AMANDA-II detector

Author: A. Achterberg, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. Ahrens, K. Andeen, D. W. Atlee, J. N. Bahcall, X. Bai, B. Baret, M. Bartelt, S. W. Barwick, R. Bay, K. Beattie, T. Becka, J. K. Becker, K.-H. Becker, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, D. Z. Besson, E. Blaufuss, D. J. Boersma, C. Bohm, J. Bolmont, S. Böser, O. Botner, A. Bouchta, J. Braun, C. Burgess, T. Burgess, T. Castermans, D. Chirkin, B. Christy, J. Clem, D. F. Cowen, M. V. D’Agostino, A. Davour, C. T. Day, C. De Clercq, L. Demirörs, F. Descamps, P. Desiati, T. DeYoung, J. C. Diaz-Velez, J. Dreyer, J. P. Dumm, M. R. Duvoort, W. R. Edwards, R. Ehrlich, J. Eisch, R. W. Ellsworth, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, A. R. Fazely, T. Feser, K. Filimonov, B. D. Fox, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, R. Ganugapati, H. Geenen, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, J. A. Goodman, R. Gozzini, S. Grullon, A. Groß, R. M. Gunasingha, M. Gurtner, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Han, K. Hanson, D. Hardtke, R. Hardtke, T. Harenberg, J. E. Hart, T. Hauschildt, D. Hays, J. Heise, K. Helbing, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G. C. Hill, J. Hodges, K. D. Hoffman, B. Hommez, K. Hoshina, D. Hubert, B. Hughey, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hundertmark, J.-P. Hülß, A. Ishihara, J. Jacobsen, G. S. Japaridze, A. Jones, J. M. Joseph, K.-H. Kampert, A. Karle, H. Kawai, J. L. Kelley, M. Kestel, N. Kitamura, S. R. Klein, S. Klepser, G. Kohnen, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, M. Krasberg, K. Kuehn, H. Landsman, H. Leich, I. Liubarsky, J. Lundberg, J. Madsen, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, T. McCauley, C. P. McParland, A. Meli, T. Messarius, P. Mészáros, H. Miyamoto, A. Mokhtarani, T. Montaruli, A. Morey, R. Morse, S. M. Movit, K. Münich, R. Nahnhauer, J. W. Nam, P. Nießen, D. R. Nygren, H. Ögelman, Ph. Olbrechts, A. Olivas, S. Patton, C. Peña-Garay, C. Pérez de los Heros, A. Piegsa, D. Pieloth, A. C. Pohl, R. Porrata, J. Pretz, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, S. Razzaque, F. Refflinghaus, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, A. Rizzo, S. Robbins, P. Roth, C. Rott, D. Rutledge, D. Ryckbosch, H.-G. Sander, S. Sarkar, S. Schlenstedt, T. Schmidt, D. Schneider, D. Seckel, S. H. Seo, S. Seunarine, A. Silvestri, A. J. Smith, M. Solarz, C. Song, J. E. Sopher, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, P. Steffen, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, M. C. Stoufer, S. Stoyanov, E. A. Strahler, T. Straszheim, K.-H. Sulanke, G. W. Sullivan, T. J. Sumner, I. Taboada, O. Tarasova, A. Tepe, L. Thollander, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, D. Turčan, N. van Eijndhoven, J. Vandenbroucke, A. Van Overloop, B. Voigt, W. Wagner, C. Walck, H. Waldmann, M. Walter, Y.-R. Wang, C. Wendt, C. H. Wiebusch, G. Wikström, D. R. Williams, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, X. W. Xu, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, and J. D. Zornoza
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, Muon, Solar flare, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Gamma ray, General Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Galaxy, law.invention, Pulsar, law, Astronomia, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Flare
Abstract: On December 27th 2004, a giant gamma flare from the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater 1806-20 saturated many satellite gamma-ray detectors. This event was by more than two orders of magnitude the brightest cosmic transient ever observed. If the gamma emission extends up to TeV energies with a hard power law energy spectrum, photo-produced muons could be observed in surface and underground arrays. Moreover, high-energy neutrinos could have been produced during the SGR giant flare if there were substantial baryonic outflow from the magnetar. These high-energy neutrinos would have also produced muons in an underground array. AMANDA-II was used to search for downgoing muons indicative of high-energy gammas and/or neutrinos. The data revealed no significant signal. The upper limit on the gamma flux at 90% CL is dN/dE < 0.05 (0.5) TeV^-1 m^-2 s^-1 for gamma=-1.47 (-2). Similarly, we set limits on the normalization constant of the high-energy neutrino emission of 0.4 (6.1) TeV^-1 m^-2 s^-1 for gamma=-1.47 (-2)., 14 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2006

50. STATUS OF THE TAOS PROJECT AND A SIMULATOR FOR TNO OCCULTATION

Author: Typhoon Lee, Tim Axelrod, Soumen Mondal, Federica B. Bianco, Z. W. Zhang, S. L. Marshall, C. Y. Wen, Yung Hsin Chang, Jack J. Lissauer, J. Giammarco, Charles Alcock, Kem H. Cook, Rahul Dave, Imke de Pater, John Rice, Megan E. Schwamb, Matthew J. Lehner, Andrew H.-J. Wang, Wen Ping Chen, R. Porrata, Yong-Ik Byun, S. K. King, and Shiang-Yu Wang
Subjects: Physics, Stars, Asteroid, Planet, Neptune, Orbit (dynamics), Astronomy, Survey result, Occultation, Simulation
Abstract: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USAE-mail: skking@asiaa.sinica.edu.twThe majority of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are probably smallcomets beyond the orbit of Neptune. A study of TNOs may enable abetter understanding of the origin of short-period comets and of theprocess of planet formation and the early history of the solar system.An occultation survey is currently the only way to detect these objectsdown to a size of a few kilometers at such a distance. The status ofthe TAOS (Taiwan-America Occultation Survey) project is reported. Inorder to monitor thousands of stars on the order of a fraction of a secondusing CCD cameras, a novel CCD readout technique, the \shutterlesszipper mode", is applied. Two predicted asteroid occultation events weresuccessfully observed. Instead of a simple number count of occultationevents, an interpretation of a TNO occultation survey result can beobtained by using the simulator described here. Through comparisonof the results from an observation and from our simulator, a speci castronomical or astrophysical model can be constrained.
Published: 2006
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