[HTML][HTML] Cosmic neutrino pevatrons: A brand new pathway to astronomy, astrophysics, and particle physics

LA Anchordoqui, V Barger, I Cholis, H Goldberg… - Journal of High Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
The announcement by the IceCube Collaboration of the observation of 28 cosmic neutrino
candidates has been greeted with a great deal of justified excitement. The data reported so …

Observation and Characterization of a Cosmic Muon Neutrino Flux from the Northern Hemisphere using six years of IceCube data

MG Aartsen, K Abraham, M Ackermann… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos as cosmic messengers has been an
important goal of astroparticle physics. Being stable, electrically neutral particles, high …

High-energy cosmic neutrino puzzle: a review

M Ahlers, F Halzen - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We appraise the status of high-energy neutrino astronomy and summarize the observations
that define the'IceCube puzzle.'The observations are closing in on the source candidates …

Observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in three years of IceCube data

MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
A search for high-energy neutrinos interacting within the IceCube detector between 2010
and 2012 provided the first evidence for a high-energy neutrino flux of extraterrestrial origin …

Testing the hadronuclear origin of PeV neutrinos observed with IceCube

K Murase, M Ahlers, BC Lacki - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
We consider implications of the IceCube signal for hadronuclear (pp) scenarios of neutrino
sources such as galaxy clusters/groups and star-forming galaxies. Since the observed …

Atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos above 1 TeV interacting in IceCube

MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed primarily to search for high-energy (TeV-
PeV) neutrinos produced in distant astrophysical objects. A search for≳ 100 TeV neutrinos …

Diffuse neutrino intensity from the inner jets of active galactic nuclei: Impacts of external photon fields and the blazar sequence

K Murase, Y Inoue, CD Dermer - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
We study high-energy neutrino production in inner jets of radio-loud active galactic nuclei
(AGN), taking into account effects of external photon fields and the blazar sequence. We …

Searches for extended and point-like neutrino sources with four years of IceCube data

MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results on searches for point-like sources of neutrinos using four years of
IceCube data, including the first year of data from the completed 86 string detector. The total …

Star-forming galaxies as the origin of diffuse high-energy backgrounds: Gamma-ray and neutrino connections, and implications for starburst history

I Tamborra, S Ando, K Murase - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Star-forming galaxies have been predicted to contribute considerably to the diffuse gamma-
ray background as they are guaranteed reservoirs of cosmic rays. Assuming that the …

Probing the Galactic origin of the IceCube excess with gamma rays

M Ahlers, K Murase - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported evidence for a high-energy extraterrestrial
neutrino flux. During two years of operation 28 events with energies between 30 TeV and …