IceCube high-energy starting event sample: Description and flux characterization with 7.5 years of data

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has established the existence of a high-energy all-sky
neutrino flux of astrophysical origin. This discovery was made using events interacting within …

eV-scale sterile neutrino search using eight years of atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube neutrino observatory

MG Aartsen, R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The results of a 3+ 1 sterile neutrino search using eight years of data from the IceCube
Neutrino Observatory are presented. A total of 305 735 muon neutrino events are analyzed …

Massive star cluster origin for the galactic cosmic ray population at very-high energies

T Vieu, B Reville - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We demonstrate that supernova remnant (SNR) shocks embedded within massive star
clusters can reproduce both the cosmic-ray proton and all-particle spectra measured in the …

Searching for eV-scale sterile neutrinos with eight years of atmospheric neutrinos at the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

MG Aartsen, R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We report in detail on searches for eV-scale sterile neutrinos, in the context of a 3+ 1 model,
using eight years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Telescope. By analyzing the …

The hunt for PeVatrons as the origin of the most energetic photons observed in the Galaxy

E de Oña Wilhelmi, R López-Coto, F Aharonian… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrarelativistic particles called cosmic rays permeate the Milky Way, propagating through
the turbulent Galactic magnetic fields. The mechanisms under which these particles …

Constraints on spin-dependent dark matter scattering with long-lived mediators from TeV observations of the Sun with HAWC

A Albert, R Alfaro, C Alvarez, R Arceo… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We analyze the Sun as a source for the indirect detection of dark matter through a search for
gamma rays from the solar disk. Capture of dark matter by elastic interactions with the solar …

Discovery of gamma rays from the quiescent sun with HAWC

A Albert, R Alfaro, C Alvarez, JC Arteaga-Velázquez… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
We report the first detection of a TeV γ-ray flux from the solar disk (6.3 σ), based on 6.1 years
of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The 0.5–2.6 TeV …

Determination of the cosmic-ray chemical composition: Open issues and prospects

AD Supanitsky - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cosmic rays are relativistic particles that come to the Earth from outer space. Despite a great
effort made in both experimental and theoretical research, their origin is still unknown. One …

The shape of the cosmic ray proton spectrum

P Lipari, S Vernetto - Astroparticle physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent observations of cosmic ray protons in the energy range 10 2–10 5 GeV have
revealed that the spectrum cannot be described by a simple power law. A hardening of the …

Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale Disappearance at IceCube

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We report a search for nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) using eight years of TeV-
scale atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By …