IceCube High Energy Starting Events at 7.5 Years - New Measurements of Flux and Flavor

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions, firmly established the existence of an astrophysical high-energy neutrino component. Here I present IceCube’s High-Energy Starting Event sample and the new resu...

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Published in:EPJ Web of conferences 2019, Vol.207, p.2005
Main Author: Stachurska, Juliana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Charged particles
Flavor (particle physics)
Neutrinos
South Pole
Standard model (particle physics)
Topology
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Summary:The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions, firmly established the existence of an astrophysical high-energy neutrino component. Here I present IceCube’s High-Energy Starting Event sample and the new results obtained with a livetime of about 7.5 years. I will focus on the new measurement of the flavor composition performed using this sample. IceCube is directly sensitive to each neutrino flavor via the single cascade, track and double cascade event topologies, the latter being the topology produced in tauneutrino interactions above an energy threshold of ~100 TeV. A measurement of the flavor ratio on Earth can provide important constraints on sources and production mechanisms within the standard model, and also constrain various beyond-standard-model processes.
ISSN:2100-014X
2101-6275
2100-014X
DOI:10.1051/epjconf/201920702005