Searches for a Diffuse Flux of Extraterrestrial Muon Neutrinos with the Icecube Observatory
The IceCube observatory is currently being contructed at the South Pole. Scheduled tobe completed in 2011, it already offers a large increase in sensitivity over its predecessor,the AMANDA detector. This increase is expected to improve significantly the search forextraterrestrial neutrinos which are...
| Published in: | International Journal of Modern Physics D |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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World Scientific Publ.
2009
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| Online Access: | https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/89334 https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PHPPUBDB-11824%22 |
| Summary: | The IceCube observatory is currently being contructed at the South Pole. Scheduled tobe completed in 2011, it already offers a large increase in sensitivity over its predecessor,the AMANDA detector. This increase is expected to improve significantly the search forextraterrestrial neutrinos which are currently under way.One of the key searches at theIceCube observatory is for a diffuse flux of high energy extraterrestrial muon neutrinos,in excess of that observed from cosmic-ray induced atmospheric neutrinos. In this paper,we will review results obtained with the AMANDA and early IceCube detectors as wellas give an outlook on upcoming analyses |
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