Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector
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 se...
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ftunivalencia:oai:roderic.uv.es:10550/39571 2023-05-15T18:22:15+02:00 Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector Achterberg, Abraham Peña Garay, Carlos Zornoza Gómez, Juan de Dios 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/10550/39571 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.027101 eng eng Physical Review D, 2007, vol. 76, num. 2, p. 027101 http://hdl.handle.net/10550/39571 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.027101 097438 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Achterberg, Abraham Peña Garay, Carlos Zornoza Gómez, Juan de Dios 2007 Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector Physical Review D 76 2 027101 Astronomia info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2007 ftunivalencia https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.027101 2019-09-08T10:10:49Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole Universitat de València: Roderic - Repositorio de contenido libre South Pole Physical Review D 76 2 |
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Astronomia Achterberg, Abraham Peña Garay, Carlos Zornoza Gómez, Juan de Dios Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector |
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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. |
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Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector |
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Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector |
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Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector |
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Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector |
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Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector |
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detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the icecube 9-string detector |
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