Title
Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube
Date Issued
05 January 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abbasi R.
Abdou Y.
Abu-Zayyad T.
Adams J.
Aguilar J.A.
Ahlers M.
Andeen K.
Auffenberg J.
Bai X.
Baker M.
Barwick S.W.
Bay R.
Beattie K.
Beatty J.J.
Bechet S.
Becker J.K.
Becker K.H.
Benabderrahmane M.L.
Benzvi S.
Berdermann J.
Berghaus P.
Berley D.
Bernardini E.
Bertrand D.
Besson D.Z.
Bissok M.
Blaufuss E.
Blumenthal J.
Boersma D.J.
Bohm C.
Bose D.
Böser S.
Botner O.
Braun J.
Buitink S.
Carson M.
Chirkin D.
Christy B.
Clem J.
Clevermann F.
Cohen S.
Colnard C.
Cowen D.F.
D'Agostino M.V.
Danninger M.
Davis J.C.
De Clercq C.
Demirörs L.
Depaepe O.
Descamps F.
Desiati P.
De Vries-Uiterweerd G.
Deyoung T.
Díaz-Vélez J.C.
Dierckxsens M.
Dreyer J.
Dumm J.P.
Duvoort M.R.
Ehrlich R.
Eisch J.
Ellsworth R.W.
Engdegård O.
Euler S.
Evenson P.A.
Fadiran O.
Fazely A.R.
Fedynitch A.
Feusels T.
Filimonov K.
Finley C.
Foerster M.M.
Fox B.D.
Franckowiak A.
Franke R.
Gaisser T.K.
Gallagher J.
Geisler M.
Gerhardt L.
Gladstone L.
Glüsenkamp T.
Goldschmidt A.
Goodman J.A.
Grant D.
Griesel T.
Groß A.
Grullon S.
Gurtner M.
Ha C.
Hallgren A.
Halzen F.
Han K.
Hanson K.
Helbing K.
Herquet P.
Hickford S.
Hill G.C.
Hoffman K.D.
Homeier A.
Hoshina K.
RWTH Aachen University
Abstract
A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18000 up-going atmospheric muon neutrino events in IceCube. Boosted decision trees were used for event selection to reject misreconstructed atmospheric muons and obtain a sample of up-going muon neutrino events. Background contamination in the final event sample is less than 1%. This is the first measurement of atmospheric neutrinos up to 400 TeV, and is fundamental to understanding the impact of this neutrino background on astrophysical neutrino observations with IceCube. The measured spectrum is consistent with predictions for the atmospheric νμ+ν̄μ flux. © 2011 The American Physical Society.
Volume
83
Issue
1
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-79551628214
Source
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
ISSN of the container
15502368
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation - 0969661
Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/J000507/1
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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