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All-Energy Search for Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube

IceCube; Abbasi, Rasha; Ackermann, Markus; Adams, Jenni; Agarwalla, Sanjib; Aguilar, Juanan; Ahlers, Markus; Alameddine, Jean-Marco; Amin, Najia Moureen Binte ORCID iD icon; Andeen, Karen; Anton, Gisela; Argüelles, Carlos; Ashida, Yosuke; Athanasiadou, Sofia; Axani, Spencer; Bai, Xinhua; Balagopal V, Aswathi; Baricevic, Moreno; Barwick, Steve; ... mehr

Abstract (englisch):

The interaction of cosmic rays with the solar atmosphere generates a secondary flux of mesons that decay into photons and neutrinos – the so-called solar atmospheric flux. Although the gamma-ray component of this flux has been observed in Fermi-LAT and HAWC Observatory data, the neutrino component remains undetected. The energy distribution of those neutrinos follows a soft spectrum that extends from the GeV to the multi-TeV range, making large Cherenkov neutrino telescopes a suitable for probing this flux. In this contribution, we will discuss current progress of a search for the solar neutrino flux by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory using all available data since 2011. Compared to the previous analysis which considered only high-energy muon neutrino tracks, we will additionally consider events produced by all flavors of neutrinos down to GeV-scale energies. These new events should improve our analysis sensitivity since the flux falls quickly with energy. Determining the magnitude of the neutrino flux is essential, since it is an irreducible background to indirect solar dark matter searches.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000163420
Veröffentlicht am 27.10.2023
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Astroteilchenphysik (IAP)
Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik (ETP)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsjahr 2023
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1824-8039
KITopen-ID: 1000163420
HGF-Programm 51.13.04 (POF IV, LK 01) Kosmische Strahlung Technologien
Erschienen in 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Neutrino Astronomy & Physics (NU)
Veranstaltung 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2023), Nagoya, Japan, 26.07.2023 – 03.08.2023
Verlag Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 1116
Serie Proceedings of Science ; 444
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 25.07.2023
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