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Search for dark matter from the Galactic halo with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

Self-annihilating or decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo might produce high energy neutrinos detectable with neutrino telescopes. We have conducted a search for such a signal using 276 days of data from the IceCube 22-string configuration detector ac ...

American Physical Society2011

IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

We present the results of a first search for self-annihilating dark matter in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters using a sample of high-energy neutrinos acquired in 339.8 days of live time during 2009/10 with the IceCube neutrino observatory in its 59-str ...

American Physical Society2013

Search for Time-dependent Neutrino Emission from Astrophysical Sources with 3 yr of IceCube Data

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

We present the results of a search for neutrino point sources using the IceCube data collected between 2008 April and 2011 May with three partially completed configurations of the detector: the 40-, 59-, and 79-string configurations. The live-time of this ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

IceTop: The surface component of IceCube

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1 km(2). The detector allows a detailed exploration of the mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range from about 10 ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

Christophe Bauer, Francisco Sanchez, Mathieu Ribordy, Etienne Antoine Julien Moulin, Thomas Günther Bretz, Steve Couturier

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in astrophysics, particle physics and cosmol ...

2011

Long-Term Monitoring Of Bright Blazars With A Dedicated Cherenkov Telescope

Mathieu Ribordy, Thomas Günther Bretz

Flaring activity of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in VHE gamma-ray astronomy is observed on timescales from minutes to years and can be explained either by the interaction of relativistic jets with the surrounding material or by imprints of the central engi ...

2009

Search for point sources of high energy neutrinos with final data from AMANDA-II

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Levent Demirörs

We present a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos using 3.8 yr of data recorded by AMANDA-II during 2000-2006. After reconstructing muon tracks and applying selection criteria designed to optimally retain neutrino-induced events originating in ...

American Physical Society2009

Search for ultrahigh-energy tau neutrinos with IceCube

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

The first dedicated search for ultrahigh-energy (UHE) tau neutrinos of astrophysical origin was performed using the IceCube detector in its 22-string configuration with an instrumented volume of roughly 0: 25 km(3). The search also had sensitivity to UHE e ...

American Physical Society2012

Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

A search for sidereal modulation in the flux of atmospheric muon neutrinos in IceCube was performed. Such a signal could be an indication of Lorentz-violating physics. Neutrino oscillation models, derivable from extensions to the standard model, allow for ...

American Physical Society2010

Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Levent Demirörs

The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV energy range. The zenith angle and energy distribution of these events can be u ...

American Physical Society2009

Improvement in fast particle track reconstruction with robust statistics

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

The IceCube project has transformed 1 km(3) of deep natural Antarctic ice into a Cherenkov detector Muon neutrinos are detected and their direction is inferred by mapping the light produced by the secondary muon track inside the volume instrumented with ph ...

Elsevier2014

Improving the neutrino mass hierarchy identification with inelasticity measurement in PINGU and ORCA

Mathieu Ribordy

Multimegaton scale in under-ice and underwater detectors of atmospheric neutrinos with a few GeV energy threshold (PINGU, ORCA) open up new possibilities in the determination of neutrino properties, and in particular the neutrino mass hierarchy. With a den ...

American Physical Society2013

Design and operation of FACT - the first G-APD Cherenkov telescope

Mathieu Ribordy, Camille Haller, Thomas Günther Bretz

The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is designed to detect cosmic gamma-rays with energies from several hundred GeV up to about 10 TeV using the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. In contrast to former or existing telescopes, the camera of the ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

First Neutrino Point-Source Results From The 22 String Icecube Detector

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Levent Demirörs

We present new results of searches for neutrino point sources in the northern sky, using data recorded in 2007-2008 with 22 strings of the IceCube detector (approximately one-fourth of the planned total) and 275.7 days of live time. The final sample of 511 ...

2009

Energy reconstruction methods in the IceCube neutrino telescope

Matthias Wolf, Mark Tobin, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

Accurate measurement of neutrino energies is essential to many of the scientific goals of large-volume neutrino telescopes. The fundamental observable in such detectors is the Cherenkov light produced by the transit through a medium of charged particles cr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

G-APDs in Cherenkov astronomy: The FACT camera

Mathieu Ribordy, Thomas Günther Bretz

Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (G-APD, SiPM) are a much discussed alternative to photomultiplier tubes in Cherenkov astronomy. The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) collaboration builds a camera based on a hexagonal array of 1440 G-APDs and has now ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Design constraints on Cherenkov telescopes with Davies-Cotton reflectors

Mathieu Ribordy, Thomas Günther Bretz

This paper discusses the construction of high-performance ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov telescopes with a Davies-Cotton reflector. For the design of such telescopes, usually physics constrains the field-of-view, while the photo-sensor size is defined by ...

Elsevier2013

Measurement of the Atmospheric nu(e) Flux in IceCube

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

We report the first measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux in the energy range between approximately 80 GeV and 6 TeV, using data recorded during the first year of operation of IceCube's DeepCore low-energy extension. Techniques to identify ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Search for Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun with the 79-String IceCube Detector

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

We have performed a search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the center of the Sun with the 79-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, the DeepCore subarray is included in the analysis, lowering the ene ...

American Physical Society2013

An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in gamma-ray bursts

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

Very energetic astrophysical events are required to accelerate cosmic rays to above 10(18) electronvolts. GRBs (c-ray bursts) have been proposed as possible candidate sources(1-3). In the GRB 'fireball' model, cosmic-ray acceleration should be accompanied ...

2012