https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604004
Low-energy point source searches with IceCube
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
2 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 15735 Zeuthen, Germany
3 Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
a e-mail: sebastian.euler@icecube.wisc.edu
b e-mail: david.altmann@icecube.wisc.edu
c e-mail: rickard.strom@icecube.wisc.edu
d http://www.icecube.wisc.edu
Published online: 11 April 2016
Due to the overwhelming background of atmospheric muons, the traditional IceCube point source search in the Southern Hemisphere is mainly sensitive to neutrinos with energies above 100TeV. A new approach focuses on events starting inside the instrumented volume. By utilizing different veto techniques we are able to significantly reduce the energy threshold and can now for the first time explore the entire Southern Hemisphere at neutrino energies as low as 100GeV. We present the results of two analyses targeting slightly different energy ranges. Both use one year of data taken with the completed IceCube detector in 2011/12.
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