LeptonInjector and LeptonWeighter: A neutrino event generator and weighter for neutrino observatories

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doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108018

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“…Conventional neutrinos produced in the decays of pions and kaons contribute at low energies, becoming subdominant to the flux of charm-induced prompt neutrinos at higher energies. To model both signal and background, a set of muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current events has been simulated with the package LeptonInjector [11]. As a simplification, the optical modules of the 120 proposed strings are modeled after existing IceCube sensors.…”

Section: Northern-hemisphere Tracksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Forecasted Sensitivity of IceCube-Gen2 to the Astrophysical Diffuse Spectrum

Kochocki¹

2023

Proceedings of 27th European Cosmic Ray Symposium — PoS(ECRS)

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IceCube-Gen2-Optical is a planned, large-scale upgrade to the existing IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This ∼8 cubic kilometer in-ice detector is optimized for point-source science, yielding integer-factor improvements to angular resolution, and increased sensitivity to higher energies. Here, its impact on future study of the diffuse astrophysical spectrum is considered. New analyses of up-going muon neutrino tracks and of all-sky cascade events are performed by adapting standard IceCube selection and analysis methods to this proposed configuration. Improvements to sensitivity of both analyses are presented, along with the combined result. The all-sky cascade analysis excludes a majority of the parameter space allowed by the same period of IceCube observation. The work explores the impact of leading atmospheric systematics on IceCube-Gen2 diffuse sensitivity, and on that of similar, future experiments. A characterization of the Gen2-Optical diffuse program, and implications for our understanding of astrophysical sources in this coming era of next-generation, volumetric neutrino experiments, are provided. *** 27th European Cosmic Ray Symposium -ECRS *** *** 25-29 July 2022 *** *** Nĳmegen, the Netherlands *** * Speaker

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Section: Northern-hemisphere Tracksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An all-flavor set of neutral-and charged-current neutrino interactions has been generated to model both signal and atmospheric backgrounds [11]. Additionally, a set of single, through-going muons has…”

Section: All-sky Cascadesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forecasted Sensitivity of IceCube-Gen2 to the Astrophysical Diffuse Spectrum

Kochocki¹

2023

Proceedings of 27th European Cosmic Ray Symposium — PoS(ECRS)

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“…The detector response to each flux is calculated by applying the reweighting protocol described in Ref. [50] to a large Monte Carlo event ensemble to predict the final energy spectrum, which is used as input to calculate the analysis likelihood test statistic.…”

Section: New Constraints On Anomalous Decoherencementioning

confidence: 99%

In-situ estimation of ice crystal properties at the South Pole using LED calibration data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Abbasi

Ackermann²,

Adams³

et al. 2022

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Abstract. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments about 1 km3 of deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole using 5160 photomultipliers to detect Cherenkov light emitted by charged relativistic particles. A unexpected light propagation effect observed by the experiment is an anisotropic attenuation, which is aligned with the local flow direction of the ice. Birefringent light propagation has been examined as a possible explanation for this effect. The predictions of a first-principles birefringence model developed for this purpose, in particular curved light trajectories resulting from asymmetric diffusion, provide a qualitatively good match to the main features of the data. This in turn allows us to deduce ice crystal properties. Since the wavelength of the detected light is short compared to the crystal size, these crystal properties do not only include the crystal orientation fabric, but also the average crystal size and shape, as a function of depth. By adding small empirical corrections to this first-principles model, a quantitatively accurate description of the optical properties of the IceCube glacial ice is obtained. In this paper, we present the experimental signature of ice optical anisotropy observed in IceCube LED calibration data, the theory and parametrization of the birefringence effect, the fitting procedures of these parameterizations to experimental data as well as the inferred crystal properties.

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“…The neutrino background of expected events was modelled using a Monte Carlo simulation from NuGen for the astrophysical neutrinos, atmopsheric neutrinos and atmospheric muons [10].…”

Section: Neutrino Background Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Searching for Dark Matter Neutrino Scattering in the Galactic Centre with IceCube

McMullen¹,

Argüelles²,

Schneider³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)

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While there is evidence for the existence of dark matter, its properties have yet to be discovered. Simultaneously, the nature of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube remains unresolved. If dark matter and neutrinos are coupled to each other, they may exhibit a non-zero elastic scattering cross section. Such an interaction between an isotropic extragalactic neutrino flux and dark matter would be concentrated in the Galactic Centre, where the dark matter column density is greatest. This scattering would attenuate the flux of high-energy neutrinos, which could be observed in IceCube. Using the seven-year Medium Energy Starting Events sample, we perform an unbinned likelihood analysis, searching for a signal based on a possible DM-neutrino interaction scenario. We search for a suppression of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux in the direction of the Galactic Centre, and compare these constraints to complementary low-energy information from large scale structure surveys and the cosmic microwave background.

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LeptonInjector and LeptonWeighter: A neutrino event generator and weighter for neutrino observatories

Cited by 20 publications

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Forecasted Sensitivity of IceCube-Gen2 to the Astrophysical Diffuse Spectrum

Forecasted Sensitivity of IceCube-Gen2 to the Astrophysical Diffuse Spectrum

In-situ estimation of ice crystal properties at the South Pole using LED calibration data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Searching for Dark Matter Neutrino Scattering in the Galactic Centre with IceCube

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