Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

Details Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

2010-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/1010.3980v2

Phys.Rev.D83:012001,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

19 pages, 24 figures, added background simulation to distribution plots, clarified a few points in the text

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.012001

A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18,000 up-going atmospheric muon neutrino events in IceCube. Boosted decision trees were used for event selection to reject mis-reconstructed atmospheric muons and obtain a sample of up-going muon neutrino events. Background contamination in the final event sample is less than one percent. 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 muon neutrino plus muon antineutrino flux.

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