VLVnT - 2015 : Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope

14-16 September 2015
University "La Sapienza", Physics Department
Europe/Rome timezone

IceCube results from pointlike source searches using 6 years of through-going muon data

15 Sep 2015, 11:20
20m
Aula Amaldi, 1st floor (University "La Sapienza", Physics Department)

Aula Amaldi, 1st floor

University "La Sapienza", Physics Department

Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2 - 00185 Roma - Italy

Speaker

Mr Stefan Coenders (Technische Universität München)

Description

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the geographic South Pole was designed to study and discover high energy neutrinos coming from both galactic and extragalactic astrophysical sources. Track-like events induced by charged-current muon-neutrino interactions close to the IceCube detector give an angular resolution better than 1° above TeV energies. We present here the results of searches for pointlike astrophysical neutrino sources on the full sky using 6 years of detector livetime, of which three years use the complete IceCube detector. Within 2000 days of detector livetime, IceCube is sensitive to a steady flux substantially below $E^2\,\partial\phi\,/\,\partial E=10^{-12}\mathrm{TeV\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ in the northern hemisphere for neutrino energies above 10~TeV.

Primary author

Mr Stefan Coenders (Technische Universität München)