IceCube and Beyond

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Elisa Resconi
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2012 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 204507249

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The most important achievements obtained within this funding period are: The discovery of high energy cosmic neutrinos and the searches for their origin in particular the development of the blazar-to-neutrino scenario, including the primary cosmic ray component. - The first association of IceCube neutrinos to a gamma-ray emitting blazar and the astrophysical study related to the region around the alerting event. - The study of atmospheric neutrino oscillation with the IceCube/DeepCore detector including the investigation of the opportunity related to the measurement of the neutrino mass ordering. - The writing of a book related to Cosmic Rays and Particle Physic with T.K. Gaisser and R. Engel. - The foundation of the new chair for “Experimental Physics with Cosmic Particles” and its integration in the physics department of TUM as well as in the Munich area.

Publications

• Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector. Science, 342(6161).
  IceCube Collaboration
  
• Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube. Physical Review Letters, 111(8).
  Aartsen, M. G.; Abbasi, R.; Abdou, Y.; Ackermann, M.; Adams, J.; Aguilar, J. A.; Ahlers, M.; Altmann, D.; Auffenberg, J.; Bai, X.; Baker, M.; Barwick, S. W.; Baum, V.; Bay, R.; Beatty, J. J.; Bechet, S.; Becker, Tjus J.; Becker, K.-H.; Bell, M. ... & Zoll, M.
  
• Are both BL Lacs and pulsar wind nebulae the astrophysical counterparts of IceCube neutrino events?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(1), 474-484.
  Padovani, P. & Resconi, E.
  
• Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2016
  T. K. Gaisser, R. Engel & E. Resconi
  
• Connecting blazars with ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and astrophysical neutrinos. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(1), 597-606.
  Resconi, E.; Coenders, S.; Padovani, P.; Giommi, P. & Caccianiga, L.
  
• PINGU: a vision for neutrino and particle physics at the South Pole. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 44(5), 054006.
  Aartsen, M. G.; Abraham, K.; Ackermann, M.; Adams, J.; Aguilar, J. A.; Ahlers, M.; Ahrens, M.; Altmann, D.; Andeen, K.; Anderson, T.; Ansseau, I.; Anton, G.; Archinger, M.; Arguelles, C.; Arlen, T. C.; Auffenberg, J.; Axani, S.; Bai, X.; Bartos, I. ... & Zoll, M.
  
• The Precision Optical CAlibration Module for IceCube-Gen2: First Prototype. Proceedings of 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2017), 934. Sissa Medialab.
  Resconi, Elisa; Martin, Rongen Kai Krings & Krings, Kai
  
• Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A. Science, 361(6398).
  Aartsen, Mark; Ackermann, Markus; Adams, Jenni ... & Sivakoff, Gregory
  
• Neutrino emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the IceCube-170922A alert. Science, 361(6398), 147-151.
  Aartsen, Mark; Ackermann, Markus; Adams, Jenni; Aguilar, Juan Antonio; Ahlers, Markus; Ahrens, Maryon; Al Samarai, Imen; Altmann, David; Andeen, Karen; Anderson, Tyler; Ansseau, Isabelle; Anton, Gisela; Argüelles, Carlos; Arsioli, Bruno; Auffenberg, Jan; Axani, Spencer; Bagherpour, Hadis; Bai, Xinhua ... & Yuan, Tianlu
  
• Dissecting the region around IceCube-170922A: the blazar TXS 0506+056 as the first cosmic neutrino source. EPJ Web of Conferences, 207, 02003.
  Glauch, Theo; Padovani, Paolo; Giommi, Paolo; Resconi, Elisa; Arsioli, Bruno; Sahakyan, Narek & Huber, Matthias