Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The interaction of cosmic rays with the solar atmosphere generates a secondary flux of mesons that decay into photons and neutrinos – the so-called solar atmospheric flux. Although the gamma-ray component of this flux has been observed in Fermi-LAT and HAWC Observatory data, the neutrino component remains undetected. The energy distribution of those neutrinos follows a soft spectrum that extends from the GeV to the multi-TeV range, making large Cherenkov neutrino telescopes a suitable for probing this flux. In this contribution, we will discuss current progress of a search for the solar neutrino flux by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory using all available data since 2011. Compared to the previous analysis which considered only high-energy muon neutrino tracks, we will additionally consider events produced by all flavors of neutrinos down to GeV-scale energies. These new events should improve our analysis sensitivity since the flux falls quickly with energy. Determining the magnitude of the neutrino flux is essential, since it is an irreducible background to indirect solar dark matter searches.
Authors: Abbasi, R., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Agarwalla, S. K., Aguilar, J.A., Ahlers, M., Alameddine, J. M., Amin, N.M., Andeen, K., Anton, G., Argüelles, C., Ashida, Y., Athanasiadou, S., Axani, S. N., Bai, X., Balagopal, A. V., Baricevic, M., Barwick, S.W., Basu, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J.J., Tjus, Julia, Beise, J., Bellenghi, C., Benning, C., Benzvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Besson, D. Z., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bontempo, F., Book, J. Y., Boscolo Meneguolo, C., Böser, S., Botner, O., Böttcher, J., Bourbeau, E., Braun, J., Brinson, B., Brostean-Kaiser, J., Burley, R. T., Busse, R.S., Butterfield, D., Campana, M.A., Carloni, K., Carnie-Bronca, E. G., Krishnamoorthi, J., Chau, N., Chen, C., Chen, Z., Chirkin, D., Choi, S., Clark, B.A., Classen, L., Coleman, A., Collin, G.H., Connolly, A., Conrad, J.M., Coppin, P., Correa, P., Cowen, D. F., Dave, P., De Clercq, C., Delaunay, J.J., Delgado, D., Deng, S., Deoskar, K., Desai, A., Desiati, P., De Vries, K. D., De Wasseige, G., Deyoung, T., Diaz, A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dittmer, M., Domi, A., Dujmovic, H., Duvernois, M. A., Ehrhardt, T., Eller, P., Ellinger, E., El Mentawi, S., Elsaesser, D., Engel, R., Erpenbeck, H., Evans, J., Evenson, P.A., Fan, K.L., Fang, K., Farrag, K., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feigl, N., Fiedlschuster, S., Finley, C., Fischer, L., Fox, D., Franckowiak, A., Fritz, A., Fürst, P., Gallagher III, J. S., Ganster, E., Garcia, A., Gerhardt, L., Ghadimi, A., Glaser, C., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goehlke, N., Gonzalez, J.G., Goswami, S., Grant, D., Gray, S.J., Gries, O., Griffin, S., Griswold, S., Groth, K.M., Günther, C., Gutjahr, P., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halliday, R., Halve, L., Halzen, F., Hamdaoui, H., Ha Minh, M., Hanson, K., Hardin, J., Harnisch, A.A., Hatch, P., Haungs, A., Helbing, K., Hellrung, J., Henningsen, F., Heuermann, L., Heyer, N., Hickford, S., Hidvegi, A., Hill, C., Hill, G.C., Hoffman, K.D., Hori, S., Hoshina, K., Hou, W., Huber, T., Hultqvist, K., Hünnefeld, M., Hussain, R., Hymon, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacquart, M., Janik, O., Jansson, M., Japaridze, G.S., Jeong, M., Jin, M., Jones, B.J.P., Kang, D., Kang, W., Kang, X., Kappes, A., Kappesser, D., Kardum, L., Karg, T., Karl, M., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Kelley, J.L., Khatee Zathul, A., Kheirandish, A., Kiryluk, J., Klein, S.R., Kochocki, A., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Kontrimas, T., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Koskinen, D.J., Koundal, P., Kovacevich, M., Kowalski, M., Kozynets, T., Kruiswijk, K., Krupczak, E., Kumar, A., Kun, Emma, Kurahashi, N., Lad, N., Lagunas Gualda, C., Lamoureux, M., Larson, M.J., Latseva, S., Lauber, F., Lazar, J.P., Lee, J.W., Deholton, K. 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W., Morii, Y., Morse, R., Moulai, M., Mukherjee, T., Naab, R., Nagai, R., Nakos, M., Naumann, U., Necker, J., Negi, A., Neumann, M., Niederhausen, H., Nisa, M.U., Noell, A., Novikov, A., Nowicki, S.C., Obertacke Pollmann, A., O'Dell, V., Oehler, M., Oeyen, B., Olivas, A., Orsoe, R., Osborn, J., O'Sullivan, E., Pandya, H., Park, N., Parker, G.K., Paudel, E.N., Paul, L., Pérez de los Heros, C., Peterson, J., Philippen, S., Pizzuto, A., Plum, M., Pontén, A., Popovych, Y., Prado Rodriguez, M., Pries, B., Procter-Murphy, R., Przybylski, G.T., Raab, C., Rack-Helleis, J., Rawlins, K., Rechav, Z., Rehman, A., Reichherzer, P., Renzi, G., Resconi, E., Reusch, S., Rhode, W., Riedel, B., Rifaie, A., Roberts, E.J., Robertson, S., Rodan, S., Roellinghoff, G., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruohan, L., Ryckbosch, D., Safa, I., Saffer, J., Salazar-Gallegos, D., Sampathkumar, P., Sanchez Herrera, S.E., Sandrock, A., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Savelberg, J., Savina, P., Schaufel, M., Schieler, H., Schindler, S., Schlickmann, L., Schlüter, B., Schlüter, F., Schmeisser, N., Schmidt, T., Schneider, J., Schröder, F.G., Schumacher, L., Schwefer, G., Sclafani, S., Seckel, D., Seikh, M., Seunarine, S., Shah, R., Sharma, A., Shefali, S., Shimizu, N., Silva, M., Skrzypek, B., Smithers, B., Snihur, R., Soedingrekso, J., Søgaard, A., Soldin, D., Soldin, P., Sommani, G., Spannfellner, C., Spiczak, G.M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stezelberger, T., Stürwald, T., Stuttard, T., Sullivan, G.W., Taboada, I., Ter-Antonyan, S., Thiesmeyer, M., Thompson, W.G., Thwaites, J., Tilav, S., Tollefson, K., Tönnis, C., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Trettin, A., Tung, C.F., Turcotte, R., Twagirayezu, J.P., Ty, B., Unland Elorrieta, M.A., Upadhyay, A.K., Upshaw, K., Valtonen-Mattila, N., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Eijndhoven, N., Vannerom, D., Van Santen, J., Vara, J., Veitch-Michaelis, J., Venugopal, M., Vereecken, M., Verpoest, S., Veske, D., Vijai, A., Walck, C., Weaver, C., Weigel, P., Weindl, A., Weldert, J., Wendt, C., Werthebach, J., Weyrauch, M., Whitehorn, Nathan, Wiebusch, C.H., Willey, N., Williams, D.R., Witthaus, L., Wolf, A., Wolf, M., Wrede, G., Xu, X.W., Yanez, J.P., Yildizci, E., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Yu, F., Yu, S., Yuan, T., Zhang, Z., Zhelnin, P., Zimmerman, M.
Institutions: Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of California, Berkeley, Ruhr University Bochum, RWTH Aachen University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, The University of Adelaide, Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Clark Atlanta University, The University of Texas at Arlington, University of Alaska Anchorage
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7205207355