Prof Subir Sarkar: Publications

IceCube

IceCube at Oxford

I am a member since 2004 of the IceCube collaboration which discovered cosmic high energy neutrinos and identified some of their astrophysical sources.

IceCube @ Oxford

Time-dependent searches for point sources of neutrinos with the 40-string and 22-string configurations of icecube

Astrophysical Journal 744:1 (2012)

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R Abbasi, Y Abdou, T Abu-Zayyad, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, K Andeen, J Auffenberg, X Bai, M Baker, SW Barwick, R Bay, JL Bazo Alba, K Beattie, JJ Beatty, S Bechet, JK Becker, KH Becker, ML Benabderrahmane, S Benzvi, J Berdermann, P Berghaus, D Berley, E Bernardini, D Bertrand, DZ Besson, D Bindig, M Bissok, E Blaufuss, J Blumenthal, DJ Boersma, C Bohm, D Bose, S Böser, O Botner, J Braun, AM Brown, S Buitink, M Carson, D Chirkin, B Christy, J Clem, F Clevermann, S Cohen, C Colnard, DF Cowen, MV D'Agostino, M Danninger, J Daughhetee, JC Davis, C De Clercq, L Demirörs, T Denger, O Depaepe, F Descamps, P Desiati, G De Vries-Uiterweerd, T Deyoung, JC Díaz-Vélez, M Dierckxsens, J Dreyer, JP Dumm, R Ehrlich, J Eisch, RW Ellsworth, O Engdegrd, S Euler, PA Evenson, O Fadiran, AR Fazely, A Fedynitch, T Feusels, K Filimonov, C Finley, T Fischer-Wasels, MM Foerster, BD Fox, A Franckowiak, R Franke, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, M Geisler, L Gerhardt, L Gladstone, T Glüsenkamp, A Goldschmidt, JA Goodman, D Grant, T Griesel, A Groß, S Grullon, M Gurtner, C Ha, A Hallgren, F Halzen, K Han, K Hanson, D Heinen, K Helbing, P Herquet

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This paper presents four searches for flaring sources of neutrinos using the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, a search is performed over the entire parameter space of energy, direction, and time with sensitivity to neutrino flares lasting between 20 μs and a year duration from astrophysical sources. Searches that integrate over time are less sensitive to flares because they are affected by a larger background of atmospheric neutrinos and muons that can be reduced by the use of additional timing information. Flaring sources considered here, such as active galactic nuclei, soft gamma-ray repeaters, and gamma-ray bursts, are promising candidate neutrino emitters. Two searches are "untriggered" in the sense that they look for any possible flare in the entire sky and from a predefined catalog of sources from which photon flares have been recorded. The other two searches are triggered by multi-wavelength information on flares from blazars and from a soft gamma-ray repeater. One triggered search uses lightcurves from Fermi-LAT which provides continuous monitoring. A second triggered search uses information where the flux states have been measured only for short periods of time near the flares. The untriggered searches use data taken by 40 strings of IceCube between 2008 April 5 and 2009 May 20. The triggered searches also use data taken by the 22-string configuration of IceCube operating between 2007 May 31 and 2008 April 5. The results from all four searches are compatible with a fluctuation of the background.

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A SEARCH FOR POINT SOURCES OF EeV NEUTRONS

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 760:2 (2012) ARTN 148

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P Abreu, M Aglietta, M Ahlers, EJ Ahn, IFM Albuquerque, D Allard, I Allekotte, J Allen, P Allison, A Almela, J Alvarez Castillo, J Alvarez-Muniz, R Alves Batista, M Ambrosio, A Aminaei, L Anchordoqui, S Andringa, T Antici'c, C Aramo, E Arganda, F Arqueros, H Asorey, P Assis, J Aublin, M Ave, M Avenier, G Avila, AM Badescu, M Balzer, KB Barber, AF Barbosa, R Bardenet, SLC Barroso, B Baughman, J Baeuml, C Baus, JJ Beatty, KH Becker, A Belletoile, JA Bellido, S BenZvi, C Berat, X Bertou, PL Biermann, P Billoir, F Blanco, M Blanco, C Bleve, H Bluemer, M Bohacova, D Boncioli, C Bonifazi, R Bonino, N Borodai, J Brack, I Brancus, P Brogueira, WC Brown, R Bruijn, P Buchholz, A Bueno, L Buroker, RE Burton, KS Caballero-Mora, B Caccianiga, L Caramete, R Caruso, A Castellina, O Catalano, G Cataldi, L Cazon, R Cester, J Chauvin, SH Cheng, A Chiavassa, JA Chinellato, J Chirinos Diaz, J Chudoba, M Cilmo, RW Clay, G Cocciolo, L Collica, MR Coluccia, R Conceicao, F Contreras, H Cook, MJ Cooper, J Coppens, A Cordier, S Coutu, CE Covault, A Creusot, A Criss, J Cronin, A Curutiu, S Dagoret-Campagne, R Dallier, B Daniel, S Dasso, K Daumiller, BR Dawson, RM de Almeida, M De Domenico, C De Donato, SJ de Jong, G De La Vega, WJM de Mello Junior, JRT de Mello Neto, I De Mitri, V de Souza, KD de Vries, L del Peral, M del Rio, O Deligny, H Dembinski, N Dhital, C Di Giulio, ML Diaz Castro, PN Diep, F Diogo, C Dobrigkeit, W Docters, JC D'Olivo, PN Dong, A Dorofeev, JC dos Anjos, MT Dova, D D'Urso, I Dutan, J Ebr, R Engel, M Erdmann, CO Escobar, J Espadanal, A Etchegoyen, P Facal San Luis, H Falcke, G Farrar, AC Fauth, N Fazzini, AP Ferguson, B Fick, JM Figueira, A Filevich, A Filipcic, S Fliescher, CE Fracchiolla, ED Fraenkel, O Fratu, U Froehlich, B Fuchs, R Gaior, RF Gamarra, S Gambetta, B Garcia, ST Garcia Roca, D Garcia-Gamez, D Garcia-Pinto, A Gascon Bravo, H Gemmeke, PL Ghia, M Giller, J Gitto, H Glass, MS Gold, G Golup, F Gomez Albarracin, M Gomez Berisso, PF Gomez Vitale, P Goncalves, JG Gonzalez, B Gookin, A Gorgi, P Gouffon, E Grashorn, S Grebe, N Griffith, M Grigat, AF Grillo, Y Guardincerri, F Guarino, GP Guedes, P Hansen, D Harari, TA Harrison, JL Harton, A Haungs, T Hebbeker, D Heck, AE Herve, C Hojvat, N Hollon, VC Holmes, P Homola, JR Horandel, P Horvath, M Hrabovsky, D Huber, T Huege, A Insolia, F Ionita, A Italiano, S Jansen, C Jarne, S Jiraskova, M Josebachuili, K Kadija, KH Kampert, P Karhan, P Kasper, I Katkov, B Kegl, B Keilhauer, A Keivani, JL Kelley, E Kemp, RM Kieckhafer, HO Klages, M Kleifges, J Kleinfeller, J Knapp, D-H Koang, K Kotera, N Krohm, O Kroemer, D Kruppke-Hansen, D Kuempel, JK Kulbartz, N Kunka, G La Rosa, C Lachaud, D LaHurd, L Latronico, R Lauer, P Lautridou, S Le Coz, MSAB Leao, D Lebrun, P Lebrun, MA Leigui de Oliveira, A Letessier-Selvon, I Lhenry-Yvon, K Link, R Lopez, A Lopez Agueera, K Louedec, J Lozano Bahilo, L Lu, A Lucero, M Ludwig, H Lyberis, MC Maccarone, C Macolino, S Maldera, J Maller, D Mandat, P Mantsch, AG Mariazzi, J Marin, V Marin, IC Maris, HR Marquez Falcon, G Marsella, D Martello, L Martin, H Martinez, O Martinez Bravo, D Martraire, JJ Masias Meza, HJ Mathes, J Matthews, JAJ Matthews, G Matthiae, D Maurel, D Maurizio, PO Mazur, G Medina-Tanco, M Melissas, D Melo, E Menichetti, A Menshikov, P Mertsch, C Meurer, R Meyhandan, S Mi'canovi'c, MI Micheletti, IA Minaya, L Miramonti, L Molina-Bueno, S Mollerach, M Monasor, D Monnier Ragaigne, F Montanet, B Morales, C Morello, E Moreno, JC Moreno, M Mostafa, CA Moura, MA Muller, G Mueller, M Muenchmeyer, R Mussa, G Navarra, JL Navarro, S Navas, P Necesal, L Nellen, A Nelles, J Neuser, PT Nhung, M Niechciol, L Niemietz, N Nierstenhoefer, D Nitz, D Nosek, L Nozka, J Oehlschlaeger, A Olinto, M Ortiz, N Pacheco, D Pakk Selmi-Dei, M Palatka, J Pallotta, N Palmieri, G Parente, E Parizot, A Parra, S Pastor, T Paul, M Pech, J Pekala, R Pelayo, IM Pepe, L Perrone, R Pesce, E Petermann, S Petrera, A Petrolini, Y Petrov, C Pfendner, R Piegaia, T Pierog, P Pieroni, M Pimenta, V Pirronello, M Platino, M Plum, VH Ponce, M Pontz, A Porcelli, P Privitera, M Prouza, EJ Quel, S Querchfeld, J Rautenberg, O Ravel, D Ravignani, B Revenu, J Ridky, S Riggi, M Risse, P Ristori, H Rivera, V Rizi, J Roberts, W Rodrigues de Carvalho, G Rodriguez, I Rodriguez Cabo, J Rodriguez Martino, J Rodriguez Rojo, MD Rodriguez-Frias, G Ros, J Rosado, T Rossler, M Roth, B Rouille-d'Orfeuil, E Roulet, AC Rovero, C Ruehle, A Saftoiu, F Salamida, H Salazar, F Salesa Greus, G Salina, F Sanchez, CE Santo, E Santos, EM Santos, F Sarazin, B Sarkar, S Sarkar, R Sato, N Scharf, V Scherini, H Schieler, P Schiffer, A Schmidt, O Scholten, H Schoorlemmer, J Schovancova, P Schovanek, F Schroeder, S Schulte, D Schuster, SJ Sciutto, M Scuderi, A Segreto, M Settimo, A Shadkam, RC Shellard, I Sidelnik, G Sigl, HH Silva Lopez, O Sima, A 'Smialkowski, R Smida, GR Snow, P Sommers, J Sorokin, H Spinka, R Squartini, YN Srivastava, S Stanic, J Stapleton, J Stasielak, M Stephan, A Stutz, F Suarez, T Suomijaervi, AD Supanitsky, T Susa, MS Sutherland, J Swain, Z Szadkowski, M Szuba, A Tapia, M Tartare, O Tascau, R Tcaciuc, NT Thao, D Thomas, J Tiffenberg, C Timmermans, W Tkaczyk, CJ Todero Peixoto, G Toma, L Tomankova, B Tome, A Tonachini, P Travnicek, DB Tridapalli, G Tristram, E Trovato, M Tueros, R Ulrich, M Unger, M Urban, JF Valdes Galicia, I Valino, L Valore, G van Aar, AM van den Berg, A van Vliet, E Varela, B Vargas Cardenas, JR Vazquez, RA Vazquez, D Veberic, V Verzi, J Vicha, M Videla, L Villasenor, H Wahlberg, P Wahrlich, O Wainberg, D Walz, AA Watson, M Weber, K Weidenhaupt, A Weindl, F Werner, S Westerhoff, BJ Whelan, A Widom, G Wieczorek, L Wiencke, B Wilczynska, H Wilczynski, M Will, C Williams, T Winchen, M Wommer, B Wundheiler, T Yamamoto, T Yapici, P Younk, G Yuan, A Yushkov, B Zamorano Garcia, E Zas, D Zavrtanik, M Zavrtanik, I Zaw, A Zepeda, J Zhou, Y Zhu, M Zimbres Silva, M Ziolkowski

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REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

86:1 (2012) ARTN 010001

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J Beringer, J-F Arguin, RM Barnett, K Copic, O Dahl, DE Groom, C-J Lin, J Lys, H Murayama, CG Wohl, W-M Yao, PA Zyla, C Amsler, M Antonelli, DM Asner, H Baer, HR Band, T Basaglia, CW Bauer, JJ Beatty, VI Belousov, E Bergren, G Bernardi, W Bertl, S Bethke, H Bichsel, O Biebel, E Blucher, S Blusk, G Brooijmans, O Buchmueller, RN Cahn, M Carena, A Ceccucci, D Chakraborty, M-C Chen, RS Chivukula, G Cowan, G D'Ambrosio, T Damour, D de Florian, A de Gouvea, T DeGrand, P de Jong, G Dissertori, B Dobrescu, M Doser, M Drees, DA Edwards, S Eidelman, J Erler, VV Ezhela, W Fetscher, BD Fields, B Foster, TK Gaisser, L Garren, H-J Gerber, G Gerbier, T Gherghetta, S Golwala, M Goodman, C Grab, AV Gritsan, J-F Grivaz, M Grunewald, A Gurtu, T Gutsche, HE Haber, K Hagiwara, C Hagmann, C Hanhart, S Hashimoto, KG Hayes, M Heffner, B Heltsley, JJ Hernandez-Rey, K Hikasa, A Hoecker, J Holder, A Holtkamp, J Huston, JD Jackson, KF Johnson, T Junk, D Karlen, D Kirkby, SR Klein, E Klempt, RV Kowalewski, F Krauss, M Kreps, B Krusche, Yu V Kuyanov, Y Kwon, O Lahav, J Laiho, P Langacker, A Liddle, Z Ligeti, TM Liss, L Littenberg, KS Lugovsky, SB Lugovsky, T Mannel, AV Manohar, WJ Marciano, AD Martin, A Masoni, J Matthews, D Milstead, R Miquel, K Moenig, F Moortgat, K Nakamura, M Narain, P Nason, S Navas, M Neubert, P Nevski, Y Nir, KA Olive, L Pape, J Parsons, C Patrignani, JA Peacock, ST Petcov, A Piepke, A Pomarol, G Punzi, A Quadt, S Raby, G Raffelt, BN Ratcliff, P Richardson, S Roesler, S Rolli, A Romaniouk, LJ Rosenberg, JL Rosner, CT Sachrajda, Y Sakai, GP Salam, S Sarkar, F Sauli, O Schneider, K Scholberg, D Scott, WG Seligman, MH Shaevitz, SR Sharpe, M Silari, T Sjostrand, P Skands, JG Smith, GF Smoot, S Spanier, H Spieler, A Stahl, T Stanev, SL Stone, T Sumiyoshi, MJ Syphers, F Takahashi, M Tanabashi, J Terning, M Titov, NP Tkachenko, NA Tornqvist, D Tovey, G Valencia, K van Bibber, G Venanzoni, MG Vincter, P Vogel, A Vogt, W Walkowiak, CW Walter, DR Ward, T Watari, G Weiglein, EJ Weinberg, LR Wiencke, L Wolfenstein, J Womersley, CL Woody, RL Workman, A Yamamoto, GP Zeller, OV Zenin, J Zhang, R-Y Zhu

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Second-order Fermi acceleration as the origin of the Fermi bubbles

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT 692 (2012) 265-268

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Philipp Mertsch, Subir Sarkar

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Search for ultrahigh energy neutrinos in highly inclined events at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 84:12 (2011)

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P Abreu, M Aglietta, EJ Ahn, IFM Albuquerque, D Allard, I Allekotte, J Allen, P Allison, J Alvarez Castillo, J Alvarez-Muñiz, M Ambrosio, A Aminaei, L Anchordoqui, S Andringa, T Antičić, A Anzalone, C Aramo, E Arganda, F Arqueros, H Asorey, P Assis, J Aublin, M Ave, M Avenier, G Avila, T Bäcker, M Balzer, KB Barber, AF Barbosa, R Bardenet, SLC Barroso, B Baughman, J Bäuml, JJ Beatty, BR Becker, KH Becker, A Bellétoile, JA Bellido, S Benzvi, C Berat, X Bertou, PL Biermann, P Billoir, F Blanco, M Blanco, C Bleve, H Blümer, M Boháčová, D Boncioli, C Bonifazi, R Bonino, N Borodai, J Brack, P Brogueira, WC Brown, R Bruijn, P Buchholz, A Bueno, RE Burton, KS Caballero-Mora, L Caramete, R Caruso, A Castellina, O Catalano, G Cataldi, L Cazon, R Cester, J Chauvin, SH Cheng, A Chiavassa, JA Chinellato, A Chou, J Chudoba, RW Clay, MR Coluccia, R Conceição, F Contreras, H Cook, MJ Cooper, J Coppens, A Cordier, S Coutu, CE Covault, A Creusot, A Criss, J Cronin, A Curutiu, S Dagoret-Campagne, R Dallier, S Dasso, K Daumiller, BR Dawson, RM De Almeida, M De Domenico, C De Donato, SJ De Jong, G De La Vega, WJM De Mello Junior, JRT De Mello Neto, I De Mitri

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The Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to neutrinos of all flavors above 0.1 EeV. These interact through charged and neutral currents in the atmosphere giving rise to extensive air showers. When interacting deeply in the atmosphere at nearly horizontal incidence, neutrinos can be distinguished from regular hadronic cosmic rays by the broad time structure of their shower signals in the water-Cherenkov detectors. In this paper we present for the first time an analysis based on down-going neutrinos. We describe the search procedure, the possible sources of background, the method to compute the exposure and the associated systematic uncertainties. No candidate neutrinos have been found in data collected from 1 January 2004 to 31 May 2010. Assuming an E-2 differential energy spectrum the limit on the single-flavor neutrino is E2dN/dE<1.74×10-7GeVcm -2s-1sr-1 at 90% C.L. in the energy range 1×1017eV

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Time-dependent searches for point sources of neutrinos with the 40-string and 22-string configurations of icecube

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A SEARCH FOR POINT SOURCES OF EeV NEUTRONS

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Second-order Fermi acceleration as the origin of the Fermi bubbles

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Time-dependent searches for point sources of neutrinos with the 40-string and 22-string configurations of icecube

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A SEARCH FOR POINT SOURCES OF EeV NEUTRONS

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REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

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Second-order Fermi acceleration as the origin of the Fermi bubbles

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Search for ultrahigh energy neutrinos in highly inclined events at the Pierre Auger Observatory

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