Experimental Targets for Photon Couplings of the QCD Axion

(2017)

Authors:

Prateek Agrawal, JiJi Fan, Matthew Reece, Lian-Tao Wang

Cherenkov Telescope Array Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017)

(2017)

Authors:

F Acero, BS Acharya, V Acín Portella, C Adams, I Agudo, F Aharonian, I Al Samarai, A Alberdi, M Alcubierre, R Alfaro, J Alfaro, C Alispach, R Aloisio, R Alves Batista, J-P Amans, E Amato, L Ambrogi, G Ambrosi, M Ambrosio, J Anderson, M Anduze, EO Angüner, E Antolini, LA Antonelli, V Antonuccio, P Antoranz, C Aramo, M Araya, C Arcaro, T Armstrong, F Arqueros, L Arrabito, M Arrieta, K Asano, A Asano, M Ashley, P Aubert, CB Singh, A Babic, M Backes, S Bajtlik, C Balazs, M Balbo, O Ballester, J Ballet, L Ballo, A Balzer, A Bamba, R Bandiera, P Barai, C Barbier, M Barcelo, M Barkov, U Barres de Almeida, JA Barrio, D Bastieri, C Bauer, U Becciani, Y Becherini, J Becker Tjus, W Bednarek, A Belfiore, W Benbow, M Benito, D Berge, E Bernardini, MG Bernardini, M Bernardos, S Bernhard, K Bernlöhr, C Bertinelli Salucci, B Bertucci, M-A Besel, V Beshley, J Bettane, N Bhatt, W Bhattacharyya, S Bhattachryya, B Biasuzzi, G Bicknell, C Bigongiari, A Biland, A Bilinsky, R Bird, E Bissaldi, J Biteau, M Bitossi, O Blanch, P Blasi, J Blazek, C Boccato, C Bockermann, C Boehm, M Bohacova, C Boisson, J Bolmont, G Bonanno, A Bonardi, C Bonavolontà, G Bonnoli, J Borkowski, R Bose, Z Bosnjak, M Böttcher, C Boutonnet, F Bouyjou, L Bowman, V Bozhilov, C Braiding, S Brau-Nogué, J Bregeon, M Briggs, A Brill, W Brisken, D Bristow, R Britto, E Brocato, AM Brown, S Brown, K Brügge, P Brun, P Brun, F Brun, L Brunetti, G Brunetti, P Bruno, M Bryan, J Buckley, V Bugaev, R Bühler, A Bulgarelli, T Bulik, M Burton, A Burtovoi, G Busetto, S Buson, J Buss, K Byrum, A Caccianiga, R Cameron, F Canelli, R Canestrari, M Capalbi, M Capasso, F Capitanio, A Caproni, R Capuzzo-Dolcetta, P Caraveo, V Cárdenas, J Cardenzana, M Cardillo, C Carlile, S Caroff, R Carosi, A Carosi, E Carquín, J Carr, J-M Casandjian, S Casanova, E Cascone, AJ Castro-Tirado, J Castroviejo Mora, F Catalani, O Catalano, D Cauz, C Celestino Silva, S Celli, M Cerruti, E Chabanne, P Chadwick, N Chakraborty, C Champion, A Chatterjee, S Chaty, R Chaves, A Chen, X Chen, K Cheng, M Chernyakova, M Chikawa, VR Chitnis, A Christov, J Chudoba, M Cieślar, P Clark, V Coco, S Colafrancesco, P Colin, E Colombo, J Colome, S Colonges, V Conforti, V Connaughton, J Conrad, JL Contreras, R Cornat, J Cortina, A Costa, H Costantini, G Cotter, B Courty, S Covino, G Covone, P Cristofari, SJ Criswell, R Crocker, J Croston, C Crovari, J Cuadra, O Cuevas, X Cui, P Cumani, G Cusumano, A D'Aì, F D'Ammando, P D'Avanzo, D D'Urso, P Da Vela, Ø Dale, VT Dang, L Dangeon, M Daniel, I Davids, B Dawson, F Dazzi, A De Angelis, V De Caprio, R de Cássia dos Anjos, G De Cesare, A De Franco, F De Frondat, EM de Gouveia Dal Pino, I de la Calle, C De Lisio, R de los Reyes Lopez, B De Lotto, A De Luca, M De Lucia, JRT de Mello Neto, M de Naurois, E de Oña Wilhelmi, F De Palma, F De Persio, V de Souza, J Decock, C Deil, P Deiml, M Del Santo, E Delagnes, G Deleglise, M Delfino Reznicek, C Delgado, J Delgado Mengual, R Della Ceca, D della Volpe, M Detournay, J Devin, T Di Girolamo, C Di Giulio, F Di Pierro, L Di Venere, L Diaz, C Díaz, C Dib, H Dickinson, S Diebold, S Digel, A Djannati-Ataï, M Doert, A Domínguez, D Dominis Prester, I Donnarumma, D Dorner, M Doro, J-L Dournaux, T Downes, G Drake, S Drappeau, H Drass, D Dravins, L Drury, G Dubus, K Dundas Morå, A Durkalec, V Dwarkadas, J Ebr, C Eckner, E Edy, K Egberts, S Einecke, J Eisch, F Eisenkolb, TRN Ekoume, C Eleftheriadis, D Elsässer, D Emmanoulopoulos, J-P Ernenwein, P Escarate, S Eschbach, C Espinoza, P Evans, C Evoli, M Fairbairn, D Falceta-Goncalves, A Falcone, V Fallah Ramazani, K Farakos, E Farrell, G Fasola, Y Favre, E Fede, R Fedora, E Fedorova, S Fegan, M Fernandez-Alonso, A Fernández-Barral, G Ferrand, O Ferreira, M Fesquet, E Fiandrini, A Fiasson, M Filipovic, D Fink, JP Finley, C Finley, A Finoguenov, V Fioretti, M Fiorini, H Flores, L Foffano, C Föhr, MV Fonseca, L Font, G Fontaine, M Fornasa, P Fortin, L Fortson, N Fouque, B Fraga, FJ Franco, L Freixas Coromina, C Fruck, D Fugazza, Y Fujita, S Fukami, Y Fukazawa, Y Fukui, S Funk, A Furniss, M Füßling, S Gabici, A Gadola, Y Gallant, D Galloway, S Gallozzi, B Garcia, A Garcia, R García Gil, R Garcia López, M Garczarczyk, D Gardiol, F Gargano, C Gargano, S Garozzo, M Garrido-Ruiz, D Gascon, T Gasparetto, F Gaté, M Gaug, B Gebhardt, M Gebyehu, N Geffroy, B Genolini, A Ghalumyan, A Ghedina, G Ghirlanda, P Giammaria, F Gianotti, B Giebels, N Giglietto, V Gika, R Gimenes, P Giommi, F Giordano, G Giovannini, E Giro, M Giroletti, J Gironnet, A Giuliani, J-F Glicenstein, R Gnatyk, N Godinovic, P Goldoni, JL Gómez, G Gómez-Vargas, MM González, JM González, KS Gothe, D Gotz, J Goullon, T Grabarczyk, R Graciani, J Graham, P Grandi, J Granot, G Grasseau, R Gredig, AJ Green, T Greenshaw, I Grenier, S Griffiths, A Grillo, M-H Grondin, J Grube, V Guarino, B Guest, O Gueta, S Gunji, G Gyuk, D Hadasch, L Hagge, J Hahn, A Hahn, H Hakobyan, S Hara, MJ Hardcastle, T Hassan, T Haubold, A Haupt, K Hayashi, M Hayashida, H He, M Heller, JC Helo, F Henault, G Henri, G Hermann, R Hermel, J Herrera Llorente, A Herrero, O Hervet, N Hidaka, J Hinton, N Hiroshima, K Hirotani, B Hnatyk, JK Hoang, D Hoffmann, W Hofmann, J Holder, D Horan, J Hörandel, M Hörbe, D Horns, P Horvath, J Houles, T Hovatta, M Hrabovsky, D Hrupec, J-M Huet, G Hughes, D Hui, G Hull, TB Humensky, M Hussein, M Hütten, M Iarlori, Y Ikeno, JM Illa, D Impiombato, T Inada, A Ingallinera, Y Inome, S Inoue, T Inoue, Y Inoue, F Iocco, K Ioka, M Ionica, M Iori, A Iriarte, K Ishio, GL Israel, Y Iwamura, C Jablonski, A Jacholkowska, J Jacquemier, M Jamrozy, P Janecek, F Jankowsky, D Jankowsky, P Jansweijer, C Jarnot, P Jean, CA Johnson, M Josselin, I Jung-Richardt, J Jurysek, P Kaaret, P Kachru, M Kagaya, J Kakuwa, O Kalekin, R Kankanyan, A Karastergiou, M Karczewski, S Karkar, H Katagiri, J Kataoka, K Katarzyński, U Katz, N Kawanaka, L Kaye, D Kazanas, N Kelley-Hoskins, B Khélifi, DB Kieda, T Kihm, S Kimeswenger, S Kimura, S Kisaka, S Kishida, R Kissmann, W Kluźniak, J Knapen, J Knapp, J Knödlseder, B Koch, J Kocot, K Kohri, N Komin, A Kong, Y Konno, K Kosack, G Kowal, S Koyama, M Kraus, M Krause, F Krauß, F Krennrich, P Kruger, H Kubo, V Kudryavtsev, G Kukec Mezek, S Kumar, H Kuroda, J Kushida, P Kushwaha, N La Palombara, V La Parola, G La Rosa, R Lahmann, K Lalik, G Lamanna, M Landoni, D Landriu, H Landt, RG Lang, J Lapington, P Laporte, O Le Blanc, T Le Flour, P Le Sidaner, S Leach, A Leckngam, S-H Lee, WH Lee, J-P Lees, J Lefaucheur, MA Leigui de Oliveira, M Lemoine-Goumard, J-P Lenain, G Leto, R Lico, M Limon, R Lindemann, E Lindfors, L Linhoff, A Lipniacka, S Lloyd, T Lohse, S Lombardi, F Longo, M Lopez, R Lopez-Coto, T Louge, F Louis, M Louys, F Lucarelli, D Lucchesi, PL Luque-Escamilla, E Lyard, MC Maccarone, T Maccarone, E Mach, GM Madejski, G Maier, A Majczyna, P Majumdar, M Makariev, G Malaguti, A Malouf, S Maltezos, D Malyshev, D Malyshev, D Mandat, G Maneva, M Manganaro, S Mangano, P Manigot, K Mannheim, N Maragos, D Marano, A Marcowith, J Marín, M Mariotti, M Marisaldi, S Markoff, J Martí, J-M Martin, P Martin, L Martin, M Martínez, G Martínez, O Martínez, R Marx, N Masetti, P Massimino, A Mastichiadis, M Mastropietro, S Masuda, H Matsumoto, N Matthews, S Mattiazzo, G Maurin, N Maxted, M Mayer, D Mazin, MN Mazziotta, L Mc Comb, I McHardy, C Medina, A Melandri, C Melioli, D Melkumyan, S Mereghetti, J-L Meunier, T Meures, M Meyer, S Micanovic, T Michael, J Michałowski, I Mievre, J Miller, IA Minaya, T Mineo, F Mirabel, JM Miranda, R Mirzoyan, A Mitchell, T Mizuno, R Moderski, M Mohammed, L Mohrmann, C Molijn, E Molinari, R Moncada, T Montaruli, I Monteiro, D Mooney, P Moore, A Moralejo, D Morcuende-Parrilla, E Moretti, K Mori, G Morlino, P Morris, A Morselli, F Moscato, D Motohashi, E Moulin, S Mueller, R Mukherjee, P Munar, C Mundell, J Mundet, T Murach, H Muraishi, K Murase, A Murphy, A Nagai, N Nagar, S Nagataki, T Nagayoshi, BK Nagesh, T Naito, D Nakajima, T Nakamori, Y Nakamura, K Nakayama, D 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Zorn

Search for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube

Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 846:2 (2017) 1-12

Authors:

M Ackermann, J Adams, Subir Sarkar

Abstract:

The IceCube neutrino observatory has established the existence of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, which is inconsistent with the expectation from atmospheric backgrounds at a significance greater than 5σ. This flux has been observed in analyses of both track events from muon neutrino interactions and cascade events from interactions of all neutrino flavors. Searches for astrophysical neutrino sources have focused on track events due to the significantly better angular resolution of track reconstructions. To date, no such sources have been confirmed. Here we present the first search for astrophysical neutrino sources using cascades interacting in IceCube with deposited energies as small as 1 TeV. No significant clustering was observed in a selection of 263 cascades collected from 2010 May to 2012 May. We show that compared to the classic approach using tracks, this statistically independent search offers improved sensitivity to sources in the southern sky, especially if the emission is spatially extended or follows a soft energy spectrum. This enhancement is due to the low background from atmospheric neutrinos forming cascade events and the additional veto of atmospheric neutrinos at declinations ≲-30.

Symmetric and asymmetric reheating

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature 2017:9 (2017) 113

Authors:

Edward Hardy, James Unwin

Discrete Symmetries of Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Manifolds

(2017)

Authors:

Andre Lukas, Challenger Mishra