Measurement of the high-energy all-flavor neutrino-nucleon cross section with IceCube

Rasha Abbasi ,K Andeen,M Plum,A Pizzuto,M Renschler,A Balagopal V,K Helbing,F Halzen,R Cross,N Van Eijndhoven,T Stezelberger,K Hanson,S Sclafani,S Seunarine,R Koirala,N Kurahashi,M Tselengidou,T Glüsenkamp,F Mcnally,S Hickford,N Wandkowsky,K Wiebe,M Kowalski,A Turcati,R Hoffmann,L Classen,D Ryckbosch,K Tollefson,D Bindig,S Baur,J Stachurska,S Fahey,M Dunkman,S In,D Soldin,D Kang,T Grégoire,D Mockler,K Mase,S Shefali,A Schneider,A Fritz,E Unger,C Argüelles,A Goldschmidt,A Wallace,K Hoshina,G Binder,C Wendt,D Berley,E Bernardini,R Snihur,T Karg,I Taboada,K Krings,R Joppe,P Desiati,T Kintscher,M Kauer,P Peiffer,G Momenté,Y Li,D Grant,S Robertson,T Stuttard,O Botner,J Gallagher,D Vannerom,E Friedman,C Rott,J Kim,J Stettner,J Kiryluk,E Resconi,E Blaufuss,B Hokanson-Fasig,C Finley,R Engel,H Kolanoski,K Satalecka,A Karle,R Bay,S Tilav,C Walck,M Ahrens,Y Lyu,I Ansseau,A Olivas,D Pieloth,K Rawlins,F Tenholt,M Silva,M Usner,A Weindl,T Ruhe,J Madsen,J Braun,S Toscano,S De Ridder,X Kang,L Köpke,G Krückl,D Seckel,P Eller,C Chen,D Chirkin,A Porcelli,A Steuer,S Garrappa,A Kappes,A Kyriacou,C Kopper,M De With,K Clark,U Katz,N Iovine,K Filimonov,C Pérez De Los Heros,P Mallik,N Kulacz,M Vraeghe,M Wolf,D Van Eijk,T Stanev,M Rameez,L Tomankova,R Halliday,L Gerhardt,N Park,K Leonard,R Morse,T Schmidt,A Obertacke Pollmann,K Hultqvist,P Schlunder,S Sarkar,D Hebecker,D Tosi,A Franckowiak,L Halve,J Adams,C De Clercq,T Montaruli,M Santander,A Hallgren,J Sandroos,C Spiering,H Schieler,S Böser,R Maruyama,A Haungs,S Bron,W Kang,R Reimann,M Ackermann,X Bai,N Whitehorn,S Kopper,S Benzvi,J Merz,B Smithers,M Richman,J Hignight,K Meagher,Z Zhang,M Ahlers,J Bourbeau,Z Griffith,K Woschnagg,J Vandenbroucke,A Burgman,V Baum,A Ishihara,M Stamatikos,H Niederhausen,S Choi,W Rhode,G Neer,Sukeerthi Dharani ,J M Conrad ,Mehr Nisa ,P B Price ,D R Williams ,S R Klein ,Paul Coppin ,X W Xu ,Emily Dvorak ,D F Cowen ,R W Moore ,Cyril Martin Alispach ,Benjamin Bastian ,Giovanni Renzi ,Gerrit Wrede ,Michael Duvernois ,Mirco Hünnefeld ,M J Larson ,Tianlu Yuan ,Gisela Anton ,Raamis Hussain ,Tobias Hoinka ,Pablo Correa ,Vedant Basu ,Christopher Wiebusch ,Ibrahim Safa ,Maximilian Karl Scharf ,Martin Rongen ,Johan Wulff ,Feng Huang ,Jannis Necker ,Raffaela Busse ,Felix Henningsen ,Stef Verpoest ,Christoph Raab ,Gerrit Roellinghoff ,D R Nygren ,Cristina Lagunas Gualda ,Ava Ghadimi ,Roxanne Turcotte ,Leander Fischer ,Jannes Brostean-Kaiser ,Ch Weaver ,A Dı́az ,Devyn Rysewyk Cantu ,G W Sullivan ,Spencer Griswold ,Philipp Fürst ,Erin O’sullivan ,Alexander Trettin ,Ken'ichi Kin ,Chun Fai Tung ,Bunheng Ty ,Marjon Moulai ,S Ter–Antonyan ,Moritz Kellermann ,Yuya Makino ,J L Lanfranchi ,Merlin Schaufel ,Aaron Fienberg ,Paras Koundal ,D J Koskinen ,B J P Jones ,W Y ,G M Spiczak ,Gwenhaël De Wasseige ,J V Santen ,William Luszczak ,Krijn De Vries ,Francesco Lucarelli ,Tyce Deyoung ,Brian Clark ,Tyler Anderson ,B J Whelan ,D V Pankova ,Immacolata Carmen Rea ,Thomas Huber ,Jessie Micallef ,Martina Karl ,Ek Narayan Paudel ,Robert Stein ,A A Alves ,Alexander Sandrock ,Benedikt Riedel ,K H Becker ,Chiara Bellenghi ,Shigeru Yoshida ,Hrvoje Dujmović ,Judith Schneider ,M A Unland Elorrieta ,Agnieszka Leszczyńska ,Simon Hauser ,Marie Oehler ,J J Beatty ,Lina Lu ,Sreetama Goswami ,Jakob Böttcher ,S C Nowicki ,Saskia Philippen ,N L Strotjohann ,G S Japaridze ,Michael Kovacevich ,James Delaunay ,Richard Naab ,Andrew Ludwig ,Uwe Naumann ,Julia Becker Tjus ,Federica Bradascio ,Abhishek Desai ,Hershal Pandya ,Theo Glauch ,Amirreza Raissi ,Minjin Jeong ,John Evans ,K D Hoffman ,Cristian Jesús Lozano Mariscal ,Ryo Nagai ,Franziska Tischbein ,C F Turley ,Christoph Tönnis ,A R Fazely ,Andrés Medina ,Alan Coleman ,H.-P Dembinski ,T R Wood ,J G González ,David Kappesser ,Martin Ha Minh ,Simeon Reusch ,Christian Haack ,J P Yañez ,Ali Kheirandish ,Thomas Ehrhardt ,Colton Hill ,Matti Jansson ,Matthew J Weiss ,Kendall Mahn ,G C Hill ,Jan Weldert ,Sarah Pieper ,Maximilian Meier ,Jean Pierre Twagirayezu ,Xuefeng Yin ,Spencer Axani ,Stephan Meighen-Berger ,Kunal Deoskar ,D Besson ,J A Aguilar ,Q R Liu ,Michael Campana ,Abdul Rehman ,Johannes Werthebach ,Najia Moureen Binte Amin ,Yuriy Popovych ,Maria Prado Rodriguez ,D B Fox ,Timothyblake Watson ,Le Viet Nguyen ,Ioana Codrina Maris ,J L Kelley ,Lisa Johanna Schumacher ,Pranav Dave ,Jan Soedingrekso ,G T Przybylski ,Erik Ganster ,Mehmet Gündüz ,P A Evenson ,Frank G Schröder ,T K Gaisser ,John Hardin ,Etienne Bourbeau ,S E Sanchez Herrera ,Jeffrey Lazar ,Sarah Mancina ,S W Barwick ,Anastasia Maria Barbano ,Gabriel Collin ,Elisa Lohfink ,Sebastian Fiedlschuster ,Grant Parker ,R G Stokstad ,Mark Weyrauch ,Matthías Huber ,Summer Blot ,Frederik Hermann Lauber ,Juan Carlos Díaz–Vélez

doi:10.1103/physrevd.104.022001

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Journal: Physical review. D, Particles and fields	Publication Date: Jul 8, 2021
Citations: 17	License type: CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The flux of high-energy neutrinos passing through the Earth is attenuated due to their interactions with matter. The interaction rate is modulated by the neutrino interaction cross section and affects the flux arriving at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector embedded in the Antarctic ice sheet. We present a measurement of the neutrino cross section between 60 TeV and 10 PeV using the high-energy starting events (HESE) sample from IceCube with 7.5 years of data. The result is binned in neutrino energy and obtained using both Bayesian and frequentist statistics. We find it compatible with predictions from the Standard Model. Flavor information is explicitly included through updated morphology classifiers, proxies for the the three neutrino flavors. This is the first such measurement to use the three morphologies as observables and the first to account for neutrinos from tau decay.

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In the Standard Model (SM), neutrino interactions are mediated by WÆ and Z0 bosons for charged-current (CC) and neutral-current (NC) channels, respectively
As the scale factor is applied across the entire interval within an energy bin on the CSMS calculations, the shape is preserved within each bin
The central point in each energy bin corresponds to the expected, most probable energy in dNMC=d log E, the distribution of events in the Monte Carlo (MC) along the x axis. This is chosen in lieu of the linear or logarithmic bin center to better represent where most of the statistical power lies in each bin

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In the Standard Model (SM), neutrino interactions are mediated by WÆ and Z0 bosons for charged-current (CC) and neutral-current (NC) channels, respectively. At energies above a few GeV, the dominant process is deep inelastic scattering (DIS) off of individual partons within the nucleon. Calculations in the perturbative QCD (pQCD) formalism rely on parton distribution functions (PDFs) obtained mostly from DIS experiments [1,2,3]. An alternative approach [4] based on an empirical color dipole model of the nucleon along with the assumption that all cross sections increase at high energies as ln s results in good agreement with the latest pQCD calculations.

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