First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector
Creators: name: IceCube Collaboration
name: Abbasi, R.
name: Abdou, Y.
name: Abu-Zayyad, T.
name: Adams, J.
name: Aguilar, J. A.
name: Ahlers, M.
name: Andeen, K.
name: Auffenberg, J.
name: Bai, X.
name: Baker, M.
name: Barwick, S. W.
name: Bay, R.
name: Alba, J. L. Bazo
name: Beattie, K.
name: Beatty, J. J.
name: Bechet, S.
name: Becker, J. K.
name: Becker, K. -H.
name: Benabderrahmane, M. L.
name: BenZvi, S.
name: Berdermann, J.
name: Berghaus, P.
name: Berley, D.
name: Bernardini, E.
name: Bertrand, D.
name: Besson, D. Z.
name: Bindig, D.
name: Bissok, M.
name: Blaufuss, E.
name: Blumenthal, J.
name: Boersma, D. J.
name: Bohm, C.
name: Bose, D.
name: B, S.
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name: Botner, O.
name: Braun, J.
name: Brown, A. M.
name: Buitink, S.
name: Carson, M.
name: Chirkin, D.
name: Christy, B.
name: Clem, J.
name: Clevermann, F.
name: Cohen, S.
name: Colnard, C.
name: Cowen, D. F.
name: D'Agostino, M. V.
name: Danninger, M.
name: Daughhetee, J.
name: Davis, J. C.
name: De Clercq, C.
name: Demir, L.
name: "Ors
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name: Depaepe, O.
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name: de Vries-Uiterweerd, G.
name: DeYoung, T.
name: D'iaz-Vélez, J. C.
name: Dierckxsens, M.
name: Dreyer, J.
name: Dumm, J. P.
name: Ehrlich, R.
name: Eisch, J.
name: Ellsworth, R. W.
name: aard, O. Engdeg
name: Euler, S.
name: Evenson, P. A.
name: Fadiran, O.
name: Fazely, A. R.
name: Fedynitch, A.
name: Feusels, T.
name: Filimonov, K.
name: Finley, C.
name: Fischer-Wasels, T.
name: Foerster, M. M.
name: Fox, B. D.
name: Franckowiak, A.
name: Franke, R.
name: Gaisser, T. K.
name: Gallagher, J.
name: Geisler, M.
name: Gerhardt, L.
name: Gladstone, L.
name: Glüsenkamp, T.
name: Goldschmidt, A.
name: Goodman, J. A.
name: Grant, D.
name: Griesel, T.
name: Gross, A.
name: Grullon, S.
name: Gurtner, M.
name: Ha, C.
name: Hallgren, A.
name: Halzen, F.
name: Han, K.
name: Hanson, K.
name: Heinen, D.
name: Helbing, K.
name: Herquet, P.
name: Hickford, S.
name: Hill, G. C.
name: Hoffman, K. D.
name: Homeier, A.
name: Hoshina, K.
name: Hubert, D.
name: Huelsnitz, W.
name: Hülß, J. -P.
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name: Hultqvist, K.
name: Hussain, S.
name: Ishihara, A.
name: Jacobsen, J.
name: Japaridze, G. S.
name: Johansson, H.
name: Joseph, J. M.
name: Kampert, K. -H.
name: Kappes, A.
name: Karg, T.
name: Karle, A.
name: Kelley, J. L.
name: Kenny, P.
name: Kiryluk, J.
name: Kislat, F.
name: Klein, S. R.
name: Köhne, J. -H.
name: Kohnen, G.
name: Kolanoski, H.
name: Köpke, L.
name: Kopper, S.
name: Koskinen, D. J.
name: Kowalski, M.
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name: Krasberg, M.
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name: Kuwabara, T.
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name: Naumann, U.
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name: Olivas, A.
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name: Panknin, S.
name: Paul, L.
name: Heros, C. Pérez de los
name: Petrovic, J.
name: Piegsa, A.
name: Pieloth, D.
name: Porrata, R.
name: Posselt, J.
name: Price, P. B.
name: Prikockis, M.
name: Przybylski, G. T.
name: Rawlins, K.
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name: Ryckbosch, D.
name: Sander, H. -G.
name: Santander, M.
name: Sarkar, S.
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name: Schmidt, T.
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name: Spiczak, G. M.
name: Spiering, C.
name: Stamatikos, M.
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name: Straszheim, T.
name: Stür, M.
name: Sullivan, G. W.
name: Swillens, Q.
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name: Tepe, A.
name: Ter-Antonyan, S.
name: Tilav, S.
name: Toale, P. A.
name: Toscano, S.
name: Tosi, D.
name: Tur\v\can, D.
name: van Eijndhoven, N.
name: Vandenbroucke, J.
name: Van Overloop, A.
name: van Santen, J.
name: Vehring, M.
name: Voge, M.
name: Voigt, B.
name: Walck, C.
name: Waldenmaier, T.
name: Wallraff, M.
name: Walter, M.
name: Weaver, Ch.
name: Wendt, C.
name: Westerhoff, S.
name: Whitehorn, N.
name: Wiebe, K.
name: Wiebusch, C. H.
name: Williams, D. R.
name: Wischnewski, R.
name: Wissing, H.
name: Wolf, M.
name: Woschnagg, K.
name: Xu, C.
name: Xu, X. W.
name: Yodh, G.
name: Yoshida, S.
name: Zarzhitsky, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first search for atmospheric and for diffuse astrophysical neutrino-induced showers (cascades) in the IceCube detector using 257 days of data collected in the year 2007-2008 with 22 strings active. A total of 14 events with energies above 16 TeV remained after event selections in the diffuse analysis, with an expected total background contribution of $8.3\pm 3.6$. At 90% confidence we set an upper limit of $E^2Φ_{90%CL}&lt;3.6\times10^{-7} GeV \cdot cm^{-2} \cdot s^{-1}\cdot sr^{-1} $ on the diffuse flux of neutrinos of all flavors in the energy range between 24 TeV and 6.6 PeV assuming that $Φ\propto E^{-2}$ and that the flavor composition of the $ν_e : ν_μ: ν_τ$ flux is $1 : 1 : 1$ at the Earth. The atmospheric neutrino analysis was optimized for lower energies. A total of 12 events were observed with energies above 5 TeV. The observed number of events is consistent with the expected background, within the uncertainties.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures