Detection of a multi-PeV neutrino-induced muon event from the Northern sky with IceCube
ATel #7856; Sebastian Schoenen and Leif Raedel (III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University) on behalf of the IceCube Collaboration
on 29 Jul 2015; 20:47 UT
Credential Certification: Marcos Santander (santander@nevis.columbia.edu)
Subjects: Neutrinos, Request for Observations
Referred to by ATel #: 7868
We observed a muon event with an energy of multiple PeV originating from a neutrino interaction in the vicinity of the IceCube detector. IceCube is a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector installed in the ice at the geographic South Pole mostly sensitive to neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range.
The event is the highest-energy event in a search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos using IceCube data recorded between May 2009 and May 2015. It was detected on June 11th 2014 (56819.20444852863 MJD) and deposited a total energy of 2.6 +/- 0.3 PeV within the instrumented volume of IceCube, which is also a lower bound on the muon and neutrino energy.
The reconstructed direction of the event (J2000.0) is R.A.: 110.34 deg and Decl.: 11.48 deg. For simulated events with the same topology, 99% of them are reconstructed better than 1 deg and 50% better than 0.27 deg. The probability of this event being of atmospheric origin is less than 0.01%.
The IceCube contact persons for this event are Leif Raedel (RWTH Aachen University, raedel@physik.rwth-aachen.de) and Sebastian Schoenen (RWTH Aachen University, schoenen@physik.rwth-aachen.de)
