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Search for Dark Matter with the AMANDA and IceCube neutrino detectors Vrije Universiteit Brussel
If non-baryonic dark matter exists in the form of neutralinos, a neutrino flux is
expected from the decay of neutralino pair annihilation products inside heavy
celestial bodies.
Data taken with the AMANDA neutrino telescope located at the South Pole has been used
in a search for this indirect dark matter signal. Results will be shown from searches
for neutralinos accumulated in the Sun and in the centre of the ...
expected from the decay of neutralino pair annihilation products inside heavy
celestial bodies.
Data taken with the AMANDA neutrino telescope located at the South Pole has been used
in a search for this indirect dark matter signal. Results will be shown from searches
for neutralinos accumulated in the Sun and in the centre of the ...
NuRadioMC - Simulation Code for the Next Generation of Radio Neutrino Detectors Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube has opened a new window for the observation of our universe. The use of antennas for detecting astroparticles has been proven useful and accurate after many years of radio cosmic-ray detections, and will be a valuable asset for increasing the statistics for the detection of neutrinos < 10PeV and reaching out to the highest energies. The radio technique requires realistic and precise ...
The SoLid anti- neutrino detector's readout system Universiteit Antwerpen
The SoLid collaboration have developed an intelligent readout system to reduce their 3200 silicon photomultiplier detector's data rate by a factor of 10000 whilst maintaining high efficiency for storing data from anti-neutrino interactions. The system employs an FPGA-level waveform characterisation to trigger on neutron signals. Following a trigger, data from a space-time region of interest around the neutron will be read out using the IPbus ...
Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
IceCube has become the first neutrino telescope with a sensitivity below the TeV neutrino flux predicted from gamma-ray bursts if GRBs are responsible for the observed cosmic-ray flux above 1018 eV. Two separate analyses using the half-complete IceCube detector, one a dedicated search for neutrinos from p?-interactions in the prompt phase of the GRB fireball, and the other a generic search for any neutrino emission from these sources over a wide ...
Commissioning and operation of the readout system for the SoLid neutrino detector Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Gent Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The SoLid experiment aims to measure neutrino oscillation at a baseline of 6.4 m from the BR2 nuclear reactor in Belgium. Anti-neutrinos interact via inverse beta decay (IBD), resulting in a positron and neutron signal that are correlated in time and space. The detector operates in a surface building, with modest shielding, and relies on extremely efficient online rejection of backgrounds in order to identify these interactions. A novel detector ...
First Neutrino Point-Source Results From the 22-String IceCube Detector. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We present new results of searches for neutrino point sources in the northern sky, using data recorded in 2007-08 with 22 strings of the IceCube detector (approximately one-fourth of the planned total) and 275.7 days of livetime. The final sample of 5114 neutrino candidate events agrees well with the expected background of atmospheric muon neutrinos and a small component of atmospheric muons. No evidence of a point source is found, with the most ...
Searches for high-energy neutrino emission in the Galaxy with the combined IceCube-AMANDA detector Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We report on searches for neutrino sources at energies above 200 GeV in the Northern sky of the galactic plane, using the data collected by the South Pole neutrino telescopes IceCube and AMANDA. The galactic region considered here includes the Local Arm towards the Cygnus region and our closest approach to the Perseus Arm. The data have been collected between 2007 and 2009 when AMANDA was an integrated part of IceCube, which was still under ...
Measurement of the muon neutrino inclusive charged-current cross section in the energy range of 1-3 GeV with the T2K INGRID detector KU Leuven
We report a measurement of the $\nu_{\mu}$-nucleus inclusive charged current cross section (=$\sigma^{cc}$) on iron using data from exposed to the J-PARC neutrino beam. The detector consists of 14 modules in total, which are spread over a range of off-axis angles from 0$^\circ$ to 1.1$^\circ$. The variation in the neutrino energy spectrum as a function of the off-axis angle, combined with event topology information, is used to calculate this ...