Multiyear search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II
A. Achterberg,Markus Ackermann,Jenni Adams,J. Ahrens,Karen Andeen,J. Auffenberg,Xinhua Bai,B. Baret,S. W. Barwick,R. C. Bay,K. Beattie,T. Becka,J. K. Becker,K.-H. Becker,P. Berghaus,P. Berghaus,D. Berley,Elisa Bernardini,D. Bertrand,D. Z. Besson,E. Blaufuss,D. J. Boersma,Christian Bohm,J. Bolmont,S. Böser,Olga Botner,Adam Bouchta,J. Braun,T. Burgess,T. Castermans,Dmitry Chirkin,B. Christy,John Clem,D. F. Cowen,M. V. D'Agostino,Anna Davour,C. T. Day,C. De Clercq,L. Demirörs,F. Descamps,Paolo Desiati,Tyce DeYoung,Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez,J. Dreyer,J. P. Dumm,M. R. Duvoort,W. R. Edwards,R. Ehrlich,J. Eisch,R. W. Ellsworth,Paul Evenson,O. Fadiran,A. R. Fazely,Kirill Filimonov,Chad Finley,M. M. Foerster,B. D. Fox,A. Franckowiak,R. Franke,Thomas K. Gaisser,John S. Gallagher,R. Ganugapati,Heiko Geenen,L. Gerhardt,A. Goldschmidt,J. A. Goodman,R. Gozzini,T. Griesel,A. Gross,S. Grullon,R. M. Gunasingha,M. Gurtner,C. Ha,Allan Hallgren,Francis Halzen,K. Han,Kael Hanson,D. Hardtke,R. Hardtke,J. E. Hart,Y. Hasegawa,T. Hauschildt,D. Hays,John Heise,K. Helbing,M. Hellwig,Ph. Herquet,G. C. Hill,Joseph T. Hodges,Kara Hoffman,B. Hommez,K. Hoshina,D. Hubert,B. Hughey,J.P. Hulss,P. O. Hulth,K. Hultqvist,S. Hundertmark,M. Inaba,A. Ishihara,Janet Jacobsen,George Japaridze,H. A. B. Johansson,A. W. Jones,J. M. Joseph,K. H. Kampert,Alexander Kappes,Alexander Kappes,T. Karg,Albrecht Karle,H. Kawai,J. L. Kelley,Fabian Kislat,N. Kitamura,S. R. Klein,S. Klepser,G. Kohnen,Hermann Kolanoski,L. Köpke,Marek Kowalski,T. Kowarik,M. Krasberg,K. Kuehn,M. Labare,H. Landsman,R. J. Lauer,H. Leich,D. Leier,I. Liubarsky,Johan Lundberg,J. Lünemann,James Madsen,Reina H. Maruyama,K. Mase,H. S. Matis,T. McCauley,C. P. McParland,A. Meli,T. Messarius,P. Meszaros,H. Miyamoto,A. Mokhtarani,Teresa Montaruli,Teresa Montaruli,A. Morey,R. Morse,S. M. Movit,K. Münich,R. Nahnhauer,J. W. Nam,P. Niessen,D. R. Nygren,Hakki Ögelman,A. Olivas,S. Patton,Carlos Pena-Garay,C.P. de los Heros,A. Piegsa,Damian Pieloth,A. C. Pohl,A. C. Pohl,R. Porrata,J. Pretz,P. B. Price,Gerald Przybylski,K. Rawlins,Soebur Razzaque,Elisa Resconi,Wolfgang Rhode,M. Ribordy,A. Rizzo,S. Robbins,P. Roth,F. Rothmaier,Carsten Rott,D. Rutledge,Dirk Ryckbosch,H. G. Sander,Subir Sarkar,Konstancja Satalecka,S. Schlenstedt,T. O. B. Schmidt,David A. Schneider,D. Seckel,B. Semburg,S. H. Seo,Y. Sestayo,S. Seunarine,A. Silvestri,A. J. Smith,M. Solarz,C. Song,J. E. Sopher,Glenn Spiczak,Christian Spiering,Michael Stamatikos,Michael Stamatikos,Todor Stanev,T. Stezelberger,R. G. Stokstad,M. C. Stoufer,S. Stoyanov,E. A. Strahler,T. Straszheim,K. H. Sulanke,G. W. Sullivan,T. J. Sumner,Ignacio Taboada,O. Tarasova,A. Tepe,L. Thollander,S. Tilav,M. Tluczykont,P. A. Toale,Delia Tosi,D. Turcan,N. van Eijndhoven,Justin Vandenbroucke,A. Van Overloop,V. Viscomi,B. Voigt,W. Wagner,C. Walck,H. Waldmann,M. Walter,Yi Wang,C. Wendt,H. Wiebusch,C. Wiedemann,G. Wikström,Dawn Williams,R. Wischnewski,H. Wissing,Kurt Woschnagg,Xianwu Xu,G. B. Yodh,S. Yoshida,J.D. Zornoza,J.D. Zornoza +238 more
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In this article, an upper bound of E-2 Phi(90%C.L.) < 7.4x10(-8) GeV cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1).Abstract:
A search for TeV-PeV muon neutrinos from unresolved sources was performed on AMANDA-II data collected between 2000 and 2003 with an equivalent live time of 807 days. This diffuse analysis sought to find an extraterrestrial neutrino flux from sources with nonthermal components. The signal is expected to have a harder spectrum than the atmospheric muon and neutrino backgrounds. Since no excess of events was seen in the data over the expected background, an upper limit of E-2 Phi(90%C.L.)< 7.4x10(-8) GeV cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) is placed on the diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with a Phi proportional to E-2 spectrum in the energy range 16 TeV to 2.5 PeV. This is currently the most sensitive Phi proportional to E-2 diffuse astrophysical neutrino limit. We also set upper limits for astrophysical and prompt neutrino models, all of which have spectra different from Phi proportional to E-2.read more
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