Publications by Mathieu Ribordy

The IceProd framework: Distributed data processing for the IceCube neutrino observatory

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Mark Tobin, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

IceCube is a one-gigaton instrument located at the geographic South Pole, designed to detect cosmic neutrinos, identify the particle nature of dark matter, and study high-energy neutrinos themselves. Simulation of the IceCube detector and processing of dat ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2015

Search for neutrino-induced particle showers with IceCube-40

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Mark Tobin, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

We report on the search for neutrino-induced particle showers, so-called cascades, in the IceCube-40 detector. The data for this search were collected between April 2008 and May 2009 when the first 40 IceCube strings were deployed and operational. Three co ...

American Physical Society2014

IceCube sensitivity for low-energy neutrinos from nearby supernovae (vol 535, pg A109, 2011)

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

Edp Sciences S A2014

Energy reconstruction methods in the IceCube neutrino telescope

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Mark Tobin, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

Accurate measurement of neutrino energies is essential to many of the scientific goals of large-volume neutrino telescopes. The fundamental observable in such detectors is the Cherenkov light produced by the transit through a medium of charged particles cr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

Observation of the cosmic-ray shadow of the Moon with IceCube

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

We report on the observation of a significant deficit of cosmic rays from the direction of the Moon with the IceCube detector. The study of this "Moon shadow" is used to characterize the angular resolution and absolute pointing capabilities of the detector ...

American Physical Society2014

Search for non-relativistic magnetic monopoles with IceCube

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Mark Tobin, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a large Cherenkov detector instrumenting of Antarctic ice. The detector can be used to search for signatures of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Here, we describe the search for non-relativistic, magnetic mono ...

Springer2014

Improvement in fast particle track reconstruction with robust statistics

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

The IceCube project has transformed 1 km(3) of deep natural Antarctic ice into a Cherenkov detector Muon neutrinos are detected and their direction is inferred by mapping the light produced by the secondary muon track inside the volume instrumented with ph ...

Elsevier2014

Search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with the IceCube 59-string configuration

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Mark Tobin, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

A search for high-energy neutrinos was performed using data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory from May 2009 to May 2010, when the array was running in its 59-string configuration. The data sample was optimized to contain muon neutrino induced e ...

American Physical Society2014

Improving the neutrino mass hierarchy identification with inelasticity measurement in PINGU and ORCA

Mathieu Ribordy

Multimegaton scale in under-ice and underwater detectors of atmospheric neutrinos with a few GeV energy threshold (PINGU, ORCA) open up new possibilities in the determination of neutrino properties, and in particular the neutrino mass hierarchy. With a den ...

American Physical Society2013

Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with IceCube

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

We present the first results in the search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the IceCube detector, a subsurface neutrino telescope located in the South Polar ice cap containing a volume of 1 km(3). This analysis searches data taken on the partially ...

American Physical Society2013

South Pole glacial climate reconstruction from multi-borehole laser particulate stratigraphy

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory and its prototype, AMANDA, were built in South Pole ice, using powerful hot-water drills to cleanly bore >100 holes to depths up to 2500 m. The construction of these particle physics detectors provided a unique opportunity ...

Int Glaciol Soc2013

Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

We report on results of an all-sky search for high-energy neutrino events interacting within the IceCube neutrino detector conducted between May 2010 and May 2012. The search follows up on the previous detection of two PeV neutrino events, with improved se ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013

Measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum with IceTop-73

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

We report on the measurement of the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum with the IceTop air shower array in the energy range from 1.58 PeV to 1.26 EeV. The IceTop air shower array is the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geog ...

American Physical Society2013

Design constraints on Cherenkov telescopes with Davies-Cotton reflectors

Mathieu Ribordy, Thomas Günther Bretz

This paper discusses the construction of high-performance ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov telescopes with a Davies-Cotton reflector. For the design of such telescopes, usually physics constrains the field-of-view, while the photo-sensor size is defined by ...

Elsevier2013

Search for Time-dependent Neutrino Emission from Astrophysical Sources with 3 yr of IceCube Data

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

We present the results of a search for neutrino point sources using the IceCube data collected between 2008 April and 2011 May with three partially completed configurations of the detector: the 40-, 59-, and 79-string configurations. The live-time of this ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf, Sofia Vallecorsa

We present the results of a first search for self-annihilating dark matter in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters using a sample of high-energy neutrinos acquired in 339.8 days of live time during 2009/10 with the IceCube neutrino observatory in its 59-str ...

American Physical Society2013

Cosmic ray composition and energy spectrum from 1-30 PeV using the 40-string configuration of IceTop and IceCube

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

The mass composition of high energy cosmic rays depends on their production, acceleration, and propagation. The study of cosmic ray composition can therefore reveal hints of the origin of these particles. At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Measurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1 km(3) in size, is now complete with 86 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged particles passing through or created in the ice. To realize the full ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Measurement of the Atmospheric nu(e) Flux in IceCube

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

We report the first measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux in the energy range between approximately 80 GeV and 6 TeV, using data recorded during the first year of operation of IceCube's DeepCore low-energy extension. Techniques to identify ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Searches For High-Energy Neutrino Emission In The Galaxy With The Combined Icecube-Amanda Detector

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

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 telescope, IceCube, and AMANDA. The Galactic region considered in this work includes the loc ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013