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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 122, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041101
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- NSF [PHY-1404311, PHY-1714479]
- Danmarks Grundforskningsfond [1041811001]
- NSF CAREER [1255557]
Neutrinos are key to probing the deep structure of matter and the high-energy Universe. Yet, until recently, their interactions had only been measured at laboratory energies up to about 350 GeV. An opportunity to measure their interactions at higher energies opened up with the detection of high-energy neutrinos in IceCube, partially of astrophysical origin. Scattering off matter inside Earth affects the distribution of their arrival directions-from this, we extract the neutrino-nucleon cross section at energies from 18 TeVto 2 PeV, in four energy bins, in spite of uncertainties in the neutrino flux. Using six years of public IceCube High-Energy Starting Events, we explicitly show for the first time that the energy dependence of the cross section above 18 TeV agrees with the predicted softer-than-linear dependence, and reaffirm the absence of new physics that would make the cross section rise sharply, up to a center-of-mass energy root s approximate to 1 TeV.
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