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Researcher

Freija Descamps

Awards & Distinctions

60 Results

2017

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory : instrumentation and online systems

MG AartsenM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersM AhrensD AltmannK AndeenT AndersonI Ansseau et al.

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION

2013

All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured with 26 IceTop stations

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ Auffenberg et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

An improved method for measuring muon energy using the truncated mean of dE/dx

R AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ AuffenbergX Bai et al.

A1 Journal Article in NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

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

R AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ AuffenbergX Bai et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

IceTop : the surface component of IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ AuffenbergX Bai et al.

A1 Journal Article in NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Observation of cosmic-ray anisotropy with the IceTop air shower array

MG AartsenR AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ Auffenberg et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Search for Galactic PeV gamma rays with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

MG AartsenR AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ Auffenberg et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

2012

An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in γ-ray bursts

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ Auffenberg et al.

A1 Journal Article in NATURE

Background studies for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

Design and performance of the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup

Yasser AbdouKH BeckerJ BerdermannM BissokC BohmS BoserM BotheMichael CarsonFreija DescampsJH Fischer-Wolfarth et al.

A1 Journal Article in NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Multiyear search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA-II and IceCube detectors

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsK AndeenJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannJ Auffenberg et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Neutrino analysis of the 2010 September Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ AuffenbergX Bai et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Observation of anisotropy in the galactic cosmic-ray arrival directions at 400 TeV with IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersMM AllenD AltmannK Andeen et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersMM AllenD AltmannK Andeen et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Searching for soft relativistic jets in core-collapse supernovae with the IceCube optical follow-up program

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersMM AllenD AltmannK Andeen et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersMM AllenD AltmannK Andeen et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

Time-dependent searches for point sources of neutrinos with the 40-string and 22-string configurations of IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

2011

Constraints on high-energy neutrino emission from SN 2008D

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Constraints on the extremely-high energy cosmic neutrino flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 data

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

IceCube sensitivity for low-energy neutrinos from nearby supernovae

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersMM AllenD AltmannK Andeen et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Limits on neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts with the 40 string IceCube detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Measurement of acoustic attenuation in South Pole ice

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Observation of anisotropy in the arrival directions of galactic cosmic rays at multiple angular scales with IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ AuffenbergX Bai et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with the IceCube 40-string detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersD AltmannK AndeenJ AuffenbergX Bai et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for dark matter from the Galactic halo with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for neutrino-induced cascades with five years of AMANDA data

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadO ActisJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX Bai et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

Time-integrated searches for point-like sources of neutrinos with the 40-string IceCube detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

2010

Calibration and characterization of the IceCube photomultiplier tube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

First search for extremely high energy cosmogenic neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Limits on a muon flux from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun from the IceCube 22-string detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Measurement of sound speed vs. depth in South Pole ice for neutrino astronomy

R AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

Measurement of the anisotropy of cosmic-ray arrival directions with IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS

Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for muon neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts with the IceCube neutrino telescope

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C

The energy spectrum of atmospheric neutrinos between 2 and 200 TeV with the AMANDA-II detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

2009

Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux and searches for new physics with AMANDA-II

R AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM BakerSW Barwick et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Extending the search for neutrino point sources with IceCube above the horizon

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Feasibility of acoustic neutrino detection with the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup

Freija DescampsDirk Ryckbosch

First neutrino point-source results from the 22 string IceCube detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsJ AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS

Limits on a muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the sun with the IceCube 22-string detector

R AbbasiYasser AbdouM AckermannJ AdamsM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM BakerSW Barwick et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Measurement of sound speed versus depth in Antarctic ice with the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup

Freija Descamps

A1 Journal Article in NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Search for high-energy muon neutrinos from the 'naked-eye' GRB 080319B with the IceCube neutrino telescope

R AbbasiYasser AbdouT Abu-ZayyadJ AdamsJA AguilarM AhlersK AndeenJ AuffenbergX BaiM Baker et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Search for point sources of high energy neutrinos with final data from AMANDA-II

R AbbasiM AckermannJ AdamsFreija DescampsGarmt De Vries-UiterweerdDirk RyckboschArne Van Overloop

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

The IceCube data acquisition system: Signal capture, digitization, and timestamping

R AbbasiM AckermannJ AdamsFreija DescampsGarmt De Vries-UiterweerdTom FeuselsDirk RyckboschArne Van Overloop

A1 Journal Article in NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

2008

IceCube contributions to the XIV International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2006) Weihai, China - August 15-22

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENDW ATLEEJN BAHCALLX BAIB BARETSW BARWICK et al.

Multiyear search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II (vol 76, artn 042008, 2007)

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENJ AUFFENBERGX BAIB BARETSW BARWICKR BAY et al.

SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE SPECTRUM ON 2006 DECEMBER 13 DETERMINED BY IceTop

R AbbasiM AckermannJ AdamsFreija DescampsDirk RyckboschArne Van Overloop

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS

Search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos with amanda-II

M ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENJ AUFFENBERGX BAIB BARETSW BARWICKR BAYK BEATTIE et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The search for muon neutrinos from northern hemisphere gamma-ray bursts with amanda

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENJ AUFFENBERGJN BAHCALLX BAIB BARETSW BARWICK et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

2007

Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENJ AUFFENBERGX BAIB BARETSW BARWICKR BAY et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENDW ATLEEJN BAHCALLX BAIB BARETSW BARWICK et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Multiyear search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENJ AUFFENBERGX BAIB BARETSW BARWICKR BAY et al.

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW D

SPATS - an acoustic array at the South Pole

S BoserC BohmFreija DescampsJ FischerA HallgrenR HellerP HulthS HundertmarkK KriegerR Nalmhauer et al.

Search for neutrino-induced cascades from gamma-ray bursts with Amanda

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSJ AHRENSK ANDEENJ AUFFENBERGJN BAHCALLX BAIB BARETSW BARWICK et al.

A1 Journal Article in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Status of the SOUTH POLE ACOUSTIC TEST SETUP

S BoserC BohmFreija DescampsJ FischerA HallgrenR HellerS HundertmarkK KriegerR NalmhauerM Pohl et al.

The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup: Calibrations and lake test

S BoserC BohmFreija DescampsJ FischerA HallgrenR HellerS HundertmarkK KriegerR NahnhauerM Pohl et al.

2006

Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of 27 December 2004 with the AMANDA-II detector

A ACHTERBERGM ACKERMANNJ ADAMSFreija DescampsB. HommezDirk RyckboschArne Van Overloop

A1 Journal Article in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS