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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.151105
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- U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs
- U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division
- University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Grid Laboratory Of Wisconsin (GLOW) grid infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Open Science Grid (OSG) grid infrastructure
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
- Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) grid computing resources
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
- Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP)
- Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions (Bochum), Germany
- Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO)
- FWO Odysseus programme
- Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT)
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo)
- University of Oxford, U.K.
- Marsden Fund, New Zealand
- Australian Research Council
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
- STFC [ST/J000507/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0969661, 1205807] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000507/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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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 neutrinos interacting within the DeepCore volume and veto muons originating outside the detector are demonstrated. A sample of 1029 events is observed in 281 days of data, of which 496 +/- 66(stat) +/- 88(syst) are estimated to be cascade events, including both electron neutrino and neutral current events. The rest of the sample includes residual backgrounds due to atmospheric muons and charged current interactions of atmospheric muon neutrinos. The flux of the atmospheric electron neutrinos is consistent with models of atmospheric neutrinos in this energy range. This constitutes the first observation of electron neutrinos and neutral current interactions in a very large volume neutrino telescope optimized for the TeV energy range. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.151105
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