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View article: The personal is the (quasi-) political: The role of memes in critiquing and reproducing hegemonic narratives among reservists’ wives
The personal is the (quasi-) political: The role of memes in critiquing and reproducing hegemonic narratives among reservists’ wives Open
This study explores how digital humor functions as a form of critique in contexts where overt dissent is constrained. Focusing on memes shared by members of a Facebook support group for Israeli reservist soldiers’ wives during the 2023 Isr…
View article: Findings From a Pilot Project Highlight Lessons to Ensure Safe Cleaning Practices and Pesticide Use in At-Home Childcare Centers
Findings From a Pilot Project Highlight Lessons to Ensure Safe Cleaning Practices and Pesticide Use in At-Home Childcare Centers Open
Lead and pesticide exposure are leading environmental health concerns for children, and these exposures can result in long-term health consequences, including irreversible cognitive delay and endocrine dysfunction. A pilot program aimed to…
View article: A Mega-Study of Digital Twins Reveals Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities for Further Improvement
A Mega-Study of Digital Twins Reveals Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities for Further Improvement Open
Digital representations of individuals ("digital twins") promise to transform social science and decision-making. Yet it remains unclear whether such twins truly mirror the people they emulate. We conducted 19 preregistered studies with a …
View article: ‘Speaking truth to power'? Political scientists’ mediated engagement within the context of democratic backsliding
‘Speaking truth to power'? Political scientists’ mediated engagement within the context of democratic backsliding Open
Illiberal trends around the world have brought about various manifestations of democratic backsliding, against which political scientists (PSs) are uniquely situated to assume public roles to impact such processes. This study aims to discl…
View article: Towards detection of ultra high energy neutrinos at the South Pole: Askaryan Radio Array experiment latest results and future prospects”
Towards detection of ultra high energy neutrinos at the South Pole: Askaryan Radio Array experiment latest results and future prospects” Open
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an in-ice ultrahigh energy (UHE, >10 PeV) neutrino experiment at the South Pole that aims to detect radio emissions from neutrino-induced particle cascades. ARA has five independent stations which together…
View article: Progress towards an array-wide diffuse UHE neutrino search with the Askaryan Radio Array
Progress towards an array-wide diffuse UHE neutrino search with the Askaryan Radio Array Open
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an in-ice ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino experiment at the South Pole. ARA aims to detect the radio emissions from neutrino-induced particle showers using in-ice clusters of antennas buried ${\\sim}200$ m…
View article: Effects of Biaxial Birefringence on Polarization Reconstruction for the Askaryan Radio Array
Effects of Biaxial Birefringence on Polarization Reconstruction for the Askaryan Radio Array Open
Ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos, with energies exceeding $10^{17}$ eV, offer unique insights into cosmic accelerators and the origins of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is designed to detect UHE neutrinos by…
View article: A search for the ultra high energy neutrinos with a low threshold phased array trigger system of the Askaryan Radio Array
A search for the ultra high energy neutrinos with a low threshold phased array trigger system of the Askaryan Radio Array Open
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an in-ice ultra high energy (UHE, $>10$ PeV) neutrino experiment at the South Pole that aims to detect UHE neutrino-induced radio emission in ice. ARA consists of five independent stations each consisting …
View article: Modeling the refractive index profile n(z) of polar ice for ultra-high energy neutrino experiments
Modeling the refractive index profile n(z) of polar ice for ultra-high energy neutrino experiments Open
We have developed an in-situ index of refraction profile n(z) for cold polar ice, using the transit times of radio signals broadcast from an englacial transmitter to 2-5 km distant radio-frequency receivers, deployed at depths up to 200 m.…
View article: Exploring the Impact of an Instructional Video on Educators' Views of Teaching Disability and Accessibility Awareness
Exploring the Impact of an Instructional Video on Educators' Views of Teaching Disability and Accessibility Awareness Open
This convergent parallel mixed methods study explored barriers to teaching disability and accessibility awareness in the early elementary classroom and assessed the impact of an instructional video on educators' current perceptions and fut…
View article: A Search for IceCube Sub-TeV Neutrinos Correlated with Gravitational-wave Events Detected By LIGO/Virgo
A Search for IceCube Sub-TeV Neutrinos Correlated with Gravitational-wave Events Detected By LIGO/Virgo Open
The LIGO/Virgo collaboration published the catalogs GWTC-1, GWTC-2.1, and GWTC-3 containing candidate gravitational-wave (GW) events detected during its runs O1, O2, and O3. These GW events can be possible sites of neutrino emission. In th…
View article: Searches for connections between dark matter and high-energy neutrinos with IceCube
Searches for connections between dark matter and high-energy neutrinos with IceCube Open
In this work, we present the results of searches for signatures of dark matter decay or annihilation into Standard Model particles, and secret neutrino interactions with dark matter. Neutrinos could be produced in the decay or annihilation…
View article: Results from a low-threshold ultrahigh-energy neutrino search with the Askaryan Radio Array
Results from a low-threshold ultrahigh-energy neutrino search with the Askaryan Radio Array Open
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an in-ice radio detector at the South Pole that targets radio emission from neutrino-induced particle cascades. Designed to detect neutrinos above 10 PeV, ARA has been taking data for over ten years and in…
View article: The Askaryan Radio Array: latest results and ongoing work
The Askaryan Radio Array: latest results and ongoing work Open
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is searching for high-energy neutrinos (>10 PeV) from the cosmos using clusters of antennas buried under the South Pole ice sheet at a maximum depth of 200 m. ARA is looking at the radio Cherenkov emission ge…
View article: Search for sub-TeV Neutrino Emission from Novae with IceCube-DeepCore
Search for sub-TeV Neutrino Emission from Novae with IceCube-DeepCore Open
The understanding of novae, the thermonuclear eruptions on the surfaces of white dwarf stars in binaries, has recently undergone a major paradigm shift. Though the bolometric luminosity of novae was long thought to arise directly from phot…
View article: Polarization Reconstruction of Askaryan Emission of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos Using the Askaryan Radio Array
Polarization Reconstruction of Askaryan Emission of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos Using the Askaryan Radio Array Open
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultra-high energy (> 10 PeV) neutrino detector located in the Dark Sector of the South Pole. It consists of five in-ice stations of antennas that are designed to detect radiation emitted by relativistic…
View article: $Λ$ hypernuclear potentials beyond linear density dependence
$Λ$ hypernuclear potentials beyond linear density dependence Open
In a recent paper [PLB 837 (2023) 137669] we showed that all measured ($1s_Λ$, $1p_Λ$) pairs of $Λ$ binding energies in $Λ$-hypernuclei across the periodic table, $12\leq A \leq 208$, can be obtained from a $Λ$-nucleus optical potential wi…
View article: Constraining High-energy Neutrino Emission from Supernovae with IceCube
Constraining High-energy Neutrino Emission from Supernovae with IceCube Open
Core-collapse supernovae are a promising potential high-energy neutrino source class. We test for correlation between seven years of IceCube neutrino data and a catalog containing more than 1000 core-collapse supernovae of types IIn and II…
View article: A Search for Coincident Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events
A Search for Coincident Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events Open
This paper presents the results of a search for neutrinos that are spatially and temporally coincident with 22 unique, nonrepeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) and one repeating FRB (FRB 121102). FRBs are a rapidly growing class of Galactic a…
View article: D-Egg: a dual PMT optical module for IceCube
D-Egg: a dual PMT optical module for IceCube Open
The D-Egg, an acronym for “Dual optical sensors in an Ellipsoid Glass for Gen2,” is one of the optical modules designed for future extensions of the IceCube experiment at the South Pole. The D-Egg has an elongated-sphere shape to maximize …
View article: Constraining High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Supernovae with IceCube
Constraining High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Supernovae with IceCube Open
Core-collapse supernovae are a promising potential high-energy neutrino source class. We test for correlation between seven years of IceCube neutrino data and a catalog containing more than 1000 core-collapse supernovae of types IIn and II…
View article: Limits on Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A from MeV to PeV Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Limits on Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A from MeV to PeV Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory Open
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been considered a possible source of high-energy neutrinos. While no correlations have yet been detected between high-energy neutrinos and GRBs, the recent observation of GRB 221009A—the brightest GRB obse…
View article: Searches for Neutrinos from Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory Ultra-high-energy γ-Ray Sources Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Searches for Neutrinos from Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory Ultra-high-energy γ-Ray Sources Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory Open
Galactic PeV cosmic-ray accelerators (PeVatrons) are Galactic sources theorized to accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV in energy. The accelerated cosmic rays are expected to interact hadronically with nearby ambient gas or the interstellar me…
View article: Cosmic-Ray Composition analysis at IceCube using Graph Neural Networks
Cosmic-Ray Composition analysis at IceCube using Graph Neural Networks Open
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-component detector embedded deep within the South-Pole Ice. This proceeding will discuss an analysis from an integrated operation of IceCube and its surface array, IceTop, to estimate cosmic-ray …
View article: Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments Open
for their indispensable help in discussing Chinese imperialism and experiences of colonialism and for suggesting bibliographical materials and sending him electronic files of texts other wise inaccessible because of library closures.Their …
View article: Observation of seasonal variations of the flux of high-energy atmospheric neutrinos with IceCube
Observation of seasonal variations of the flux of high-energy atmospheric neutrinos with IceCube Open
Atmospheric muon neutrinos are produced by meson decays in cosmic-ray-induced air showers. The flux depends on meteorological quantities such as the air temperature, which affects the density of air. Competition between decay and re-intera…