Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
MG Aartsen, J. Adams, H. Bagherpour & A. Raissi
Department of Physics, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
R. Abbasi
DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
M. Ackermann, B. Bastian, E. Bernardini, S. Blot, F. Bradascio, J. Brostean-Kaiser, A. Fedynitch, L. Fischer, A. Franckowiak, S. Garrappa, T. Karg, T. Kintscher, M. Kowalski, C. Lagunas Gualda, WY Ma, R. Naab, J. Necker, L. Rauch, S. Reusch, K. Satalecka, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, R. Stein, NL Strotjohann, A. Terliuk , A. Trettin & J. van Santen
Faculty of Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
JA Aguilar, I. Ansseau, S. Baur, N. Iovine, IC Mariş, D. Mockler, C. Raab, G. Renzi & S. Toscano
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
M. Ahlers, E. Bourbeau, DJ Koskinen, M. Medici, M. Rameez & T. Stuttard
Oskar Klein Center and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
M. Ahrens, C. Bohm, K. Deoskar, C. Finley, K. Hultqvist, M. Jansson & C. Walck
Department of Nuclear Physics and Corpuscular, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
C. Alispach, A. Barbano, S. Bron, T. Carver, F. Lucarelli & T. Montaruli
Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
NM Amin, A. Coleman, H. Dembinski, PA Evenson, TK Gaisser, JG Gonzalez, R. Koirala, H. Pandya, EN Paudel, A. Rehman, FG Schröder, D. Seckel, D. Soldin, T. Stanev & S. Tilav
Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
K. Andeen & M. Pruim
Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
T. Anderson, DF Cowen, JJ DeLaunay, M. Dunkman, P. Eller, AT Fienberg, T. Grégoire, F. Huang, A. Kheirandish, JL Lanfranchi, Y. Li, DV Pankova, CF Turley & MJ Weiss
Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
G. Anton, T. Glüsenkamp, U. Katz, T. Kittler, J. Schneider, M. Tselengidou & G. Wrede
Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
C. Argüelles, JP Lazar & I. Safa
III. Institute of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
J. Auffenberg, J. Böttcher, J. Buscher, S. Dharani, E. Ganster, C. Haack, L. Halve, S. Hauser, P. Heix, F. Jonske, R. Joppe, M. Kellermann, P. Mallik, J. Merz, P. Muth, S. Philippen, Y. Popovych, R. Reimann, M. Rongen, M. Scharf, M. Schaufel, L. Schumacher, S. Shefali, J. Stettner, T. Stürwald, CH Wiebusch & M. Zöcklein
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
S. Axani, GH Collin, JM Conrad, A. Diaz, M. Moulai & D. Vannerom
Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, USA
X. Bai & E. Dvorak
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Balagopal V., H. Dujmovic, R. Engel, A. Haungs, T. Huber, D. Kang, P. Koundal, A. Leszczyńska, L. Lu, M. Oehler, M. Renschler, H. Schieler, FG Schröder, R. Turcotte & A. Weindl
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
SW Barwick
Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, USA
V. Basu, J. Bourbeau, J. Braun, D. Chirkin, A. Desai, P. Desiati, JC Díaz-Vélez, MA DuVernois, S. Fahey, Z. Griffith, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, J. Hardin, B. Hokanson-Fasig, K. Hoshina, R. Hussain, A. Karle, M. Kauer, JL Kelley, JP Lazar, K. Leonard, QR Liu, W. Luszczak, J. Madsen, Y. Makino, S Mancina, K. Meagher, R. Morse, N. Park, A. Pizzuto, M. Prado Rodriguez, B. Riedel, I. Safa, A. Schneider, M. Silva, R. Snihur, D. Tosi, B. Ty , J. Vandenbroucke, D. van Eijk, N. Wandkowsky, C. Wendt & T. Yuan
Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
V. Baum, S. Böser, T. Ehrhardt, A. Fritz, D. Kappesser, L. Köpke, G. Krückl, E. Lohfink, G. Momenté, P. Peiffer, J. Sandroos, A. Steuer, J. Weldert & K. Wiebe
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
R. Bay, G. Binder, K. Filimonov, SR Klein, Y. Lyu, PB Price, S. Robertson & K. Woschnagg
Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
JJ Beatty
Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
JJ Beatty, A. Medina & M. Stamatikos
Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
K.-H. Becker, D. Bindig, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, R. Hoffmann, F. Lauber, U. Naumann, A. Obertacke Pollmann & S. Pieper
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
J. Becker Tjus, M. Gündüz, F. Tenholt, L. Tomankova & J. Wulff
Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
C. Bellenghi, T. Glauch, F. Henningsen, M. Huber, M. Karl, K. Krings, S. Meighen-Berger, H. Niederhausen, IC Rea, E. Resconi, A. Turcati & M. Wolf
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
S. BenZvi, R. Cross & S. Griswold
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, E. Cheung, J. Felde, E. Friedman, R. Hellauer, KD Hoffman, MJ Larson, R. Maunu, A. Olivas, T. Schmidt, M. Song & GW Sullivan
University of Padova, Padua, Italy
E. Bernardini
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
DZ Besson
National Nuclear Research University, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia
DZ Besson & C. Spiering
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
G. Binder, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, SR Klein, Y. Lyu, DR Nygren, GT Przybylski, S. Robertson, T. Stezelberger & RG Stokstad
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
O. Botner, A. Burgman, A. Hallgren, E. O’Sullivan, C. Pérez de los Heros & E. Unger
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
RS Busse, L. Classen, A. Kappes, CJ Lozano Mariscal & MA Unland Elorrieta
Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
MA Campana, X. Kang, M. Kovacevich, N. Kurahashi, M. Richman & S. Sclafani
School of Physics and Center for Relativist Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
C. Chen, P. Dave, I. Taboada & CF Tung
Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
S. Choi, S. In, M. Jeong, W. Kang, J. Kim, G. Roellinghoff & C. Rott
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
BA Clark, T. DeYoung, D. Grant, R. Halliday, C. Kopper, KBM Mahn, J. Micallef, G. Neer, LV Nguyen, MU Nisa, SC Nowicki, D. Rysewyk Cantu, SE Sanchez Herrera, K. Tollefson, JP Twagirayezu & N. Whitehorn
SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario, Canada
K. Clark
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, Brussel, België
P. Coppin, P. Correa, C. De Clercq, KD de Vries, G. de Wasseige, J. Lünemann, G. Maggi & N. van Eijndhoven
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
DF Cowen & D. Fox
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
S. De Ridder, A. Porcelli, D. Ryckbosch, S. Verpoest & M. Vraeghe
Institute of Physics, Humboldt University in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
M. de With, D. Hebecker, H. Kolanoski & M. Kowalski
Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
AR Fazely, S. Ter-Antonyan & XW Xu
Institute of Cosmic Radiation Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
A. Fedynitch
Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, USA
J. Gallagher
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
A. Ghadimi, S. Goswami, S. Kopper, M. Santander & DR Williams
Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
J. Hignight, N. Kulacz, RW Moore, S. Sarkar, C. Weaver, TR Wood and JP Yanez
Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
C. Hill, A. Ishihara, K. Kin, K. Mase, M. Meier, R. Nagai, M. Relich & S. Yoshida
Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
GC Hill, A. Kyriacou, A. Wallace & BJ Whelan
Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
T. Hoinka, M. Hünnefeld, D. Pieloth, W. Rhode, T. Ruhe, A. Sandrock, P. Schlunder, J. Soedingrekso & J. Werthebach
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
K. Hoshina
CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA, USA
GS Japaridze
Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
BJP Jones, GK Parker, B. Smithers & TB Watson
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
J. Kiryluk, Y. Xu & Z. Zhang
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A. Ludwig & N. Whitehorn
Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
R. Maruyama
Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, GA, USA
F. McNally
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, USA
K. Rawlins
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
S. Sarkar
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI, USA
S. Seunarine & GM Spiczak
Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
C. Tönnis
The IceCube neutrino observatory was built and is maintained by the IceCube Collaboration. A large number of authors contributed to the data processing, detector calibration, and MC simulations used in this work. The IceCube collaboration recognizes the significant contributions to this manuscript by LL, TY, and C. Haack. The final manuscript has been reviewed and approved by all authors.