Differential limit on the extremely-high-energy cosmic neutrino flux in the presence of astrophysical background from nine years of IceCube data

J. Adams,J. Aguilar,M. Ahlers,M. Ahrens,I. Samarai,D. Altmann,K. Andeen,T. Anderson,I. Ansseau,G. Anton,C. Argüelles,J. Auffenberg,Spencer Axani,Paul Backes,H. Bagherpour,X. Bai,Anastasia Barbano,J. Barron,S. Barwick,V. Baum,R. Bay,J. Beatty,J. Tjus,K. Becker,S. BenZvi,D. Berley,E. Bernardini,D. Besson,G. Binder,D. Bindig,E. Blaufuss,S. Blot,C. Ohm,M. Börner,F. Bos,S. Böser,O. Botner,Etienne Bourbeau,J. Bourbeau,Federica Bradascio,J. Braun,M. Brenzke,H.-P. Bretz,S. Bron,Jannes Brostean-Kaiser,A. Burgman,Raffaela Busse,T. Carver,E. Cheung,D. Chirkin,A. Christov,K. Clark,Lew Classen,G. Collin,J. Conrad,Paul Coppin,Pablo Correa,Doug Cowen,R. Cross,Pranav Dave,M. Day,J. André,C. Clercq,James DeLaunay,H.-P. Dembinski,Kunal Deoskar,S. Ridder,P. Desiati,K. Vries,G. Wasseige,M. With,T. DeYoung,J. Díaz–Vélez,V. Lorenzo,Hrvoje Dujmović,J. Dumm,M. Dunkman,Emily Dvorak,B. Eberhardt,Thomas Ehrhardt,B. Eichmann,P. Eller,P. Evenson,S. Fahey,A. Fazely,J. Felde,K. Filimonov,C. Finley,S. Flis,A. Franckowiak,E. Friedman,Alexander Fritz,T. Gaisser,J. Gallagher,Erik Ganster,L. Gerhardt,K. Ghorbani,W. Giang,Theo Glauch,T. Glüsenkamp,A. Goldschmidt,J. González,D. Grant,Z. Griffith,C. Haack,A. Hallgren,L. Halve,F. Halzen,K. Hanson,D. Hebecker,D. Heereman,K. Helbing,R. Hellauer,S. Hickford,J. Hignight,G. Hill,K. Hoffman,R. Hoffmann,Tobias Hoinka,Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig,K. Hoshina,F. Huang,M. Huber,K. Hultqvist,Mirco Hünnefeld,Raamis Hussain,S. In,N. Iovine,A. Ishihara,E. Jacobi,G. Japaridze,Minjin Jeong,K. Jero,B. Jones,P. Kalaczyński,W. Kang,A. Kappes,David Kappesser,T. Karg,A. Karle,U. Katz,M. Kauer,A. Keivani,J. Kelley,Ali Kheirandish,J. Kim,T. Kintscher,J. Kiryluk,T. Kittler,S. Klein,R. Koirala,H. Kolanoski,L. Köpke,C. Kopper,S. Kopper,J. Koschinsky,D. Koskinen,M. Kowalski,K. Krings,M. Kroll,G. Krückl,S. Kunwar,N. Kurahashi,A. Kyriacou,M. Labare,J. Lanfranchi,M. Larson,F. Lauber,K. Leonard,M. Leuermann,Qinrui Liu,Elisa Lohfink,Ioana Mariş,L. Lu,J. Lünemann,William Luszczak,J. Madsen,G. Maggi,K. Mahn,Yuya Makino,S. Mancina,R. Maruyama,K. Mase,R. Maunu,K. Meagher,M. Medici,Maximilian Meier,T. Menne,G. Merino,T. Meures,S. Miarecki,Jessie Micallef,G. Momenté,T. Montaruli,R. Moore,Marjon Moulai,R. Nagai,R. Nahnhauer,P. Nakarmi,Uwe Naumann,G. Neer,H. Niederhausen,Sarah Nowicki,D. Nygren,A. Pollmann,A. Olivas,A. O’Murchadha,Erin O’Sullivan,T. Palczewski,H. Pandya,D. Pankova,P. Peiffer,Joshua Pepper,C. Heros,D. Pieloth,E. Pinat,A. Pizzuto,M. Plum,P. Price,G. Przybylski,Christoph Raab,L. Rädel,M. Rameez,L. Rauch,K. Rawlins,I. Rea,R. Reimann,B. Relethford,Giovanni Renzi,E. Resconi,W. Rhode,M. Richman,S. Robertson,M. Rongen,C. Rott,T. Ruhe,D. Ryckbosch,D. Rysewyk,I. Safa,S. Herrera,Alexander Sandrock,J. Sandroos,M. Santander,S. Sarkar,K. Satalecka,Merlin Schaufel,P. Schlunder,T. Schmidt,A. Schneider,S. Schoenen,S. Schöneberg,L. Schumacher,S. Sclafani,D. Seckel,S. Seunarine,Jan Soedingrekso,Dennis Soldin,M. Song,G. Spiczak,C. Spiering,J. Stachurska,M. Stamatikos,T. Stanev,A. Stasik,Robert Stein,J. Stettner,A. Steuer,T. Stezelberger,R. Stokstad,A. Stößl,N. Strotjohann,Thomas Stuttard,G. Sullivan,M. Sutherland,I. Taboada,F. Tenholt,S. Ter–Antonyan,A. Terliuk,S. Tilav,P. Toale,M. Tobin,Christoph Tönnis,S. Toscano,D. Tosi,M. Tselengidou,C. Tung,A. Turcati,Colin Turley,B. Ty,E. Unger,M. Usner,J. Vandenbroucke,W. Driessche,D. Eijk,N. Eijndhoven,S. Vanheule,J. Santen,M. Vraeghe,C. Walck,A. Wallace,M. Wallraff,F. Wandler,N. Wandkowsky,Timothyblake Watson,A. Waza,Ch. Weaver,Matthew Weiss,C. Wendt,Johannes Werthebach,S. Westerhoff,B. Whelan,N. Whitehorn,K. Wiebe,C. Wiebusch,L. Wille,D. Williams,L. Wills,Martin Wolf,J. Wood,T. Wood,E. Woolsey,K. Woschnagg,Gerrit Wrede,D. Xu,Xiaolin Xu,Y. Xu,Juan Yáñez,G. Yodh,S. Yoshida,T. Yuan,Daniel Bertrand,Christian Ohm,Hans Dembinski