IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe
The observation of electromagnetic radiation from radio to γ-ray wavelengths has provided a wealth of information about the Universe. However, at PeV (1015 eV) energies and above, most of the Universe is impenetrable to photons. New messengers, namely cosmic neutrinos, are needed to explore the most...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt31t007fw 2024-09-15T18:36:56+00:00 IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe Aartsen, MG Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Allison, P Amin, NM Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Arlen, TC Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bagherpour, H Bai, X Balagopal, A Barbano, A Bartos, I Bastian, B Basu, V Baum, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, J Becker BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Bohmer, M Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Burgman, A Burley, RT Buscher, J Busse, RS Bustamante, M Campana, MA Carnie-Bronca, EG Carver, T Chen, C Chen, P Cheung, E Chirkin, D Choi, S Clark, BA Clark, K Classen, L Coleman, A Collin, GH Connolly, A Conrad, JM Coppin, P Correa, P Cowen, DF Cross, R Dave, P Deaconu, C De Clercq, C DeLaunay, JJ De Kockere, S Dembinski, H Deoskar, K De Ridder, S Desai, A Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Dharani, S Diaz, A Díaz-Vélez, JC Dujmovic, H Dunkman, M DuVernois, MA Dvorak, E Ehrhardt, T Eller, P Engel, R Evans, JJ Evenson, PA 060501 2021-06-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31t007fw https://escholarship.org/content/qt31t007fw/qt31t007fw.pdf https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/abbd48 unknown eScholarship, University of California qt31t007fw https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31t007fw https://escholarship.org/content/qt31t007fw/qt31t007fw.pdf doi:10.1088/1361-6471/abbd48 public Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol 48, iss 6 neutrino astronomy high-energy astrophysics neutrino telescopes astro-ph.HE Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle and Plasma Physics Nuclear & Particles Physics article 2021 ftcdlib https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/abbd48 2024-06-28T06:28:20Z The observation of electromagnetic radiation from radio to γ-ray wavelengths has provided a wealth of information about the Universe. However, at PeV (1015 eV) energies and above, most of the Universe is impenetrable to photons. New messengers, namely cosmic neutrinos, are needed to explore the most extreme environments of the Universe where black holes, neutron stars, and stellar explosions transform gravitational energy into non-thermal cosmic rays. These energetic particles havemillions of times higher energies than those produced in the most powerful particle accelerators on Earth. As neutrinos can escape from regions otherwise opaque to radiation, they allow an unique view deep into exploding stars and the vicinity of the event horizons of black holes. The discovery of cosmic neutrinos with IceCube has opened this new window on the Universe. IceCube has been successful in finding first evidence for cosmic particle acceleration in the jet of an active galactic nucleus. Yet, ultimately, its sensitivity is too limited to detect even the brightest neutrino sources with high significance, or to detect populations of less luminous sources. In thiswhite paper, we present an overview of a next-generation instrument, IceCube-Gen2, which will sharpen our understanding of the processes and environments that govern the Universe at the highest energies. IceCube-Gen2 is designed to: (a) Resolve the high-energy neutrino sky from TeV to EeV energies (b) Investigate cosmic particle acceleration through multi-messenger observations (c) Reveal the sources and propagation of the highest energy particles in the Universe (d) Probe fundamental physics with high-energy neutrinos IceCube-Gen2 will enhance the existing IceCube detector at the South Pole. It will increase the annual rate of observed cosmic neutrinos by a factor of ten compared to IceCube, and will be able to detect sources five times fainter than its predecessor. Furthermore, through the addition of a radio array, IceCube- Gen2 will extend the energy range by several ... Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole University of California: eScholarship Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 48 6 060501 |
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neutrino astronomy high-energy astrophysics neutrino telescopes astro-ph.HE Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle and Plasma Physics Nuclear & Particles Physics Aartsen, MG Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Allison, P Amin, NM Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Arlen, TC Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bagherpour, H Bai, X Balagopal, A Barbano, A Bartos, I Bastian, B Basu, V Baum, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, J Becker BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Bohmer, M Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Burgman, A Burley, RT Buscher, J Busse, RS Bustamante, M Campana, MA Carnie-Bronca, EG Carver, T Chen, C Chen, P Cheung, E Chirkin, D Choi, S Clark, BA Clark, K Classen, L Coleman, A Collin, GH Connolly, A Conrad, JM Coppin, P Correa, P Cowen, DF Cross, R Dave, P Deaconu, C De Clercq, C DeLaunay, JJ De Kockere, S Dembinski, H Deoskar, K De Ridder, S Desai, A Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Dharani, S Diaz, A Díaz-Vélez, JC Dujmovic, H Dunkman, M DuVernois, MA Dvorak, E Ehrhardt, T Eller, P Engel, R Evans, JJ Evenson, PA IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe |
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The observation of electromagnetic radiation from radio to γ-ray wavelengths has provided a wealth of information about the Universe. However, at PeV (1015 eV) energies and above, most of the Universe is impenetrable to photons. New messengers, namely cosmic neutrinos, are needed to explore the most extreme environments of the Universe where black holes, neutron stars, and stellar explosions transform gravitational energy into non-thermal cosmic rays. These energetic particles havemillions of times higher energies than those produced in the most powerful particle accelerators on Earth. As neutrinos can escape from regions otherwise opaque to radiation, they allow an unique view deep into exploding stars and the vicinity of the event horizons of black holes. The discovery of cosmic neutrinos with IceCube has opened this new window on the Universe. IceCube has been successful in finding first evidence for cosmic particle acceleration in the jet of an active galactic nucleus. Yet, ultimately, its sensitivity is too limited to detect even the brightest neutrino sources with high significance, or to detect populations of less luminous sources. In thiswhite paper, we present an overview of a next-generation instrument, IceCube-Gen2, which will sharpen our understanding of the processes and environments that govern the Universe at the highest energies. IceCube-Gen2 is designed to: (a) Resolve the high-energy neutrino sky from TeV to EeV energies (b) Investigate cosmic particle acceleration through multi-messenger observations (c) Reveal the sources and propagation of the highest energy particles in the Universe (d) Probe fundamental physics with high-energy neutrinos IceCube-Gen2 will enhance the existing IceCube detector at the South Pole. It will increase the annual rate of observed cosmic neutrinos by a factor of ten compared to IceCube, and will be able to detect sources five times fainter than its predecessor. Furthermore, through the addition of a radio array, IceCube- Gen2 will extend the energy range by several ... |
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Aartsen, MG Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Allison, P Amin, NM Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Arlen, TC Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bagherpour, H Bai, X Balagopal, A Barbano, A Bartos, I Bastian, B Basu, V Baum, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, J Becker BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Bohmer, M Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Burgman, A Burley, RT Buscher, J Busse, RS Bustamante, M Campana, MA Carnie-Bronca, EG Carver, T Chen, C Chen, P Cheung, E Chirkin, D Choi, S Clark, BA Clark, K Classen, L Coleman, A Collin, GH Connolly, A Conrad, JM Coppin, P Correa, P Cowen, DF Cross, R Dave, P Deaconu, C De Clercq, C DeLaunay, JJ De Kockere, S Dembinski, H Deoskar, K De Ridder, S Desai, A Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Dharani, S Diaz, A Díaz-Vélez, JC Dujmovic, H Dunkman, M DuVernois, MA Dvorak, E Ehrhardt, T Eller, P Engel, R Evans, JJ Evenson, PA |
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Aartsen, MG Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Allison, P Amin, NM Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Arlen, TC Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bagherpour, H Bai, X Balagopal, A Barbano, A Bartos, I Bastian, B Basu, V Baum, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, J Becker BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Bohmer, M Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Burgman, A Burley, RT Buscher, J Busse, RS Bustamante, M Campana, MA Carnie-Bronca, EG Carver, T Chen, C Chen, P Cheung, E Chirkin, D Choi, S Clark, BA Clark, K Classen, L Coleman, A Collin, GH Connolly, A Conrad, JM Coppin, P Correa, P Cowen, DF Cross, R Dave, P Deaconu, C De Clercq, C DeLaunay, JJ De Kockere, S Dembinski, H Deoskar, K De Ridder, S Desai, A Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Dharani, S Diaz, A Díaz-Vélez, JC Dujmovic, H Dunkman, M DuVernois, MA Dvorak, E Ehrhardt, T Eller, P Engel, R Evans, JJ Evenson, PA |
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IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe |
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