Getting there: from AMANDA to IceCube

AMANDA is a neutrino telescope consisting of 677 optical modules embedded at 1.5-2 km depth in the ice cap under the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. In this contribution we summarize AMANDA results on measuring the atmospheric neutrino spectrum, on searches for a neutrino flux from the galactic p...

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Main Author: Carlos P. De Los Heros
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.222.2234
http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/021/023/HEP2005_023.pdf
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Summary:AMANDA is a neutrino telescope consisting of 677 optical modules embedded at 1.5-2 km depth in the ice cap under the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. In this contribution we summarize AMANDA results on measuring the atmospheric neutrino spectrum, on searches for a neutrino flux from the galactic plane, for a diffuse and point-like flux of cosmic high energy neutrinos and searches for dark matter candidates in the form of MSSM neutralinos. 90%CL limits are presented for these searches, as well as for a list of specific point source candidates. The status and physics capabilities of IceCube, the successor of AMANDA, are also summarized.