Getting there: from AMANDA to IceCube

• Main Author: Carlos P. De Los Heros
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: South Pole; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Ice cap; South pole
• 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

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.