RATIONALE OF HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY

Abstract. IceCube is a cubic-kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at the geographic South Pole. Once completed it will comprise 4800 optical sensors deployed on 80 vertical strings at depths in the ice between 1450 and 2450 meters. Part of the array is already operational and data was rec...

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Main Author: Elisa Bernardini
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Subjects:
Cosmic neutrinos
high-energy gamma-rays
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.243.5680
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0901.1049v1.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. IceCube is a cubic-kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at the geographic South Pole. Once completed it will comprise 4800 optical sensors deployed on 80 vertical strings at depths in the ice between 1450 and 2450 meters. Part of the array is already operational and data was recorded in the configurations with 9 (year 2006/2007), 22 (year 2007/2008) and 40-strings (year 2008/2009) respectively. Here we report preliminary results on the search for point-like neutrino sources using data collected with the first 22 strings (IC-22).

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