ICECUBE: THE STATE OF THE ART TERESA MONTARULI for the IceCube Collaboration (∗)
In this paper we describe the performance of the 9 instrumented IceCube strings and 16 surface IceTop stations taking data at the Geographical South Pole after 2 deployment seasons. We will focus on the description of the array and on the construction and data analysis status. The expected full arra...
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2006
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.256.9150 http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0608140v1.pdf |
| Summary: | In this paper we describe the performance of the 9 instrumented IceCube strings and 16 surface IceTop stations taking data at the Geographical South Pole after 2 deployment seasons. We will focus on the description of the array and on the construction and data analysis status. The expected full array performance is discussed and compared to other results for the relevant physics studies using high energy neutrinos for astrophysical neutrino searches. 1 Status of high energy neutrino source searches A considerable effort is ongoing to broaden our knowledge of the universe through the observation of high energy neutrinos. It is reasonable to believe, given also the increasing hints coming from gamma astronomy experiments, that the most powerful accelerators of the universe are sites of proton acceleration and interactions on targets of matter and photons. Part of the energy could be transfered to neutrinos from meson decays in astrophysical |
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