IceCube: A Cubic Kilometer Radiation Detector

IceCube is a 1 km^3 neutrino detector now being built at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It consists of 4800 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) which detect Cherenkov radiation from the charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. IceCube will observe astrophysical neutrinos with energies...

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Main Author: Klein, Spencer R.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2008
Subjects:
Instrumentation and Detectors physics.ins-det
Astrophysics astro-ph
Nuclear Experiment nucl-ex
FOS Physical sciences
South Pole
Amundsen-Scott
Amundsen Scott South Pole Station
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
South pole
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0807.0034
https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0034
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Summary:IceCube is a 1 km^3 neutrino detector now being built at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It consists of 4800 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) which detect Cherenkov radiation from the charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. IceCube will observe astrophysical neutrinos with energies above about 100 GeV. IceCube will be able to separate ν_μ, ν_e and ν_τinteractions because of their different topologies. IceCube construction is currently 50% complete. : Revised version, with details added, per referee request. 8 pages, presented at SORMA West 2008 (Symposium on Radiation Measurement and Applications)

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