Status, performance, and first results of the IceTop array
We describe the design and performance of IceTop, the air shower array on top of the IceCube neutrino detector. After the 2008/09 antarctic summer season both detectors are deployed at almost 3/4 of their design size. With the current IceTop 59 stations we can start the study of showers of energy we...
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arXiv
2009
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0903.0576 https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0576 |
| Summary: | We describe the design and performance of IceTop, the air shower array on top of the IceCube neutrino detector. After the 2008/09 antarctic summer season both detectors are deployed at almost 3/4 of their design size. With the current IceTop 59 stations we can start the study of showers of energy well above 10$^{17}$ eV. The paper also describes the first results from IceTop and our plans to study the cosmic ray composition using several different types of analysis. : ^ pages, 6 figures, submitted to the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Paris, 2008 |
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