The Shadow of the Moon in IceCube

IceCube is the world's largest neutrino telescope, recently completed at the South Pole. As a proof of pointing accuracy, we look for the image of the Moon as a deficit in down-going cosmic ray muons, using techniques similar to those used in IceCube's astronomical point-source searches. :...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gladstone, L.
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2011
Subjects:
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
FOS Physical sciences
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1111.2969
https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2969
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Summary:IceCube is the world's largest neutrino telescope, recently completed at the South Pole. As a proof of pointing accuracy, we look for the image of the Moon as a deficit in down-going cosmic ray muons, using techniques similar to those used in IceCube's astronomical point-source searches. : 4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the XLVI Rencontres de Moriond, International Conference on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, Italy, Mar. 20-27, 2011

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