Status of the IceTop air shower array at the South Pole

The IceTop air shower array is the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole. The combination of IceTop and IceCube provides a new and powerful tool to measure cosmic ray composition in the energy range between about 300 TeV and 1 EeV by detecting the electro...

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Main Author: Kislat, Fabian
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2012
Subjects:
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM
FOS Physical sciences
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1202.2790
https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2790
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Summary:The IceTop air shower array is the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole. The combination of IceTop and IceCube provides a new and powerful tool to measure cosmic ray composition in the energy range between about 300 TeV and 1 EeV by detecting the electromagnetic component at the surface in coincidence with the muon bundle in the deep underground detector. The paper will give an overview of the current status of the detector and the first physics results will be presented. : To appear on the Proceedings of the 13th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics and Detectors for Physics Applications, Villa Olmo (Como, Italy), 3-7 October, 2011, to be published by World Scientific (Singapore)

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