IceCube-Gen2: A Vision for the Future of Neutrino Astronomy in Antarctica

• Main Authors: Gen2 Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Anderson, T., Anton, G., Arguelles, C., Arlen, T. C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bai, X., Bartos, I., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohm, C., Bos, F., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Buzinsky, N., Casey, J., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Classen, L., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., Day, M., de André, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., andaz-Vélez, J. C. Dí, Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eisch, J., Euler, S., Evans, J. J., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gaior, R., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gier, D., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grant, D., Gretskov, P., Groh, J. C., Groß, A., Ha, C., Haack, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Haugen, J., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hellwig, D., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Jones, B. J. P., Jurkovic, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katori, T., Katz, U. F., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Koob, A., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krauss, C. B., Kriesten, A., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kroll, M., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larsen, D. T., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., LoSecco, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Marka, S., Marka, Z., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meli, A., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Middlemas, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Moore, R. W., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Omairat, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Paul, L., Penek, Ö., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Pinfold, J. L., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Pütz, J., Quinnan, M., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Rees, I., Reimann, R., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rodrigues, J. P., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Sander, H. -G., Sandroos, J., Sandstrom, P., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shaevitz, M. H., Shanidze, R., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stanisha, N. A., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., andl, A. Stöß, Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Taketa, A., Tamburro, A., Tanaka, H. K. M., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Teš, G., Andić, Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Unger, E., Usner, M., Vallecorsa, S., van Eijndhoven, N., Vandenbroucke, J., van Santen, J., Vanheule, S., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallraff, M., Weaver, Ch., Wellons, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Whitehorn, N., Wichary, C., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Wren, S., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zarzhitsky, P., Ziemann, J., Zoll, M.
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2014
• Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; High Energy Physics - Experiment hep-ex; FOS Physical sciences; South Pole; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1412.5106; https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5106

The recent observation by the IceCube neutrino observatory of an astrophysical flux of neutrinos represents the "first light" in the nascent field of neutrino astronomy. The observed diffuse neutrino flux seems to suggest a much larger level of hadronic activity in the non-thermal universe than previously thought and suggests a rich discovery potential for a larger neutrino observatory. This document presents a vision for an substantial expansion of the current IceCube detector, IceCube-Gen2, including the aim of instrumenting a $10\,\mathrm{km}^3$ volume of clear glacial ice at the South Pole to deliver substantial increases in the astrophysical neutrino sample for all flavors. A detector of this size would have a rich physics program with the goal to resolve the sources of these astrophysical neutrinos, discover GZK neutrinos, and be a leading observatory in future multi-messenger astronomy programs. : 20 pages, 12 figures. Address correspondence to: E. Blaufuss, F. Halzen, C. Kopper (Changed to add one missing author, no other changes from initial version.)