POCAM in the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole instruments a gigaton of glacial Antarctic ice with over 5000 photosensors. The detector, by now running for over a decade, will be upgraded with seven new densely instrumented strings. The project focuses on the improvement of low-energy...

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Main Authors: Khera, Nikhita, Henningsen, Felix
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2021
Subjects:
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM
FOS Physical sciences
Antarctic
South Pole
Antarc*
South pole
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.05298
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05298
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2108.05298 2023-05-15T14:04:07+02:00 POCAM in the IceCube Upgrade Khera, Nikhita Henningsen, Felix 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.05298 https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05298 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences Article CreativeWork article Preprint 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.05298 2022-03-10T13:46:11Z The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole instruments a gigaton of glacial Antarctic ice with over 5000 photosensors. The detector, by now running for over a decade, will be upgraded with seven new densely instrumented strings. The project focuses on the improvement of low-energy and oscillation physics sensitivities as well as re-calibration of the existing detector. Over the last few years we developed a Precision Optical Calibration Module (POCAM) providing self-monitored, isotropic, nanosecond, light pulses for optical calibration of large-volume detectors. Over 20 next-generation POCAMs will be calibrated and deployed in the IceCube Upgrade in order to reduce existing detector systematics. We report a general overview of the POCAM instrument, its performance and calibration procedures. : Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021). See arXiv:2107.06966 for all IceCube contributions Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic South pole South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic South Pole
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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM
FOS Physical sciences
spellingShingle High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM
FOS Physical sciences
Khera, Nikhita
Henningsen, Felix
POCAM in the IceCube Upgrade
topic_facet High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM
FOS Physical sciences
description The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole instruments a gigaton of glacial Antarctic ice with over 5000 photosensors. The detector, by now running for over a decade, will be upgraded with seven new densely instrumented strings. The project focuses on the improvement of low-energy and oscillation physics sensitivities as well as re-calibration of the existing detector. Over the last few years we developed a Precision Optical Calibration Module (POCAM) providing self-monitored, isotropic, nanosecond, light pulses for optical calibration of large-volume detectors. Over 20 next-generation POCAMs will be calibrated and deployed in the IceCube Upgrade in order to reduce existing detector systematics. We report a general overview of the POCAM instrument, its performance and calibration procedures. : Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021). See arXiv:2107.06966 for all IceCube contributions
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author Khera, Nikhita
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title POCAM in the IceCube Upgrade
title_short POCAM in the IceCube Upgrade
title_full POCAM in the IceCube Upgrade
title_fullStr POCAM in the IceCube Upgrade
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publisher arXiv
publishDate 2021
url https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.05298
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05298
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