First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope

The first sensors of the IceCube neutrino observatory were deployed at the South Pole during the austral summer of 2004-05 and have been producing data since February 2005. One string of 60 sensors buried in the ice and a surface array of 8 ice Cherenkov tanks took data until December 2005 when depl...

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Main Author: The IceCube Collaboration
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Published: arXiv 2006
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Astrophysics astro-ph
FOS Physical sciences
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0604450
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604450
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0604450 2023-05-15T18:22:20+02:00 First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope The IceCube Collaboration 2006 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0604450 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604450 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.007 Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2006 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0604450 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.007 2022-04-01T15:44:56Z The first sensors of the IceCube neutrino observatory were deployed at the South Pole during the austral summer of 2004-05 and have been producing data since February 2005. One string of 60 sensors buried in the ice and a surface array of 8 ice Cherenkov tanks took data until December 2005 when deployment of the next set of strings and tanks began. We have analyzed these data, demonstrating that the performance of the system meets or exceeds design requirements. Times are determined across the whole array to a relative precision of better than 3 nanoseconds, allowing reconstruction of muon tracks and light bursts in the ice, of air-showers in the surface array and of events seen in coincidence by surface and deep-ice detectors separated by up to 2.5 km. Text South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Austral South Pole
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FOS Physical sciences
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FOS Physical sciences
The IceCube Collaboration
First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope
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FOS Physical sciences
description The first sensors of the IceCube neutrino observatory were deployed at the South Pole during the austral summer of 2004-05 and have been producing data since February 2005. One string of 60 sensors buried in the ice and a surface array of 8 ice Cherenkov tanks took data until December 2005 when deployment of the next set of strings and tanks began. We have analyzed these data, demonstrating that the performance of the system meets or exceeds design requirements. Times are determined across the whole array to a relative precision of better than 3 nanoseconds, allowing reconstruction of muon tracks and light bursts in the ice, of air-showers in the surface array and of events seen in coincidence by surface and deep-ice detectors separated by up to 2.5 km.
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title First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope
title_short First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope
title_full First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope
title_fullStr First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope
title_full_unstemmed First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope
title_sort first year performance of the icecube neutrino telescope
publisher arXiv
publishDate 2006
url https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0604450
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604450
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