IceCube: Performance, Status, and Future

High-energy neutrinos are uniquely suited to study a large variety of physics as they traverse the universe almost untouched, in contrast to conventional astronomical messengers like photons or cosmic rays which are limited by interactions with radiation and matter at high energies or deflected by a...

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Main Author: Rott, Carsten
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Published: arXiv 2006
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South Pole
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0611726
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0611726 2023-05-15T18:22:41+02:00 IceCube: Performance, Status, and Future Rott, Carsten 2006 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0611726 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611726 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.11.041 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/0611726 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.11.041 2022-04-01T15:53:32Z High-energy neutrinos are uniquely suited to study a large variety of physics as they traverse the universe almost untouched, in contrast to conventional astronomical messengers like photons or cosmic rays which are limited by interactions with radiation and matter at high energies or deflected by ambient magnetic fields. Located at the South Pole, IceCube combined with its predecessor AMANDA comprise the world's largest neutrino telescope. IceCube currently consists of nine strings, each containing 60 digital optical modules, deployed at depths of 1.5 to 2.5km in the ice and an array of 16 surface air-shower stations. IceCube is expected to be completed in early 2011 at which time it will instrument a volume of one km^3 below the IceTop air-shower array covering an area of one km^2. The current IceCube detector performance is described and an outlook given into the large variety of physics that it can address, with an emphasis on the search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos which may shed light on the origins of the highest energy cosmic rays. : 6 pages, 7 figures, XIV International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2006) in Weihai, China, August 15-22, 2006 Text South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole
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FOS Physical sciences
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FOS Physical sciences
Rott, Carsten
IceCube: Performance, Status, and Future
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description High-energy neutrinos are uniquely suited to study a large variety of physics as they traverse the universe almost untouched, in contrast to conventional astronomical messengers like photons or cosmic rays which are limited by interactions with radiation and matter at high energies or deflected by ambient magnetic fields. Located at the South Pole, IceCube combined with its predecessor AMANDA comprise the world's largest neutrino telescope. IceCube currently consists of nine strings, each containing 60 digital optical modules, deployed at depths of 1.5 to 2.5km in the ice and an array of 16 surface air-shower stations. IceCube is expected to be completed in early 2011 at which time it will instrument a volume of one km^3 below the IceTop air-shower array covering an area of one km^2. The current IceCube detector performance is described and an outlook given into the large variety of physics that it can address, with an emphasis on the search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos which may shed light on the origins of the highest energy cosmic rays. : 6 pages, 7 figures, XIV International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2006) in Weihai, China, August 15-22, 2006
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