Design and status of IceCube

IceCube is a kilometer-scale high energy neutrino detector that builds on the wealth of experience accumulated with its smaller predecessor, AMANDA. An international collaboration has begun construction of key components of the IceCube detector and deployment operations at the South Pole will begin...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Main Authors: Kestel, Martin, IceCube Collaboration
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: North-Holland Publ. Co. 2004
Subjects:
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530
talk: Vienna 2004/02/16
neutrino: cosmic radiation
Cherenkov counter: water
solids: water
photomultiplier
data acquisition
IceCube
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/329839
https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2017-06389%22
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Summary:IceCube is a kilometer-scale high energy neutrino detector that builds on the wealth of experience accumulated with its smaller predecessor, AMANDA. An international collaboration has begun construction of key components of the IceCube detector and deployment operations at the South Pole will begin in late 2004. The underlying design of the IceCube detector and of the DAQ system are presented here, emphasizing the digital optical modules (DOMs) as the smallest discrete IceCube building block. The event reconstruction critically relies on a relative timing accuracy from DOM to DOM of a few nanoseconds over inter-DOM separations of up to 1 km.

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