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 2004-2005 and have been producing data since February 2005. One string of 60 sensors buried in the ice and a surface array of eight ice Cherenkov tanks took data until December 2005 whe...

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Published in:Astroparticle Physics
Main Authors: Achterberg, Abraham, Peña Garay, Carlos, Zornoza Gómez, Juan de Dios
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Astronomia
Austral
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10550/39575
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.007
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spelling ftunivalencia:oai:roderic.uv.es:10550/39575 2024-02-04T10:04:34+01:00 First year performance of the IceCube neutrino telescope Achterberg, Abraham Peña Garay, Carlos Zornoza Gómez, Juan de Dios 2014-11-04T10:08:08Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10550/39575 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.007 eng eng Astroparticle Physics, 2006, vol. 26, num. 3, p. 155-173 Achterberg, Abraham Peña Garay, Carlos Zornoza Gómez, Juan de Dios 2006 First year performance of the IceCube neutrino telescope Astroparticle Physics 26 3 155 173 http://hdl.handle.net/10550/39575 doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.007 097442 open access Astronomia journal article 2014 ftunivalencia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.007 2024-01-10T00:05:50Z The first sensors of the IceCube neutrino observatory were deployed at the South Pole during the austral summer of 2004-2005 and have been producing data since February 2005. One string of 60 sensors buried in the ice and a surface array of eight 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 ns, 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole Universitat de València: Roderic - Repositorio de contenido libre Austral South Pole Astroparticle Physics 26 3 155 173
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First year performance of the IceCube neutrino telescope
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description The first sensors of the IceCube neutrino observatory were deployed at the South Pole during the austral summer of 2004-2005 and have been producing data since February 2005. One string of 60 sensors buried in the ice and a surface array of eight 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 ns, 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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author Achterberg, Abraham
Peña Garay, Carlos
Zornoza Gómez, Juan de Dios
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.007
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