The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore
The IceCube neutrino observatory in operation at the South Pole, Antarctica, comprises three distinct components: a large buried array for ultrahigh energy neutrino detection, a surface air shower array, and a new buried component called DeepCore. DeepCore was designed to lower the IceCube neutrino...
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ftunivbruxelles:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/129763 2023-05-15T13:53:32+02:00 The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore Aguilar Sanchez, Juan Antonio Hanson, Kael Bertrand, Daniel Bechet, Sabrina Heereman von Zuydtwyck, David Verhagen, Erik Meures, Thomas O'Murchadha, Aongus Toscano, Simona 2012 1 full-text file(s): application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/129763 https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/129763/3/Elsevier_111640.pdf en eng uri/info:doi/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.01.004 uri/info:pii/S0927650512000254 uri/info:scp/84859864845 https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/129763/3/Elsevier_111640.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/129763 1 full-text file(s): info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Astroparticle physics, 35 Physique des particules élémentaires Antarctica DeepCore Detector IceCube Neutrino info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ulb-repo/semantics/articlePeerReview info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/article 2012 ftunivbruxelles 2022-06-12T21:18:23Z The IceCube neutrino observatory in operation at the South Pole, Antarctica, comprises three distinct components: a large buried array for ultrahigh energy neutrino detection, a surface air shower array, and a new buried component called DeepCore. DeepCore was designed to lower the IceCube neutrino energy threshold by over an order of magnitude, to energies as low as about 10 GeV. DeepCore is situated primarily 2100 m below the surface of the icecap at the South Pole, at the bottom center of the existing IceCube array, and began taking physics data in May 2010. Its location takes advantage of the exceptionally clear ice at those depths and allows it to use the surrounding IceCube detector as a highly efficient active veto against the principal background of downward-going muons produced in cosmic-ray air showers. DeepCore has a module density roughly five times higher than that of the standard IceCube array, and uses photomultiplier tubes with a new photocathode featuring a quantum efficiency about 35% higher than standard IceCube PMTs. Taken together, these features of DeepCore will increase IceCube's sensitivity to neutrinos from WIMP dark matter annihilations, atmospheric neutrino oscillations, galactic supernova neutrinos, and point sources of neutrinos in the northern and southern skies. In this paper we describe the design and initial performance of DeepCore. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 0 IceCube Collaboration SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica South pole South pole DI-fusion : dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) South Pole |
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The IceCube neutrino observatory in operation at the South Pole, Antarctica, comprises three distinct components: a large buried array for ultrahigh energy neutrino detection, a surface air shower array, and a new buried component called DeepCore. DeepCore was designed to lower the IceCube neutrino energy threshold by over an order of magnitude, to energies as low as about 10 GeV. DeepCore is situated primarily 2100 m below the surface of the icecap at the South Pole, at the bottom center of the existing IceCube array, and began taking physics data in May 2010. Its location takes advantage of the exceptionally clear ice at those depths and allows it to use the surrounding IceCube detector as a highly efficient active veto against the principal background of downward-going muons produced in cosmic-ray air showers. DeepCore has a module density roughly five times higher than that of the standard IceCube array, and uses photomultiplier tubes with a new photocathode featuring a quantum efficiency about 35% higher than standard IceCube PMTs. Taken together, these features of DeepCore will increase IceCube's sensitivity to neutrinos from WIMP dark matter annihilations, atmospheric neutrino oscillations, galactic supernova neutrinos, and point sources of neutrinos in the northern and southern skies. In this paper we describe the design and initial performance of DeepCore. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 0 IceCube Collaboration SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
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The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore |
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The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore |
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