Citizen Science for IceCube: Name that Neutrino
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2024-01-23 v1
Abstract
Name that Neutrino is a citizen science project where volunteers aid in classification of events for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an immense particle detector at the geographic South Pole. From March 2023 to September 2023, volunteers did classifications of videos produced from simulated data of both neutrino signal and background interactions. Name that Neutrino obtained more than 128,000 classifications by over 1,800 registered volunteers that were compared to results obtained by a deep neural network machine-learning algorithm. Possible improvements for both Name that Neutrino and the deep neural network are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.2401.11994,
title = {Citizen Science for IceCube: Name that Neutrino},
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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11994},
year = {2024}
}