English

Status, performance, and first results of the IceTop array

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-08-13 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

We describe the design and performance of IceTop, the air shower array on top of the IceCube neutrino detector. After the 2008/09 antarctic summer season both detectors are deployed at almost 3/4 of their design size. With the current IceTop 59 stations we can start the study of showers of energy well above 1017^{17} eV. The paper also describes the first results from IceTop and our plans to study the cosmic ray composition using several different types of analysis.

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@article{arxiv.0903.0576,
  title  = {Status, performance, and first results of the IceTop array},
  author = {Todor Stanev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0576},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

^ pages, 6 figures, submitted to the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Paris, 2008

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