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IceCube is a kilometer scale neutrino observatory now in construction at the South Pole. The construction started in January 2005 with the deployment of 76 sensors on the first string and four surface detector stations. Nine strings and 32…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Albrecht Karle

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (Amanda) is a high-energy neutrino telescope. It is a lattice of optical modules (OM) installed in the clear ice below the South Pole Station. Each OM contains a photomultiplier tube (PMT) that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-03 AMANDA Collaboration , M. Ackermann

We discuss design considerations and simulation results for IceRay, a proposed large-scale ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino detector at the South Pole. The array is designed to detect the coherent Askaryan radio emission from UHE neutrino…

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov detector installed in deep ice at the geographic South Pole. IceCube's surface array, IceTop, measures the electromagnetic signal and mainly low-energy muons from extensive air showers above several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Andreas Haungs

The IceCube neutrino detector is a cubic kilometer TeV to PeV neutrino detector under construction at the geographic South Pole. The dominant population of neutrinos detected in IceCube is due to meson decay in cosmic-ray air showers. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 The IceCube Collaboration , A. Achterberg

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a kilometer-scale detector currently under construction at the South Pole. In its final configuration the detector will comprise 5160 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) deployed on 86 strings between 1.5-2.5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Toscano

An update on recent discoveries by the IceCube project, which transforms approximately one cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice into a Cherenkov detector. This paper will be submitted to SLAC for inclusion in the Snowmass2013…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Francis Halzen

The 1 km$^3$ IcCube neutrino observatory was built to find high-energy neutrinos that are associated with the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Its 5,160 optical sensors detect Cherenkov light from the charged particles produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-02 Spencer R. Klein

The IceCube neutrino observatory is composed of more than five thousand light sensors, Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), installed on the surface and at depths between 1450 and 2450 m in clear ice at the South Pole. Each DOM incorporates a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-10 Delia Tosi , Christopher Wendt

The IceCube neutrino observatory uses $1\,\mathrm{km}^{3}$ of the natural Antarctic ice near the geographic South Pole as optical detection medium. When charged particles, such as particles produced in neutrino interactions, pass through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Anna Pollmann

IceCube is a neutrino observatory located at the South Pole that uses Antarctic ice as a medium for detection of Cherenkov photons. As such, analysis of the data relies on our understanding of the properties of ice within and around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Dmitry Chirkin , Martin Rongen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer volume neutrino detector installed in the Antarctic at the geographic South Pole. Neutrinos are detected through the observation of Cherenkov light from charged relativistic particles…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Woosik Kang , Christoph Tönnis , Carsten Rott

IceCube is a km-scale neutrino observatory under construction at the South Pole with sensors both in the deep ice (InIce) and on the surface (IceTop). The sensors, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), detect, digitize and timestamp the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The IceCube Collaboration

The IceCube observatory is the first cubic kilometre scale instrument in the field of high-energy neutrino astronomy and cosmic rays. In 2009, following five successful deployment seasons, IceCube consisted of 59 strings of optical modules…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Klas Hultqvist

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino detector instrumenting a gigaton of ice at the geographic South Pole in Antarctica. On average, 8 track-like high-energy neutrino events with a high probability of being astrophysical are detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Martina Karl

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the geographic South Pole, has reached a number of milestones in the field of neutrino astrophysics: the discovery of a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Aya Ishihara

IceCube is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at the South Pole, a successor to the first-generation AMANDA telescope. IceCube is now three quarters complete, with completion expected in early 2011, and data taken with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. DeYoung

The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, is discussed as a detector for core collapse supernovae. The large flux of $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ from a Galactic supernova gives rise to Cherenkov light from positrons and electrons created in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ronald Bruijn

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is the world's largest neutrino telescope, instrumenting 1 km$^3$ of Antarctic ice with 5160 photosensors to detect Cherenkov light. For the IceCube Upgrade, to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Jannes Brostean-Kaiser

With construction halfway complete, IceCube is already the most sensitive neutrino telescope ever built. A rearrangement of the final holes of IceCube with increased spacing has been discussed recently to optimize the high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 D. Besson , R. Nahnhauer , P. B. Price , D. Tosi , J. Vandenbroucke , B. Voigt