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IceAct is an array of compact Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes at the ice surface as part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The telescopes, featuring a camera of 61 silicon photomultipliers and fresnel-lens-based optics, are optimized to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Lars Heuermann

The IceCube-Gen2 Neutrino Observatory is proposed to extend the all-flavour energy range of IceCube beyond PeV energies. It will comprise two key components: I) An enlarged 8$\,$km$^3$ in-ice optical Cherenkov array to measure the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-03 Felix Schlüter , Simona Toscano

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory features both a kilometer-cubed detector between 1.45 and 2.45 km depth and an array of ice-filled tanks, called IceTop, located at the surface. The presence of both detectors at the same location allows for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Delia Tosi , Hershal Pandya

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has measured the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux up to ~PeV energies and is starting to identify first point source candidates. The next generation facility, IceCube-Gen2, aims at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Steffen Hallmann , Brian Clark , Christian Glaser , Daniel Smith

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

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The IceCube Collaboration

IceCube, with its surface array IceTop, detects three different components of extensive air showers: the total signal at the surface, GeV muons in the periphery of the showers and TeV muons in the deep array of IceCube. The spectrum is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Thomas K. Gaisser

The Pierre Auger Observatory has recently undergone a major upgrade, called AugerPrime, tailored to answer the current most pressing questions in the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detection. The AugerPrime upgrade consists of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Martina Boháčová

IceCube was completed in December 2010. It forms a lattice of 5160 photomultiplier tubes that monitor a volume of ~ 1 cubic km in the deep Antarctic ice for particle induced photons. The telescope was designed to detect neutrinos with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Lutz Köpke

IceCube-Gen2 is an expansion of the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole that aims to increase the sensitivity to high-energy neutrinos by an order of magnitude. To this end, about 10,000 new optical modules will be installed,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Yuya Makino

While the first kilometer-scale neutrino telescope, IceCube, is under construction, alternative plans exist to build even larger detectors that will, however, b e limited by a much higher neutrino energy threshold of 10 PeV or higher rather…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory will be upgraded in 2022/23. For this IceCube Upgrade and the planned enlarged detector IceCube-Gen2 new optical modules are under development. One of these optical modules, the Wavelength-shifting Optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Jannes Brostean-Kaiser

IceCube is a kilometer-scale high energy neutrino telescope under construction at the South Pole, a second-generation instrument expanding the capabilities of the AMANDA telescope. The scientific portfolio of IceCube includes the detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Tyce DeYoung

The ARIANNA experiment is currently taking data in its pilot-phase on the Ross ice-shelf. Fully autonomous stations measure radio signals in the frequency range from 100 MHz to 1 GHz. The seven station HRA was completed in December 2014,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Anna Nelles

IceTop, the km$^2$ surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is sensitive to air showers of all primary particles, including gamma rays. In particular, in the PeV energy range, the combination of IceTop and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Frank G. Schröder , Federico Bontempo

Machine learning is a useful tool for identifying radio pulses from cosmic-ray air showers and for cleaning such pulses from radio background. This can lower the detection threshold and increase the accuracy for the pulse time and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Frank G. Schroeder , Abdul Rehman

The IceCube Upgrade, currently under construction at the geographic South Pole, is the next development stage of the IceCube detector. It will consist of seven new columns of novel optical sensors and advanced calibration devices densely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Kaustav Dutta , Tianlu Yuan , Steve Sclafani , Sarah Mancina

IceCube Upgrade, starting in the Antarctic summer season 2025/2026, will enhance the sensitivity of the current IceCube in the GeV range and improve understanding of the ice properties. Around 700 new modules will be deployed deep in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Satoshi Fukami

We report on the measurement of the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum with the IceTop air shower array in the energy range from 1.58 PeV to 1.26 EeV. The IceTop air shower array is the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-22 IceCube collaboration

IceCube DeepCore, the existing low-energy extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, was designed to lower the neutrino detection energy threshold to the GeV range. A new extension, called the IceCube Upgrade, will consist of seven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Philipp Eller , Kayla Leonard DeHolton , Jan Weldert , Rasmus Ørsøe
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