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The recent association between IC-170922A and the blazar TXS0506+056 highlights the importance of real-time observations for identifying possible astrophysical neutrino sources. Thanks to its near-100\% duty cycle, 4$\pi$ steradian field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-13 Kevin Meagher , Alex Pizzuto , Justin Vandenbroucke

The IceAct telescopes are Imaging Air Cherenkov telescopes installed as part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole. They consist of a 61 pixel camera and are small and robust to withstand the harsh environmental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Larissa Paul

IceCube is a 1 km^3 neutrino detector now being built at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It consists of 4800 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) which detect Cherenkov radiation from the charged particles produced in neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Spencer R. Klein

IceCube is a 1 km$^3$ neutrino observatory being built to study neutrino production in active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants, and a host of other astrophysical sources. High-energy neutrinos may signal the sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Spencer R. Klein

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is a Cherenkov detector that continuously monitors a cubic kilometer of instrumented glacial ice for neutrino interactions in the sub-TeV to EeV energy range. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Hans Niederhausen

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

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments roughly one cubic kilometer of deep, glacial ice below the geographic South Pole with 5160 optical sensors to register the Cherenkov light of passing relativistic, charged particles. Since its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Martin Rongen

On 13 December 2006 the IceTop air shower array at the South Pole detected a major solar particle event. By numerically simulating the response of the IceTop tanks, which are thick Cherenkov detectors with multiple thresholds deployed at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Abbasi

This study introduces chromatic calorimetry, a novel particle detection method that uses strategically layered scintillators with different emission wavelengths. This approach aims to enhance energy measurement by capturing particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-16 Devanshi Arora , Matteo Salomoni , Yacine Haddad , Vojtech Zabloudil , Michael Doser , Masaki Owari , Etiennette Auffray

The AMANDA neutrino detector has been in operation at the South Pole for several years. A number of searches for extraterrestrial sources of high energy neutrinos have been performed. A selection of results is presented in this paper. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Adam Bouchta

IceCube is an all-flavor, cubic kilometer neutrino telescope currently under construction in the deep glacial ice at the South Pole. Its embedded optical sensors detect Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-15 Michelangelo D'Agostino

We present performance studies of a segmented optical module for the IceCube-Gen2 detector. Based on the experience gained in sensor development for the IceCube Upgrade, the new sensor will consist of up to eighteen 4 inch PMTs housed in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Nobuhiro Shimizu , Aya Ishihara , Alexander Kappes

This paper presents a comprehensive optimisation study to maximise the light collection efficiency of scintillating cube elements used in the SoLid detector. Very short baseline reactor experiments, like SoLid, look for active to sterile…

The next generation neutrino telescope, IceCube-Gen2, will be sensitive to the astrophysical and cosmogenic flux of neutrinos across a broad energy range, from the TeV to the EeV scale. The planned design includes 8 cubic kilometers of ice…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Christian Glaser

IceCube is a km^3 scale neutrino detector being constructed deep in the Antarctic ice. When complete, IceCube will consist of 4800 optical modules deployed on 80 strings between 1450 and 2450 m of depth. During the 2007-2008 data taking…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Erik Strahler

This study constructs a hybrid module with a multi-material collaborative detection architecture by integrating silicon pixel layers into the longitudinally segmented scintillating fiber sampling calorimeter module and optimizes the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-30 Jia-Le Fei , Ao Yuan , Chang-Heng Huang , Liu-Pan An , Ji-Ke Wang

We present the design and science case for a new array of radio antennas to be located at the Pierre Auger Observatory. Six stations of three SKALA antennas each will be deployed around a single water-Cherenkov surface detector triggering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Stef Verpoest , Frank Schroeder , Alexander Novikov , Alan Coleman , Benjamin Flaggs , Andreas Weindl , Megha Venugopal , Carmen Merx , Andreas Haungs

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Hence, if fibres…

The ARIANNA in-ice radio detector explores the detection of UHE neutrinos with shallow detector stations on the Ross Ice Shelf and the South Pole. Here, we present recent results that lay the foundation for future large-scale experiments.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Christian Glaser

Noble liquid detectors have become an attractive option for exploring physics beyond the standard model. Current experiments are using these detectors to search for dark matter interactions, neutrinoless double beta decay, and other…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-15 Philip L. R. Weigel , Erin V. Hansen , Michelle J. Dolinski