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The IceCube Upgrade is the first step towards the next-generation neutrino observatory at the South Pole, IceCube-Gen2, and will be installed in the central region of the existing array. The Upgrade will consist of 693 newly developed,…

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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…

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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory will be upgraded with more than 700 additional optical sensor modules and new calibration devices. Improved calibration will enhance IceCube's physics capabilities both at low and high neutrino energies. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Jürgen Borowka , Christoph Günther , Dirk Heinen , Simon Zierke

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world's largest neutrino detector with a cubic-kilometer instrumented volume at the South Pole. It is preparing for a major upgrade that will significantly increase its sensitivity. A promising…

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The IceCube Upgrade will augment the existing IceCube Neutrino Observatory by deploying 700 additional optical sensor modules and calibration devices within its center at a depth of 1.5 to 2.5 km in the Antarctic ice. One goal of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-17 Charlotte Benning , Jürgen Borowka , Christoph Günther , Oliver Gries , Simon Zierke

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory will be upgraded with about 700 additional optical sensor modules and new calibration devices. Particularly, improved calibration will enhance IceCube's physics capabilities both at low and high neutrino…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Dirk Heinen , Shefali , Roxanne Turcotte , Lars Steffen Weinstock , Christopher Wiebusch , Simon Zierke

The optical sensors of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory are attached on vertical strings of cables. They were frozen into the ice in the deployment holes made by hot water drill. This hole ice, to the best of our knowledge, consists of a…

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A precise understanding of the optical properties of the instrumented Antarctic ice sheet is crucial to the performance of optical Cherenkov telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and its planned successor, IceCube-Gen2. One…

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IceCube-Gen2 is a planned extension to the existing IceCube Neutrino Observatory and will provide an order of magnitude increase in the detection rate of cosmic neutrinos by deploying ~10,000 sensors in a volume of ~8 cubic kilometers. As…

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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

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…

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IceCube is a neutrino observatory at Earth's South Pole that uses glacial ice as detector medium. Secondary particles from neutrino interactions produce Cherenkov light, which is detected by an array of photo detectors deployed within the…

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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…

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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects GeV-to-PeV+ neutrinos via the Cherenkov light produced by secondary charged particles from neutrino interactions with the South Pole ice. The detector consists of over 5000 spherical Digital Optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tianlu Yuan

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments about 1 km$^3$ of deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole using 5160 photomultipliers to detect Cherenkov light from relativistic, charged particles. Most IceCube science goals rely on…

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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino detector embedded in the Antarctic ice of the South Pole. In the near future, the detector will be augmented by extensions, such as the IceCube Upgrade and the planned…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Martin Ha Minh

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, completed in December 2010 and located at the geographic South Pole, is the largest neutrino telescope in the world. IceCube includes the more densely instrumented DeepCore subarray, which increases…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-07 Dawn Williams

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 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…

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IceCube is a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole. The detector utilizes the extremely transparent Antarctic ice as a medium for detecting Cherenkov radiation from neutrino interactions. As a result…

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