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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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-19 Sebastian Fiedlschuster

The IceCube experiment at South Pole consists of two detector components - the IceTop air shower array on the surface and the neutrino telescope at depths from 1450 m to 2450 m below. Currently, 26 IceTop stations and 22 InIce strings are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Tilo Waldenmaier

The IceCube neutrino detector is built into the Antarctic ice sheet at the South Pole to measure high energy neutrinos. For this, 4800 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are being deployed at depths between 1450 and 2450 meters into the ice to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 J. Auffenberg , T. Gaisser , K. Helbing , T. Huege , T. Karg , A. Karle

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become the baseline choice for cameras of the small-sized telescopes (SSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). On the other hand, SiPMs are relatively new to the field and covering large surfaces…

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

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s; by the 1970s, it was realized that kilometer-scale neutrino detectors were required. The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data. The IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-15 Francis Halzen , Spencer R. Klein

In this work, we present a novel compact particle identification (PID) detector concept based on Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) optimized to perform combined Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) and Time-of-Flight (TOF) measurements using a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-22 M. N. Mazziotta , L. Congedo , G. De Robertis , M. Giliberti , F. Licciulli , A. Liguori , L. Lorusso , N. Nicassio , G. Panzarini , R. Pillera

IceTop is the cosmic-ray detector located on the surface of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, consisting of 81 pairs of ice-Cherenkov tanks. The rise in the energy threshold of air-shower measurements in IceTop due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Megha Venugopal

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov detector in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole. The dominant event yield in the deep ice detector consists of penetrating atmospheric muons with energies above approximately 300 GeV, produced in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-04 Dennis Soldin

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

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

Extending large-scale air-shower arrays with radio antennas can increase the detector's performance, as the radio emission by cosmic-ray air showers provides an additional measurement of the electromagnetic component. Instrumenting the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Max Renschler

MAGIC is a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. Each telescope's imaging camera consists of 1039 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). We developed three detector modules based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-03 A. Hahn , R. Mirzoyan , A. Dettlaff , D. J. Fink , D. Mazin , M. Teshima

We present the development of a novel 11328 pixel silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) camera for use with a ground-based Cherenkov telescope with Schwarzschild-Couder optics as a possible medium-sized telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array…

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

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. While the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-23 Christoph Tönnis , Danim Kim , Anna Pollmann , Carsten Rott

A Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)-based photodetector is being built to demonstrate its feasibility for an alternative silicon-based camera design for the Large Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It has been designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Mallamaci , B. Baibussinov , G. Busetto , D. Corti , A. De Angelis , F. Di Pierro , M. Doro , L. Lessio , M. Mariotti , E. Prandini , R. Rando , P. Vallania , C. F. Vigorito

The surface array of IceCube, IceTop, operates primarily as a cosmic-ray detector, as well as a veto for astrophysical neutrino searches for the IceCube in-ice instrumentation. However, the snow accumulation on top of the IceTop detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 S. Shefali , Frank G. Schroeder

IceCube-DeepCore is a compact Cherenkov detector located in the clear ice of the bottom center of the IceCube Neutrino Telescope. Its purpose is to enhance the sensitivity of IceCube for low neutrino energies (< 1 TeV) and to lower the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Christopher Wiebusch

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) are very-large telescopes designed to detect the nanosecond-timescale flashes produced within extended air showers. Because IACTs are sensitive to the Cherenkov light (UV/blue) and use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 T. Hassan , M. K. Daniel