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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

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

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

The IceCube collaboration is building a cubic kilometer scale neutrino telescope at a depth of 2 km at the geographic South Pole, utilizing the clear Antarctic ice as a Cherenkov medium to detect cosmic neutrinos. The IceCube observatory is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Timo Karg

The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed low-energy in-fill array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Leveraging technology proven with IceCube, PINGU will feature the world's largest effective volume for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-07 PINGU Collaboration

IceCube-Gen2 is a proposed neutrino observatory at the South Pole that will build on the success of IceCube and will also serve as a unique detector for cosmic-ray air showers. Analogous to the IceTop surface array over IceCube's deep…

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

Current generation neutrino telescopes cover an energy range from about 10 GeV to beyond $10^9$ GeV. IceCube sets the scale for future experiments to make improvements. Strategies for future upgrades will be discussed in three energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Albrecht Karle

The IceCube collaboration has built an in-ice neutrino telescope and a surface detector array, IceTop, at the South Pole. Over 5000 digital optical modules have been deployed in a cubic kilometer of ice between 1450 and 2450 m below the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 James Madsen

IceCube is a 1 km$^3$ neutrino detector now being built at the South Pole. Its 4800 optical modules will detect Cherenkov radiation from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. IceCube will search for neutrinos of astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Spencer R. Klein

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

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has opened a new window into the high-energy Universe, providing measurements of neutrinos over a broad energy range. This contribution presents recent results, including a follow-up on the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Thijs Juan van Eeden

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

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 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

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

IceCube-Gen2, the next generation extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, offers a unique scientific potential for cosmic-ray physics at PeV to EeV energies complementing the main science case of neutrino astronomy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Frank G. Schroeder

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 precise understanding of the optical properties of the instrumented Antarctic ice sheet is crucial to the performance of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov array of 5,160 digital optical modules (DOMs) deployed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-27 Dmitry Chirkin , Martin Rongen

High-energy neutrinos are uniquely suited to study a large variety of physics as they traverse the universe almost untouched, in contrast to conventional astronomical messengers like photons or cosmic rays which are limited by interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Carsten Rott

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Martin Rongen , Dmitry Chirkin