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A new digital optical module (DOM) has been developed for the proposed expansion to the IceCube detector at the South Pole, IceCube-Gen2. The "Gen2-DOM" has 4 times the integrated photon sensitivity of the current IceCube DOMs and has built…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Delaney Butterfield , Chris Wendt

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer detector located in the Antarctic ice at the geographic South Pole. It reads out over 5,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect Cherenkov light produced by secondary particles,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Philipp Soldin , Shuyang Deng , Lasse Düser , Philipp Fürst

IceCube is a 1 km^3 neutrino telescope currently under construction at the South Pole. The detector will consist of 5160 optical sensors deployed at depths between 1450 m and 2450 m in clear Antarctic ice distributed over 86 strings. An air…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Karle

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole. Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles from neutrino interactions is observed by IceCube using an array of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Kevin J. Meagher

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is an optical Cherenkov detector instrumenting one cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. The Cherenkov photons emitted following a neutrino interaction are detected by digital optical modules deployed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Sharmistha Chattopadhyay , Krishnamoorthi J , Anuj Kumar Upadhyay

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at the geographic South Pole. Once completed it will comprise 4800 optical sensors deployed on 80 vertical strings at depths in the ice between 1450 and 2450 meters. Part of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Elisa Bernardini

The IceCube Observatory is a km^3 neutrino telescope currently under construction at the geographic South Pole. It will comprise 4800 optical sensors deployed on 80 vertical strings between 1450 and 2450 meters under the ice surface.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Paolo Desiati

We report the first observation of an anisotropy in the arrival direction of cosmic rays with energies in the multi TeV region in the Southern sky using data from the IceCube detector. Between June 2007 and March 2008, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-06 The IceCube Collaboration , R. Abbasi

The sensitivity of a huge underground water/ice Cherenkov detector, such as PINGU in IceCube, to the neutrino mass hierarchy, the atmospheric mixing angle and its octant, is studied in detail. Based on the event rate decomposition in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Shao-Feng Ge , Kaoru Hagiwara

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located under 1.4 km of Antarctic ice, instruments a cubic kilometer of ice with 5,160 optical modules that detect Cherenkov radiation originating from neutrino interactions. The more densely instrumented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Jessie Micallef

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 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 kilometer-scale high energy neutrino detector that builds on the wealth of experience accumulated with its smaller predecessor, AMANDA. An international collaboration has begun construction of key components of the IceCube…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin Kestel

Over 5,000 PMTs are being deployed at the South Pole to compose the IceCube neutrino observatory. Many are placed deep in the ice to detect Cherenkov light emitted by the products of high-energy neutrino interactions, and others are frozen…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 The IceCube Collaboration , R. Abbasi , Y. Abdou , T. Abu-Zayyad , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , K. Andeen , J. Auffenberg , X. Bai , M. Baker , S. W. Barwick , R. Bay , J. L. Bazo Alba , K. Beattie , J. J. Beatty , S. Bechet , J. K. Becker , K. -H. Becker , M. L. Benabderrahmane , J. Berdermann , P. Berghaus , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Bertrand , D. Z. Besson , M. Bissok , E. Blaufuss , D. J. Boersma , C. Bohm , O. Botner , L. Bradley , J. Braun , S. Buitink , M. Carson , D. Chirkin , B. Christy , J. Clem , S. Cohen , C. Colnard , D. F. Cowen , M. V. D'Agostino , M. Danninger , C. De Clercq , L. Demirörs , O. Depaepe , F. Descamps , P. Desiati , G. de Vries-Uiterweerd , T. DeYoung , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , J. Dreyer , J. P. Dumm , M. R. Duvoort , R. Ehrlich , J. Eisch , R. W. Ellsworth , O. Engdegård , S. Euler , P. A. Evenson , O. Fadiran , A. R. Fazely , T. Feusels , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , M. M. Foerster , B. D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , R. Franke , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , R. Ganugapati , M. Geisler , L. Gerhardt , L. Gladstone , A. Goldschmidt , J. A. Goodman , D. Grant , T. Griesel , A. Groß , S. Grullon , R. M. Gunasingha , M. Gurtner , C. Ha , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , K. Han , K. Hanson , Y. Hasegawa , J. Haugen , K. Helbing , P. Herquet , S. Hickford , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , A. Homeier , K. Hoshina , D. Hubert , W. Huelsnitz , J. -P. Hülß , P. O. Hulth , K. Hultqvist , S. Hussain , R. L. Imlay , M. Inaba , A. Ishihara , J. Jacobsen , G. S. Japaridze , H. Johansson , J. M. Joseph , K. -H. Kampert , A. Kappes , T. Karg , A. Karle , J. L. Kelley , N. Kemming , P. Kenny , J. Kiryluk , F. Kislat , N. Kitamura , S. R. Klein , S. Knops , G. Kohnen , H. Kolanoski , L. Köpke , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , T. Kowarik , M. Krasberg , T. Krings , G. Kroll , K. Kuehn , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , S. Lafebre , K. Laihem , H. Landsman , R. Lauer , A. Laundrie , R. Lehmann , D. Lennarz , J. Lünemann , J. Madsen , P. Majumdar , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , H. S. Matis , M. Matusik , K. Meagher , M. Merck , P. Mészáros , T. Meures , E. Middell , N. Milke , H. Miyamoto , T. Montaruli , R. Morse , S. M. Movit , R. Nahnhauer , J. W. Nam , U. Naumann , P. Nießen , D. R. Nygren , S. Odrowski , A. Olivas , M. Olivo , M. Ono , S. Panknin , L. Paul , C. Pérez de los Heros , J. Petrovic , A. Piegsa , D. Pieloth , A. C. Pohl , R. Porrata , J. Posselt , P. B. Price , M. Prikockis , G. T. Przybylski , K. Rawlins , P. Redl , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Ribordy , A. Rizzo , P. Robl , J. P. Rodrigues , P. Roth , F. Rothmaier , C. Rott , C. Roucelle , D. Rutledge , B. Ruzybayev , D. Ryckbosch , H. -G. Sander , P. Sandstrom , S. Sarkar , K. Schatto , S. Schlenstedt , T. Schmidt , D. Schneider , A. Schukraft , A. Schultes , O. Schulz , M. Schunck , D. Seckel , B. Semburg , S. H. Seo , Y. Sestayo , S. Seunarine , A. Silvestri , A. Slipak , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , G. Stephens , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , S. Stoyanov , E. A. Strahler , T. Straszheim , G. W. Sullivan , Q. Swillens , I. Taboada , A. Tamburro , O. Tarasova , A. Tepe , S. Ter-Antonyan , C. Terranova , S. Tilav , P. A. Toale , D. Tosi , D. Turcan , N. van Eijndhoven , J. Vandenbroucke , A. Van Overloop , J. van Santen , B. Voigt , D. Wahl , C. Walck , T. Waldenmaier , M. Wallraff , M. Walter , C. Wendt , S. Westerhoff , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , G. Wikström , D. R. Williams , R. Wischnewski , H. Wissing , K. Woschnagg , C. Xu , X. W. Xu , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , P. Zarzhitsky

The IceCube Upgrade, planned for deployment in the 2022/2023 South Pole Summer, will involve deployment of a greater density of optical modules (vertically spaced ~3 m). Improvements in the calibration of optical sensors and an enhanced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-30 Aya Ishihara , Ayumi Kiriki

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 is a 1 km3 neutrino telescope currently under construction at the South Pole. The detector will consist of 4800 optical sensors deployed at depths between 1450 m and 2450 m in clear Antarctic ice evenly distributed over 80 strings.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Albrecht Karle

We present a measurement of neutrino oscillations via atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of data of the completed IceCube neutrino detector. DeepCore, a region of denser instrumentation, enables the detection and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-04-16 IceCube Collaboration , M. G. Aartsen , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , D. Altmann , T. Anderson , C. Arguelles , T. C. Arlen , J. Auffenberg , X. Bai , S. W. Barwick , V. Baum , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , J. Becker Tjus , K. -H. Becker , S. BenZvi , P. Berghaus , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , A. Bernhard , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , M. Bissok , E. Blaufuss , J. Blumenthal , D. J. Boersma , C. Bohm , F. Bos , D. Bose , S. Böser , O. Botner , L. Brayeur , H. -P. Bretz , A. M. Brown , J. Brunner , N. Buzinsky , J. Casey , M. Casier , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , A. Christov , B. Christy , K. Clark , L. Classen , F. Clevermann , S. Coenders , D. F. Cowen , A. H. Cruz Silva , J. Daughhetee , J. C. Davis , M. Day , J. P. A. M. de André , C. De Clercq , S. De Ridder , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , M. de With , T. DeYoung , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , M. Dunkman , R. Eagan , B. Eberhardt , B. Eichmann , J. Eisch , S. Euler , P. A. Evenson , O. Fadiran , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , J. Feintzeig , J. Felde , T. Feusels , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , T. Fischer-Wasels , S. Flis , A. Franckowiak , K. Frantzen , T. Fuchs , T. K. Gaisser , R. Gaior , J. Gallagher , L. Gerhardt , D. Gier , L. Gladstone , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , G. Golup , J. G. Gonzalez , J. A. Goodman , D. Góra , D. Grant , P. Gretskov , J. C. Groh , A. Groß , C. Ha , C. Haack , A. Haj Ismail , P. Hallen , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , K. Hanson , D. Hebecker , D. Heereman , D. Heinen , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , D. Hellwig , S. Hickford , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , A. Homeier , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , W. Huelsnitz , P. O. Hulth , K. Hultqvist , S. Hussain , A. Ishihara , E. Jacobi , J. Jacobsen , G. S. Japaridze , K. Jero , O. Jlelati , M. Jurkovic , B. Kaminsky , A. Kappes , T. Karg , A. Karle , M. Kauer , A. Keivani , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , J. Kiryluk , J. Kläs , S. R. Klein , J. -H. Köhne , G. Kohnen , H. Kolanoski , A. Koob , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , A. Kriesten , K. Krings , G. Kroll , M. Kroll , J. Kunnen , N. Kurahashi , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , J. L. Lanfranchi , D. T. Larsen , M. J. Larson , M. Lesiak-Bzdak , M. Leuermann , J. Lünemann , J. Madsen , G. Maggi , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , H. S. Matis , R. Maunu , F. McNally , K. Meagher , M. Medici , A. Meli , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , E. Middell , E. Middlemas , N. Milke , J. Miller , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , R. Morse , R. Nahnhauer , U. Naumann , H. Niederhausen , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke , S. Odrowski , A. Olivas , A. Omairat , A. O'Murchadha , T. Palczewski , L. Paul , Ö. Penek , J. A. Pepper , C. Pérez de los Heros , C. Pfendner , D. Pieloth , E. Pinat , J. Posselt , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , J. Pütz , M. Quinnan , L. Rädel , M. Rameez , K. Rawlins , P. Redl , I. Rees , R. Reimann , M. Relich , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Richman , B. Riedel , S. Robertson , J. P. Rodrigues , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , B. Ruzybayev , D. Ryckbosch , S. M. Saba , H. -G. Sander , J. Sandroos , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , K. Schatto , F. Scheriau , T. Schmidt , M. Schmitz , S. Schoenen , S. Schöneberg , A. Schönwald , A. Schukraft , L. Schulte , O. Schulz , D. Seckel , Y. Sestayo , S. Seunarine , R. Shanidze , M. W. E. Smith , D. Soldin , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , N. A. Stanisha , A. Stasik , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stößl , E. A. Strahler , R. Ström , N. L. Strotjohann , G. W. Sullivan , H. Taavola , I. Taboada , A. Tamburro , A. Tepe , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , G. Tešić , S. Tilav , P. A. Toale , M. N. Tobin , D. Tosi , M. Tselengidou , E. Unger , M. Usner , S. Vallecorsa , N. van Eijndhoven , J. Vandenbroucke , J. van Santen , M. Vehring , M. Voge , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , M. Wallraff , Ch. Weaver , M. Wellons , C. Wendt , S. Westerhoff , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , C. Wichary , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , H. Wissing , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , P. Zarzhitsky , J. Ziemann , M. Zoll

The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy in the approximate 320 GeV to 20 TeV range, to search for the oscillation signatures of light…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-30 The IceCube Collaboration

The IceCube Upgrade is an extension of the IceCube detector at the geographic South Pole. It consists of seven new strings with novel instrumentation. More than 430 multi-PMT optical modules called "mDOMs", housing 24 3-inch PMTs each, will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Lasse Halve , Johannes Werthebach