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The IceTop array at the surface of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory measures extensive air showers produced by cosmic-ray particles with energies from PeV up to EeV, covering the transition region from galactic to extragalactic sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Lilly Pyras , Larissa Paul , Katherine Rawlins , Ian Reistroffer , Amar Thakuri

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole consists of two components, a km2 surface array IceTop and a km3 in-ice array between 1.5 and 2.5 km below the surface. Cosmic ray events with primary energy above a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-22 Xinhua Bai , Emily Dvorak , Dennis Soldin , Javier Gonzalez

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

Event signatures in IceCube are complex, modulated by both particle physics and properties of the ice and detector. Event reconstruction thus requires accurate modeling of ice properties and detector effects to fit for physics parameters,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-27 Tianlu Yuan

Subatomic particles can interact with target nuclei in matter or decay in flight, and an individual high-energy particle can induce a particle shower composed of numerous, lower-energy secondaries. These particle showers broadly exhibit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Ian Crawshaw , Tianlu Yuan , Emre Yildizci , Lu Lu , Anatoli Fedynitch

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

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. One of its main objectives is to detect astrophysical neutrinos and identify their sources. High-energy muon neutrinos are identified through the secondary muons…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Federica Bradascio , Thorsten Glüsenkamp

We present a flavor and energy inference analysis for each high-energy neutrino event observed by the IceCube observatory during six years of data taking. Our goal is to obtain, for the first time, an estimate of the posterior probability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 Giacomo D'Amico

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Martin Rongen , Dmitry Chirkin

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer high-energy neutrino detector deployed in the Antarctic ice. Two major event classes are charged-current electron and muon neutrino interactions. In this contribution, we discuss the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-29 Thorsten Glüsenkamp

Multi-detector observations of individual air showers are critical to make significant progress to precisely determine cosmic-ray quantities such as mass and energy of individual events and thus bring us a step forward in answering the open…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-22 Alan Coleman

The IceCube neutrino telescope monitors one cubic kilometer of deep Antarctic ice by detecting Cherenkov photons emitted from charged secondaries produced when neutrinos interact in the ice. The geometry of the detector, which comprises a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Lutz Köpke

The IceCube neutrino observatory uses $1\,\mathrm{km}^{3}$ of the natural Antarctic ice near the geographic South Pole as optical detection medium. When charged particles, such as particles produced in neutrino interactions, pass through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Anna Pollmann

With the implementation of a low-energy trigger, the surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is able to record cosmic-ray induced air showers with a primary energy of a few hundred TeV. This extension of the energy range closes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Julian Saffer

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments about 1 km^3 of deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole with 5160 photomultipliers to detect Cherenkov light from charged relativistic particles. The experiment pursues a wide range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-22 Dmitry Chirkin , Martin Rongen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is a multi-component particle detector consisting of the IceTop surface array and the deep in-ice IceCube array. The foreseen enhancement of the surface instrumentation will consist of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Agnieszka Leszczyńska , Matthias Plum

The initial evidence of astrophysical neutrinos by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory stemmed from the high-energy starting events (HESE) sample: a selection of the highest-energy neutrino interactions that occurred within the detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 Tianlu Yuan , Dmitry Chirkin

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. Its goal is to detect astrophysical neutrinos and identify their sources. High-energy muon neutrinos are identified through the secondary muons produced via…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-24 Federica Bradascio , Thorsten Glüsenkamp

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-component detector at the South Pole which detects high-energy particles emerging from astrophysical events. These particles provide us with insights into the fundamental properties and behaviour…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Paras Koundal , Matthias Plum , Julian Saffer
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