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The next generation neutrino telescope, IceCube-Gen2, will be sensitive to the astrophysical and cosmogenic flux of neutrinos across a broad energy range, from the TeV to the EeV scale. The planned design includes 8 cubic kilometers of ice…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Christian Glaser

We present the current status of the IceTop air shower array on top of the IceCube neutrino detector that IceTop can use as a huge detector of TeV muons. We laos give a brief discussion of different types of air shower events that contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Todor Stanev

IceCube is a kilometer scale high-energy neutrino observatory, currently under construction at the South Pole. It is a photo-detector, using the deep Antarctic ice as detection medium for the Cherenkov photons induced by relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Hagar Landsman

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov detector located in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole. The dominant event yield in the deep ice detector consists of penetrating atmospheric muons produced in cosmic ray air showers with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Dennis Soldin

IceAct is a proposed surface array of compact (50 cm diameter) and cost-effective Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes installed at the site of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole. Since January 2019, two IceAct…

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole has reached a number of milestones in the field of neutrino astrophysics. The achievements of IceCube include the discovery of a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Aya Ishihara

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Anna Eimer , Martin Rongen

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 Observatory is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov array deployed in the deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. An important feature of the instrumented ice are undulations of layers of constant optical properties over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Anna Eimer , Martin Rongen

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 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, located at the geographic South Pole, is a Cherenkov detector that continuously monitors a cubic kilometer of instrumented glacial ice for neutrino interactions in the sub-TeV to EeV energy range. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Hans Niederhausen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has revealed the existence of sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. However, identification of the sources is challenging because astrophysical neutrinos are difficult to separate from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 D. Rysewyk , D. Lennarz , T. DeYoung , J. Auffenberg , M. Schaufel , T. Bretz , C. Wiebusch , M. U. Nisa

In this article, the potential of water Cherenkov detectors equipped with multi-PMT modules for background-free upward-going neutrino detection and improved direction reconstruction is demonstrated. By analyzing signal time traces with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-08 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Colalillo , R. Conceição , B. S. González , V. M. Grieco , F. Guarino , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé , M. Waqas

This paper bundles 40 contributions by the IceCube collaboration that were submitted to the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference ICRC 2007. The articles cover studies on cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrinos, searches for non-localized,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The IceCube Collaboration

As part of the ongoing AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we are deploying short aperiodic loaded loop antennas measuring radio signals from extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz band on each of the 1,660 surface detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Tim Huege

One of the most promising techniques for detecting ultra-high energy neutrinos involves the use of radio antennas to observe the 10-1000 MHz radiation generated by the showers that neutrinos induce in large volumes of ice. The expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Alan Coleman , Christian Glaser , Ryan Rice-Smith , Steven Barwick , Dave Besson

IceTop is an air shower array that is part of the IceCube Observatory currently under construction at the geographic South Pole. When completed, it will consist of 80 stations covering an area of 1 km2. Previous analyzes done with IceTop…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-07 Bakhtiyar Ruzybayev , Shahid Hussain , Chen Xu , Thomas Gaisser

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a kilometer-scale detector currently under construction at the South Pole. The full detector will comprise 5,160 photomultipliers (PMTs) deployed on 86 strings from 1.45-2.45 km deep within the ice. As of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Juan A. Aguilar

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