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The prototype station of the Surface Array Enhancement at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been taking data in its final design since 2023. This station is part of the planned extension within the footprint of the existing surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-17 Shefali for the IceCube Collaboration

IceCube is currently not only the largest neutrino telescope but also one of the world's most competitive instruments for studying cosmic rays in the PeV to EeV regime where the transition from galactic to extra-galactic sources should…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Sebastian Böser

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 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

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

The upgrade of IceTop, the surface array of IceCube, by a hybrid array of scintillation and radio detectors is motivated by a rich science case. The scintillators will lower the threshold for the measurement of air showers to about 100 TeV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Frank G. Schröder

IceCube-Gen2, the next generation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, will consist of three co-located arrays: a deep Optical Array and a more shallow and larger Radio Array for neutrino detection in the ice, and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-12 Frank G. Schröder

The IceCube Collaboration foresees to upgrade IceTop, the present surface array, with scintillator detectors augmented by radio antennas. As one of several goals the scintillator detectors will be used to measure and mitigate the effects of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Matt Kauer , Thomas Huber , Delia Tosi , Chris Wendt

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 detection of extensive air showers using radio antennas has evolved into a mature technique, complementing particle detector arrays by providing sensitivity to the longitudinal development of the showers and enabling an independent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Stef Verpoest , Carmen Merx , Benjamin Flaggs

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

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

We report on the first results obtained with the IceTop air shower array on the cosmic ray energy spectrum and mass composition in the range of 1 PeV to 80 PeV. IceTop is the surface detector of the IceCube neutrino telescope currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Hermann Kolanoski

At the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a Surface Array Enhancement is planned, consisting of 32 hybrid stations, placed within the current IceTop footprint. This surface enhancement will considerably increase the detection sensitivity to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Marie Oehler , Roxanne Turcotte-Tardif

Analysis of cosmic ray surface data collected with the IceTop array of Cherenkov detectors at the South Pole provides an accurate measurement of the cosmic ray spectrum and its features in the "knee" region up to energies of about 1 EeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Alessio Tamburro

We report on the measurement of the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum with the IceTop air shower array in the energy range from 1.58 PeV to 1.26 EeV. The IceTop air shower array is the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-22 IceCube collaboration

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

Radio detection of air showers in the current era has progressed immensely to effectively extract the properties of these air showers. Primary cosmic rays with energies of hundreds of PeV have been successfully measured with the method of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Aswathi Balagopal V. , Andreas Haungs , Thomas Huber , Tim Huege , Matthias Kleifges , Max Renschler , Harald Schieler , Frank G. Schröder , Andreas Weindl

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 South Pole is a multi-component detector capable of measuring the cosmic ray energy spectrum and composition from PeV to EeV, the energy region typically thought to cover the transition from galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-23 Karen Andeen , Matthias Plum