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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

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has been completed in December 2010. In this paper we describe the final detector and report results on physics and performance using data taken at different stages of the yet incomplete…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The IceCube Collaboration

The year 2008 has witnessed remarkable steps in developing high energy neutrino telescopes. IceCube at the South Pole has been deployed with 40 of its planned 80 strings and reached half a cubic kilometer instrumented volume, in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian Spiering

Extensive air showers still are our only access to the highest-energy particles in the universe, namely cosmic-ray nuclei with energies up to several 100 EeV. Studying open questions in cosmic-ray physics, like their yet unknown origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-21 Frank G. Schröder

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s; by the 1970s, it was realized that kilometer-scale neutrino detectors were required. The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data. The IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-15 Francis Halzen , Spencer R. Klein

This paper describes the response of the IceCube neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole to outbursts of MeV neutrinos from the core collapse of nearby massive stars. IceCube was completed in December 2010 forming a lattice…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 IceCube Collaboration , R. Abbasi , Y. Abdou , T. Abu-Zayyad , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. M. Allen , D. Altmann , K. Andeen , J. Auffenberg , X. Bai , M. Baker , S. W. Barwick , V. Baum , R. Bay , J. L. Bazo Alba , K. Beattie , J. J. Beatty , S. Bechet , J. K. Becker , K. -H. Becker , M. L. Benabderrahmane , S. BenZvi , J. Berdermann , P. Berghaus , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Bertrand , D. Z. Besson , D. Bindig , M. Bissok , E. Blaufuss , J. Blumenthal , D. J. Boersma , C. Bohm , D. Bose , S. Böser , O. Botner , A. M. Brown , S. Buitink , K. S. Caballero-Mora , M. Carson , D. Chirkin , B. Christy , F. Clevermann , S. Cohen , C. Colnard , D. F. Cowen , A. H. Cruz Silva , M. V. D'Agostino , M. Danninger , J. Daughhetee , J. C. Davis , C. De Clercq , T. Degner , L. Demirörs , F. Descamps , P. Desiati , G. de Vries-Uiterweerd , T. DeYoung , J. C. Diaz-Vélez , M. Dierckxsens , J. Dreyer , J. P. Dumm , M. Dunkman , J. Eisch , R. W. Ellsworth , O. Engdegård , S. Euler , P. A. Evenson , O. Fadiran , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , J. Feintzeig , T. Feusels , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , T. Fischer-Wasels , B. D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , R. Franke , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , L. Gerhardt , L. Gladstone , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , J. A. Goodman , D. Góra , D. Grant , T. Griesel , A. Groß , S. Grullon , M. Gurtner , C. Ha , A. Haj Ismail , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , K. Han , K. Hanson , D. Heinen , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , S. Hickford , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , B. Hoffmann , A. Homeier , K. Hoshina , W. Huelsnitz , J. -P. Hülß , P. O. Hulth , K. Hultqvist , S. Hussain , A. Ishihara , E. Jakobi , J. Jacobsen , G. S. Japaridze , H. Johansson , K. -H. Kampert , A. Kappes , T. Karg , A. Karle , P. Kenny , J. Kiryluk , F. Kislat , S. R. Klein , H. Köhne , G. Kohnen , H. Kolanoski , L. Köpke , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , T. Kowarik , M. Krasberg , G. Kroll , N. Kurahashi , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , K. Laihem , H. Landsman , M. J. Larson , R. Lauer , J. Lünemann , J. Madsen , A. Marotta , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , H. S. Matis , K. Meagher , M. Merck , P. Mészáros , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , E. Middell , N. Milke , J. Miller , T. Montaruli , R. Morse , S. M. Movit , R. Nahnhauer , J. W. Nam , U. Naumann , D. R. Nygren , S. Odrowski , A. Olivas , M. Olivo , A. O'Murchadha , S. Panknin , L. Paul , C. Pérez de los Heros , J. Petrovic , A. Piegsa , D. Pieloth , R. Porrata , J. Posselt , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , K. Rawlins , P. Redl , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Ribordy , A. S. Richard , M. Richman , J. P. Rodrigues , F. Rothmaier , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Rutledge , B. Ruzybayev , D. Ryckbosch , H. -G. Sander , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , K. Schatto , T. Schmidt , A. Schönwald , A. Schukraft , L. Schulte , A. Schultes , O. Schulz , M. Schunck , D. Seckel , B. Semburg , S. H. Seo , Y. Sestayo , S. Seunarine , A. Silvestri , K. Singh , A. Slipak , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stößl , E. A. Strahler , R. Ström , M. Stüer , G. W. Sullivan , Q. Swillens , H. Taavola , I. Taboada , A. Tamburro , A. Tepe , S. Ter-Antonyan , S. Tilav , P. A. Toale , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , N. van Eijndhoven , J. Vandenbroucke , A. Van Overloop , J. van Santen , M. Vehring , M. Voge , C. Walck , T. Waldenmaier , M. Wallraff , M. Walter , Ch. Weaver , C. Wendt , S. Westerhoff , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , R. Wischnewski , H. Wissing , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , C. Xu , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , P. Zarzhitsky , M. Zoll

This Letter of Intent (LoI) describes the outline and plan for the Neutrino Telescope Array (NTA) project. High-energy neutrinos provide unique and indisputable evidence for hadronic acceleration. Recently, IceCube has reported astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Makoto Sasaki , George Wei-Shu Hou

Most cosmic-ray air shower arrays have focused on detecting electromagnetic shower particles and low energy muons. A few groups (most notably MACRO + EASTOP and SPASE + AMANDA) have studied the high energy muon component of showers.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Spencer R. Klein

IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube detector, has been used to measure the energy spectrum of cosmic ray primaries in the range between 1.58 PeV and 1.26 EeV. It can also be used to study the low energy muons in air showers by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Javier G. Gonzalez

The IceCube neutrino detector is a cubic kilometer TeV to PeV neutrino detector under construction at the geographic South Pole. The dominant population of neutrinos detected in IceCube is due to meson decay in cosmic-ray air showers. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 The IceCube Collaboration , A. Achterberg

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

Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of radio-transparent South Polar ice can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. A pilot experiment employing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George M. Frichter , John P. Ralston , Douglas W. McKay

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer volume neutrino detector installed in the Antarctic at the geographic South Pole. Neutrinos are detected through the observation of Cherenkov light from charged relativistic particles…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Woosik Kang , Christoph Tönnis , Carsten Rott

The detection of high-energy tau neutrinos remains a critical challenge in neutrino astronomy, limited by inadequate angular resolution and sensitivity in current detectors like IceCube and KM3NeT. We present a modular water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Monong Yu , Yiren Chen , Lei Wang , Shiping Zhao , Xingyu Li , Qiang Yuan , Yi Zhang , Guang Yang

The cubic kilometer IceCube neutrino telescope now operating at the South Pole in a near complete configuration observes the neutrino sky with an unprecedented sensitivity to galactic and extra-galactic cosmic ray accelerators. Within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 M. Ribordy

The Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE) is a ground-based instrument designed to study astrophysical sources of gamma radiation in the energy range of 50 to 500 GeV. STACEE uses an array of large heliostat mirrors…

We report on a study of the anisotropy in the arrival direction of cosmic rays with a median energy per Cosmic Ray (CR) particle of ~ 14 TeV using data from the IceCube detector. IceCube is a neutrino observatory at the geographical South…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Rasha Abbasi , Paolo Desiati

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (Amanda) is a high-energy neutrino telescope. It is a lattice of optical modules (OM) installed in the clear ice below the South Pole Station. Each OM contains a photomultiplier tube (PMT) that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-03 AMANDA Collaboration , M. Ackermann

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

Models for the source and propagation of cosmic rays are stressed by observations of cosmic rays with energies $E>10^{20}$ eV. A key discriminant between different models may be complementary observations of neutrinos with energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 D. Seckel