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Design, performance, and analysis of a measurement of optical properties of antarctic ice below 400 nm

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is the world's largest neutrino telescope, instrumenting 1 km$^3$ of Antarctic ice with 5160 photosensors to detect Cherenkov light. For the IceCube Upgrade, to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Jannes Brostean-Kaiser

Improved Detection of Supernovae with the IceCube Observatory

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

Parallelizing Air Shower Simulation for Background Characterization in IceCube

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the Geographic South Pole. For every observed neutrino event, there are over $10^6$ background events caused by cosmic ray air shower muons. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-10 Kevin Meagher , Jakob van Santen

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)

IceCube-Gen2 is a planned next-generation neutrino observatory at the South Pole that builds upon the successful design of IceCube. Integrating two complementary detection technologies for neutrinos, optical and radio Cherenkov emission, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 IceCube-Gen2 , : , R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , S. K. Agarwalla , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , J. M. Alameddine , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , Y. Ashida , S. Athanasiadou , J. Audehm , S. N. Axani , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , M. Baricevic , S. W. Barwick , V. Basu , R. Bay , J. Becker Tjus , J. Beise , C. Bellenghi , C. Benning , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , A. Bishop , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , M. Bohmer , F. Bontempo , J. Y. Book , J. Borowka , C. Boscolo Meneguolo , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , S. Bouma , E. Bourbeau , J. Braun , B. Brinson , J. Brostean-Kaiser , R. T. Burley , R. S. Busse , D. Butterfield , M. A. Campana , K. Carloni , E. G. Carnie-Bronca , M. Cataldo , S. Chattopadhyay , N. Chau , C. Chen , Z. Chen , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , R. Clark , L. Classen , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , D. F. Cowen , B. Dasgupta , P. Dave , C. Deaconu , C. De Clercq , S. De Kockere , J. J. DeLaunay , D. Delgado , S. Deng , K. Deoskar , A. Desai , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , T. DeYoung , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , M. Dittmer , A. Domi , H. Dujmovic , M. A. DuVernois , T. Ehrhardt , P. Eller , E. Ellinger , S. El Mentawi , D. Elsässer , R. Engel , H. Erpenbeck , J. Evans , J. J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , K. Farrag , K. Farrag , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , N. Feigl , S. Fiedlschuster , C. Finley , L. Fischer , B. Flaggs , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , A. Fritz , T. Fujii , P. Fürst , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , A. Garcia , L. Gerhardt , R. Gernhaeuser , A. Ghadimi , P. Giri , C. Glaser , T. Glauch , T. Glüsenkamp , N. Goehlke , S. Goswami , D. Grant , S. J. Gray , O. Gries , S. Griffin , S. Griswold , D. Guevel , C. Günther , P. Gutjahr , C. Haack , T. Haji Azim , A. Hallgren , R. Halliday , S. Hallmann , L. Halve , F. Halzen , H. Hamdaoui , M. Ha Minh , K. Hanson , J. Hardin , A. A. Harnisch , P. Hatch , J. Haugen , A. Haungs , D. Heinen , K. Helbing , J. Hellrung , B. Hendricks , F. Henningsen , J. Henrichs , L. Heuermann , N. Heyer , S. Hickford , A. Hidvegi , J. Hignight , C. Hill , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , B. Hoffmann , K. Holzapfel , S. Hori , K. Hoshina , W. Hou , T. Huber , T. Huege , K. Hughes , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , K. Hymon , S. In , A. Ishihara , M. Jacquart , O. Janik , M. Jansson , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , M. Jin , B. J. P. Jones , O. Kalekin , D. Kang , W. Kang , X. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , L. Kardum , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , T. Katori , U. Katz , M. Kauer , J. L. Kelley , A. Khatee Zathul , A. Kheirandish , J. Kiryluk , S. R. Klein , T. Kobayashi , A. Kochocki , H. Kolanoski , T. Kontrimas , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , P. Koundal , M. Kovacevich , M. Kowalski , T. Kozynets , C. B. Krauss , I. Kravchenko , J. Krishnamoorthi , E. Krupczak , A. Kumar , E. Kun , N. Kurahashi , N. Lad , C. Lagunas Gualda , M. J. Larson , S. Latseva , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , J. W. Lee , K. Leonard DeHolton , A. Leszczyńska , M. Lincetto , Q. R. Liu , M. Liubarska , M. Lohan , E. Lohfink , J. LoSecco , C. Love , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , Y. Lyu , J. Madsen , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , S. Mancina , S. Mandalia , W. Marie Sainte , I. C. Mariş , S. Marka , Z. Marka , M. Marsee , I. Martinez-Soler , R. Maruyama , F. Mayhew , T. McElroy , F. McNally , J. V. Mead , K. Meagher , S. Mechbal , A. Medina , M. Meier , Y. Merckx , L. Merten , Z. Meyers , J. Micallef , M. Mikhailova , J. Mitchell , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , Y. Morii , R. Morse , M. Moulai , T. Mukherjee , R. Naab , R. Nagai , M. Nakos , A. Narayan , U. Naumann , J. Necker , A. Negi , A. Nelles , M. Neumann , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , A. Noell , A. Novikov , S. C. Nowicki , A. Nozdrina , E. Oberla , A. Obertacke Pollmann , V. O'Dell , M. Oehler , B. Oeyen , A. Olivas , R. Ørsøe , J. Osborn , E. O'Sullivan , L. Papp , N. Park , G. K. Parker , E. N. Paudel , L. Paul , C. Pérez de los Heros , T. C. Petersen , J. Peterson , S. Philippen , S. Pieper , J. L. Pinfold , A. Pizzuto , I. Plaisier , M. Plum , A. Pontén , Y. Popovych , M. Prado Rodriguez , B. Pries , R. Procter-Murphy , G. T. Przybylski , L. Pyras , J. Rack-Helleis , M. Rameez , K. Rawlins , Z. Rechav , A. Rehman , P. Reichherzer , G. Renzi , E. Resconi , S. Reusch , W. Rhode , B. Riedel , M. Riegel , A. Rifaie , E. J. Roberts , S. Robertson , S. Rodan , G. Roellinghoff , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , I. Safa , J. Saffer , D. Salazar-Gallegos , P. Sampathkumar , S. E. Sanchez Herrera , A. Sandrock , P. Sandstrom , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , J. Savelberg , P. Savina , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , S. Schindler , L. Schlickmann , B. Schlüter , F. Schlüter , N. Schmeisser , T. Schmidt , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , G. Schwefer , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , M. Seikh , S. Seunarine , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Shah , A. Sharma , S. Shefali , N. Shimizu , M. Silva , B. Skrzypek , D. Smith , B. Smithers , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , A. Søgaard , D. Soldin , P. Soldin , G. Sommani , D. Southall , C. Spannfellner , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , T. Stezelberger , J. Stoffels , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , A. Taketa , H. K. M. Tanaka , S. Ter-Antonyan , M. Thiesmeyer , W. G. Thompson , J. Thwaites , S. Tilav , K. Tollefson , C. Tönnis , J. Torres , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , Y. Tsunesada , C. F. Tung , R. Turcotte , J. P. Twagirayezu , B. Ty , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , A. K. Upadhyay , K. Upshaw , N. Valtonen-Mattila , J. Vandenbroucke , N. van Eijndhoven , D. Vannerom , J. van Santen , J. Vara , D. Veberic , J. Veitch-Michaelis , M. Venugopal , S. Verpoest , A. Vieregg , A. Vijai , C. Walck , C. Weaver , P. Weigel , A. Weindl , J. Weldert , C. Welling , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , M. Weyrauch , N. Whitehorn , C. H. Wiebusch , N. Willey , D. R. Williams , S. Wissel , L. Witthaus , A. Wolf , M. Wolf , G. Wörner , G. Wrede , S. Wren , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , E. Yildizci , S. Yoshida , R. Young , F. Yu , S. Yu , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang , P. Zhelnin , S. Zierke , M. Zimmerman

Design and performance of a UV-calibration device for the SPICEcore hole

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory will be upgraded in 2022/23. For this IceCube Upgrade and the planned enlarged detector IceCube-Gen2 new optical modules are under development. One of these optical modules, the Wavelength-shifting Optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Jannes Brostean-Kaiser

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

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

Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Composition from PeV to EeV from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

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

An improved infrastructure for the IceCube realtime system

The IceCube realtime alert system has been operating since 2016. It provides prompt alerts on high-energy neutrino events to the astroparticle physics community. The localization regions for the incoming direction of neutrinos are published…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-03 Massimiliano Lincetto , Eric Evans-Jacquez , Benedikt Riedel , David Schultz , Tianlu Yuan

Letter of Intent: The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU)

The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed low-energy in-fill array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Leveraging technology proven with IceCube, PINGU will feature the world's largest effective volume for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-07 PINGU Collaboration

The next generation neutrino telescope: IceCube-Gen2

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the geographic South Pole, has reached a number of milestones in the field of neutrino astrophysics: the discovery of a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Aya Ishihara

12-Years Observation of Seasonal Variation of Atmospheric Neutrino Flux with IceCube

High-energy atmospheric muon neutrinos are detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory with a high rate of almost a hundred thousand events per year. Being mainly produced in meson decays in cosmic-ray-induced air showers in the upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Shuyang Deng

IceCube as a discovery observatory for physics beyond the standard model

Construction of the cubic-kilometer neutrino detector IceCube at the South Pole has been completed in December 2010. It forms a lattice of 5160 photomultiplier tubes monitoring a gigaton of the deep Antarctic ice for particle induced…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 K. Helbing

High Energy Neutrinos from the Cold: Status and Prospects of the Icecube Experiment

The primary motivation for building neutrino telescopes is to open the road for neutrino astronomy, and to offer another observational window for the study of cosmic ray origins. Other physics topics, such as the search for WIMPs, can also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Cecile Portello-Roucelle

Highlights from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The IceCube neutrino observatory has been successfully operating in its full configuration for almost 15 years and is characterized by a remarkably high stability and uptime. During this time, it has made many groundbreaking observations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Alexander Kappes

Hybrid cosmic ray measurements using the IceAct telescopes in coincidence with the IceCube and IceTop detectors

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Larissa Paul , Matthias Plum , Merlin Schaufel , Thomas Bretz , Giang Do , John W. Hewitt , Frank Maslowski , Florian Rehbein , Johannes Schäfer , Adrian Zink

New Public Neutrino Alerts for Clusters of IceCube Events

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory searches for the origins of astrophysical neutrinos using various techniques to overcome the significant backgrounds produced by cosmic-ray air showers. One such technique involves combining the neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Sarah Mancina , Sergio Cuenca , Elisa Bernardini

The Next Generation of IceCube Realtime Neutrino Alerts

In 2016, IceCube initiated a system of public real-time alerts that are typically issued within one minute, following the detection of a neutrino candidate event that is likely to be of astrophysical origin. The goal of these alerts is to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Erik Blaufuss , Thomas Kintscher , Lu Lu , Chun Fai Tung

Detection of Atmospheric Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 9-String Detector

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

A co-deployed dust-logging instrument for the IceCube Upgrade and IceCube-Gen2

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

Observation of the anisotropy in arrival direction of Cosmic Rays with IceCube

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a kilometer-scale detector currently under construction at the South Pole. In its final configuration the detector will comprise 5160 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) deployed on 86 strings between 1.5-2.5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Toscano