IceCube: A Cubic Kilometer Radiation Detector
Abstract
IceCube is a 1 km^3 neutrino detector now being built at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It consists of 4800 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) which detect Cherenkov radiation from the charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. IceCube will observe astrophysical neutrinos with energies above about 100 GeV. IceCube will be able to separate \nu_\mu, \nu_e and \nu_\tau interactions because of their different topologies. IceCube construction is currently 50% complete.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Pub Date:
- June 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TNS.2009.2015300
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0807.0034
- Bibcode:
- 2009ITNS...56.1141K
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- Astrophysics;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- Revised version, with details added, per referee request. 8 pages, presented at SORMA West 2008 (Symposium on Radiation Measurement and Applications)