D-Egg: a dual PMT optical module for IceCube
Abstract
The D-Egg, an acronym for "Dual optical sensors in an Ellipsoid Glass for Gen2," is one of the optical modules designed for future extensions of the IceCube experiment at the South Pole. The D-Egg has an elongated-sphere shape to maximize the photon-sensitive effective area while maintaining a narrow diameter to reduce the cost and the time needed for drilling of the deployment holes in the glacial ice for the optical modules at depths up to 2700 m.
- Publication:
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Journal of Instrumentation
- Pub Date:
- April 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2212.14526
- Bibcode:
- 2023JInst..18P4014A
- Keywords:
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- Cherenkov detectors;
- Detectors for UV;
- visible and IR photons;
- Neutrino detectors;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 26 pages, 18 figures, 1 table