IceCube

By A. Karle, for the IceCube Collaboration. 2010

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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 shower array covering a surface area of 1 km2 above the in-ice detector will measure cosmic ray air showers in the energy range from 300 TeV to above 1 EeV. The detector is designed to detect neutrinos of all flavors: electron-, muon-, and tau-neutrinos. With 59 strings in operation in 2009, construction is 67% complete. Based on data taken to date, the observatory meets its design goals. Selected results will be presented.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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