IceTop: The Surface Component of IceCube

By I. R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai and 272 more. 2003

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IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1 km(2). The detector allows a detailed exploration of the mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range from about 100 TeV to 1 EeV by exploiting the correlation between the shower energy measured in IceTop and the energy deposited by muons in the deep ice. In this paper we report on the technical design, construction and installation, the trigger and data acquisition systems as well as the software framework for calibration, reconstruction and simulation. Finally the first experience from commissioning and operating the detector and the performance as an air shower detector will be discussed. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• A COMBINED MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS OF THE HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICAL NEUTRINO FLUX MEASURED WITH ICECUBE (2015, methodology): “The IceCube Neutrino Observatory also includes a cosmic-ray detector called IceTop, which consists of 81 stations that are installed on the surface above the IceCube detector (Abbasi et al. 2013).”
• IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe (2020, methodology): “Studies with IceCube and its surface component IceTop [370] suggest that above”
• The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Instrumentation and Online Systems (2016, methodology): “This deadtime varies seasonally based on the atmospheric muon flux [24].”
• All-sky Search for Time-integrated Neutrino Emission from Astrophysical Sources with 7 yr of IceCube Data (2016, methodology): “For very vertically down-going events, the IceTop surface array vetoes atmospheric muon and neutrino events because of their coincident air shower.”
• Extending the Search for Muon Neutrinos Coincident with Gamma-Ray Bursts in IceCube Data (2017, methodology): “Above the in-ice IceCube detector, 81 ice-tank pairs (each tank containing two DOMs) compose the IceTop surface array(Abbasi et al. 2013).”
• The Muon Puzzle in cosmic-ray induced air showers and its connection to the Large Hadron Collider (2021, background): “…ice-Cherenkov detector comprised of over 5000 optical sensors in the deep Antarctic ice (Aartsen et al. 2017) shielded by 1350 mwe (vertical incidence), and a 1 km2 surface array called IceTop that consists of 81 ice-Cherenkov detector stations with a spacing of 125 m (Abbasi et al. 2013a).”