IceCube

By:Nicole Baker~Waterloo

What is IceCube?

IceCube is a one-cubic-kilometer international high-energy neutrino observatory being built and installed

in the clear deep ice below the South Pole Station.IceCube is in the developmental stage.

Location

Antarctica~South Pole

Collaborators

National Science FoundationUniversity of Wisconsin

Chiba University, Chiba, JapanDESY-Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany

Imperial College, UKSouth Pole Station, Antarctica

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

And many more

Images

First Pic. IceCube will occupy a volume of one cubic kilometer. Here we depict one of the 80 strings of optical modules (number and size not to scale). IceTop located at the surface, comprises an array of sensors to detect air showers. It will be used to calibrate IceCube and to conduct research on high-energy cosmic rays.2nd pic. Neutrinos emitted by distant cosmic sources can travel directly through intervening matter in space and the earth to the IceCube telescope embedded below the surface of the South Pole.

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IceCube will encompass AMANDA (yellow cylinder). Its much larger size improves both accuracy with which we can project the origin of detected neutrino, and our capacity to measure its energy. Here, the color coding of the sensors, following the rainbow from red to purple, labels passage of time along the particle track.Each optical module consists of a photomultiplier tube housed in a glass pressure vessel.

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Goals

To answer the question of whether the fascinating multi-TeV photons originating in the Crab supernova remnant and near the supermassive black holes of active galaxies are of hadronic or electromagnetic

origin.

To provide a totally novel viewpoint on the multi-messenger astronomy of gamma ray bursts, which

have been identified as a possible source of the

highest energy particles in nature. The detection of cosmic neutrino beams would open the opportunity to study neutrino oscillations over

Mega parsec baselines.

Review

Location

Collaborators

What IceCube is

Goals

Fore more info. Please see http://icecube.wisc.edu/

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