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The IceCube Neutrino Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2013

Thomas K. Gaisser  and
for the IceCube Collaboration
Thomas K. Gaisser
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Institute and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716USA email: gaisser@bartol.udel.edu
for the IceCube Collaboration
Affiliation:
See http://icecube.wisc.edu
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Construction of IceCube at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was completed at the end of 2010 after eight construction seasons. The detector consists of 5,160 digital optical modules on 86 cables with 60 modules each, viewing in total a cubic kilometer of ice between 1,450 and 2,450 meters below the surface. IceCube includes a sub-array called DeepCore consisting of 8 special cables, and providing a more densely instrumented region with a lower energy threshold in the deep center of the array. IceCube also includes an air shower array called IceTop directly above the deep detector. Optical modules in all three components of the detector are fully integrated into a single data acquisition system. Data taking and analysis began during construction and continues with the completed detector. This paper describes recent results from IceCube.

Keywords

Neutrinoscosmic rays
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S288: Astrophysics from Antarctica , August 2012 , pp. 105 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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