 IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole | |||
| Alternative names | IceCube Laboratory | ||
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| Organization | IceCube collaboration | ||
| Location | Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station | ||
| Coordinates | 89°59′24″S 63°27′11″W / 89.99000°S 63.45306°W | ||
| Website | icecube | ||
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.[1] The project is a recognized CERN experiment (RE10).[2][3] Its thousands of sensors are located under the Antarctic ice, distributed over a cubic kilometer.
Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), each with a photomultiplier tube (PMT)[4] and a single-board data acquisition computer which sends digital data to the counting house on the surface above the array.[1] IceCube was completed on 18 December 2010.[5]
DOMs are deployed on strings of 60 modules each at depths between 1,450 and 2,450 meters into holes melted in the ice using a hot water drill. IceCube is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the teraelectronvolt (TeV) range to explore the highest-energy astrophysical processes.
- ^ a b Abbasi, R.; et al. (April 2009). "The IceCube data acquisition system: Signal capture, digitization, and timestamping". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 601 (3): 294–316. arXiv:0810.4930. Bibcode:2009NIMPA.601..294A. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.01.001.
- ^ "Recognized Experiments at CERN". The CERN Scientific Committees. CERN. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ "RE10/ICECUBE : IceCube". The CERN Experimental Programme. CERN. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ R. Abbasi; et al. (IceCube Collaboration) (2010). "Calibration and Characterization of the IceCube Photomultiplier Tube". Nuclear Instruments and Methods A. 618 (1–3): 139–152. arXiv:1002.2442. Bibcode:2010NIMPA.618..139A. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.03.102. S2CID 44013013.
- ^ "IceCube Neutrino Observatory". 20 December 2023.