Conveners
Available instrumentation at the South Pole (IceCube, SPICEcore, GPS stake field and other)
- Martin Rongen (RWTH Aachen University)
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the largest neutrino detector in the world, located at the geographic South Pole. The detector consists of 86 cables called “strings”, each instrumented with 60 sensors. IceCube has observed high energy neutrinos from beyond the solar system, including the highest energy neutrinos ever observed and a neutrino in coincidence with a flaring blazar. IceCube...
Modeling of optical properties of ice at the South Pole, as it applies to neutrino detectors AMANDA and IceCube, has a long history of incremental improvements and unexpected surprises, starting in the early 90s, with significant breakthroughs still happening within the last couple of years. The ice model is used by the IceCube collaboration in both simulating and reconstructing of the IceCube...
It has been 4 years since the completion of the SPICEcore project in the field. The SPC14 ice
core was drilled to a final depth of 1751 m and the measurements funded with the first wave of
science proposals have already been completed. More than half of the SPC14 ice core is
archived at the NSF ice core facility in Denver and will be available for future measurements for
years to come. The...
