IceCube: A Cubic Kilometer Radiation Detector. The Ice Cube Collaboration.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Charged particles;    Cherenkov radiation;    Radiation detectors;    Construction;    Neutrinos;   

RP-ID  :  DE2008934976

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

IceCube is a 1 km(sup 3) neutrino detector now being built at the Amudsen-Scott South Pole Station. It consists of 4800 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) which detect Cherenkov radiation from the charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. IceCube will observe astrophysical neutrinos with energies above about 100 GeV. IceCube will be able to separate (nu)(sub (mu)), (nu)(sub t), and (nu)(sub (tau)) interactions because of their different topologies. IceCube construction is currently 50% complete.