Paolo Desiati

XX European Cosmic Ray Symposium

Lisbon - Portugal, September 5th-8th 2006

IceCube: toward a km3 neutrino telescope

Abstract

After the completion of 2005-2006 austral summer season, the IceCube experiment consists of an array of 9 strings, deployed between 1450 m and 2450 m of depth and containing 540 digital optical sensors and 16 IceTop surface stations with 64 sensors. With the integrated AMANDA-II experiment this is the world's largest neutrino telescope in operation. The construction status of IceCube is presented along with preliminary studies of sensitivities of the combined experiment for the detection of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos. The potential of the full km^3-scale telescope in the search for astrophysical sources is also addressed.

Presentation Slides

• PPT File (Sept 5th 2006)

Proceeding Drafts (IceCube password)

arXiv:astro-ph/0611603