Another successful field season for IceCube Upgrade.
A view of the IceCube Lab with the heated structures from the second field season for the IceCube Upgrade. Credit: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF
Students reach for the cosmos in IceCube Cosmic-Ray Summer Program
Over six weeks in June and July, 15 undergraduate and early graduate students from IceCube institutions, along with four visiting students, including an REU student, participated in the Cosmic-Ray Summer Program hosted this year at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison). The students gained hands-on research experience, attended lectures by IceCube…
Quantifying the estimated sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to atmospheric neutrino oscillations
As cosmic rays collide with particles in the Earth’s atmosphere, air showers containing atmospheric muons and neutrinos are produced. The atmospheric neutrinos are then detected by DeepCore, a denser and smaller array of sensors in the center of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Compared to the main…
Week 39 at the Pole
The sun is up, but it’s still quite low on the horizon. When you face the sun, as in the image above looking at the South Pole Telescope, all of the surroundings are still dark and in shadow. Face away, as in the image below of the IceCube Upgrade drill…