Last week the Upgrade team finished drilling the fifth hole and started in on the sixth. But it’s not all drilling for the team—there’s also installation of modules and then commissioning all the deployed devices. But there was progress on all fronts. The fifth string was completely deployed, and the commissioning team has been making […]
There’s been activity of all kinds at the South Pole lately, but let’s not forget about the greenhouse. Volunteer training has begun, and if those strong looking shoots continue to grow nicely, they might be enjoying peas at the Pole in no time. Much of the other activity has been focused on the IceCube Upgrade […]
Steady progress continues on the IceCube Upgrade construction effort. Drilling and installation operations have continued to stabilize, and four of the seven holes have been completed so far. It takes a lot of energy to accomplish tasks at each stage of the process, from heavy lifting by equipment to position the tower operations structures to […]
The South Pole moves every year. Well, it does in a sense, as the geographic South Pole continuously shifts due to movement of the ice sheet, moving about 10 meters per year—and the marked location of the geographic South Pole is updated at the beginning of each year to reflect the current location. It’s a […]
Three down, four to go. That’s IceCube Upgrade strings, in case you’ve missed the progress so far. Compared to the first hole, the second and third holes showed marked improvement in drilling time as well as somewhat improved overall installation times. The top photo shows a closeup of an mDOM as it is being lowered […]
We would like to congratulate the following PhD graduates who successfully defended their thesis in the fall of 2025: Thomas Ehrhardt Wenjie Hou Tista Mukherjee Yuriy Popovych Riya Shah Mark Weyrauch […]
Introduction This data release accompanies IceCube’s recent analyses of improvements in the sensitivity of the detector to atmospheric neutrino oscillations with the IceCube Upgrade. For further details, refer to the IceCube publication:“Physics potential of the IceCube Upgrade for atmospheric neutrino oscillations,” IceCube Collaboration: R. Abbasi et al, arXiv Data release The data release, including a […]
Some weeks are more exciting than others. Last week at the Pole, it seemed there was cause for excitement at every turn. Foremost was the successful deployment of the IceCube Upgrade string. Then there was the two-mile “Race Around the World,” in which this year’s participants included the mDOM (in costume and finishing 73 out […]
Last week, the IceCube crew completed the drilling and installation for the first of the IceCube Upgrade strings. Above is a group of drillers on the day shift after deploying more than half of the modules into the hole. By the end of the week, they had begun drilling for the next hole. There are […]
