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Photographs, Images, and Multimedia Unless otherwise stated, images and other media in the IceCube multimedia gallery are available for use in print and electronic material by the IceCube Collaboration members and institutions, NSF staff, staff from other funding agencies that have contributed to this project, members of the media, university staff, teachers and the general public. All […]

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South Pole Weekly Report, Dec. 19, 2010

Last week marked the successful completion of all major IceCube construction. The final hole of the IceCube array, was completed in the morning hours of December 18, and the final IceCube string was tied off on Saturday, December 18, around 1800h New Zealand time. […]

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Completion and Inauguration

The construction of the world’s largest neutrino observatory was completed at the South Pole on December 18, 2010. This was a huge milestone for IceCube as well as the scientific community. See photos from the final deployment to the celebration and inauguration. […]

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IceCube-22 Solar WIMP Data

Searching for Muon Neutrinos from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun Relic dark matter in the galactic halo may become gravitationally trapped in the Sun and accumulate in its center, where it can annihilate each other, producing standard model particles, which may decay creating neutrinos. Neutrinos can escape the Sun and reach Earth. Icecube indirectly […]

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AMANDA 7 Year Data

Introduction The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is an optical Cherenkov detector consisting of 677 optical modules arranged in 19 strings frozen ~1.5 km — ~2 km deep in the ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. Each optical module contains a 20 cm photomultiplier tube surrounded by a glass pressure sphere housing. […]

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