IceCube data analysis and detector upgrade developments

IceCube数据分析和探测器升级开发

• 批准号: SAPPJ-2017-00032
• 负责人: Grant, Darren
• 金额: $ 29.87万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=617861
• 关键词: IceCube; data; analysis; detector; upgrade

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at South Pole Station Antarctica, is the world's largest neutrino detector. Optimized for neutrino energies between a few hundred GeV and tens of PeV, it is the premier facility for the study of high-energy neutrinos and indirect cosmological dark matter searches. In 2008 the original design for IceCube was augmented with a low-energy extension, called DeepCore, that reduced the threshold for the observatory to approximately 10 GeV and initiated an Antarctic-based particle physics program focused on neutrino oscillation measurements and indirect dark matter searches.

位于南极洲南极站的冰立方中微子天文台是世界上最大的中微子探测器。它针对几百GeV到几十PeV之间的中微子能量进行了优化，是研究高能中微子和间接宇宙学暗物质搜索的首要设施。在2008年，IceCube的原始设计增加了一个低能量的扩展，称为DeepCore，将观测站的阈值降低到大约10 GeV，并启动了一个基于量子力学的粒子物理计划，专注于中微子振荡测量和间接暗物质搜索。