![]() IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole | |||
Alternative names | IceCube Laboratory | ||
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Organization | IceCube collaboration | ||
Location | Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station | ||
Coordinates | 89°59′24″S 63°27′11″W / 89.99000°S 63.45306°W | ||
Website | icecube | ||
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.[1] The project is a recognized CERN experiment (RE10).[2][3] Its thousands of sensors are located under the Antarctic ice, distributed over a cubic kilometer.
Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), each with a photomultiplier tube (PMT)[4] and a single-board data acquisition computer which sends digital data to the counting house on the surface above the array.[1] IceCube was completed on 18 December 2010.[5]
DOMs are deployed on strings of 60 modules each at depths between 1,450 and 2,450 meters into holes melted in the ice using a hot water drill. IceCube is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the teraelectronvolt (TeV) range to explore the highest-energy astrophysical processes.
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