Abstract
IceCube, a gigaton-scale neutrino detector located at the South Pole, was primarily designed to search for astrophysical neutrinos with energies of PeV and higher. This goal has been achieved with the detection of the highest energy neutrinos to date. At the other end of the energy spectrum, the DeepCore extension lowers the energy threshold of the detector to approximately 10 GeV and opens the door for oscillation studies using atmospheric neutrinos. An analysis of the disappearance of these neutrinos has been completed, with the results produced being complementary with dedicated oscillation experiments. Following a review of the detector principle and performance, the method used to make these calculations, as well as the results, is detailed. Finally, the future prospects of IceCube-DeepCore and the next generation of neutrino experiments at the South Pole (IceCube-Gen2, specifically the PINGU sub-detector) are briefly discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 161-177 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics B |
| Volume | 908 |
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| State | Published - Jan 31 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We acknowledge the support from the following agencies: U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs , U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division , University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation , the Grid Laboratory Of Wisconsin (GLOW) grid infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , the Open Science Grid (OSG) grid infrastructure; U.S. Department of Energy , and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center , the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) grid computing resources; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada , WestGrid and Compute/Calcul Canada ; Swedish Research Council , Swedish Polar Research Secretariat , Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) , and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation , Sweden; German Ministry for Education and Research ( BMBF ), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP) , Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions (Bochum) , Germany; Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO) , FWO Odysseus programme, Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT) , Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo) ; University Of Oxford , United Kingdom; Marsden Fund , New Zealand; Australian Research Council ; Japan Society for Promotion of Science ( JSPS ); the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Villum Fonden , Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), Denmark.