Collection Citation
| Collection Title | Neutrino Data from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), the Predecessor of IceCube at the South Pole | ||
| Collection Creator/PI | AMANDA-IceCube Collaboration; Abbasi, R. et all | ||
| Collection Sponsor | USDOE - Office of Science (SC) | ||
| Other Sponsors | National Science Foundation (NSF); University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; Sweden; Belgium; Germany; Japan | ||
| Host Website | University of Wisconsin | ||
| Main Content Type | Figures/Plots; Numeric Files/Datasets | ||
| Subject Categories | 72 - PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 79 - ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS | ||
| Keywords | High Energy Physics (HEP); Muons; Neutrinos; Antarctic; South Pole; Cherenkov detector | ||
| Description | IceCube is a neutrino observatory for astrophysics with parts buried below the surface of the ice at the South Pole and an air-shower detector array exposed above. The international group of sponsors, led by the National Science Foundation (NSF), that designed and implemented the experiment intends for IceCube to operate and provide data for 20 years. Beginning in 2011, IceCube will record the interactions produced by astrophysical neutrinos with energies above 100 GeV, observing the Cherenkov radiation from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. Its goal is to discover the sources of high-energy cosmic rays. These sources may be active galactic nuclei (AGNs) or massive, collapsed stars where black holes have formed.[Taken from http://www.icecube.wisc.edu/] The data currently available are from AMANDA, IceCube’s predecessor detector and experiment. AMANDA pioneered neutrino detection in ice. Over a period of years in the 1990s, detecting “strings” were buried and activated and by 2000, AMANDA was successfully recording an average of 1,000 neutrino events per year. IceCube will be a bigger and better version of AMANDA. Collected data have to be analyzed and processed, including a challenging process known as event reconstruction. The publicly available data are released after the main analyses are completed and results are published by the international AMANDA/IceCube Collaboration. The first set of data are from 2000 – 2006 and contain 6595 neutrino events. | ||
| DDE Number | DDE00377 | ||
| Special Interface | No | ||
| Registration_Required | No |
