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The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino observatory located at the South Pole consisting of optical modules within a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice.

Marie Oehler (PhD student at KIT) sitting in front of two of her scintillator panels after the completion of her upgrade work. (Photo: IceCube Collaboration)

Lu Lu (Chiba University, left) and Max Renschler (PhD student at KIT) with a prototype radio antenna installed in 2019. (Photo: IceCube Collaboration)

Thomas Huber (PhD student at KIT) with the prototype scintillator detectors installed in 2018. (Photo: IceCube Collaboration)

The IceCube group at KIT mainly works on the enhancement of the IceCube experiment.
Our working areas are

Design and preparation of the new surface array
Search for high-energy gamma rays
Elemental composition studies of Cosmic Rays
Validation of hadronic interaction models
Study of the muon content and distributions in air showers
Multi-Messenger Astronomy

The main idea of the IceTop enhancement is to build a hybrid surface array consisting of scintillator panels and radio antennas in order to improve the measurements of air showers. In this field, we are active in all the stages: detector development, construction, deployment and operation as well as simulation studies for the future surface array.

Apart from this, our group is also involved in the IceCube Upgrade. The upgrade involves the deployment of new sensors within the infill array of IceCube, which will greatly enhance the accuracy of detection of the lowest energy neutrinos. The IceCube Upgrade is already underway and is expected to be completed by 2023.

More information about IceCube activities at KIT
More Information about the observatory

Official Website of the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory:
https://icecube.wisc.edu/
https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/beyond/
https://icecube-gen2.wisc.edu/

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