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Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop Comprehensive Study of the High Energy Universe (VHEPA-3)
IceCube: A Multipurpose Neutrino Telescope
Katherine Rawlins21
for the IceCube Collaboration: A. Achterberg25,
J. Ahrens15,
J. N. Bahcall8,
X. Bai1,
R. C. Bay14,
T. Becka15,
K.-H. Becker2,
J. Bergmans25,
D. Berley16,
E. Bernardini6,
D. Bertrand3,
D. Z. Besson9,
E. Blaufuss16,
D. J. Boersma6,
S. Böser6,
C. Bohm26,
O. Botner24,
A. Bouchta24,
O. Bouhali3,
T. Burgess26,
W. Carithers10,
T. Castermans18,
J. Cavin22,
W. Chinowsky10,
D. Chirkin14,
B. Collin12,
J. Conrad24,
J. Cooley21,
D. F. Cowen12,
A. Davour24,
C. De Clercq27,
T. DeYoung16,
P. Desiati21,
R. Ehrlich16,
R. W. Ellsworth17,
P. A. Evenson1,
A. R. Fazely13,
T. Feser15,
T. K. Gaisser1,
J. Gallagher20,
R. Ganugapati21,
H. Geenen2,
A. Goldschmidt10,
J. A. Goodman16,
R. M. Gunasingha13,
A. Hallgren24,
F. Halzen21,
K. Hanson21,
R. Hardtke21,
T. Hauschildt6,
D. Hays10,
K. Helbing10,
M. Hellwig15,
P. Herquet18,
G. C. Hill21,
D. Hubert27,
B. Hughey21,
P. O. Hulth26,
K. Hultqvist26,
S. Hundertmark26,
J. Jacobsen10,
G. S. Japaridze4,
A. Jones10,
A. Karle21,
H. Kawai5,
M. Kestel12,
N. Kitamura22,
R. Koch22,
L. Köpke15,
M. Kowalski6,
J. I. Lamoureux10,
N. Langer25,
H. Leich6,
I. Liubarsky7,
J. Madsen23,
K. Mandli21,
H. S. Matis10,
C. P. McParland10,
T. Messarius2,
P. Mészáros11,12,
Y. Minaeva26,
R. H. Minor10,
P. Miočinović14,
H. Miyamoto5,
R. Morse21,
R. Nahnhauer6,
T. Neunhöffer15,
P. Niessen27,
D. R. Nygren10,
H. Ögelman21,
Ph. Olbrechts27,
S. Patton10,
R. Paulos21,
C. Pérez de los Heros24,
A. C. Pohl26,
J. Pretz16,
P. B. Price14,
G. T. Przybylski10,
K. Rawlins21,
S. Razzaque11,
E. Resconi6,
W. Rhode2,
M. Ribordy18,
S. Richter21,
H.-G. Sander15,
K. Schinarakis2,
S. Schlenstedt6,
D. Schneider21,
R. Schwarz21,
D. Seckel1,
A. J. Smith16,
M. Solarz14,
G. M. Spiczak23,
C. Spiering6,
M. Stamatikos21,
T. Stanev1,
D. Steele21,
P. Steffen6,
T. Stezelberger10,
R. G. Stokstad10,
K.-H. Sulanke6,
G. W. Sullivan16,
T. J. Sumner7,
I. Taboada19,
S. Tilav1,
N. van Eijndhoven25,
W. Wagner2,
C. Walck26,
Y.-R. Wang21,
C. H. Wiebusch2,
C. Wiedemann26,
R. Wischnewski6,
H. Wissing6,
K. Woschnagg14, and
S. Yoshida5
1Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, U.S.A.
2Fachbereich 8 Physik, BUGH Wuppertal, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany
3Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
4CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314, U.S.A.
5Department of Physics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522
6DESY-Zeuthen, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
7Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BW, U.K.
8Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.
9Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A.
10Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
11Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.
12Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.
13Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, U.S.A.
14Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
15Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
16Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.
17Department of Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, U.S.A.
18University of Mons-Hainaut, 7000 Mons, Belgium
19Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, 1080, Venezuela
20Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
21Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
22SSEC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
23Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI 54022, U.S.A.
24Division of High Energy Physics, Uppsala University, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden
25Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
26Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
27Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
IceCube is a new high-energy neutrino telescope which will be coming online in the near future. IceCube will be capable of measuring fluxes of all three flavors of neutrino, and its peak neutrino energy sensitivity will be in the TeV–PeV range. Here, after a brief description of the detector, we describe its anticipated performance with a selection of physics topics: supernovae, extraterrestrial diffuse and point sources of neutrinos, gamma-ray bursts, neutrinos from WIMP annihilation, and cosmic ray composition.
KEYWORDS:
neutrinos, cosmic rays, WIMPs
URL:
http://jpsj.ipap.jp/link?JPSJS/77SB/71/
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