2006/11/19 by P. Desiati, Desiati, Paolo
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Neutrino Physics Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0611603
openalex publication_date 2006/11/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Since the end of the 2005-2006 austral summer, the IceCube detector consists of an array of 9 strings, deployed between 1450 m and 2450 m of depth and containing 540 digital optical sensors and 16 IceTop surface stations with 64 sensors. With the integrated AMANDA-II experiment this is the world's largest neutrino telescope in operation. The construction status of IceCube is presented along with an update on physics performance study for the detection of high energy neutrinos. The potential of the full km3-scale telescope in the search for astrophysical sources is also addressed.