IceCube - the next generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole
A. Karle
TL;DR
The paper proposes IceCube as a much larger, deep-ice neutrino detector to reach the sensitivity required for predicted atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino fluxes. It details a comprehensive design with $4800$ PMTs on $80$ strings and a $1~\mathrm{km}^2$ instrumented area, plus a surface array, and reports Monte Carlo tools benchmarked against AMANDA data. The work demonstrates IceCube's potential to detect neutrinos from astrophysical sources such as active galaxies and gamma-ray bursts and to calibrate backgrounds via the surface array. This design represents a feasible path toward high-energy neutrino astronomy with enhanced sensitivity and sky coverage.
Abstract
IceCube is a large neutrino telescope of the next generation to be constructed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet near the South Pole. We present the conceptual design and the sensitivity of the IceCube detector to predicted fluxes of neutrinos, both atmospheric and extra-terrestrial. A complete simulation of the detector design has been used to study the detector's capability to search for neutrinos from sources such as active galaxies, and gamma-ray bursts.