From the first neutrino telescope, the antarctic muon and neutrino detector array AMANDA, to the IceCube observatory

With an effective telescope area of order 10,000 meter squared for very high energy neutrinos, a threshold near 50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe the calibration of natural deep ice as a particle detector as well as AMANDA’s performance as a neutrino telescope. We discuss its expansion to AMANDA II in the coming Antarctic summer and, subsequently, to a kilometer-scale detector ICECUBE.

talk: Venice 1999/02/23
talk: Salt Lake City 1999/08/17
neutrino: cosmic radiation
Cherenkov counter: water
muon: cosmic radiation
IceCube
AMANDA

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The AMANDA collaboration, to be submitted

Particle astrophysics with high-energy neutrinos

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- Phys.Rept. 271 (1996) 355-356 (erratum)
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e-Print:
- hep-ph/9410384
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DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-1573(95)00003-Y

Ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions

Raj Gandhi
(
- Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.
)
,
Chris Quigg
(
- Fermilab and
- Cornell U., LNS
)
,
Mary Hall Reno
(
- Iowa U.
)
,
Ina Sarcevic
(
- Arizona U.
)

- Astropart.Phys. 5 (1996) 81-110
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e-Print:
- hep-ph/9512364
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DOI:
- 10.1016/0927-6505(96)00008-4

The Case for a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Detector, in Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and

F. Halzen

Cosmology, Proceedings of Snowmass 94

R. Kolb
,
R. Peccei

The Case for a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Detector:, in Proc. of the Seventh International

F. Halzen

Symposium on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice

M. Baldo-Ceolin

for the AMANDA collaboration, Observation of Atmospheric Neutrinos with the AMANDA

A. Karle

Experiment, to be published in Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and

Neutrinos, Cape Town, South Africa

High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics, invited talk at Neutrino 98, Takayama, Japan

R.J. Protheroe