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IceCube-Gen2 convenes to kick-off technical design report
Visualization of neutrino event in the IceCube-Gen2 detector. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration recently wrapped up a weeklong kick-off meeting to formalize a technical design report for the project. With over 100 participants and 50 talks, the interdisciplinary workshop brought together scientists and engineers from around the world to discuss the status…
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IceCube-Gen2 will open a new window on the universe
On December 18, 2010, IceCube’s final DOM (digital optical module) was lowered into a hole in the ice at the South Pole. After seven years of construction—and many more years of international collaboration around design and planning—the IceCube Neutrino Observatory was complete. The detector now had 5,160 DOMs on 86 cables (“strings”) frozen into a…
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IceCube Upgrade for precision neutrino physics and astrophysics kicks off
That IceCube has big plans for a larger and improved neutrino detector is not a secret. This week, the launch of the so-called IceCube Upgrade—which will deploy seven new strings at the bottom of the detector array—sets a milestone in what IceCubers have designed as an incremental extension of the Antarctic detector. The IceCube Neutrino…
