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AMANDA and ICECUBE Belgian contribution
Ph. Herquet Université de Mons-Hainaut
RECFA Meeting in Belgium May 9th and 10th 2003
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The IceCube Collaboration
also in Amanda

• Bartol Research Institute, University of
  Delaware, Newark, USA
• BUGH Wuppertal, Germany
• Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
  
• Dept. of Physics, Chiba University, Japan
• CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta USA
• DESY-Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
• Imperial College, London, UK
• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
• Dept. of Technology, Kalmar University, Kalmar,
  Sweden
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
  USA
• Dept. of Physics, Southern University and A\M
  College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley, USA
• Institute of Physics, University of Mainz,
  Mainz, Germany
• Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, USA
• University of Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium
• Dept. of Physics, Pennsylvania State University,
  University Park, PA, USA
• Dept. of Physics, Simon Bolivar University,
  Caracas, Venezuela
• Dept. of Astronomy, Dept. of Physics, University
  of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

10 European, 1 Japanese, 1 South American, 11 US
institutions
In Belgium 3 groups ULB (since 1997
experimental theory) VUB (since 2000) UMH
(since 2000)
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A neutrino telescope at the south pole Search
for up-going high energy neutrinos
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The AMANDA II neutrino telescope
19 strings 677 OM 200 m diameter 400 m tall
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AMANDA
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IceCube
1 km3 instrumented 80 strings 4800 Digital OM 160
IceTop tanks First strings end 2004
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IceCube
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AMANDA Physics goals
Point sources galactic and extragalactic (AGN)
(best limits) Neutrinos with GRB Diffuse flux
(best limits) WIMP search (dark
matter) Monitoring for Super Nova bursts
(SNEWS) Monopoles (best limits) EHE neutrinos And
also Neutrino tau physics Micro black holes
search
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AMANDA
Exemple point sources search in 2000 97,99,00
available 01ready soon
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ICECUBE Physics goal

• Same physics but
• Symmetric detector (better for EHE and micro BH)
• Better pointing (1) and energy (30log(E))
  resolution
• Higher effective volume
• Based on AMANDA expertise
• Digital (DOM) approach (better dynamic)
• Better understanding of Ice layers
• Software development (simulation, reconstruction)
• Systematics, calibrations

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MANPOWER (in FTE)
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Amanda funding

• ULB
• In 2000 85k equipment, 15k running cost
• In 2001 40k equipment, 25k running cost
• VUB
• In 2000 5k
• UMH
• In 2002 15k equipment

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IceCube FUNDING (equipment only)
IceCube in k Total 1.3 M
running budget and salaries
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Belgian contribution 1) Hardware

• IIHE
• Amanda DAQ, OM angular dependance, OM ageing (
  F. Binon as expert in PM)
• IceCube wave length shifters to improve OM
  performance
• UMH
• IceCube wave length shifters to improve OM
  performance

Water tank OM test WLS performance in real
(Cerenkov light) and reproductible conditions on
cosmic muons (1 in Brussels, 1 in Mons)
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Belgian contribution 2) Software

• Angular OM sensitivity in simulation (IIHE)
• Ice modelling photon tables parametrisation
  (IIHE)
• Reconstruction, quality check, simulation for 99
  data (IIHE)
• Contribution to Amanda reconstruction upgrade
  (Sieglinde) (IIHE,UMH)
• Dynamic calibration and monitoring databases
  access (Sieglinde) (UMH)
• IceCube Software Working Group (requirements,
  langages) (IIHE,UMH)
• Databases for IceCube (OM construction and tests,
  calibration) (UMH)
• Contribution to IceCube simulation (UMH)

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Belgian contribution 3) Physics

• Point sources 97,99,01 (IIHE,UMH)
• WIMPS 99 in earth, 01 in sun (IIHE)
• UHE 00 (UMH)
• Taus and Micro Black Holes in IceCube? (UMH)

In ULB implication of theory/phenomenology
group (J.M. Frère)
VUB PhD is responsible for south pole data
quality monitoring shifts organisation between
all US and European labs
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Impact and Visibility (for outreach see D.
Bertrand talk)

• PhD thesis and  small  thesis
• 3 PhD thesis in progress (2 in IIHE, 1 in UMH)
• 3  small  thesis, 2 in progress
• Papers (with referees) from Amanda 8 for IIHE (
  1 in Nature), 3 for UMH
• Active belgian participation to all Amanda and
  IceCube meetings and workshops (with
  presentations)
• 2 presentations at International Conferences
  (IIHE)
• Monthly Amanda/IceCube belgian meeting between
  the 3 labs
• South Pole trips 5 IIHE and 1 UMH ( DAQ,
  calibration)

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