BruceFest

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Bruce-Fest

• May 6, 2006
• Stoughton, Wisconsin

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AMANDA History

• January 1990 Adelaide ICRC Meeting
• August 1990--Meet Bruce Koci in Greenland
• South Pole 92-93First Attempts at strings
• 93-94 4 strings, AMANDA-A bubbles in ice!
• 95-96 4 strings, AMANDA B-4, success
• 96-07 6 strings, AMANDA B-10, success
• 97-98 3 deep strings, sort of AMANDA-II
• 99-00 6 strings, string-17, stuck drill-hole 19

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• Bruce Koci --- Prince of Chaos!

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GreenlandAugust 1990

• Tim Miller and Bob Morse meet Bruce Koci
• Bruce is living in a pup-tent next to 250 meter
  hole. In Bruce fashion tent is at -50C, outside
  is at -25C
• We install a 3 string PMT system to depths of 250
  meters. We establish muons within the hour
• Butyl Acetate adventure---the blue PMTs

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South Pole1992-93, 1st try

• Naked men and women in hot-tubs. It only took the
  NSF two years to make this illegal!
• Two holes, Berkeley string to 800 meters
• 2nd hole, we stuck Bucky-I at 400 meters.
• UW/UCI string of 4 OMs to 400 meters on Bobs
  anniversary. Jan 17th. Francis to the rescue with
  flowers for Pat in Madison

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South Pole 93-94 AMANDA-A

• 4 strings to 800-1000 meters, 20 OMs/string using
  coaxial cables (slow and lossy!)
• Hot-tubs, Thanksgiving at Pole
• Swedish Drill Team (1st appearance)
• Disasterbubbly ice, no absorption, but lots of
  scattering.
• Why clathrites, they are supposed to vanish at
  800 meters.

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South Pole 95-96, AMANDA B-4

• 4 holes to 1500-2000 meters. Bubbles gone at 1350
  meters according to Buford Price
• Coax cables used, 20 OMs/string. 1st AMANDA
  success. Signals are sharp, not diffuse as in
  AMANDA-A.
• AMANDA-A turned into a calorimeter
• AMANDA B-4 now allows serious analysis
• Dust or do we change the speed of light?

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South Pole 96-97 AMANDA B-10

• 6 strings installed 1500-2000 meters
• Twisted pair cablestwice as many channels and
  better signals by factor of 4.
• Swedes still sending 3 drill team members (Anne
  Grohland official conduit with ASA)
• Tim Macovicka was PICO-Nebraska leader

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South Pole 97-98, 3-deep strings

• 3 strings to investigate depths from 13502350
  meters for possible ICECUBE proposal
• George Cameron PICO-Nebraska team leader
• Drilling to 2400 meters dramatically informs us
  that we need a more powerful drill.
• Strings 11-13 problematical, shut-downs, etc

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Final Season 99-00, AMANDA-II

• 6 strings installed between 1500-2000 meters
• String-17 gets stuck at 1500 meters.
• Stick drill in hole 19 at 600 meters (Bruce at
  Kilimanjaro). Karl Kuivinen and Walt Hancock.
• Drill hole 19-A with 2nd drill. We could have
  deployed a Volkswagon in this hole
• We declare success and go home.

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