Another successful field season for IceCube Upgrade.
A view of the IceCube Lab with the heated structures from the second field season for the IceCube Upgrade. Credit: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF
Exploring the universe through a new astrophysics video game
“Project Hercules” is the latest educational video game from Field Day, an award-winning game design studio based at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research within the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Developed in collaboration with the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), the Wisconsin Department of Public…
Quantifying the estimated sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to atmospheric neutrino oscillations
As cosmic rays collide with particles in the Earth’s atmosphere, air showers containing atmospheric muons and neutrinos are produced. The atmospheric neutrinos are then detected by DeepCore, a denser and smaller array of sensors in the center of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Compared to the main…
Week 39 at the Pole
The sun is up, but it’s still quite low on the horizon. When you face the sun, as in the image above looking at the South Pole Telescope, all of the surroundings are still dark and in shadow. Face away, as in the image below of the IceCube Upgrade drill…