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Three-year performance of the IceAct telescopes at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube; Abbasi, Rasha; Ackermann, Markus; Adams, Jenni; Agarwalla, Sanjib; Aguilar, Juanan; Ahlers, Markus; Alameddine, Jean-Marco; Amin, Najia Moureen Binte; Andeen, Karen; Anton, Gisela; Argüelles, Carlos; Ashida, Yosuke; Athanasiadou, Sofia; Axani, Spencer; Bai, Xinhua; Balagopal V, Aswathi; Baricevic, Moreno; Barwick, Steve; ... mehr

Abstract:

IceAct is an array of compact Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes at the ice surface as part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The telescopes, featuring a camera of 61 silicon photomultipliers and fresnel-lens-based optics, are optimized to be operated in harsh environmental conditions, such as at the South Pole. Since 2019, the first two telescopes have been operating in a stereoscopic configuration in the center of IceCube's surface detector IceTop. With an energy threshold of about 10 TeV and a wide field-of-view, the IceAct telescopes show promising capabilities of improving current cosmic-ray composition studies: measuring the Cherenkov light emissions in the atmosphere adds new information about the shower development not accessible with the current detectors. First simulations indicate that the added information of a single telescope leads, e.g., to an improved discrimination between flux contributions from different primary particle species in the sensitive energy range.
We review the performance and detector operations of the telescopes during the past 3 years (2020-2022) and give an outlook on the future of IceAct.


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000163361
Veröffentlicht am 26.10.2023
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DOI: 10.22323/1.444.0367
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Astroteilchenphysik (IAP)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsdatum 25.07.2023
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1824-8039
KITopen-ID: 1000163361
HGF-Programm 51.13.04 (POF IV, LK 01) Kosmische Strahlung Technologien
Erschienen in 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Cosmic-Ray Physics (Indirect, CRI)
Veranstaltung 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2023), Nagoya, Japan, 26.07.2023 – 03.08.2023
Verlag Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 367
Serie Proceedings of Science ; 444
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