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Measurement of air-showers by the radio antennas of the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement

Venugopal, Megha; IceCube Collaboration*†

Abstract (englisch):

In a cubic km of ice at the South Pole, strings of Digital Optical Modules of the IceCube observatory measure neutrinos from astrophysical phenomena. IceTop, located on the surface of this detector, comprising 81 pairs of ice Cherenkov detectors measure the electromagnetic and muonic parts of air showers induced by cosmic rays. Challenges arising from the accumulation of snow over these detectors over time led to a planned enhancement of these detectors. Since early 2025, the Surface Array Enhancement has three stations each equipped with 3 antennas and 8 scintillators deployed on the IceTop footprint. The data from the new stations were checked and the first radio data triggered by scintillators measured in all three stations have been reconstructed and verified. Estimation of Xmax with the previous dataset with a single station is also discussed.


Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Astroteilchenphysik (IAP)
Publikationstyp Vortrag
Publikationsdatum 17.03.2026
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000190812
HGF-Programm 51.13.04 (POF IV, LK 01) Kosmische Strahlung Technologien
Veranstaltung 89. Annual Conference of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting of the Matter an Cosmos Section (SMuK 2026), Erlangen, Deutschland, 15.03.2026 – 20.03.2026
Schlagwörter radio detection; IceCube; air showers
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