Measurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system

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dc.contributor.authorAartsen, M.
dc.contributor.authorHill, G.
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1 km³ in size, is now complete with 86 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged particles passing through or created in the ice. To realize the full potential of the detector, the properties of light propagation in the ice in and around the detector must be well understood. This report presents a new method of fitting the model of light propagation in the ice to a data set of in situ light source events collected with IceCube. The resulting set of derived parameters, namely the measured values of scattering and absorption coefficients vs. depth, is presented and a comparison of IceCube data with simulations based on the new model is shown.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityM.G. Aartsen ... G.C.Hill ... et al.
dc.identifier.citationNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 2013; 711:73-89
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.nima.2013.01.054
dc.identifier.issn0168-9002
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/79601
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Science BV
dc.relation.grantARC
dc.rightsCopyright status unknown
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.01.054
dc.subjectIceCube
dc.subjectSouth Pole ice
dc.subjectOptical properties
dc.subjectPhoton propagation
dc.titleMeasurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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