13 Facts About IceCube

IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino observatory constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.

IceCube is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the TeV range to explore the highest-energy astrophysical processes.

In November 2013 it was announced that IceCube had detected 28 neutrinos that likely originated outside the Solar System.

IceCube is part of a series of projects developed and supervised by the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Construction began in 2005, when the first IceCube string was deployed and sufficient data was collected to verify that the optical sensors functioned correctly.

Related searches

IceCube is more sensitive to muons than other charged leptons, because they are the most penetrating and thus have the longest tracks in the detector.

IceCube is more sensitive to point sources in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere.

Data from IceCube is being used in conjunction with gamma-ray satellites like Swift or Fermi for this goal.

IceCube has not observed any neutrinos in coincidence with gamma ray bursts, but is able to use this search to constrain neutrino flux to values less than those predicted by the current models.

IceCube can observe neutrino oscillations from atmospheric cosmic ray showers, over a baseline across the Earth.

IceCube is a member of the Supernova Early Warning System .

In 2016, scientists at the IceCube detector did not find any evidence for the sterile neutrino.

IceCube collaboration has published flux limits for neutrinos from point sources, gamma-ray bursts, and neutralino annihilation in the Sun, with implications for WIMP-proton cross section.