Muon neutrino simulation in the AMANDA-B10 and future IceCube detectors.
Image courtesy S. Hundertmark, Stockholm University for the AMANDA/IceCube Collaborations
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This image shows the simulated response to the same ultra-high-energy muon
neutrino in the AMANDA-B10 detector (left) and the future IceCube array (right).
AMANDA and IceCube are international neutrino observatories located deep in the clear
blue ice beneath the South Pole station. When completed, IceCube will be one cubic
kilometer in size and contain 4800 optical modules. These
simulations illustrate the amount of additional information gained by the
larger size and greater number of optical modules in the new IceCube array.
One billion events of this type were produced at the Swedish Grid facility
by a team lead by Stephan Hundertmark of Stockholm University. Swegrid uses
the ARC middleware package, developed by the NorduGrid collaboration, which
allows quick and simple consolidation of existing heterogeneous resources
into a regional, national or international, multidisciplinary Grid.
Learn more at the IceCube, AMANDA,
Swegrid and NorduGrid Web sites.
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