The Surface Array of IceCube-Gen2

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration

The Surface Array of IceCube-Gen2

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

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German Electron Synchrotron
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
Université libre de Bruxelles
University of Copenhagen
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Marquette University
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Harvard University
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RWTH Aachen University
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Berkeley
Ruhr University Bochum
Chalmers University of Technology
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Technical University of Munich
University of Rochester
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Padua
University of Kansas
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Adelaide
University of Münster

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Abstract

The science goals of IceCube-Gen2 include multi-messenger astronomy, astroparticle and particle physics. To this end, the observatory will include several detection methods including a surface array and in-ice optical sensors. The array will have an approximately 8 km² surface coverage consisting of elevated scintillator panels and radio antennas to detect air showers in the energy range of several 100 TeV to a few EeV. The observatory's design is unique in that the measurements using the surface array can be combined with the observations of ≥ 300 GeV muons, produced in the hadronic cascades, using the optical detectors in the ice. This allows for an enhanced ability to study cosmic-ray and hadronic physics as well as to boost the sensitivity for astrophysical neutrinos from the southern sky by reducing the primary background, atmospheric muons. We will present the baseline design of the surface array and highlight the expected scientific capabilities.

Original language	English
Article number	205
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	444
State	Published - Sep 27 2024
Event	38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023 - Nagoya, Japan Duration: Jul 26 2023 → Aug 3 2023

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The Surface Array of IceCube-Gen2

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