Dimitry Chirkin
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract:
IceCube, a neutrino telescope now under construction at the South Pole, will take the science now being probed with AMANDA to the discovery stage. We expect to see several "guaranteed" high energy cosmic neutrinos per year with the full detector, which will bring neutrino astronomy out of the "limits-only" age. Construction should be completed in five more years and we now have 1/8th of the full detector, with 9 in-ice strings, and 8 surface air-shower stations. I will discuss the data collected last year with a single string as well as this year with the 9-string detector, and show several up-going muons (neutrino candidates). All indications are that the completed detector will perform according to specifications, fulfilling the role of a next-generation discovery instrument.