Dortmund 2021 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 33: Cosmic Rays VI
T 33.3: Vortrag
Dienstag, 16. März 2021, 16:30–16:45, Th
Simulation study of the IceCube-Gen2 Surface Array — •Mark Weyrauch, Agnieszka Leszczynska, Frank Schröder, and Andreas Haungs for the IceCube collaboration — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe, Germany
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole consists of an in-ice array and a surface array, IceTop. IceTop is comprised of 162 ice-Cherenkov tanks distributed over 1 km2 and is currently getting enhanced by scintillator panels and radio antennas.
IceCube-Gen2 is a planned extension of the IceCube detector, which will increase its science capabilities in many aspects. IceTop has proven to be a very valuable component of IceCube, providing among others measurements of the cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum and mass composition as well as the discrimination of CR induced background for the in-ice array. Consequently, IceCube-Gen2 will feature a surface array, too. The IceCube-Gen2 surface array will also consist of scintillator panels and radio antennas distributed over an array of ∼ 8 km2, extending the range of CR measurements towards higher energies and improving veto as well as multi-messenger capabilities of the observatory. In order to quantify the science capabilities, a first simulation study of the IceCube-Gen2 surface array has been performed. In this talk I will present the results of this study.