Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

Published in

arXiv, 2021

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.04307

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021), 2021

DOI: 10.22323/1.395.0411

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Simulation study for the future IceCube-Gen2 surface array

Journal article published in 2021 by Julia Tjus ORCID, Rasha Abbasi, Markus Ackermann, Jenni Adams, Antonio Augusto Alves Junior, Juanan A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, Maryon Ahrens, Cyril Martin Alispach, Patrick Allison, Najia Moureen Binte Amin, Agnieszka Leszczynska, Rui An, Karen Andeen, Tyler Anderson and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

Full text: Download

Question mark in circle
Preprint: policy unknown
Upload
Question mark in circle
Postprint: policy unknown
Upload
Question mark in circle
Published version: policy unknown
Upload

Abstract

The next generation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceCube-Gen2, will constitute a much larger detector, increasing the rate of high-energy neutrinos. IceCube-Gen2 will address the long-standing questions about astrophysical accelerators. The experiment will also include a surface air-shower detector which will allow for measurements of cosmic rays in the energy region where a transition between Galactic and extragalactic accelerators is expected. As a baseline design for the surface detector, we consider a surface array above the optical in-ice array consisting of the same type of stations used for the IceTop enhancement, i.e., scintillation detectors and radio antennas. In order to better understand the capabilities of such an array, we performed simulations of its response to air showers, including both detector types. We will show the results of this simulation study and discuss the prospects for the surface array of IceCube-Gen2.