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astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

Feasibility of acoustic neutrino detection in ice: Design and performance of the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS)

S. Boeser, C. Bohm, F. Descamps +11

The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) has been built to evaluate the acoustic characteristics of the South Pole ice in the 10 to 100 kHz frequency range so that the feasibilit…

astro-ph2007★ 7 cited

Feasibility of acoustic neutrino detection in ice: First results from the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS)

S. Böser, C. Bohm, F. Descamps +11

Astrophysical neutrinos in the EeV range (particularly those generated by the interaction of cosmic rays with the cosmic microwave background) promise to be a valuable tool to stud…

astro-ph2006★ 44 cited

On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes

A. Achterberg et al.

The sensitivity of a search for sources of TeV neutrinos can be improved by grouping potential sources together into generic classes in a procedure that is known as source stacking…

astro-ph2006★ 16 cited

The ICECUBE prototype string in AMANDA

AMANDA Collaboration, M. Ackermann

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (Amanda) is a high-energy neutrino telescope. It is a lattice of optical modules (OM) installed in the clear ice below the South Pole…

astro-ph2005★ 20 cited

Simulation of a Hybrid Optical/Radio/Acoustic Extension to IceCube for EeV Neutrino Detection

D. Besson, S. Böser, R. Nahnhauer +2

Astrophysical neutrinos at EeV energies promise to be an interesting source for astrophysics and particle physics. Detecting the predicted cosmogenic (``GZK'') neutrinos at 1…

astro-ph2004★ 3 cited

The IceCube Project

Christian Spiering

This talk gives a brief description of goals, expected performance and status of the Icecube project.

astro-ph2003★ 81 cited

Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II

AMANDA Collaboration, J. Ahrens

We present the results of a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos in the northern hemisphere using AMANDA-II data collected in the year 2000. Included are flux limits o…

astro-ph2003★ 77 cited

Limits on diffuse fluxes of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 detector

J. Ahrens et al.

Data from the AMANDA-B10 detector taken during the austral winter of 1997 have been searched for a diffuse flux of high energy extraterrestrial muon-neutrinos, as predicted from, e…

astro-ph2002★ 4 cited

Physics and Operation of the AMANDA-II High Energy Neutrino Telescope

Steven W. Barwick

This paper briefly describes the principle of operation and science goals of the AMANDA high energy neutrino telescope located at the South Pole, Antarctica. Results from an earlie…

astro-ph2002★ 67 cited

Results from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA)

D. F. Cowen

We show new results from both the older and newer incarnations of AMANDA (AMANDA-B10 and AMANDA-II, respectively). These results demonstrate that AMANDA is a functioning, multipurp…

astro-ph2002★ 53 cited

Limits to the muon flux from WIMP annihilation in the center of the Earth with the AMANDA detector

The AMANDA Collaboration, J. Ahrens

A search for nearly vertical up-going muon-neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the center of the Earth has been performed with the AMANDA-B10 neutrino detector. The data sam…

astro-ph2001

Results from AMANDA

Gary C. Hill

The AMANDA (Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array) detector, located at the South Pole station, Antarctica, was recently expanded with the addition of six new strings, complet…

astro-ph1995★ 6 cited

The Search for Neutrino Sources Beyond the Sun

S. Barwick, F. Halzen, P. B. Price

The hope is that in the near future neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby…

astro-ph1995★ 32 cited

Comparison of Optical, Radio, and Acoustical Detectors for Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrinos

P. B. Price

For electromagnetic cascades induced by electron-neutrinos in South Pole ice, the effective volume per detector element (phototube, radio antenna, or acoustic transducer) as a func…

astro-ph1995★ 38 cited

Kinetics of Conversion of Air Bubbles to Air-Hydrate Crystals in Antarctic Ice

P. B. Price

The depth-dependence of bubble concentration at pressures above the transition to the air hydrate phase and the optical scattering length due to bubbles in deep ice at the South Po…