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Introduction
1 Document Overview
2 Executive Summary
3 Science Motivation for Kilometer-Scale Detectors
3.1 High-Energy Neutrinos Associated with Cosmic Particle Accelerators
3.1.1 Energy Considerations
3.1.2 Estimates Based on Models
3.1.3 Neutrinos as a Diagnostic of TeV Gamma-Ray Sources
3.2 Other Science Opportunities
3.2.1 WIMPs and Other Sources of Sub-TeV ν
μ
3.2.2 Atmospheric Neutrinos
3.2.3 PeV and EeV Neutrinos
3.2.4 Tau Neutrino Detection
3.2.5 Neutrinos from Supernovae
3.3 Summary
4 Status of High Energy Neutrino Astronomy
4.1 Status of AMANDA
4.1.1 Atmospheric Neutrinos
4.1.2 Pointing Resolution
4.1.3 Search for a diffuse high energy neutrino
4.1.4 Point Sources
4.1.5 Gamma-Ray Bursts
4.1.6 WIMPs
4.1.7 Supernovae
4.1.8 Magnetic Monopoles
4.1.9 Summary of AMANDA Status
5 Expected IceCube Performance
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Atmospheric Neutrinos
5.3 Muon-Neutrino-Induced Muons
5.3.1 Simulation
5.3.2 Reconstruction and Background Rejection
5.3.3 Sensitivity to Diffuse Sources of Muon Neutrinos
5.3.4 Sensitivity to Muon Neutrino Point Sources
5.3.5 Sensitivity to Muon Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts
5.3.6 Possible Improvements
5.4 Electromagnetic and Hadronic Cascades
5.4.1 Simulation
5.4.2 Reconstruction
5.4.3 Effective Volume
5.4.4 Sensitivity to Atmospheric ν
5.4.5 Sensitivity to Point Sources
5.4.6 Sensitivity to Diffuse ν
e
Sources
5.4.7 Sensitivity to GRBs
5.4.8 Possible Improvements
5.5 Tau Neutrinos
5.5.1 Tau Neutrino Event Rates
5.5.2 Tau Neutrino Simulations
5.6 Neutrino Flavor Differentiation with Waveform Digitization
5.6.1 Photon Flux Distribution Generated by High Energy Cascades
5.6.2 ν
τ
Event Signatures
5.6.3 Summary
5.7 Lower Energy Phenomena and Exotica
5.7.1 Muon Neutrinos from WIMP annihilation
5.7.2 Neutrino oscillations
5.7.3 MeV Neutrinos from Supernovae
5.7.4 Relativistic magnetic monopoles
5.7.5 Slowly moving, bright particles
5.8 IceCube Configuration Flexibility
5.9 Calibration of High-Level Detector Response Variables
5.9.1 Geometry Calibration
5.9.2 Calibration of Angular Response
5.9.3 Calibration of Vertex Resolution
5.9.4 Energy Calibration
5.10 IceTop
5.10.1 Tagged Muon Bundles
5.10.2 IceTop as a Veto
5.10.3 Cosmic-ray Physics
6 Experimental Requirements
6.1 Time Resolution
6.2 Waveforms
6.3 Dynamic Range and Linearity
6.4 Absolute Amplitude Calibration and Stability
6.5 Dead time
6.6 Sensitivity of optical modules
6.7 Noise Rate and Noise Rate Stability
6.8 Failure Rate
6.9 IceTop
7 Design and Description of IceCube
7.1 Overview
7.2 Digital Optical Module
7.2.1 Pressure Housing
7.2.2 Optical Sensor
7.2.3 PMT HV Generator
7.2.4 Optical Beacon
7.2.5 Signal Processing Circuitry
7.2.6 Local/Global Time Transformation
7.2.7 Cable Electrical Length Measurement
7.2.8 Data Flow and Feature Extraction
7.2.9 Local Coincidence
7.2.10 System Design Aspects
7.3 Network
7.3.1 Copper Links
7.3.2 Time-Base Distribution
7.4 Surface DAQ
7.4.1 Overview
7.4.2 DOM Hub
7.4.3 String Processor
7.4.4 IceCube and IceTop System Integration
7.4.5 Experiment and Configuration Control
7.4.6 Security Environment
7.4.7 DAQ Components
7.4.8 Calibration Operations
7.4.9 DAQ and Online Monitoring
7.4.10 DAQ Computing Environment
7.5 AMANDA Data Transmission Techniques
8 Data Handling
8.1 System Elements
8.1.1 Software Management
8.1.2 System Engineering
8.1.3 Development Environment
8.1.4 Analysis Framework
8.1.5 Database
8.1.6 Visualization
8.1.7 Development Interfaces
8.1.8 Integration at Pole
8.1.9 Hardware
8.1.10 Data Distribution
8.2 Offline Data Flow
8.3 Data Model
8.3.1 High Multiplicity
8.3.2 Upgoing Tracks
8.3.3 Cascades/Taus
8.3.4 GRB Downgoing Muons
8.3.5 Icetop
8.3.6 Supernova
8.3.7 Prescaled Raw Data
8.3.8 Monitor
8.3.9 Calibration
8.3.10 Full-Sky Summary Histograms
8.3.11 Unfiltered Raw
8.4 Data Sample Organization
8.5 Latency
8.6 Schedule
8.7 Summary
9 Data Analysis
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Analysis Infrastructure
9.2.1 Calibration Analysis and Data Quality Working Group
9.2.2 Simulation Working Group
9.2.3 Reconstruction Working Group
9.3 Computing Infrastructure
9.4 Physics Analysis
9.5 Internal Review Procedure
9.5.1 Introduction
9.5.2 Procedure
9.6 Prerequisites and Schedule
10 Drilling, Deployment and Logistics
10.1 Drilling
10.1.1 Introduction
10.1.2 Evolution of AMANDA Drills
10.1.3 Performance Criteria and Design of the EHWD
10.2 Deployment
10.2.1 Overview
10.2.2 AMANDA Experience
10.2.3 AMANDA Deployment
10.2.4 IceCube Deployment Overview
10.2.5 IceCube String Deployment Procedure
10.2.6 IceCube Indoor Deployment
10.2.7 IceCube Drill Hole Requirements
10.2.8 Quality Assurance
10.2.9 Practice Deployments
10.2.10 Surface Cable Installation
10.3 Logistics
10.3.1 Introduction
10.3.2 Documentation
10.3.3 Personnel and Taskings
10.3.4 Medical/Dental Examinations
10.3.5 Airline Travel
10.3.6 Weights and Cubes
10.3.7 Cargo Transport
11 Quality Assurance
12 Relationship of AMANDA and IceCube
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