1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
    3. Faculty:
    4. Scientists and Post Docs:
    5. Graduate Student:
    6. Masters Student:

Last updated: September 8, 2011

 


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

 

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
Funds Source
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
Grand Total

         
Program Management
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Triggering & Filtering
Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
 		  

KE KLEIN ,SPENCER Administration Supervise LBNL effort NSF M&O Core
0.05
               
0.05

    Administration PubComm Member M&O Inst. In-Kind
0.10
               
0.10

        Physics Filters co-chair of Diffuse WG M&O Inst. In-Kind            
0.25
0.00
0.25

    KLEIN,SPENCER Total    
0.15
       
0.25
0.00
0.40

    NYGREN ,DAVID R Detector Maintenance & Operations Track Engine Trigger M&O Inst. In-Kind    
0.10
           
0.10

    NYGREN,DAVID R Total        
0.10
           
0.10

SC KIRYLUK ,JOANNA
(moved to Stony Brook, Sept. 2011)

   

 Physics Filters Co. Chair of Cascade WG M&O Inst. In-Kind            
0.25
   
0.25

      Detector Calibration Flasher Runs M&O Inst. In-Kind    
0.10
           
0.10

    Detector Monitoring BadDomList M&O Inst. In-Kind    
0.20
           
0.20

    KIRYLUK,JOANNA Total        
0.30
 
0.25
   
0.55

PO GERHARDT ,LISA Simulation Programs Simulation Programs: cmc M&O Inst. In-Kind                
0.20
0.20

      Simulation Production Simulation Production on PDSF M&O Inst. In-Kind        
0.20
       
0.20

    GERHARDT,LISA Total                
0.20
   
0.20
0.40

    LBNL PO
Chang Hyon Ha will be moving to Berkeley 		Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts M&O Inst. In-Kind    
0.09
           
0.09

    Simulation Programs DOM simulator & calibrator M&O Inst. In-Kind                
0.35
0.35

    LBNL PO Total        
0.09
     
0.35
0.44

EN STEZELBERGER, THORSTEN Data Acquisition Maintain DAQ Hardware NSF M&O Core    
0.15
           
0.15

    STEZELBERGER,THORSTEN Total        
0.15
           
0.15

GR SANDRA, MIARECKI Reconstruction/ Analysis tools algorithm for measuring muon energy M&O Inst. In-Kind              
0.30
0.30

    SANDRA, MIARECKI Total                
  0.30
 
0.30

LBNL Total            
0.15
0.64
0.20
0.50
0.85
2.34

LBNL built the DOM main boards, and many of our service tasks are related to that; we are responsible for DOMsimulator and DOMcalibrator ( to be Chang Hyon Ha ), and work on flasher calibrations, where the original goal was to measure the electronics performance. This includes work on the new (for IC59) SLC isolated hits, an improved baseline determination (needed for accurate charge determination) and a possible improved model for fADC pulse shapes. Our other service activities include member of the Publication Committee (S. Klein), co-chairing the cascade working group (J. Kirylyuk), co-chairing the atmospheric/diffuse PWG (S. Klein), work on verification and monitoring (mostly J. Kirylyuk), studies of hole ice (L. Gerhardt), Simulation Programs: cmc (L. Gerhardt) and work on reconstruction algorithms (J. Kiryluk, L. Gerhardt, S. Miarecki ), and work on the track engine trigger (D. Nygren). L. Gerhardt, in particular, is developing reconstruction algorithms for two parallel tracks, as are found in air showers with high transverse momentum muons, and pairs of upgoing particles that are predicted in some models of supersymmetry. J. Kiryluk also maintains the software to handle templates that are serving as reference data for IceCube data verification efforts. Sandy Miarecki has developed a new method for measuring muon energy which has significantly better resolution than the previous approaches, and is now implementing it in IceTray and fine-tuning it.
Our analysis efforts are focused in several areas. The first a search for extraterrestrial neutrinos, especially cascades. The second is a search for atypical cosmic-ray showers; events with high transverse momentum muons in showers and photon-initiated showers with a very low muon content. D. VanDerDrift is also interested in upgoing muon pairs, a signature for new physics (the techniques for this are similar to those used for high transverse momentum muons. Finally, Miarecki is working on a measurement of the neutrino-nucleon cross-section by measuring atmospheric neutrino absorption in the Earth; statistics permitting, this will be her PhD dissertation.

We use the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC) ‘PDSF (Parallel Distributed Systems Facility) to produce Monte Carlo event samples; this has mostly been cascade signal events. L. Gerhardt   maintains the PDSF software installation and coordinates this production. The hardware is maintained by NERSC.



Faculty:

R. Stokstad – timing calibrations

D.R. Nygren – Executive committee, “Track Engine” trigger

S.R. Klein - diffuse wg co-lead, Pubcomm member



Scientists and Post Docs:

Azriel Goldschmidt

Lisa Gerhard - Studies of hole ice, double muon reconstruction; studies of high transverse momentum muons, Simulation Programs: CMC, simprod on PDSF.
Joanna Kiryluk - moved to a faculty position at Stony Brook, effective Sept.   1st 

Cascade channel wg co-lead, verification software, cascade reconstruction software and event selection, flasher analysis, L2 for cascades, searches for diffuse neutrinos

LBNL PO: Chang Hyon Ha will be moving to Berkeley when he finishes his PhD (maybe in October 2011). DOM simulator & DOM calibrator



Graduate Student:

Sandy Miarecki – parallel muon selection algorithms; searches for dimuon events from supersymmetry



Masters Student:

Don VanDerDrift - TBD

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