IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
University of California, Berkeley
(Buford Price) 3 (1 2 1) |
2.1 Program Management
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2.2 Detector Operations & Maintenance
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2.3 Computing & Data Management
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2.4 Triggering & Filtering
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2.5 Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
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Total
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0.2
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0.78
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0.25
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0.5
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1.73
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| (1). Member speakers comm. (Woschnagg, 0.1); lead group, supervise students, budgeting, monthly accounting, run spokesperson elections (Price, 0.1) | ||
| (2). Coordinate monitoring (Filimonov, 0.5); calibration lead (Woschnagg, 0.15); calibration (student, 0.1); 0.03M | ||
| (3). Chair diffuse/atmos nu WG (Woschnagg, 0.25); | ||
| (4). Verify, maintain photon propagation & ice properties (Woschnagg, 0.5, core) |
Summary:
The UC Berkeley group aims at making decisive contributions in two principal areas of analysis: searches for a neutrino signal from objects known in both space and time, and a search for a diffuse neutrino flux from unresolved sources. We will pursue the search for neutrinos coincident with core-collapse supernova explosions, and use very high-energy neutrinos from GRBs to search for Lorentz-invariance violation. In the diffuse analysis our work is focused on understanding/mitigating detector and simulation systematics to the high level required for an unambiguous detection of an astrophysical neutrino flux. A major part of this is measurement of ice properties and simulation of photon propagation. Our service work is focused on calibration (low and high level) and detector monitoring, both areas for which UCB has the primary institutional responsibility. On the construction side, UCB is responsible for deployment monitoring (PTS).
Faculty:
Buford Price - lead group, supervise students, ICB
Scientists and Post Docs:
Kurt Woschnagg - calibration lead, ice properties, systematics, diffuse analysis, speakers comm., deployment
Kirill Filimonov - detector monitoring framework and coordination, deployment
Students:
New student (Nick Kemming, if he gets admitted to U.C Berkeley Ph.D. program) - calibration, diffuse analysis, systematics