1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
      1. Scientists and Post Docs:
      2. Students:
      3. UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:

Last updated: September 13, 2010

 


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
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 Williams, Dawn Data Quality Data Quality Lead                
0.15
0.15

    Detector Calibration managing flasher runs and other calibrations (stage 2 geometry)  
0.15
                                           
 
   		        
0.15

    Williams, Dawn Total    
0.15
       
0.15
0.30

    Toale, Patrick Administration Software coordinator 0.75            
0. 75

    Toale, Patrick Total  
   		 0.75          
0.75

PO Zarzhitzky, Pavel Detector Calibration taking flasher runs    
0.20
           
0.20

      Simulation Programs Simulation verification                
0.30
0.30

    Zarzhitzky, Pavel Total        
0.20
       
0.30
0.50

GR Xu, Donglian Detector Calibration geometry systematic    
0.25
           
0.25

      Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts    
0.03
           
0.03

    Xu, Donglian Total        
0.28
           
0.28

UA Total         0.75
0.63
       
0.45
1.83

Faculty:

Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Data Quality

Patrick Toale – Software Coordinator



Scientists and Post Docs:

Pavel Zarzhitzky (postdoc) – simulation verification, tau double pulse



Students:

Donglian Xu (graduate student) - geometry systematic, flasher simulation, tau double pulse

James Pepper (graduate student) - verification monitoring


UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:

The Alabama Group’s major responsibilities and contributions towards maintenance and operations of the IceCube experiment include:

·   Primary institutional responsibility for overseeing flasher operations and software.

·   Major responsibility for data quality verification.

·   Major responsibility for simulation verification

·   Major responsibility for software coordination

Analysis: The main analysis focus at the University of Alabama is searching for the lowest energy tau neutrinos that are identifiable “double pulses”. At energies at and above 100 TeV, the “double bang” signature of a high energy tau neutrino becomes a double pulse in the IceCube waveform. There is no appreciable tau signal from the atomosphere at these energies, so a tau signature such as a double pulse would be strong evidence of cosmological origin.

Alabama is developing an algorithm to identify double pulse waveforms both online and offline. The online algorithm will eventually be implemented in the online optical follow-up. The offline algorithm requires high quality cascade reconstruction, so Alabama is also working on single cascade reconstruction algorithms and calibration of cascades with flashers.

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