1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
      1. Scope of Work
  1. University of Wisconsin - Madison
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     Last updated: April 8, 2015


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

 

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University of Wisconsin - Madison

Albrecht Karle

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 20 (6 14    11 )

 

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 HALZEN, FRANCIS Administration Principle Investigator NSF M&O Core
0.38
       
0.38
        Inst. In-Kind
0.12
       
0.12
  HALZEN, FRANCIS Total   
0.50
       
0.50
  KARLE, ALBRECHT Administration Associate Director for Science and Instrumentation NSF M&O Core
0.38
       
0.38
      ExecCom Member Inst. In-Kind
0.20
       
0.20
KARLE, ALBRECHT Total   
0.58
       
0.58
  HANSON, KAEL Administration Director of IceCube Maintenance and Operations NSF M&O Core
0.75
       
0.75
HANSON, KAEL Total   
0.75
       
0.75
  VANDENBROUCKE, JUSTIN Administration Pubcom member Inst. In-Kind
0.10
       
0.10
VANDENBROUCKE, JUSTIN Total   
0.10
       
0.10
SC CHIRKIN, DMITRY Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Direct photon tracking / ice- properties calibration Base Grants        

 

0.15
0.15

 

    Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Reconstruction software  

NSF M&O Core

       

 

0.15
0.15
    Simulation Programs Maintain and Verify Simulation of Photon Propagation and update Ice Properties  

NSF M&O Core

       
0.35
0.35
  CHIRKIN, DMITRY Total            
0.65
0.65
  DESIATI, PAOLO Simulation Production Coordination of Simulation Production NSF M&O Core    
0.35
   
0.35
    Simulation Production Simulation Production panel chair Inst. In-Kind    
0.20
   
0.20
    Administration Coordination Committee Chair NSF M&O Core
 0.20
       
0.20
  DESIATI, PAOLO Total    
0.20
 
0.55
   
0.75
  DUVERNOIS, MICHAEL Engineering and R&D Support Specialized simulations, designing new filters, unusual data selections, extracting specialized information NSF M&O Core
0.25
       
0.25
    Engineering and R&D Support Ongoing EMI studies & mitigation, South Pole & Northern test site instrumentation, Summer South Pole field work NSF M&O Core
0.25
       
0.25
  DUVERNOIS, MICHAEL Total   
0.50
       
0.50
  HOSHINA, KOTOYO Simulation Programs NuGen maintenance NSF M&O Core        
 0.25
0.25
  HOSHINA, KOTOYO Total           
 0.25
0.25
  KELLEY, JOHN Detector Maintenance & Ops Detector Maintenance and Operations Manager NSF M&O Core  
0.70
     
0.70
    Data Acquisition DOM software: DOR device driver, DOMHub scripts, DOMCal NSF M&O Core  
0.10
     
0.10
    Data Acquisition Track DOM issues, generate detector run configurations NSF M&O Core  
0.10
     
0.10
  KELLEY, JOHN Total     
 0.90
   
 
0.90
  TOSI, DELIA Detector Calibration Absolute DOM sensitivity calibration (laboratory measurements) NSF M&O Core  
0.30
     
0.30
    IceTop Operations IceTop maintenance NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
  TOSI, DELIA Total    
0.50
     
0.50
  WENDT, CHRISTOPHER Detector Calibration Flasher output, flasher calibration NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
    Detector Calibration Absolute DOM sensitivity calibration (laboratory measurements) NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
    Detector Calibration DOM charge response, linearity, DOM cal support NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
  WENDT, CHRISTOPHER Total    
0.80
     
0.80
PO DAY, MELANIE Simulations Production Low energy simulation   production Base Grants     0.25     
0.25
  DAY, MELANIE Total         0.25    
0.25
  KAUER, MATTHEW Run Coordination Run Coordinator NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
    TFT Coordination Training and coordinating monitoring shifters NSF M&O Core      
0.10
 
0.10
    TFT Coordination TFT Board member Inst. In-Kind      
0.10
 
0.10
    Detector Monitoring IceCube Monitoring Lead NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
    IceTop Operations Cosmic Ray Surface Array Development NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
  KAUER, MATTHEW Total      
0.80
 
0.20
 
1.00
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Data Storage & Transfer Analysis disk Data storage review, data filters Base Grants     0.15    
0.15
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Total        
0.15
   
0.15
  UW PO Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.08
     
0.08
  UW PO Total      
0.08
     
0.08
GR FEINTZEIG, JACOB Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Event reconstruction (spline fits) Base Grants        
0.10
0.10
    Offline Data Processing L3 processing, muon stream

 

Base Grants        
0.10
0.10
  GLADSTONE, LAURA Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Reconstruction Tools- Deep Core Base Grants        
0.15
0.15
  ARGUELLES, CARLOS Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Neutrino generation and systematics Base Grants        
0.20
0.20
  MCNALLY, FRANK Simulation Production IceTop Simulation Production / Data Processing Base Grants    
0.30
   
0.30
  RIEDEL, BENEDIKT Supernova System Supernova DAQ Base Grants  
0.20
     
0.20
  VAN SANTEN, JAKOB Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Cascades Base Grants        
0.15
0.15
    Simulation programs Muongun Base Grants        
0.20
0.20
  JERO, KYLE Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Event reconstruction, angular resolution Base Grants          0.20
0.20
    Simulation programs Veto simulation Base Grants          0.20
0.20
  SABBATINI, LUCA Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Shower reconstruction, flasher data Inst. In-Kind         0.30
0.30
  TOBIN, MORIAH Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Low energy event reconstruction (BiPed), spline service Base Grants         0.30
0.30
  MIDDLEMAS, ERIN Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Cascade event reconstruction Base Grants         0.30
0.30
  GHORBANI, KEVIN Detector Calibration Muon time residuals/hole ice Base Grants   0.25      
0.25
  ALSUM, SHAUN Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Calibration, investigate ice and geometry using muons Base Grants         0.30
0.30
  FAHEY, SAM Physics Filters Trigger simulations Base Grants       0.20  
0.20
  UW GR Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.12
     
0.12
  GR Total      
0.37
 0.30
0.20
1.50
2.37
 UW – Madison Total    
2.63
3.45
1.25
0.40
2.40
10.13
 

 

 

Faculty:

At UW-Madison physics faculty teach half-time, one course per semester. Additionally, faculty who are members of WIPAC (Karle, Halzen, Westerhoff, Vandenbroucke) are relieved of teaching for one semester per year. Thus faculty are on research except for the time spent on teaching one course per year.

 

Halzen, Francis   Principal Investigator

Karle, Albrecht   Institutional Lead, ExecCom member, Point and diffuse astrophysical neutrinos, DeepCore

Hanson, Kael   Director of IceCube Maintenance & Operations

Vandenbroucke, Justin   Low energy physics, IceCube analysis, selected point source searches

Westerhoff, Stefan   Cosmic Rays with IceCube and IceTop.

Gallagher, John   Selection of candidate point sources of neutrinos, catalogues for stacking searches and multi-wavelength observations.


Scientists:

Ahlers, Marcus   (John Bahcall Fellowship).

  Analysis: GRB physics analysis, neutrino sources

Chirkin, Dmitry  Service: Direct photon tracking with graphics computers / ice properties calibration; event reconstruction software, Simulation Programs, event recon.

 Analysis: energy reconstruction of high energy events, ice properties.

Desiati, Paolo  Service: Simulation Production Coordinator, Sim. Prod. Panel Chair

DuVernois, Michael (50%)  Service: Engineering Support and R&D Science Support

Hoshina, Kotoyo  (75% appointment with University of Tokyo, based in Madison)

 Service: Simulation Programs - nugen maintenance

 Analysis: Earth Core neutrino absorption (Tokyo)

Kelley, John (90%)  Service: Detector Maintenance and Operations Manager, DOM Cal Maintenance, DOM issues technical analysis
Tosi Delia  Service: Absolute DOM sensitivity calibration
 Analysis: IceTop veto for astrophysical neutrino search
 
Wendt, Christopher (80%)  Service: Flasher output, Flasher Calibrations; DOM sensitivity, Supporting DOM charge response (lab, flashers), DOM Cal support


Post Docs:

Bechtol, Keith  Service: TBD

  Analysis: High energy neutrinos

Day, Melanie (AK)  Service: Low energy simulation production

 Analysis: Deep Core Analysis, neutrino oscillations

Fiorino, Daniel (SW)  Service: TBD

 Analysis:   IceCube/HAWC anisotropy

Kauer, Matthew (JK)  Service: Run Coordinator, TFT Board Member, IceCube Monitoring Lead, Cosmic Ray Surface Array Development

Salvado Serra, Jordi (FH)   Analysis: sterile neutrinos with IC79 and IC86-1

Wandkowsky, Nancy (AK)    Service: Analysis disk Data storage review, filter development

 Analysis: All flavor all sky contained vertex neutrino analysis at high energies

Grad Students (supervisor):

Arguelles, Carlos (FH) Service: neutrino generation and systematics

 Analysis: Sterile neutrinos and atmospheric solar neutrinos

Fahey, Sam (JV)  Service: Trigger simulations

 Analysis: TBD

Feintzeig, Jacob (AK)  Service: Ice Properties Calibration, event reconstruction (spline fitting), IC86 2012 L3 muon offline processing, online processing support (muon channel)

 Analysis: muons, point sources IC79, IC86-1, HESE, MESE

Ghorbani, Kevin (FH)  Service: Muon time residuals/hole ice

 Thesis /Analysis topics: Sterile neutrino search

Gladstone, Laura (AK)  Service: Reconstruction tools - deep core

 Thesis topic: Neutrino oscillations with Deep Core

Griffith,   Zachary (SW)   Thesis /Analysis topics: search for gamma-ray sources in IceTop with IceCube muon veto

Jero, Kyle (AK) Service: DOM linearity, sensitivity; muon event reconstruction

 Analysis: point sources, atmospheric neutrino veto

Kheirandish, Ali (FH)  Service: Supernova system rate studies

 Analysis: Supernova, GRB, Point sources

McNally, Frank (SW)  Service: IceTop simulation production/data processing

 Analysis: IceTop anisotropy, study of composition as a function of sky location, cosmic-ray spectrum and composition with IceCube/IceTop

Middlemas, Erin (AK)  Service: Cascade event reconstruction

 Analysis: cascade analysis at PeV energies

Riedel, Benedikt (FH)  Service: Supernova simulation, pDAQ testing for supernovae (investigating its robustness for a bright event), SNEWS and supernova alert maintenance

Thesis: Supernova neutrinos with IceCube

Sabbatini, Luca (FH)  Service: shower reconstruction, flasher data

  Analysis: GRB search , model independent

Tobin, Moriah (AK)  Service: low energy event reconstruction (BiPed), spline service

 Analysis: Atmospheric neutrino studies using IceCube's DeepCore.

Van Santen, Jakob (AK)  Service: Calibration of DOM waveforms, cascade offline filter support, new simulation production tools (muon gun)

 Thesis topic: “Measurement of contained neutrino interactions above 1 TeV in IceCube: Comparison with atmospheric predictions and investigation for an astrophysical component.”

Weaver, Chris (AK)  Service: Calibration support

 Thesis topic: “Diffuse astrophysical muon neutrinos”

Wille, Logan (FH)   Analysis: Charm contribution to the atmospheric neutrino flux

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