Last updated: March 24, 2015

     

    IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

    Scope Of Work

     

    Niels Bohr Institute – K ø benhavns Universitet

    D. Jason Koskinen

    Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads) : 1 (1 0 2)

    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
    		KOSKINEN, D. JASON Reconstruction/ Analysis tools DeepCore Veto        
    0.10
    0.10

        Simulation Production Low-energy/PINGU Simulation    
    0.10
    		   
    0.10

        Physics Filters Low-energy/ Oscillation WG Co-Chair      
    0.25
    		 
    0.25

        Education & Outreach MasterClass (IceCube and NBI) 0.10        
    0.10

        Administration Fall Collaboration Meeting 0.10        
    0.10

      KOSKINEN, D. JASON Total   0.20  
    0.10
    0.25
    		  0.10
    0.55

    GR
    		LARSON, MICHAEL Simulation Programs Correlated noise and long-frame CORSIKA        
    0.15
     
    0.15

        Simulation Production PINGU CORSIKA
    IC86 MuonGun     		   
    0.10
    0.10
    		   
       
    0.20

        Detector Monitoring Monitoring Shifts  
    0.03
    		     
    0.03

      MEDICI, MORTEN Simulation Programs DOM noise and quantum efficiency        
    0.15
    0.15

        Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Low-energy reco for DM searches        
    0.10
    0.10

        Detector Monitoring Monitoring Shifts  
    0.03
    		     
    0.03

        Education & Outreach Masterclass (NBI & IceCube)
    0.10
    		       
    0.10

      NBI GR Total
    0.10
    0.06
    0.20
    		 
    0.30
    0.66

    NBI Total    
    0.30
    0.06
    0.30
    0.25
    0.30
    1.21

    Faculty:

    D. Jason Koskinen : Co-Convenor of low-en/ Oscillation WG, PINGU and low-energy simulation, simulation coordination representative for low-en WG , tau neutrino appearance, 100% IceCube

    [Subir Sarkar, representing Oxford U. on ICB, is also Niels Bohr Professor, spending 50% time at NBI]

    Scientists and Post Docs:

    N.A.

    Ph.D. Students:

    Joakim Sandroos: Upgrade the atmospheric neutrino flux software, 100% IceCube. Mr. Sandroos transferring to a PhD program in Japan is expected to spend ~60% of 1-year working on IceCube, hence the 0.6 FTE

    Thesis/Analysis topics: None

    Michael Larson: Maintainer and developer of the Vuvuzela noise model, CORSIKA simulation (PINGU and long-frame IceCube-PINGU), generating MuonGun muon background , 100% IceCube

    Thesis/Analysis topics: Tau neutrino appearance in DeepCore

    Morten Medici: Mr. Medici is looking at the characteristics of IceCube noise and DOM quantum efficiency, 100% IceCube

    Thesis/Analysis topics: Dark matter search in DeepCore

     

    Diploma/Master Students:

    Eva Hansen: Master ’ s student started in February 2015, looking into background rejection in PINGU.

     

    Description of Service work

    We are generating PINGU CORSIKA files and continuous long-frame CORSIKA with our 10 card GPU farm. PI Koskinen continues as co-convenor of the low-en/ Oscillation working group. NBI is responsible for refining and maintaining the correlated noise simulation, which is a major factor in improving sensitivity to the lowest energy regions. The atmospheric neutrino flux module is being updated to use a spline function instead of 5-order polynomial, and incorporate the S. Pole predictions from Honda et al. Morten and Jason hosted the International IceCube MasterClass as well as separate local MasterClasses on offer to regional High School classes.

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