Last updated: September 7, 2016
IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
University of Alabama
Dawn Williams
Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 2 (2 0 2 )
Scope of Work
Labor Cat.
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Names
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WBS L3
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Tasks
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Funds Source
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WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
| WBS 2.3
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WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
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WBS 2.6
Grand Total
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Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
| Computing & Data Management
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Data Processing & Simulation
Software
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Calibration
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| KE
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Williams, Dawn | Detector Calibration | Managing flasher runs and coordinating low level calibration effort | NSF M&O Core
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0.10
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0.10
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| Ice Properties | Managing flasher runs and coordinating low level calibration effort | NSF M&O Core
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0.10
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0.10
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| Online Filter (Pnf) | TFT board member | Inst. In-Kind
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0.10
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0.10
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| Online Filter (Pnf) | Tau WG lead | Inst. In-Kind
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0.25
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0.25
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| Williams, Dawn Total | 0.35
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0.20
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0.55
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| KE | Toale, Patrick | Education and Outreach | Supporting I3 outreach at UA | Inst. In-Kind
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0.05
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0.05
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| Toale, Patrick Total | 0.05
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0.05
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| GR | Nakarmi,Prabandha | Detector Calibration
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Domcal run vetting | NSF Base Grant
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0.25
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0.25
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| Nakarmi, Prabandha Total | 0.25
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0.25
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| GR | Zhu, Mengxuan | Detector Calibration
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Calibration with DOM-crossing muons | NSF Base Grant
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0.25
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0.25
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| Zhu, Mengxuan Total | 0.25
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0.25
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| UA Total | 0.05
0.35
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0.70
1.10
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Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Calibration Co-Coordinator, TFT Board Member, Cascade-Tau Working Group Co-Coordinator
Patrick Toale – education and outreach, aiding with annual Masterclass at UA
Ph.D. Students:
James Pepper - dissertation work only, no service work. Listed here for completeness until his dissertation is defended, but not included on the table.
Thesis /Analysis topics: Heavy Gravitino Dark Matter Decay
Prabandha Nakarmi – vetting monthly domcal runs
Thesis /Analysis topics: TBD (still taking classes/qualifying exams)
Mengxuan Zhu – calibration with DOM-crossing muons
Thesis/Analysis topics: TBD (still taking classes/qualifying exams)
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 calibration coordination, including ice model working group activities and domcal monthly vetting, and data-based calibration of baselines and charge
· Major responsibility for tau neutrino analysis, cascade-tau working group co-lead
Analysis: The main analysis focus at the University of Alabama is searching for tau neutrinos.
Alabama is also working on analysis of cascade events from gravitino dark matter; including both simulation and reconstruction tools for such events.
Computing Resources
2017 CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards IceCube 6 (Tesla K20m) 6 (Tesla K20m) PINGU Gen2
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