1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
  1. University of Alabama
    1. Dawn Williams
    2. Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 3 (2 1 3)
    3. Scope of Work
    4. Faculty:
    5. Scientists and Post Docs:
    6. Ph.D. Students:
    7. UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:

Last updated: October 2, 2013


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

 

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University of Alabama


Dawn Williams


Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 3 (2 1 3)


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 Detector Calibration Managing flasher runs and coordinating low level calibration effort
0.20
 

 
 
   		    
0.20
 
    TFT Coordination TFT board member
0.10
 
0.10
    Physics Filters Tau WG lead
0.25
 
0.25
  Williams, Dawn Total  
0.20
0.35
 
0.55
  Toale, Patrick Reconstruction/Analysis Tools Double cascade fitter
0.05
0.05
 
  Toale, Patrick Total  
0.05
0.05
PO Palczewski, Tomasz Detector Calibration SPE recalibration
0.05
0.05
    Detector Monitoring Moni 2.0 development
0.05
0.05
    Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts
0.05
0.05
    Simulation Programs Ice simulation      
0.35
0.35
Palczewski , Tomasz Total  
0.15
0.35
0.50
GR Xu, Donglian Simulation Programs Tau simulation verification
0.10
0.10
    Reconstruction/Analysis Tools Double pulse algorithm development
0.10
0.10
  Xu, Donglian Total  
0.20
0.20
  Pepper, James Detector Calibration I3Live C&V
0.05
 
0.05
    Simulation Programs Dark Matter signal simulation
0.15
0.15
Pepper, James Total  
0.05
0.15
0.20
  Larson, Michael Simulation Programs Noise simulation
0.15
0.15
Larson, Michael Total          
0.15
0.15
UA Total    
0.40
0.35
0.90
1.65
 



Faculty:

Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Calibration Coordinator, TFT Board Member, Cascade-Tau Working Group Co-Coordinator

Patrick Toale – hybrid reconstruction tools


 
 
 
 


Scientists and Post Docs:

Tomasz Palczewski – SPE recalibration, moni V2.0 development, monitoring shifts


Ph.D. Students:

Donglian Xu -     high energy cascade and tau simulation verification , tau double pulse algorithm development

   Thesis/Analysis topics: atmospheric tau appearance analysis

James Pepper -  verification monitoring, dark matter signal simulation

    Thesis /Analysis topics: WIMP analysis

Michael Larson - noise simulation (note, anticipated graduation December 2013)

 Thesis /Analysis topics: Simulation and Identification of Non-Poissonian Noise Triggers in the IceCube Neutrino Detector

 


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

·   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 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 reduces to a double pulse in an individual IceCube waveform. There is no appreciable tau signal from the atmosphere at these energies, so a tau signature such as a double pulse would be strong evidence of cosmological origin.

Alabama is also working on analysis of cascade events from gravitino dark matter; including both simulation and reconstruction tools for such events.

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