1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
  1. DESY-Zeuthen
    1. Markus Ackermann (PI)
    2. Faculty:
    3. Retired Faculty:
    4. Scientists and Post Docs:
    5. Ph.D. Students:

Last updated: September 24, 2018

 



IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)



Scope of Work

 

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DESY-Zeuthen



Markus Ackermann (PI)
Ph.D Scientists (Faculty (incl. retired) Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 10 (5 5 10)
 
 
 
 
 

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
 
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
WBS 2.6
Grand Total
       
Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Data Processing & Simulation
Software
Calibration
 
KE KOWALSKI, MAREK Administration ExecCom member
0.10
         
0.10
KOWALSKI, MAREK total
0.10
         
0.10
ACKERMANN, MARKUS Administration PubCom chair
0.25
         
0.25
    Central Computing Resources DESY TIER-1 coordination    
0.10
     
0.10
    Administration ExecCom member
0.1
         
0.10
ACKERMANN, MARKUS Total 
0.35
 
0.10
     
0.45
KARG, TIMO Engineering and R&D Support Surface electronics, Optical detector R&D.
0.20
         
0.10
    Online Filter (PNF) TFT Board Member  
0.10
       
0.10
KARG, TIMO Total    
0.20
0.10
       
0.30
FRANCKOWIAK, ANNA Real-time Alerts Realtime oversight committee member  
0.10
       
0.10
  FRANCKOWIAK, ANNA Total    
0.10
       
0.10
SC BLOT, SUMMER Detector Calibration Calibration co-chair
         
 		        
0.30
0.30
    Administration Member of ICC
0.1
         
0.10
BLOT, SUMMER Total
0.1
       
0.30
0.40
VAN SANTEN, JAKOB Administration Member of ICC
0.1
         
0.10
    Simulation Software Software package maintenance        
0.20
 
0.20
    Online Filter (PNF) Cascade WG co-chair  
0.25
       
0.25
VAN SANTEN, JAKOB Total 
0.10
0.25
   
0.20
 
0.55
  MA, WING YAN Reconstruction Low-energy reconstruction (incl. new sensor designs)
0.1
         
0.1
MA, WING YAN Total
0.1
         
0.1
RAUCH, LUDWIG Real-time Alerts Optical follow-up program maintenance  
0.1
       
0.1
RAUCH, LUDWIG Total  
0.1
       
0.1
DESY SC Detector Monitoring Detector Monitoring  
0.05
       
0.05
  DESY SC Total    
0.3
0.40
   
0.2
0.3
1.20
 


 

GR KINTSCHER, THOMAS Real-time Alerts Online data stream maintenance  
0.10
       
0.10
    Education and Outreach Organization of IceCube master classes at DESY
0.1
         
0.1
  HUBER, THOMAS Engineering and R&D Support Surface detectors
0.5
         
0.50
  BRADASCIO, FEDERICA Reconstruction Spline MPE improvements        
0.2
 
0.20
  STEIN, ROBERT Reconstruction Collaboration toolkit for stacking analysis  
0.2
       
0.20
  STACHURSKA, JULIANA Education and Outreach Organization of IceCube master classes at DESY
0.1
         
0.1
  DESY GR Detector Monitoring Detector Monitoring  
0.12
       
0.12
  DESY GR Total  
0.7
0.42
   
0.2
 
1.32
TE DESY IT Central Computing Resources European Data Center -Distributed Computing, Labor    
1.00
     
1.00
  DESY IT Total      
1.00
     
1.00
DESY Total    
1.55
0.82
1.10
 
0.70
0.30
4.47
 

 


Faculty:

Marek Kowalski – DESY Group lead, neutrino oscillations, high-energy neutrinos from SNe (counted under Humboldt MoU)

Markus Ackermann – Properties and origin of cosmic neutrinos

Elisa Bernardini – Gamma-ray follow-up of neutrino transients    

Anna Franckowiak – Neutrino transients, multi-wavelength follow-up programs

Timo Karg – Cosmic ray physics, optical module and surface detector R&D  

 


Retired Faculty:

Christian Spiering – GNN board member (honorary member, no M&O fee)

Hermann Kolanoski – Cosmic ray physics (honorary member, no M&O fee)

 


Scientists and Post Docs:

Summer Blot – Deep Core/Neutrino oscillation

Analysis topics: Constraints on oscillation parameters

Ma, Wing Yan – Deep Core/IceCube upgrade

Analysis topics: Low-energy reconstruction

Jakob van Santen – Simulation production, Software maintenance

Analysis topics: Neutrinos from SNe

Konstancja Satalecka – IceCube / MAGIC joint science

Analysis topics: TBD

Ludwig Rauch – Optical follow-up with ZTF

Analysis topics: Observations with ZTF and IceCube

 

 


Ph.D. Students:

Federica Bradascio – Origin of astrophysical neutrinos

Thesis/analysis topics: Correlation searches for neutrinos from AGN

Thomas Kintscher – Gamma-ray follow-up program, transient neutrino sources.  

Thesis/analysis topics: Search for coincidences between neutrino and gamma-ray transients

Juliana Stachurska – Identification of tau neutrinos, Neutrino spectrum and flavor fits

Thesis/Analysis topics: Flavor ratio constraints from tau neutrino identification

Robert Stein – Neutrinos from SNe

Thesis/Analysis topics: Search for high-energy neutrinos from a sample of SNe

Nora Linn Strotjohann - Neutrino transients

Thesis/Analysis topics: Multiwavelength searches for counterparts of neutrino transients

Andrii Terliyuk – Fundamental neutrino properties

Thesis/Analysis topics: Sterile neutrinos with DeepCore

Marcel Usner – Identification of tau neutrinos

Thesis/Analysis topics: Tau neutrino identification in high-energy starting events

Brostean-Kaiser Jannes – Optical sensor R&D, calibration

Thesis/Analysis topics: Probe for SPICE hole to measure UV optical properties

Huber Thomas – Scintillator prototypes for IceTop

Thesis/Analysis topics: Development of a prototype scintillator station for IceTop

Garappa Simone – Neutrino transients

Thesis/Analysis topics: Correlation of neutrinos with Fermi LAT sources

 

 

  

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