Last updated: September 26, 2015
IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
University of Alabama
Dawn Williams
Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 3 (2 1 1)
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
WBS 2.1
| WBS 2.2
| WBS 2.3
| WBS 2.4
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WBS 2.5
Grand Total
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Program Management
Detector Maintenance & Operations
| Computing & Data Management
| Triggering & Filtering
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Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
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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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0.20
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0.20
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| TFT Coordination | TFT board member | Inst. In-Kind
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0.10
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0.10
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| Physics Filters | 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 | 0.20
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0.35
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0.55
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| Toale, Patrick | Reconstruction/Analysis Tools | Tau reconstruction tools | 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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| PO | Palczewski, Tomasz | Detector Calibration | Domcal monthly vetting | NSF Base Grant
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0.05
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0.05
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| Detector Calibration | SPE recalibration | NSF Base Grant
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0.10
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0.10
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| Core Software Systems | Software strike team, lead on domcal-related software | NSF Base Grant
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0.25
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0.25
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| Palczewski , Tomasz Total | 0.15
0.25
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| 0.40
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| GR | Pepper, James | Detector Calibration | I3Live C&V | NSF Base Grant
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0.05
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0.05
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| Detector Monitoring | Monitoring shifts | NSF Base Grant
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0.05
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0.05
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| Simulation Programs
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Dark Matter signal simulation | NSF Base Grant
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0.15
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0.15
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| Pepper, James Total | 0.10
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0.15
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0.25
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| UA Total | 0.45
0.25
| 0.35
| 0.20
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1.25
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Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Calibration Co-Coordinator, TFT Board Member, Cascade-Tau Working Group Co-Coordinator
Patrick Toale – hybrid reconstruction tools
Scientists and Post Docs:
Tomasz Palczewski – SPE recalibration, monitoring shifts, domcal monthly vetting, software strike team with lead responsibility on domcal related software
Analysis topics: Tau detection through the tau to muon decay channel
Ph.D. Students:
James Pepper - verification monitoring, dark matter signal simulation
Thesis /Analysis topics: Heavy Gravitino Dark Matter Decay
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.
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