IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)
University of Alabama
(Dawn Williams) 2 (1 1 2) |
2.1 Program Management
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2.2 Detector Operations & Maintenance
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2.3 Computing & Data Management
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2.4 Triggering & Filtering
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2.5 Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
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Total
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0.63
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0.45
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1.08
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note 1
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note 2
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| (1). 0.15 for managing flasher runs and other calibrations (Dawn Williams); 0.03M, flasher analysis 0.25 (Donglian Xu), taking flasher runs 0.20 (Pavel Zarzhitsky) | |||
| (2). Data Quality Lead 0.15 (Dawn Williams), Simulation verification 0.3 (P. Zarzhitzky) |
Faculty:
Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Data Quality
Scientists and Post Docs:
Pavel Zarzhitzky (postdoc) – simulation verification, tau double pulse
Students:
Donglian Xu (graduate student) - geometry systematic, flasher simulation, tau double pulse
James Pepper (graduate student) - verification monitoring
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 data quality verification.
· Major responsibility for simulation verification
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 becomes a double pulse in the
IceCube waveform. There is no appreciable tau signal from the atomosphere at these energies,
so a tau signature such as a double pulse would be strong evidence of cosmological origin.
Alabama is developing an algorithm to identify double pulse waveforms online. The
algorithm will eventually be implemented in the online optical follow-up.