Last updated: April 19, 2011
IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
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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WBS 2.1
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WBS 2.2
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WBS 2.3
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WBS 2.4
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WBS 2.5
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Grand Total
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Program Management
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Detector Maintenance & Operations
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Computing & Data Management
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Triggering & Filtering
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Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
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| KE | YOSHIDA, SHIGERU | Reconstruction/ Analysis tools | Maintain Romeo, EHE Simulations, Calibration using Standard Candles | 0.20
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0.20
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| YOSHIDA,SHIGERU Total | 0.20
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0.20
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| SC | KEIICHI MASE | Reconstruction/ Analysis tools | Maintain Romeo, EHE Simulations, Maintain reconstruction projects (Portia), MC/Data comparison for EHE-filtered and IceTop events, Standard Candle Analysis | 0.20
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0.20
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| KEIICHI MASE Total | 0.20
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0.20
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| SC | ISHIHARA, AYA | Physics Filters | EHE and Brights WG co-chair | 0.25
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0.25
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| EHE filter | 0.15
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0.15
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| ISHIHARA, AYA Total | 0.40
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0.40
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| CHIBA GR | Detector Monitoring | Detector Monitoring | 0.03
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0.03
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| Reconstruction/ Analysis tools | Improve the Ice Model, Afterpulse Simulator, Standard Candle Analysis, Maintain reconstruction projects (Ophelia, ehe-star) | 0.20
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0.20
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| CHIBA GR Total | 0.03
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0.20
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0.23
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| CHIBA Total | 0.03
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0.40
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0.60
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1.03
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Chiba was responsible for the PMT and EHE simulation programs and many of our service tasks are related to these business. The detector simulation project, Romeo, which is also responsible for the DOM’s acceptance calculation to be implemented in the Photonics, is maintained by our group (S. Yoshida, K. Mase) who includes one of the original authors of Romeo (S. Yoshida). Since better understanding of the after pulse behavior of the PMT we have seen in fADC data is more and more important, our service tasks also include the measurement of the PMT after-pulsing and its implementation of the newly built simulation project (S. Yoshida).
Our other service activities include co-chair of EHE and Brights WG , charge timing extractor module, Portia, (A. Ishihara) , which is alternative to FeatureExtractor for processing large pulses in DOM. This module has been frequently used in EHE and monopole analysis that must handle extremely luminous events. The EHE simulation framework/meta-project is maintained by K. Mase and S. Yoshida, and A. Ishihara.
Chiba also works on EHE filters that contain most energetic population of IceCube events . The filtered data are compared with simulation (A. Ishihara) for confirming our detector response and its stability to high energy data.
Our analysis efforts are mainly focused in search for extremely-high energy neutrinos. It motivates our activities in EHE + IceTop coincident event analysis. A. Ishihara and S. Yoshida are also interested in high energy muon bundle characteristics. We hope these efforts will contribute to IceCube cosmic ray physics and also to better modeling of backgrounds that enhances IceCube capability of neutrino signal hunting in wide energy range.
Chiba’s capability for MC data production has been improved. We work on high energy Corsika simulation and Juliet signal simulation. As network bandwidth from Japan to US is limited, we transfer data to Madison by shipping USB disks. K. Mase and A. Ishihara maintain this service activity.
Faculty:
Shigeru Yoshida - maintain Romeo and EHE simulations, detector calibration
Scientists and Post Docs:
Keiichi Mase - maintain Romeo and EHE simulation, MC/Data comparison for high- energy events, flasher/Standard candle analysis for detector calibration
Aya Ishihara – EHE and Brights WG co-chair , maintain EHE simulation. MC/Data comparison for EHE-filtered and IceTop events, maintain the reconstruction projects (Portia)
Students:
hiring a new student(s).
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