1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
      1. Scope of Work
  1. University of Wisconsin - Madison
    1. Scientists:

     Last updated: October 26, 2015


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

 

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University of Wisconsin - Madison

Albrecht Karle

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 20 (6 14 9)

 

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
Funds Source
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 HALZEN, FRANCIS Administration Principle Investigator NSF M&O Core
0.38
       
0.38
        Inst. In-Kind
0.12
       
0.12
  HALZEN, FRANCIS Total   
0.50
       
0.50
  KARLE, ALBRECHT Administration Associate Director for Science and Instrumentation NSF M&O Core
0.38
       
0.38
      ExecCom Member Inst. In-Kind
0.20
       
0.20
KARLE, ALBRECHT Total   
0.58
       
0.58
  HANSON, KAEL Administration Director of IceCube Maintenance and Operations NSF M&O Core
0.47
       
0.47
        Inst. In-Kind
0.08
       
0.08
HANSON, KAEL Total   
0.55
       
0.55
  VANDENBROUCKE, JUSTIN Administration Pubcom member Inst. In-Kind
0.10
       
0.10
VANDENBROUCKE, JUSTIN Total   
0.10
       
0.10
SC CHIRKIN, DMITRY Detector Calibration Direct photon tracking / ice- properties calibration Base Grants    0.30    

 

 
0.30

 

    Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Reconstruction software  

NSF M&O Core

       

 

0.30
0.30
    Simulation Programs Maintain and Verify Simulation of Photon Propagation and update Ice Properties  

NSF M&O Core

       
0.40
0.40
  CHIRKIN, DMITRY Total        0.30    
0.70
1.00
  DESIATI, PAOLO Simulation Production Simulation Production Manager NSF M&O Core    
0.20
   
0.20
    Simulation Production Simulation Production streamlining programs for the cloud, GPU NSF M&O Core    
0.40
   
0.40
    Simulation Production Simulation Production panel chair Inst. In-Kind    
0.20
   
0.20
    Detector Ops. And Maintenance IceCube Coordination Committee Chair NSF M&O Core    0.20      
0.20
  DESIATI, PAOLO Total        0.20
0.80
   
1.00
  DUVERNOIS, MICHAEL Engineering and R&D Support Specialized simulations, designing new filters, unusual data selections, extracting specialized information NSF M&O Core
0.25
       
0.25
    Engineering and R&D Support Ongoing EMI studies & mitigation, South Pole & Northern test site instrumentation, Summer South Pole field work NSF M&O Core
0.25
       
0.25
  DUVERNOIS, MICHAEL Total   
0.50
       
0.50
  HOSHINA, KOTOYO Simulation Programs NuGen maintenance NSF M&O Core        
 0.25
0.25
  HOSHINA, KOTOYO Total           
 0.25
0.25
  KAUER, MATTHEW Run Coordination Run Coordinator NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
    Detector Monitoring Training and coordinating monitoring shifters NSF M&O Core  
0.10
     
0.10
    TFT Coordination TFT Board member Inst. In-Kind      
0.10
 
0.10
    Detector Monitoring Data Monitoring lead: coordinate test and feature dev.; design underlying analysis algorithms NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
    IceTop Operations Design and build experimental apparatus for restoring IceTop detector efficiency NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
  KAUER, MATTHEW Total      
0.90
 
0.10
 
1.00
  KELLEY, JOHN Detector Maintenance & Ops Detector Maintenance and Operations Manager NSF M&O Core  
0.65
     
0.65
    Data Acquisition DOM software: DOR device driver, DOMHub scripts, DOMCal NSF M&O Core  
0.15
     
0.15
    Data Acquisition Track DOM issues, generate detector run configurations NSF M&O Core  
0.10
     
0.10
  KELLEY, JOHN Total     
 0.90
   
 
0.90
  TOSI, DELIA Detector Calibration Absolute DOM sensitivity calibration (laboratory measurements) NSF M&O Core  
0.30
     
0.30
    IceTop Operations Test and commission experimental apparatus for restoring IceTop detector efficiency NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
  TOSI, DELIA Total    
0.50
     
0.50
  WENDT, CHRISTOPHER Detector Calibration Flasher output, flasher calibration NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
    Detector Calibration DOM charge response, linearity, DOM cal support NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
  WENDT, CHRISTOPHER Total    
0.80
     
0.80
PO DAY, MELANIE Simulations Production Low energy simulation   production Base Grants     0.30     
0.30
  DAY, MELANIE Total         0.30    
0.30
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Data Storage & Transfer Analysis disk Data storage review, data filters Base Grants     0.10    
0.10
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Offline Data Processing Level 2 offline processing – co-coordinator Base Grants        
0.20
0.20
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Total        
0.10
 
0.20
0.30
  UW PO Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.08
     
0.08
  UW PO Total      
0.08
     
0.08
GR JERO, KYLE Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Event reconstruction, angular resolution Base Grants          0.20
0.20
    Simulation programs Veto simulation, Corsika development Base Grants          0.20
0.20
  SABBATINI, LUCA Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Shower reconstruction, flasher data Inst. In-Kind         0.30
0.30
  TOBIN, MORIAH Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Low energy event reconstruction (BiPed), spline service Base Grants         0.30
0.30
  GHORBANI, KEVIN Detector Calibration Muon time residuals/hole ice Base Grants  
0.25
     
0.25
  FAHEY, SAM Physics Filters Trigger simulations Base Grants      
0.20
 
0.20
  MANCINA, SARAH Detector Calibration muon neutrinos, DOM sensitivity Inst. In-kind  
0.20
     
0.20
  UW GR Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.12
     
0.12
  GR Total      
0.57
 
0.20
1.00
1.77
 UW – Madison Total    
2.23
4.00
1.20
0.30
2.40
10.13
 

 

 

 

Faculty:

At UW-Madison physics faculty teach half-time, one course per semester. Additionally, faculty who are members of WIPAC (Karle, Halzen, Westerhoff, Vandenbroucke) are relieved of teaching for one semester per year. Thus faculty are on research except for the time spent on teaching one course per year.


 

Halzen, Francis   Principal Investigator

Karle, Albrecht   Institutional Lead, ExecCom member, Point and diffuse astrophysical neutrinos, DeepCore

Hanson, Kael   Director of IceCube Maintenance & Operations

Vandenbroucke, Justin   Low energy physics, IceCube analysis, selected point source searches

Westerhoff, Stefan   Cosmic Rays with IceCube and IceTop.

Gallagher, John   Selection of candidate point sources of neutrinos, catalogues for stacking searches and multi-wavelength observations.


Scientists:

Ahlers, Marcus   (John Bahcall Fellowship).

  Analysis: GRB physics analysis, neutrino sources

Chirkin, Dmitry  Service: Direct photon tracking with graphics computers / ice properties calibration; event reconstruction software, Simulation Programs, event recon.

 Analysis: energy reconstruction of high energy events, ice properties.

Desiati, Paolo  Service: Simulation Production Coordinator, Sim. Prod. Panel Chair

 Analysis: Atmospheric neutrinos, time dependence, charm

DuVernois, Michael (50%)  Service: Engineering Support and R&D Science Support

Hoshina, Kotoyo  (75% appointment with University of Tokyo, based in Madison)

 Service: Simulation Programs - nugen maintenance

 Analysis: Earth Core neutrino absorption (Tokyo)

Kauer, Matthew  Service: Run Coordinator, TFT Board Member, IceCube Monitoring Lead, Cosmic Ray Surface Array Development

Kelley, John (90%)  Service: Detector Maintenance and Operations Manager, DOM Cal Maintenance, DOM issues technical analysis
Tosi Delia  Service: Absolute DOM sensitivity calibration, Scintillation detectors (IceTop maintenance)
 Analysis: IceTop veto for astrophysical neutrino search
 
Wendt, Christopher (80%)  Service: Flasher output, Flasher Calibrations; DOM sensitivity, Supporting DOM charge response (lab, flashers), DOM Cal support

 

Post Docs (supervisor):

Bechtol, Keith (JV)  Service: TBD

  Analysis: Correlations between neutrino flux and gamma ray observations

Day, Melanie (AK)  Service: Low energy simulation production

 Analysis: Neutrino oscillations with Deep Core, Non Standard Interactions

Fiorino, Daniel (SW)  Service: TBD

 Analysis:   IceCube/HAWC anisotropy

Wandkowsky, Nancy (AK)    Service: Analysis disk Data storage review, filter development

 Analysis: All flavor all sky contained vertex neutrino analysis at high energies

Donglian Xu (AK)      Service: Calibration, waveforms, cascade systematics

 Analysis: Search for neutrino flux in coincidence with fast radio transients. Investigation of non-contained high energy cascade events in IceCube

 

Grad Students (supervisor):

Fahey, Sam (JV)  Service: Trigger simulations

 Analysis: Analysis of transients

Ghorbani, Kevin (FH)  Service: Muon time residuals/hole ice

 Thesis /Analysis topics: Sterile neutrino search

Griffith,   Zachary (SW)   Thesis /Analysis topics: search for gamma-ray sources in IceTop with IceCube muon veto

 Service: TBD

Jero, Kyle (AK) Service: DOM linearity, sensitivity; muon event reconstruction

 Analysis: point sources, atmospheric neutrino veto

Kheirandish, Ali (FH)  Service: Supernova system rate studies

 Analysis: Supernova, GRB, Point sources

Mancina, Sarah (AK)  Service: Calibration studies (DOM sensititvity) with muon neutrinos

 Analysis: muon neutrinos

Sabbatini, Luca (FH)  Service: shower reconstruction, flasher data

  Analysis: GRB search , model independent

Tobin, Moriah (AK)  Service: low energy event reconstruction (BiPed), spline service

 Analysis: Atmospheric neutrino studies using IceCube's DeepCore.

Wille, Logan (FH)   Analysis: Charm contribution to the atmospheric neutrino flux

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