1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
  1. University of Alabama
    1. Dawn Williams
    2. Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 3 (2 0 1)
    3. Scope of Work
    4. Faculty:
    5. Ph.D. Students:
    6. UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:
    7. Computing Resources

Last updated: April 8, 2016


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

 

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University of Alabama


Dawn Williams


Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 3 (2 0 1)


Scope of Work

 

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

 

Williams, Dawn Detector Calibration Managing flasher runs and coordinating low level calibration effort
NSF M&O Core
0.20
 

 
 
   		    
0.20
 
    TFT Coordination TFT board member
Inst. In-Kind
0.10
 
0.10
    Physics Filters Tau WG lead
Inst. In-Kind
0.25
 
0.25
  Williams, Dawn Total    
0.20
0.35
 
0.55
  Toale, Patrick Reconstruction/Analysis Tools Tau reconstruction tools
Inst. In-Kind
0.05
0.05
 
  Toale, Patrick Total            
0.05
0.05
  Pepper, James Simulation Programs
  		Dark Matter signal simulation
NSF Base Grant
0.15
0.15
 
Pepper, James Total            
0.15
0.15
UA Total      
0.20
0.35
0.20
0.75
 



Faculty:

Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Calibration Co-Coordinator, TFT Board Member, Cascade-Tau Working Group Co-Coordinator

Patrick Toale – hybrid reconstruction tools


Our postdoc is leaving this summer. A new postdoc will hopefully be added back into the MoU/SOW by the fall 2016 collaboration meeting.
 


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.

 



Computing Resources
 

2016
2017
  CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards
IceCube   6 (Tesla K20m)   6 (Tesla K20m)
PINGU        
Gen2        

 

 

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