1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
  1. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
    1. Xinhua Bai
    2. Scope of Work
    3. Faculty:
    4. Grad Students:

Last updated: September 8, 2016



IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
 

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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology



Xinhua Bai
Ph.D. Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 1 (1 0 1)



Scope of Work

 

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS Level 3
Tasks
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
WBS 2.6
Grand Total
       
Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Data Processing & Simulation
Software
Calibration
 
KE Xinhua Bai 2.1.1 Administration
  		SDSMT Inst. Lead
 
0.05
         
0.05
    2.1.4 E&O Education & Outreach in SD/China for neutrino astronomy and IceCube
0.05
         
0.05
    2.5.3 Reconstruction High energy EAS and muon bundle reconstruction        
0.10
 
0.10
  Bai, Xinhua Total  
0.10
     
0.10
 
0.20
GR Emily Dvorak 2.2.4 Detector Monitoring IceCube operation monitoring  
0.02
       
0.02
    2.4.2 Simulation production Filter or re-produce MC events for the IceTop and in-ice combined reconstruction tools development      
0.10
   
0.10
    2.5.3 Reconstruction Improve HE cosmic ray direction reconstruction resolution at higher energies: diagnosing and fixing        
0.45
 
0.45
Dvorak, Emily Total    
0.02
 
0.10
0.45
 
0.57
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Total 
0.10
0.02
0.00
0.10
0.55
 
0.77
 



Faculty:

Xinhua Bai – institution lead, education & outreach , improve high energy EAS and muon bundle reconstruction, mentoring Ph.D. student


Grad Students:

Emily Dvorak (Ph.D. student) –The three foci of her work are: (1) To study the cause of the angular resolution problem in IceTop air shower reconstruction and find out a solution so that the angular resolution, after reaching its minimal value at tens of PeVs, does not degrade at higher energies up to EeV; (2) To develop software tools, jointly with researchers in the IceCube Cosmic-Ray Working Group, for the reconstruction of air shower events that trigger both the IceTop and in-ice array but with the shower core landing outside the IceTop array; (3) To search and measure prompt muon yield in high energy cosmic ray induced showers with a new method based on the stochastic energy loss by muon bundles.

Emily has passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam in August 2015. She is working 100% on IceCube starting from August 25, 2015. Support for the rest of her effort on IceCube currently comes from SD physics Ph.D. program.

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