First field season for IceCube Upgrade ongoing at the South Pole
A view of the seasonal equipment site from the first field season for the IceCube Upgrade. Image: Kurt Studt, IceCube/NSF
IceCube observation of the cosmic-ray anisotropy in the Southern Hemisphere
Extremely energetic charged particles called cosmic rays are accelerated by violent cosmic objects before raining down on Earth from all directions. Protons and heavier nuclei make up these cosmic rays, which can then collide with other particles in the atmosphere to produce secondary particles that cascade into so-called “air showers.” [...]
Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige elected to the Collegium of the Royal Academy of Belgium in the Class of Sciences
IceCube collaborator and Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Professor Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige was recently elected to the prestigious Collegium of the Royal Academy of Belgium in the Class of Sciences. The Collegium, a subdivision of the Royal Academy of Belgium, is made up of researchers under the age of 40 [...]
Week 50 at the Pole
Now that’s a nice sun halo! It seems to occupy the whole sky above the IceCube Upgrade seasonal equipment site, on the left, and the IceCube Lab, off to the right. There’s a different, “high-up” view of the same sites shown below, taken from a departing flight last week. Yes, [...]