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Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole

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 نشر من قبل Patrick Toale
 تاريخ النشر 2006
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 تأليف P.A. Toale




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IceCube is currently being built deep in the glacial ice beneath the South Pole. In its second year of construction, it is already larger than its predecessor, AMANDA. AMANDA continues to collect high energy neutrino and muon data as an independent detector until it is integrated with IceCube. After introducing both detectors, recent results from AMANDA and a status report on IceCube are presented.



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