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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 605: Neutrino-Astroteilchenphysik III

T 605.2: Talk

Friday, March 9, 2007, 17:00–17:15, KIP SR 1.403

Combination of the AMANDA and IceCube Neutrino Telescopes and Monte Carlo Performance studies of the combined detector — Andreas Gross¹ and •Martin Tluczykont² for the IceCube collaboration — ¹MPI für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg — ²DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen

The current IceCube telescope consists of 9 operational detector strings and will be extended to more than 20 strings during this years polar summer season 2006/2007. The full integration of the AMANDA detector into IceCube operation will be finalized in this season. This includes hardware synchronisation, combined triggering, common event building and a combined data analysis strategy. In this contribution, the Joint Event Builder (JEB) collecting data from both detectors and providing a combined data stream to the online filtering will be discussed. Furthermore, the expected performance of the detector based on Monte Carlo simulations of a combined AMANDA + 23-string IceCube detector will be presented.