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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 17: Neutrinoastronomie I

T 17.5: Talk

Monday, February 29, 2016, 12:05–12:20, VMP9 SR 08

Simulation of an extended surface detector IceVeto for IceCube-Gen2 — •Tim Hansmann, Jan Auffenberg, Christian Haack, Bengt Hansmann, Julian Kemp, Richard Konietz, Jakob Leuner, Leif Rädel, Martin Stahlberg, Sebastian Schoenen, and Christopher Wiebusch for the IceCube collaboration — III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University

IceCube is a neutrino observatory located at the geographic South Pole. The main backgrounds for IceCube's primary goal, the easurement of astrophysical neutrinos, are muons and neutrinos from cosmic-ray air showers in the Earth's atmosphere. Strong supression of these backgrounds from the Southern hemisphere has been demonstrated by coincident detection of these air showers with the IceTop surface detector. For an extended instrument, IceCube-Gen2, it is considered to build an enlarged surface array, IceVeto, that will improve the detection capabilities of coincident air showers. We will present simulation studies to estimate the IceVeto capabilities to optimize the IceCube-Gen2 design.