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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 22: Experimentelle Techniken der Astroteilchenphysik 1

T 22.7: Talk

Monday, March 27, 2017, 18:20–18:35, S 9

First Observation of Coincident Air Showers with IceAct and IceCube — •Tobias Sälzer, Jan Auffenberg, Thomas Bretz, Erik Ganster, Maurice Günder, Lasse Halve, Thomas Hebbeker, Jan Paul Koschinsky, Lukas Middendorf, Tim Niggemann, Leif Rädel, Martin Rongen, Merlin Schaufel, Sebastian Schoenen, Johannes Schumacher, Aatif Waza, and Christopher Wiebusch — III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

One planned component of the IceCube-Gen2 Neutrino Observatory is an array of compact imaging air Cherenkov telescopes called IceAct. The goal is to reduce the atmospheric background for astrophysical neutrino searches by identifying air showers above the detector. A prototype of an IceAct telescope featuring a seven-pixel SiPM camera has been installed at the South Pole and operated over the course of 2016. The acquired data is synchronized with IceCube and analyzed. We present results on the performance of the prototype based on events observed in coincidence with the other detectors of the observatory.