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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 93: Search for New Particles 6
T 93.7: Vortrag
Donnerstag, 24. März 2022, 17:45–18:00, T-H24
Simulation of the WOM in IceCube Gen2 for the detection of exotic particles — •Nick Jannis Schmeißer1, Anna Pollmann1, and John Rack-Helleis2 for the IceCube collaboration — 1Bergische Universität Wuppertal — 2JGU Mainz
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer scale Cherenkov light detector located at the geographic South Pole. Besides the detection of neutrinos, it is used for searches for particles beyond the Standard Model. One kind of these exotic particles are fractionally charged particles which carry a fraction of the electron charge. The IceCube detector will be enhanced first by the IceCube Upgrade and then by IceCube Gen2 in the next years. The Wavelength-shifting Optical Module (WOM) is a newly developed sensor that is going to be deployed in the IceCube Upgrade amongst other sensors. The WOM achieves an improved signal to noise ratio and UV-sensitivity in comparison to the sensors deployed in the original IceCube detector via wavelength shifting and light guiding. In this presentation the results of simulations with the WOM in IceCube Gen2 investigating the efficiency of the WOM in detecting fractionally charged particles in comparison to the optical modules used in the original IceCube detector is shown. These simulations show that the WOM has a higher efficiency than the original sensors.