IceCube Upgrade
present on site. The current upgrade is an important milestone on the path toward the future IceCube-Gen2 facility. It is expected to significantly increase sensitivity and open up new scientific opportunities [...] and the two research institutes KIT and DESY are members of the consortium. Hundreds of glass spheres 2,600 meters deep in the ice The German partners have jointly contributed to the design, testing, and [...] on a string: long cables carrying more than 100 devices were lowered into individual boreholes up to 2,600 meters deep. There, the ice serves as both the target and the detection medium for the ghostly cosmic …
