Speaker
Darren Grant
Description
IceCube is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at
the South Pole, a successor to the first-generation AMANDA telescope
designed to the search for astrophysical neutrino sources. IceCube
is now three quarters complete with the full detector expected to be
operating in early 2011. Data taken with the partially built detector
already provides world-leading sensitivity on spin-dependent dark
matter scattering cross-sections. The base design of IceCube now
includes an infill array known as DeepCore, improving sensitivity to
neutrinos at energies below 100 GeV. Plans for DeepCore, as well as
estimates for the IceCube-DeepCore sensitivity to dark matter will be
presented. Further, the possibility of studying atmospheric neutrino
oscillations using will be discussed.
