| Title: |
Mechanical design of the optical modules intended for IceCube-Gen2 |
| Authors: |
IceCube-Gen2; Abbasi, Rasha; Ackermann, Markus; Adams, Jenni; Agarwalla, Sanjib; Aguilar, Juanan; Ahlers, Markus; Alameddine, Jean-Marco; Amin, Najia Moureen Binte; Andeen, Karen; Anton, Gisela; Arguelles, Carlos; Ashida, Yosuke; Athanasiadou, Sofia; Audehm, Jan; Axani, Spencer; Bai, Xinhua; Balagopal V, Aswathi; Baricevic, Moreno; Barwick, Steve; Basu, Vedant; Bay, Ryan; Becker Tjus, Julia; Beise, Jakob; Bellenghi, Chiara; Benning, Charlotte; BenZvi, Segev; Berley, David; Bernardini, Elisa; Besson, Dave; Bishop, Abigail; Blaufuss, Erik; Blot, Summer; Bohmer, Michael; Bontempo, Federico; Book, Julia; Borowka, Jurgen; Boscolo Meneguolo, Caterina; Boser, Sebastian; Botner, Olga; Bottcher, Jakob; Bouma, Sjoerd; Bourbeau, Etienne; Braun, Jim; Brinson, Bennett; Brostean-Kaiser, Jannes; Burley, Ryan T.; Busse, Raffaela; Butterfield, Delaney; Campana, Michael; Carloni, Kiara; Carnie-Bronca, Erin; Cataldo, Maddalena; Chattopadhyay, Sharmistha; Chau, Thien Nhan; Chen, Chujie; Chen, Zheyang; Chirkin, Dmitry; Choi, Seowon; Clark, Brian; Clark, Rogan; Classen, Lew; Coleman, Alan; Collin, Gabriel; Conrad, Janet; Cowen, Doug; Dasgupta, Basudeb; Dave, Pranav; Deaconu, Cosmin; Clercq, Catherine De; De Kockere, Simon; DeLaunay, James; Delgado Lopez, Diyaselis; Deng, Shuyang; Deoskar, Kunal; Desai, Abhishek; Desiati, Paolo; Vries, Krijn De; Wasseige, Gwenhaël De; DeYoung, Tyce; Diaz, Alejandro; Diaz-Velez, Juan Carlos; Dittmer, Markus; Domi, Alba; Dujmovic, Hrvoje; DuVernois, Michael; Ehrhardt, Thomas; Eller, Philipp; Ellinger, Enrico; Mentawi, Sharif El; Elsässer, Dominik; Engel, Ralph; Erpenbeck, Hannah; Evans, John; Evans, Justin; Evenson, Paul; Fan, Kwok Lung; Fang, Ke; Farrag, Kareem Ramadan; Fazely, Ali; Fedynitch, Anatoli; Feigl, Nora; Fiedlschuster, Sebastian; Finley, Chad; Fischer, Leander; Flaggs, Benjamin; Fox, Derek B.; Franckowiak, Anna; Fritz, Alexander; Fujii, Toshihiro; Furst, Philipp; Gallagher, Jay; Ganster, Erik; Garcia, Alfonso; Gerhardt, Lisa; Gernhaeuser, Roman; Ghadimi, Ava; Giri, Pawan; Glaser, Christian; Glauch, Theo; Glusenkamp, Thorsten; Goehlke, Noah; Goswami, Sreetama; Grant, Darren; Gray, Shannon; Gries, Oliver; Griffin, Sean; Griswold, Spencer; Guevel, David Joseph; Günther, Christoph; Gutjahr, Pascal; Haack, Christian; Haji Azim, Tara; Hallgren, Allan; Halliday, Robert; Hallmann, Steffen; Halve, Lasse; Halzen, Francis; Hamdaoui, Hassane; Ha Minh, Martin; Hanson, Kael; Hardin, John; Harnisch, Alexander; Hatch, Patrick; Haugen, Jim; Haungs, Andreas; Heinen, Dirk; Helbing, Klaus; Hellrung, Jonas; Hendricks, Brian; Henningsen, Felix; Henrichs, Jakob; Heuermann, Lars Philipp; Heyer, Nils; Hickford, Stephanie; Hidvegi, Attila; Hignight, Joshua; Hill, Colton; Hill, Gary; Hoffman, Kara; Hoffmann, Benjamin; Holzapfel, Killian; Hori, Sam; Hoshina, Kotoyo; Hou, Wenjie; Huber, Thomas; Huege, Tim; Hughes, Kaeli Autumn; Hultqvist, Klas; Hunnefeld, Mirco; Hussain, Raamis; Hymon, Karolin; In, Seongjin; Ishihara, Aya; Jacquart, Marc; Janik, Oliver; Jansson, Matti; Japaridze, George; Jeong, Minjin; Jin, Miaochen; Jones, Ben; KALEKIN, Oleg; Kang, Donghwa; Kang, Woosik; Kang, Xinyue; Kappes, Alexander; Kappesser, David; Kardum, Leonora; Karg, Timo; Karl, Martina; Karle, Albrecht; Katori, Teppei; Katz, Ulì; Kauer, Matt; Kelley, John; Khatee Zathul, Arifa; Kheirandish, Ali; Kiryluk, Joanna; Klein, Spencer; Kobayashi, Takuro; Kochocki, Alina; Kolanoski, Hermann; Kontrimas, Tomas; Kopke, Lutz; Kopper, Claudio; Koskinen, Jason; Koundal, Paras; Kovacevich, Michael; Kowalski, Marek; Kozynets, Tetiana; Krauss, Carsten; Kravchenko, Ilya; Jayakumar, Krishnamoorthi; Krupczak, Emmett; Kumar, Anil; Kun, Emma; Neilson, Naoko Kurahashi; Lad, Neha Navnitkumar; Lagunas Gualda, Cristina; Larson, Michael J.; Latseva, Silvia; Lauber, Frederik Hermann; Lazar, Jeffrey; Lee, Jiwoong; Leonard DeHolton, Kayla; Leszczynska, Agnieszka; Lincetto, Massimiliano; Liu, Qinrui; Liubarska, Maria; Lohan, Manisha; Lohfink, Elisa; LoSecco, John; Love, Christina; Lozano Mariscal, Cristian Jesus; Lu, Lu; Lucarelli, Francesco; Lyu, Yang; Madsen, Jim; Mahn, Kendall; Makino, Yuya; Mancina, Sarah; Mandalia, Shivesh; Marie Sainte, Wenceslas; Maris, Ioana Codrina; Marka, Szabolcs; Marka, Zsuzsa; Marsee, Matthew; Martinez-Soler, Ivan; Maruyama, Reina H.; Mayhew, Finn; McElroy, Thomas; McNally, Frank; Mead, James Vincent; Meagher, Kevin; Mechbal, Sarah; Medina, Andres; Meier, Maximilian; Merckx, Yarno; Merten, Lukas; Meyers, Zackary; Micallef, Jessie; Mikhailova, Masha; Mitchell, Justin; Montaruli, Teresa; Moore, Roger; Morii, Yasutsugu; Morse, Bob; Moulai, Marjon; Mukherjee, Tista; Naab, Richard; Nagai, Ryo; Nakos, Maxwell; Narayan, Ashish; Naumann, Uwe; Necker, Jannis; Negi, Akshima; Nelles, Anna; Neumann, Miriam; Niederhausen, Hans; Nisa, Mehr; Noell, Andreas; Novikov, Alexander; Nowicki, Sarah; Nozdrina, Alisa; Oberla, Eric; Pollmann, Anna; O'Dell, Vivian; Oehler, Marie; Oeyen, Bob; Olivas, Alex; Orsoe, Rasmus; Osborn, Jesse; O'Sullivan, Erin; Papp, Laszlo; Park, Nahee; Parker, Grant; Paudel, Ek Narayan; Paul, Larissa; Pérez de los Heros, Carlos; Petersen, Troels; Peterson, Josh; Philippen, Saskia; Pieper, Sarah; Pinfold, James; Pizzuto, Alex; Plaisier, Ilse; Plum, Matthias; Ponten, Axel; Popovych, Yuriy; Prado Rodriguez, Maria; Pries, Brandon; Procter-Murphy, Rachel; Przybylski, Gerald; Pyras, Lilly; Rack-Helleis, John; Rameez, Mohamed; Rawlins, Katherine; Rechav, Zoe; Rehman, Abdul; Reichherzer, Patrick; Renzi, Giovanni; Resconi, Elisa; Reusch, Simeon; Rhode, Wolfgang; Riedel, Benedikt; Riegel, Michael; Rifaie, Adam; Roberts, Ella; Robertson, Sally; Rodan, Steven T.; Roellinghoff, Gerrit; Rongen, Martin; Rott, Carsten; Ruhe, Tim; Ryckbosch, Dirk; Safa, Ibrahim; Saffer, Julian; Salazar-Gallegos, Daniel; Sampathkumar, Pranav; Sanchez Herrera, Sebastian; Sandrock, Alexander; Sandstrom, Perry; Santander, Marcos; Sarkar, Sourav; Sarkar, Subir; Savelberg, Joelle; Savina, Pierpaolo; Schaufel, Merlin; Schieler, Harald; Schindler, Sebastian; Schlickmann, Lea; Schluter, Berit; Schlüter, Felix; Schmeisser, Nick; Schmidt, Torsten; Schneider, Judith; Schröder, Frank G.; Schumacher, Lisa Johanna; Schwefer, Georg; Sclafani, Steve; Seckel, David; Seikh, Mohammad Ful Hossain; Seunarine, Suruj; Shaevitz, Mike; Shah, Riya; Sharma, Ankur; Shefali, S.; Shimizu, Nobuhiro; Silva, Manuel; Skrzypek, Barbara; Smith, Daniel; Smithers, Ben; Snihur, Robert; Soedingrekso, Jan; Sogaard, Andreas; Soldin, Dennis; Soldin, Philipp; Sommani, Giacomo; Southall, Daniel; Spannfellner, Christian; Spiczak, Glenn; Spiering, Christian; Stamatikos, Michael; Stanev, Todor; Stezelberger, Thorsten; Stoffels, Jethro; Sturwald, Timo; Stuttard, Thomas; Sullivan, Greg; Taboada, Ignacio; Taketa, Akimichi; Tanaka, Hiroyuki; Ter-Antonyan, Samvel; Thiesmeyer, Matthias; Thompson, Will; Thwaites, Jessie; Tilav, Serap; Tollefson, Kirsten; Tönnis, Christoph; Torres, Jorge; Toscano, Simona; Tosi, Delia; Trettin, Alexander; Tsunesada, Yoshiki; Tung, Chun Fai; Turcotte, Roxanne; Twagirayezu, Jean Pierre; Ty, Bunheng; Unland Elorrieta, Martin; Upadhyay, Anuj Kumar; Upshaw, Karriem; Valtonen-Mattila, Nora; Vandenbroucke, Justin; Eijndhoven, Nick Van; Vannerom, David; Santen, Jakob Van; Vara, Javi; Veberic, Darko; Veitch-Michaelis, Joshua; Venugopal, Megha; Verpoest, Stef; Vieregg, Abigail G.; Vijai, Aishwarya; Walck, Christian; Weaver, Chris; Weigel, Philip; Weindl, Andreas; Weldert, Jan; Welling, Christoph; Wendt, Chris; Werthebach, Johannes; Weyrauch, Mark; Whitehorn, Nathan; Wiebusch, Christopher; Willey, Nathan; Williams, Dawn; Wissel, Stephanie; Witthaus, Lucas; Wolf, Annika; Wolf, Martin; Worner, Gunter; Wrede, Gerrit; Wren, Steven; Xu, Xianwu; Yanez, Juan Pablo; Yildizci, Emre Burak; Yoshida, Shigeru; Young, Robert; Yu, Felix J.; Yu, Shiqi; Yuan, Tianlu; Zhang, Zelong; Zhelnin, Pavel; Zierke, Simon; Zimmerman, Melany |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1824-8039. |
| Publisher Information: |
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie) |
| Subject Terms: |
ddc:530; Physics; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530 |
| Description: |
IceCube-Gen2 is an expansion of the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole that aims to increase the sensitivity to high-energy neutrinos by an order of magnitude. To this end, about 10,000 new optical modules will be installed, instrumenting a fiducial volume of about 8 km3. Two newly developed optical module types increase IceCube’s current sensitivity per module by a factor of three by integrating 16 and 18 newly developed four-inch PMTs in specially designed 12.5-inch diameter pressure vessels. Both designs use conical silicone gel pads to optically couple the PMTs to the pressure vessel to increase photon collection efficiency. The outside portion of gel pads are pre-cast onto each PMT prior to integration, while the interiors are filled and cast after the PMT assemblies are installed in the pressure vessel via a pushing mechanism. This paper presents both the mechanical design, as well as the performance of prototype modules at high pressure (70 MPa) and low temperature (−40∘C), characteristic of the environment inside the South Pole ice. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper; conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1824-8039 |
| Relation: |
Proceedings of Science; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1824-8039; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163386; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163386/151569725; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000163386 |
| DOI: |
10.5445/IR/1000163386 |
| Availability: |
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163386; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163386/151569725; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000163386 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F32460AE |
| Database: |
BASE |