New background rejection methods for the GZK neutrino search with IceCube

Proceedings of the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2011

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 218-221

  Auffenberg, Jan ^a   Cohen, Shirit ^b   Mase, Keiichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GZK neutrinos; IceCube; UHECR

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; COSMIC RAYS; DETECTORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

BACKGROUND REJECTION; CHERENKOV LIGHT; COSMIC RAY AIR SHOWERS; DETECTION VOLUME; GZK NEUTRINOS; ICE CUBES; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; UHECR;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 84899511646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7529/ICRC2011/V04/0778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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