@article{871e9f2a2d404b08aaa216e2e753d61c,
title = "First air-shower measurements with the prototype station of the IceCube surface enhancement",
abstract = "IceTop, the surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, consists of 162 ice-Cherenkov tanks distributed over an area of 1km2. Besides being used as a veto for the in-ice neutrino detector, IceTop is a powerful cosmic-ray detector. In the upcoming years, the capabilities of the IceTop array will be enhanced by augmenting the existing ice-Cherenkov tanks with an array of elevated scintillator panels and radio antennas. Combining the data obtained from the different detectors will improve the reconstruction of cosmic-ray energy and primary mass while reducing the energy threshold and increasing the aperture of the array. In January 2020, a prototype station consisting of 8 scintillation detectors and 3 antennas was deployed at the IceTop site. The prototype detectors are connected to one data-acquisition system and the readout of the radio antennas is triggered using the signals from the scintillators. This allows us to regularly observe secondary air shower particles hitting the scintillators, as well as the radio emission of high-energy air showers. In this contribution, we will discuss the results obtained from the prototype station in the past year, present the first cosmic-ray air showers measured with this prototype station, and show how the observations with the different detector types complement each other.",
author = "{The IceCube Collaboration} and R. Abbasi and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and Aguilar, {J. A.} and M. Ahlers and M. Ahrens and C. Alispach and Alves, {A. A.} and Amin, {N. M.} and R. An and K. Andeen and T. Anderson and G. Anton and C. Arg{\"u}elles and Y. Ashida and S. Axani and X. Bai and Balagopal, {A. V.} and A. Barbano and Barwick, {S. W.} and B. Bastian and V. Basu and S. Baur and R. Bay and Beatty, {J. J.} and Becker, {K. H.} and {Becker Tjus}, J. and C. Bellenghi and S. BenZvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and Besson, {D. Z.} and G. Binder and D. Bindig and E. Blaufuss and S. Blot and M. Boddenberg and F. Bontempo and J. Borowka and S. B{\"o}ser and O. Botner and J. B{\"o}ttcher and E. Bourbeau and F. Bradascio and J. Braun and S. Bron and J. Brostean-Kaiser and S. Browne and Cowen, {D. F.} and D. Fox",
note = "Funding Information: USA – U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division, U.S. National Science Foundation-EPSCoR, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Open Science Grid (OSG), Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Frontera computing project at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, U.S. Department of Energy-National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Particle astrophysics research computing center at the University of Maryland, Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research at Michigan State University, and Astroparticle physics computational facility at Marquette University; Belgium – Funds for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS and FWO), FWO Odysseus and Big Science programmes, and Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo); Germany – Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), and High Performance Computing cluster of the RWTH Aachen; Sweden – Swedish Research Council, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; Australia – Australian Funding Information: We acknowledge the support by the Doctoral School {"}Karlsruhe School of Elementary and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology{"}. Also, this project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802729). Funding Information: Research Council; Canada – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Calcul Qu{\'e}bec, Compute Ontario, Canada Foundation for Innovation, WestGrid, and Compute Canada; Denmark – Villum Fonden and Carlsberg Foundation; New Zealand – Marsden Fund; Japan – Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Institute for Global Prominent Research (IGPR) of Chiba University; Korea – National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Switzerland – Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); United Kingdom – Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright owned by the author(s).; 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021 ; Conference date: 12-07-2021 Through 23-07-2021",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
day = "18",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "395",
journal = "Proceedings of Science",
issn = "1824-8039",
publisher = "Sissa Medialab Srl",
}