Status of the IceTop air shower array at the South Pole
Fabian Kislat (for the IceCube Collaboration)
TL;DR
The paper reviews the current status and initial physics results of the IceTop air shower array, a surface detector component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, used for cosmic ray composition studies between 300 TeV and 1 EeV.
Contribution
It provides an update on the detector's status and presents first physics results, highlighting its capabilities in cosmic ray research.
Findings
Detector operational status overview
Initial physics results on cosmic ray composition
Validation of surface and underground detector coincidence
Abstract
The IceTop air shower array is the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole. The combination of IceTop and IceCube provides a new and powerful tool to measure cosmic ray composition in the energy range between about 300 TeV and 1 EeV by detecting the electromagnetic component at the surface in coincidence with the muon bundle in the deep underground detector. The paper will give an overview of the current status of the detector and the first physics results will be presented.
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