Physics Capabilities of the IceCube DeepCore Detector

Understand

IceCube-DeepCore is a compact Cherenkov detector located in the clear ice of the bottom center of the IceCube Neutrino Telescope.

• Its purpose is to enhance the sensitivity of IceCube for low neutrino energies (< 1 TeV) and to lower the detection threshold of IceCube by about an order of magnitude to below 10 GeV.
• The detector is formed by 6 additional strings of 360 high quantum efficiency phototubes together with the 7 central IceCube strings.
• The improved sensitivity will provide an enhanced sensitivity to probe a range of parameters of dark matter models not covered by direct experiments.