Requirements for a New Detector at the South Pole Receiving an Accelerator Neutrino Beam

Understand

There are recent considerations to increase the photomultiplier density in the IceCube detector array beyond that of DeepCore, which will lead to a lower detection threshold and a huge fiducial mass for the neutrino detection.

• This initiative is known as "Phased IceCube Next Generation Upgrade" (PINGU).
• We discuss the possibility to send a neutrino beam from one of the major accelerator laboratories in the Northern hemisphere to such a detector.
• Such an experiment would be unique in the sense that it would be the only neutrino beam where the baseline crosses the Earth's core.