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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Sunk deep into the ice of the South Pole lies a huge neutrino detector, IceCube. Completed in 2011, IceCube searches for neutrinos coming

from astrophysical sources. Because neutrinos hardly interact with the inter-stellar medium, neutrino astronomy can provide new insights into astrophysical phenomena that are not available

from electromagnetic observations. IceCube is part of the world-wide network of multi messenger astronomy instruments. IceCube data is also of interest to high-energy particle physicists

because neutrinos generated by astrophysical sources have significantly higher energies than those achievable in particle accelerators on Earth. Despite the huge challenges of working in

such a remote location, Antarctica was chosen as the site for IceCube as it offered a huge volume of pure, uniform ice. In addition, other neutrino detectors were all in the northern

hemisphere, so Antarctica provided a view of the southern sky. Over the course of seven years, 86 holes were drilled into the ice, reaching the bedrock at a depth of up to 2500 m. Into each

hole, a vertical string lined with 60 photodetectors was lowered into the ice. In total, the experiment contains 5160 extremely sensitive photodetectors, capable of detecting energies up to

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