Possible IceCube Theses
Detector development
- Development of imaging air-Cherenkov Telescopes (IceAct) for the measurement of air showers at the surface
- Development of test stands and test of optical sensors for the IceCube upgrade
- Development of acoustic sensors for improving IceCube’s calibration and extending the neutrino measurements
Analysis and methods
- Anisotropy studies of registered neutrino events
- Investigation of high-energy neutrinos
- Test studies on the efficiency of data selection at the South Pole
- Development and testing of new analysis and reconstruction algorithms
Other topics by arrangement
- Literature research
- Simulation studies
- Theoretical work
- etc ...
Examples of possible Bachelor's theses in 2019 are (detector development (D), analysis (A), Monte-Carlo (M), computing (C), theory (T)):
- IceAct: Setup and test of new telescopes (D)
- IceAct: Analysis of the south-pole data 2019 (air-shower) (A/D)
- IceCube: Evaluation of new methods for the IceCube geometry calibration (D/A/M)
- IceCube: Setup of a PMT test-stand and comparative measurements for the IceCube upgrade (D)
- IceCube: Improvement of analysis methods for neutrino identification and reconstruction (A/M/C)
- IceCube: Neutrino meteorology: Correlation of atmospheric neutrinos with global wheather data (A/C)
Examples of possible Master's theses in 2018 (detector development (D), analysis (A), Monte-Carlo (M), computing (C), theory (T), unblinding (U)):
- IceAct: Event-reconstruction with Machine Learning (A/M/C)
- IceAct: Improvement of detector simulation and comparison to experimental data (A/M/C)
- IceAct: Measurement of the Cosmic Ray composition (A/M/C)
- IceAct: Analysis of the 2019 South Pole data: Coincidences with IceCube and IceTop (A/M/C)
- IceAct: Development of a new data acquisition system for IceAct and construction of new telescopes (D/A)
- IceCube-Gen2: PMT characterization for the IceCube Upgrade (D)
- IceCube-Gen2: Development of an acoustic Module for the IceCube Upgrade (D)
- IceCube: Search for slowly moving particles (monopoles and Q-Balls) in IceCube (A/M/U)
- IceCube: Test and optimization of the Slow Particle (SLOP) filter (M/A/C)
- IceCube: Seasonal variation of atmospheric neutrinos and correlation with climate data (A/M/U)
- IceCube: Development of a Web-based event display for IceCube (C)
- IceCube: Geometry calibration using trilateration with a global likelihood method (D/M/C)
- IceCube: Search for drectional cross-correlations of measured neutrinos with cosmic photon sources (M/D/A)
- IceCube: Developement of an unbinned likelihood method for the cosmic neutrino measurement (M/C)
- IceCube: Observation of the shadow of the moon in Cosmic Rays, search for the sun-excess and -shadow at high energies. Calibration of the angular resolution (A/M/C)
Examples of completed theses in recent years can be found here.