Curriculum Vitæ Et Studiorum

CURRICULUM VITÆ ET STUDIORUM

Paolo Desiati June 2007

1 Personal Data

Name : P aolo Desiati Date/P lace of Birth : 7 July 1969, F irenze (Italy) Office Address : Network222 Building 5409 222 W est W ashington Av. Madison, W I 53703, U.S.A. Department of P hysics, Chamberlin Hall 4616 University of W isconsin, 1150 University Av Madison, W I 53706, U.S.A. T elephone Number : +1 − 608 − 890 − 0546 F ax Number : +1 − 608 − 262 − 2309 email : [email protected] URL : http : //icecube.wisc.edu/ ∼ desiati

2 Education and Research Positions

1985-1989 High School study at Liceo Scientiﬁco in Firenze, Italy 1989-1994 University study at the University of Florence, Faculty of Physics, in Firenze, Italy 1993-1994 Undergraduate research at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy 1994-1995 Military Service in the Italian Army 1996-1999 PhD study at the University of Roma La Sapienza, Faculty of Physics, in Roma, Italy 1999-2001 Post-Doc research at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Zeuthen (Berlin), Germany 2001-2003 Research Associate position at the Physics Department of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.A. 2003-2006 Assistant Researcher position at the Physics Department of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.A. 2006-present Associate Researcher position at the Physics Department of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.A.

1 3 Grants and Fellowships

• 1 year fellowship sponsored by INFN (Italian Nuclear Physics National Insti- tute) for undergraduate scientific research at Gran Sasso National Laboratory. National Competition. • 6 months collaboration contract at the Physics Department of the University of Florence. • 9 months grant by the Italian Fondazione Angelo della Riccia for graduate scientific research at the Pylos NESTOR Institute (Greece), logistic site of NESTOR neutrino telescope project. Not Accepted. • 2 year Reimar Lust¨ Stipendium grant by Körber Stiftung (Hamburg) for post- doc scientific research at DESY Zeuthen (Germany). European Competition. • 2 year CERN applied fellowship devoted in physics-related software development in LHCb experiment. Not accepted.

4 Coordination Activities

2001-2004 AMANDA Simulation Production Coordinator 2004-present IceCube Simulation and Oﬄine Filtering Production Coordinator 2006-present IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Working Group Coordinator 2006-present Member of the IceCube Trigger, Filter and Transmission Board

5 Studies and Research

• RESEARCH ACTIVITY:

June 2005-present Position: Associate Researcher appointment at University of Wisconsin, Madi- son. Experiment/Projects: my present activity in the IceCube Collaboration is the coordination of simulation data production and off-line data processing and filtering, and of the Atmospheric Neutrino Working Group, as part of the physics analysis task chart in the Collaboration. I am also member of the Trigger, Filtering and Transmission Board in IceCube. IceCube has developed a custom software framework and new simulation tools. The development of simulation software is a Collaboration-wide activity and my personal contribution is in the development of pieces of code necessary in the simulation chain, and in the testing of software functionality, including the comparison of simulation with experimental data, as part of a wide verification activity. In neutrino telescopes such as IceCube, we need to achieve a background rejection of at least 106. This level of rejection forces us to simulate large quantity of background data, since the neutrino-generated event selection is strongly dependent on how well we know the background contamination at high processing levels. With Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez we have developed a flexible tool, based on python scripting language, which allows productions in a variety of batch systems and architecture environments throughout the Collaboration

2 Institutions in a scalable way. We can make transparently use of GRID Com- puting Systems or of Private Institutional Clusters, and we created an IceCube Distributed Computing System which efficiently handles simulation data generation, data collection and data storage, with the aim of monitoring systems that checks on production status, network congestions and disk space availability. A continuous verification of simulation quality and a particular attention on the quality and efficiency of on-line and off-line data processing is the challenge to achieve high quality level of the data for physics analysis. As the coordinator of the Atmospheric Neutrino Working Group, the aim is to define analysis stretegies for the measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flux. This is the irreducible background for the search of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos, but it is also the most abundant source of neutrinos recorded by a neutrino telescope. There are still open questions on the physics of atmospheric neutrino production (such as Kaon physics, charm physics, primary cosmic ray composition) which can be probed using a high statistics detailed measurement, also in conjunction with the IceTop surface array. A collaboration with the MIPP experiment, at Fermilab, in underway to achieve a measurement of the proton-nitrogen cross section relevant to describe the lowest part of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum. Another collaboration with Prof. Wahba at the Department of Statistics of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, had, as main topic, determination of the the signal probability estimation with penalized likelihood method on weighted data. This statistical technique is relevant for the search of neutrino events among a high intensity background and was a new development of techniques already in use in statistics. As a member of the Trigger, Filtering and Transmission Board, I contribute in the coordination of the communication between the analyses working groups requirements and the detector operations priorities in an effort to maintain the detector stable and suitable for physics analyses. June 2003-2005 Position: Assistant Researcher appointment at University of Wisconsin, Madi- son. Activity: I have been responsible of Simulation Production also within AMANDA- II Collaboration, for which I developed a package of software tools (based on perl scripting language) able to make efficient use of the big computing power available at the University of Wisconsin. Easily extensible to use other batch systems this had became an official AMANDA simulation production software framework. I actively participated in analyses involving the experimental data available from AMANDA: such as the study of cosmic muon and atmospheric neutrino background, and analyses startegies to probe the contamination of high energy events from the decay of heavy mesons in the atmosphere. Another analysis I worked in, with an UW graduate student (You-Ren Wang), is the search for high energy neutrinos emitted by steady point sources, such as Supernova Remnants and Active Galactice Nuclei. An analysis has been completed with the data taken by AMANDA-II during the years 2000-02 and the results have been published on Physical Review D. I also participated in the search of high energy neutrinos in coincidence with Gamma Ray Bursts events in the northern hemisphere and of neutrinos from diffuse sources in the Universe. These analyses are challenging because they require a high background rejection

3 power (of the order of 106) in order to achieve a clean neutrino candidates sample. Data ﬁltering a a good understanding of the detector response are essential in the interpretation of experimental data at high background rejection level. • POST-DOC RESEARCH:

September 2001-May 2003 Position: Research Associate appointment at University of Wisconsin, Madi- son. Experiment/Project: AMANDA. Activity: I worked in comparing simulated with experimental data to study how we could improve the detector functionality simulation and to evaluate the experimental systematic uncertainties. I participated in the study of the Antarctic ice optical properties using the high quality reconstructed down-going muon intensity, and comparing these result with the ice properties directly measured with in-situ light sources. A new implementation of the ice properties in the AMANDA simulation improved the agreement with the experimental data. I mentored summer students during the summer 2002 and 2003, on projects involving the detection of down-going muon flux with the new updated simulation implementation. The measurements of the cosmic muon angular and depth distribution and the study of AMANDA sensitivity for the detection of the un- known source of higher energy muons from decay of heavy charmed mesons in the atmosphere. Tutoring of graduate students during the initial phases of AMANDA-II analysis activity was occupying the rest of my time. June 1999-May 2001 Position: 2-year Post-Doc Grant Reimar Lust¨ Stipendium by Körber Stiftung at DESY-Zeuthen, Germany. Experiment/Project: AMANDA Activity: My main activity has been concentrated both on software and physics analysis. On the software side I have developed the first working revision of an on-line Control Program to control and monitor special Optical Modules called digitally controlled Analog Optical Modules (dAOM). dAOM’s were a possible prototype of analog sensors to be used for the future IceCube Neutrino Telescope. The program has been implemented in C++ using QT Graphical User Interface toolkit (for the Client) and the MICO implementation of CORBA (for the Server). This control software was tested and then installed at the South Pole Station during the antarctic summer season 1999-2000 where I have been working for 5 weeks. During antarctic summer 2000-2001 a new revision of the dAOM Control Program has been installed. For this project I collaborated with the electronics group that built the dAOM hardware. From the physics point of view I analyzed the AMANDA-B10 data (i.e. the first 10 strings of the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope) to measure, for the first time in the improved detector array, the angular distribution of atmospheric muons and, then, the related depth-intensity. This preliminary study was intended, since the beginning, to lead to a better understanding of the detector array using the most intense source of events available, the cosmic muon flux. This study leaded to an extended activity aimed to improve the simulation of AMANDA functionality and a new implementation of the ice optical properties. The first

4 preliminary analysis results have been presented at the XXVII ICRC Conference in Hamburg (August 2001). Other activities done during my permanence in the Zeuthen group are: 1. Analysis of High Voltage monitoring data, relative to 1999 data taking, in order to study eventual correlations and trends that can cause problems in data analysis. 2. Measurement of long term gain variation of PMT lighted with constant frequency-controlled LED pulses. 3. Study of geomagnetic field effect on the single photoelectron ADC spectrum generated by 10 inch Hamamatsu PMT. The measurement has been done, for the same PMT, with the PMT inside a diamagnetic box (with geomagnetic field attenuated by more than 90%), with the PMT sensi- ble part surrounded by a mu-metal cage and with the PMT without any diamagnetic material around. • Doctorate RESEARCH: 1995-1998 Position: PhD course at the Università degli Studi di Roma ”La Sapienza”. Experiment/Project: NESTOR Neutrino Telescope Project in the Mediter- ranean (http://www.nestor.org.gr/). NESTOR is the homologous of AMANDA detector array but supposed to be built at 3000 meters depth in the Mediterranean see close to the Southern Greece coats. Activity: I was involved in the NESTOR neutrino telescope project in the Mediterranean sea in the Prof. Antonio Capone group at the University of Rome La Sapienza. I actively worked on a Data Acquisition Program to be used during the Summer 1998 test phase and I have participated to the preparation of the test itself in Pylos (Greece), which was the NESTOR detector site. The NESTOR experiment was in its preliminary testing-building phase, therefore it was not possible for me to work on the experimental data, except those taken during the tests. For that reason I collaborated with the electronics group who built the acquisition electronics and with their help I could get information for the DAQ program. The NESTOR electronics had been designed and built in order to receive and digitize the analog signals coming from the photomultiplier tubes, to collect these information, together with timing, synchronization and monitoring data, in a rigid digital word structure to be sent via optical cables to the data col- lecting computer. At data collection the DAQ program recognizes the data flow structure, interprets it and elaborates a basic first level trigger. Both the DAQ electronics and the DAQ program make use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). In particular the DAQ program made use of a com- mercial board (Pamette from DIGITAL), connected to an ALPHA-DIGITAL Workstation through PCI Bus, that can be programmed with suitable firmware- programming tools. In particular I used a C++ based Firmware Programming Language, developed by Dr. Mark Shand from DIGITAL (at that time). From this point of view the collaboration with Dr. Mark Shand was fundamental for the realization of the first revision of the DAQ program. I also worked on muon events simulations in NESTOR, using GEANT physics simulation package from CERN, (http://www.cern.ch) together with other

5 physics Monte Carlo tools, in order to test the energy reconstruction capability of the detector. Using the photomultiplier pulse shape collected by the Data Acquisition System, it is possible to study the correlations between muon energy and the pulse shape topological distribution in the whole detector. This study could be used to optimize the detector efficiency for the highest energies and it was possible to put a limit for NESTOR relative to neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei. • UNIVERSITY STUDIES: 1989-1994 Position: Student in Physics. Studies: I attended my university studies at the Physics Department of the Università degli Studi di Firenze. I attended High Energy and Particle Physics classes from both theoretical and experimental point of view. During my undergraduate thesis degree I had a one year fellowship sponsored by INFN (the Italian Nuclear Physics National Institute), and I worked at the Gran Sasso Underground National Laboratory. During this year I worked on the analysis of data taken by the LVD experiment, for the group of Prof. Bianca Monteleoni and under the local supervision of Prof. Irwin Pless (M.I.T.). The study consisted on comparing the experimental data with Monte Carlo simulation using different primary cosmic ray flux models in order to infer information about the cosmic ray mass composition. The measurement of single muon depth-intensity (published in Astroparticle Physics) and of double-muon bundles, was part of this data analysis.

6 Tutoring Experience

During my activity at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, I had tutoring experience with REU Summer Students (Research Experience for Undergraduate, financed by NSF) visiting the Physics Department. During the Summer 2002 I worked with Karen Bland from the James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA). The summer project was the measurement of The Angular Distribution of Downgoing Muons in the AMANDA detector at a depth of 1730m. This project is important to investi- gate the AMANDA apparatus behavior versus a well known source of high intensity cosmic muon flux. The project was presented at the American Astronomical Soci- ety (AAS) Meeting held in Atlanta. During Summer 2003 I worked with Kimberly Moody-Chappelle from the University of Arizona. The project was about the Muon Vertical Depth-Intensity Distribution at the South Pole in order to study the possibility to detect the small component of high energy muons generated by the decay of heavy charmed mesons (prompt muons). Specifically the study of the cosmic muon angular distribution measured by AMANDA as a function of depth was compared with the predicition of the prompt muon intensity, and the sensitivity for prompt muon detection could be derived. I had closely worked with You-Ren Wang during his PhD at UW-Madison for the search of point source of high energy muon neutrino in AMANDA. Experimental data from the years 2000 to 2002 had been used and upper limits had been measured and published on Phys. Rev. D. I work closely with several graduate students and post-doc fellows in several data analyses, mainly in a local effort to prepare tools and define analysis strategies for

6 IceCube analyses. We are working in the measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flux and the search of neutrinos from steady point and diffuse sources. This effort presently involved three post-docs and three graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

7 Technical Research Acquisitions

• Activities:

– Calibration and monitoring activity at Gran Sasso: I worked for the calibration of LVD detector fotomultiplier tubes, and for the detector monitoring during the data taking. – setup of counting house in Pylos Greece: I spent a few months to setup the laboratory for the NESTOR test runs to be taken in the Navarino Bay, Pylos. I installed and tested the preliminary DAQ programs used in the test. – working activity at the Geographic South Pole: I participated in the deployment of the last 2 strings of the AMANDA array in January- February 2000 and I installed and tested the dAOM Control Server/Client program during the same season. I worked on the detector re-cabling and calibration during the following season (December 2000).

7 8 Presentations 8.1 Conference Invited Talks

• Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vall`ee d’Aoste, La Thuile (AO), Italy, 2003 Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole: status of the AMANDA experiment Conference Proceeding published by INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati • XIX European Cosmic Rays Symposium (ECRS 2005), Firenze, Italy, 2004 Neutrino Astronomy and cosmic rays at the South Pole: latest results from AMANDA ans perspectives for IceCube Conference Proceeding published in Intern. Journ. of Mod. Phys. A, Vol.20, No.29 (20 November 2005) pp.6533-7068 • Weak Interactions and Neutrinos 2005 (WIN05), Delphi, Greece, 2005 talk on AMANDA-II results • Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2005 (PANIC05), Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A., 2005 The most recent results from AMANDA-II Conference Proceeding to be published by the American Institute of Physics. • XX European Cosmic Rays Symposium (ECRS 2006), Lisbon, Portu- gal, 2006 IceCube : toward a km3 neutrino telescope

8.2 Other Presentations and Seminars

• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Bonn, Germany, 2001 Atmospheric Muon Angular Distribution at the South Pole • XXVII International Cosmic Rays Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 2001 Analysis of Atmospheric Muons in AMANDA Proceedings of the Conference • XXVIII International Cosmic Rays Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, 2003 Response of AMANDA-II to Cosmic Ray Muons Proceedings of the Conference • 2nd Workshop on Methodical Aspects of Underwater/Ice Neutrino Telescopes, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 2001 Analysis of Atmospheric Muons with AMANDA • Condor Week 2003, Workshop at UW-Madison, 2003 contribution to Condor-Empowered Science at UW-Madison • Seminar at the Physics Department of Universita` degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy, 2003 Astronomia di Neutrini al Polo Sud tra AMANDA e IceCube

8 • Seminar at the Physics Department of Universita` degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza, Roma, Italy, 2005 Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole. Latest results from AMANDA and teh IceCube era • Seminar at the Physics Department of Universita` degli Studi di Cata- nia, Catania, Italy, 2006 Neutrino Astronomy and IceCube Performance

9 Publication List 9.1 Journal Publication List

• 1999-2007 1. Observation of high-energy neutrinos using Cherenkov detectors embedded deep in the Antarctic ice AMANDA Coll Nature, 410, 441, 22 March 2001, no. 6827 2. Search for supernova neutrino bursts with the AMANDA detector AMANDA Coll Astropart. Phys. 16-4, 345 (2002) 3. Observation of High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos with AMANDA AMANDA Coll Phys. Rev. D 66, 012005 (2002) 4. Results from AMANDA AMANDA Coll Mod. Phys. Lett. A17, 2019 (2002) 5. Limits to the muon ﬂux from WIMP annihilation in the center of the Earth with the AMANDA detector AMANDA Coll Phys. Rev. D 66, 032006 (2002) 6. Search for Neutrino-Induced Cascades with the AMANDA De- tector AMANDA Coll Phys. Rev. D 67, 012003 (2003) 7. Search for Point Sources of high Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA AMANDA Coll Ap. J. 583, 1040 (2003) 8. Limits on Diﬀuse Fluxes of High Energy Extra-Terrestrial Neu- trinos with the AMANDA-B10 Detector AMANDA Coll Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 251101 (2003) 9. Sensitivity of the IceCube detector to astrophysical sources of high energy muon neutrinos IceCube Coll Astropart. Phys., 20-5, 507 (2004) 10. Muon track reconstruction and data selection techniques in AMANDA AMANDA Coll Nucl. Instru. Meth. A, 524, 169 (2004) 11. Calibration and Survey of AMANDA with the SPASE Detectors AMANDA/SPASE Coll Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, 522-3, 347 (2004)

9 12. Measurement of the cosmic ray composition at the knee with the SPASE-2/AMANDA-B10 detectors AMANDA Coll Astropart. Phys., 21-6, 565 (2004) 13. Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA- II AMANDA Coll Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 071102 (2004) 14. Search for neutrino-induced cascades with AMANDA AMANDA Coll Astropart. Phys., 22-2, 127 (2004) 15. Flux limits on ultra high energy neutrinos with AMANDA-B10 AMANDA Coll Astrop. Phys., 22, 339 (2005) 16. Search for extraterrestrial point sources of high energy neutrinos with AMANDA-II using data collected in 2000-2002 IceCube Coll Phys. Rev. D, 71, 077102 (2005) 17. Limits to the muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA detector IceCube Coll Astropart. Phys., 24, 459 (2006) 18. The IceCube prototype string in AMANDA IceCube Coll Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 556, 169 (2006) 19. First Year Performance of The IceCube Neutrino Telescope IceCube Coll, Astropart. Phys. 26, 155 (2006) 20. Optical Properties of Deep Glacial Ice at the South Pole IceCube Coll, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D13203 (2006) 21. On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes IceCube Coll, Astropart. Phys. 26, 282 (2006) 22. Limits on the muon flux from neutralino annihilations at the center of the Earth with AMANDA IceCube Coll, Astropart. Phys. 26, 129 (2006) 23. Signal Probability estimation with penalized likelihood method on weighted data F. Lu, G.C. Hill, G. Wahba and P. Desiati; Statistica Sinica 16, 459 (2006) 24. Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of December 27th, 2004 with the AMANDA- II detector IceCube Coll, Phys.Rev.Lett. 97, 221101 (2006) 25. Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope IceCube Col, Phys.Rev. D 75, 102001 (2007) 26. Search for High Energy Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts with the AMANDA Detector IceCube Coll submitted to Astrophysical Journal 27. Multi-year search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA- II IceCube Coll submitted to Phys. Rev. D

10 28. Light tracking for glaciers and oceans: Scattering and absorption in heterogeneous media with Photonics J. Lundberg, et al., submitted to NIM A

11 • 1998-1999

1. Data Acquisition Electronics for NESTOR Experiment: Project and Tests F. Ameli, M. Bonori, S. Bottai, A. Capone, F. Curti, P. Desiati, G. De Marchis, F. Massa, R. Masullo, L. Piccari, I. Vannucci Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 423, 146 (1999). • 1994-1997

1. Neutrino-induced and atmospheric single-muon ﬂuxes measured over ﬁve decades of intensity by LVD at Gran Sasso Laboratory LVD Collaboration Astropar. Phys., Volume 3 (1994), No. 4, pagg. 311-320.

12 9.2 Preprints/Proceedings List

• 2006

1. Proposal to upgrade the MIPP experiment FERMILAB-PROPOSAL-0960 [MIPP Collaboration], arXiv:hep-ex/0609057. 3 2. IceCube: Toward a km Neutrino Telescope P.Desiati et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of ECRS 2006, Lis- bon, Portugal, arXiv:astro-ph/0611603. 3. IceCube: The state of the art T.Montaruli et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of Vulcano 2006, arXiv:astro-ph/0608140. 4. Status of IceCube in 2005 A.Karle et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of VLVnT2, Oct. 2005, Catania, Italy, arXiv:astro-ph/0608139. 5. From AMANDA to IceCube P.O.Hulth et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of NO-VE 2006, Neutrino Oscillations in Venice, Italy arXiv:astro-ph/0604374. 6. Astroparticle Physics with High Energy Neutrinos: from AMANDA to IceCube F.Halzen et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Review for EPJC, arXiv:astro- ph/0602132. 7. Latest results from AMANDA-II P.Desiati et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of PANIC05, arXiv:astro- ph/0601571. 8. First Results from IceCube S.Klein et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of PANIC05, arXiv:astro- ph/0601269. • 2005

1. Multi-messenger studies with AMANDA/IceCube: observations and strategies E.Bernardini et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of the 7th Work- shop on Towards a Network of Atmospheric Cherenkov Detectors 2005, arXiv:astro-ph/0509396. 2. Contributions to the 29th ICRC, Pune, India The IceCube Collaboration, arXiv:astro-ph/0509330. 3. From AMANDA to IceCube M.Ribordy et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Proceedings of NANP05, Dubna, Russia, arXiv:astro-ph/0509322. 4. New results from the AMANDA neutino telescope The IceCube Collaboration, Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.145:319-322,2005.

13 • 2004

1. Latest results from AMANDA-II and perspectives for IceCube P.Desiati et al. [IceCube Collaboration], 10th ECRS, Florence, Italy, Int. Journ. of Mod. Phys. A Vol. 20, No. 29 (2005) 2. Results from the AMANDA neutrino telescope C.de los Heros et al. [IceCube Collaboration], Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.136:85- 92,2004. 3. Results from the AMANDA detector P.Olbrechts et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Acta Phys. Polon. B 35, 1919 (2004). 4. New results from the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array J.Ahrens et al. [The AMANDA Collaboration], Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.143:343- 350,2005, arXiv:astro-ph/0409423. 5. Status of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory J.Ahrens et al. [IceCube Collaboration], New Astron.Rev.48:519-525,2004. 6. AMANDA: Status and latest results M.Ackermann et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Contributed to 39th Ren- contres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Uniﬁed Theories, La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, arXiv:hep-ex/0405035. 7. The IceCube project C.Spiering et al. [The IceCube Collaboration], VLVnT Workshop on Tech- nical Aspects of a Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope in the Mediter- renean Sea, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, arXiv:astro-ph/0404090. • 2003

1. Physics and operation of the AMANDA-II high energy neutrino telescope AMANDA Coll arXiv:astro-ph/0211269 2. The Amanda Search For High Energy Neutrinos From Gamma- Ray Bursts AMANDA Coll AIP Conf. Proc. 662, 150 (2003) 3. Results From The Amanda Telescope AMANDA Coll Nucl. Phys. A 721, 545 (2003) 4. Recent results from the AMANDA experiment P.Niessen et al. for AMANDA Coll 38th Rencontres of Moriond (2003), arXiv:astro-ph/0306209 5. Neutrino astronomy at the South Pole: Status of the AMANDA experiment P.Desiati et al. for AMANDA Coll Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d’Aoste (2003, arXiv:astro-ph/0306536) 6. Results from the AMANDA neutrino telescope J.Ahrens et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], 10th International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, Italy (2003)

14 7. XXVIII International Conference on Cosmic Rays - TSUKUBA (Japan) 2003 AMANDA/IceCube Collaboration – Search for Diﬀuse Fluxes of Extraterrestrial Muon-Neutrinos with the AmANDA detector (G. Hill, M. Leuthold, J. Cooley) – Search for High Energy Neutrinos of All ﬂavors with AMANDA- II (M. Kowalsky) – AMANDA-B10 Limit on UHE Muon-Neutrinos (S. Hundert- mark) – Search for Extraterrestrial Point Sources of Neutrinos with AMANDA-II (T. Hauschildt, D. Steele) – Response of AMANDA-II to Cosmic Ray Muons (P. Desiati) – Atmospheric Neutrino and Muon Spectra Measured with the AMANDA-II detector (H. Geenen) – Cosmic Ray Flux Measurement with AMANDA-II (D. Chirkin) – Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Composition at the Knee with the SPASE2/AMANDA-B10 Detector (K.Rawlins) – Searching for High Energy Muon Neutrinos from Gamma- Ray Bursts with AMANDA (R. Hardtke, K. Kuehn, M. Sta- matikos) – Search for Muons from WIMP Annihilation in the Center of the Earth with the AMANDA-B10 Detector (P. Olbrecht) – Online search for Neutrino Bursts from Supernovæwith the AMANDA Detector (T. Feser) – New Capabilities of the AMANDA-II High Enrergy Neu- trino Telescope (W. Wagner) 8. IceCube: The next generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole J. Ahrens et al. [The IceCube Collaboration], Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 118, 388 (2003, arXiv:astro-ph/0209556) 9. Optimizing the limit setting potential of a multivariate analysis using the Bayes posterior ratio G.C.Hill, F.Lu, P.Desiati,G.Wahba, Proceeding of Statistical Problem in Particle Physics Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC (2003) • 2002

1. Observation Of High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos With Amanda A. Karle et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], AIP Conf. Proc. 549, 823 (2002). 2. Recent results on AMANDA-II K. Hanson et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Proc. of the 31st Interna- tional Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2002), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002

15 3. Physics and Operation of the AMANDA-II High Energy Neu- trino Telescope S. Barwick for AMANDA Coll Proc. of the Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 2002 4. Results from AMANDA A. Karle et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Proc. of Canadian Association of Physicists Congress (CAP 2002) Quebec City, Quebec, 2002 5. Calorimetry (GeV-TeV) in AMANDA and IceCube Telescopes th J. Lamoreaux et al. [AMANDA/IceCube Collaboration] Proc. of the 10 International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (CALOR 2002), Pasadena, California, 2002 6. The Digital Optical Module - How IceCube will Acquire Data R. Stockstad for AMANDA/IceCube Coll Proc. of the XX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2002), Mu- nich, Germany, 2002 7. International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2002), Munich, Germany, 2002 AMANDA/IceCube Col- laboration – IceCube - the Next Generation Neutrino Telescope at the South Pole (A. Karle) – Results from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Ar- ray (D. Cowen) – Search for Neutrino-Induced Cascades with the AMANDA- II Detector (M. Kowalski) 8. Results from the AMANDA Experiment th O. Bouhali for AMANDA Coll, Proc. of the 16 International Conference on Particles And Nuclei (PANIC 02), Osaka, Japan, 2002 9. Results from AMANDA C.Wiebusch et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Mod. Phys. Lett. A 17, 2019 (2002). • 2001

1. Recent Results From Amanda E.Andres et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 16S1C, 1013 (2001) 2. Results from AMANDA J.Ahrens et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Prepared for 9th International Symposium on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, Italy, 6-9 Mar 2001 3. Initial results from AMANDA J.Ahrens et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], 21st Rencontres de Moriond Workshop on Very High-Energy Phenomena in the Universe, Les Arcs, France, (2001) 4. Physics results from the AMANDA neutrino detector M.Kowalski et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], arXiv:hep-ph/0112083.

16 5. XXVII International Conference on Cosmic Rays - HAMBURG (Germany) 2001 AMANDA/IceCube Collaboration – The IceCube detector (A. Goldschmidt) – Performance Studies for the IceCube Detector (M. Leuthold, H. Wissing) – Science Potential of the IceCube Detector (C. Spiering) – Search for Relativistic Monopoles for the AMANDA Detec- tor (P. Niessen) – Calibration and Survey of AMANDA with SPASE (X. Bai) – Time Calibration of the AMANDA Telescope with Cosmic- Ray Muons (D. Cowen, K.Hanson) – Analysis of Atmospheric Muons with AMANDA (P. Desiati, W. Rhode) – Supernova Neutrino-Burst Search with the AMANDA De- tector (T. Neunhöffer) – Search of Cascade-like Events in the AMANDA-B10 Detec- tor (I. Taboada, M. Kowalski) – The AMANDA Search for High Energy Neutrinos from Gamma- Ray Bursts (R. Hardtke, G. Barouch) – A Method to detect UHE Neutrinos with AMANDA (S. Hun- dertmark) – Search for a Diffuse Flux from Sources of High Energy Neu- trinos with AMANDA-B10 (G. Hill, M. Leuthold) – Observation of High-Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA (C. Wiebusch) – Performance of the AMANDA-II Detector (R. Wischnewski) – Potential of AMANDA-II in HE Neutrino Astrophysics (S. Barwick) 6. 2nd Workshop on Methodical Aspects of Underwater/Ice Neu- trino Telescopes, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 2001 AMANDA/IceCube Collaboration – Analysis of Atmospheric Muons with AMANDA (P. Desiati) – Potential of AMANDA-II in HE Neutrino Astrophysics (S. Barwick) – Performance Studues for the IceCube Detector (M. Leuthold, H. Wissing) – Search for UHE Neutrinos with AMANDA (S. Hundertmark) – Monte Carlo Event Generation in AMANDA (S. Hundertmark) – Pattern Recognition in AMANDA (P. Steffen) – Cascade Reconstruction in AMANDA (M. Kowalski, I. Taboada) 7. Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2001), Assergy (AQ), Italy, 2001 AMANDA/IceCube Collaboration, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 110, 507 (2002)

17 – Scientiﬁc Goals of the IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole (A. Goldschmidt) – The AMANDA-II Neutrino Telescope (R. Wischnewski) – Physics Results from the AMANDA-II Neutrino Telescope (A. Hallgren) • 2000

1. The AMANDA Neutrino Detector - Status Report AMANDA Collaboration Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 85 (2000), Pagg. 141-145 2. The AMANDA dAOM Project - an example of a distributed DAQ and Slow Control System P. Desiati, H. Leich, T. Schmidt, C. Spiering, V. Drozdov Proceeding of the International Workshop on Data Acquisition System for Neutron Experimental Facilities - DANEF 2000, Dubna 3. Results from the AMANDA high energy neutrino detector E. An- dres et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 91, 423 (2000) [arXiv:astro-ph/0009242] 4. Status of the neutrino telescope AMANDA: Monopoles and WIMPs X. Bai et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Prepared for 3rd International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics (Dark 2000), Heidelberg, Germany, 10-16 Jul 2000 5. Selected recent results from AMANDA E. Andres et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], Prepared for 30th Interna- tional Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2000), Osaka, Japan, 27 Jul - 2 Aug 2000 6. WIMP searches with AMANDA-B10 X. Bai et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], arXiv:astro-ph/0012285 • 1999

1. XXVI International Conference on Cosmic Rays - SALT LAKE CITY (USA) 1999 NEMO Collaboration

– Site characterization for a Km3 scale deep underwater astrophysical Neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea – Capabilities of an underwater Detector as a Neutrino Tele- scope and for Neutrino Oscillation Search 2. From AMANDA to IceCube: Current and future high energy neutrino telescopes at the South Pole T.Miller et al. [AMANDA Collaboration], 23rd Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory: Neutrinos in the New Millen- nium, Baltimore, Maryland (1999)

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1. Status of NESTOR, a deep sea Neutrino Telescope in the Mediter- ranean E.G. Anassontzis et al. [NESTOR Collaboration] Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 66 (1998) 247-251 2. The NESTOR project E.G. Anassontzis et al. [NESTOR Collaboration] Baikal School for Young Researchers on the Astrophysics and Microworld Physics (BSYPH 98), 11-17 Oct 1998, Irkutsk City, Russia • 1997

1. Studying Energetic Muons At The Lvd Setup M. Aglietta et al. [LVD Collaboration] Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 61, 457 (1997) 2. NESTOR: a Deep Sea Neutrino Telescope for the Mediterranean NESTOR Collaboration Preprint DFF 283/7/1997 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze Presented at XVIII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interac- tions, Hamburg 1997 3. XXV International Conference on Cosmic Rays - DURBAN (South Africa) 1997 NESTOR Collaboration

– Status of the NESTOR Project (A.Capone) – Data Transmission for NESTOR Telescope (A.Capone) – Perspectives for Neutrino Astrophysics with NESTOR (S.Bottai) • 1996

1. Study of Muon Events with the LVD Experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory Paolo Desiati Preprint DFF 243/01/1996, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze • 1995

1. XXIV International Conference on Cosmic Rays - ROMA 1995 LVD Collaboration – Description and Operational Characteristics of the LVD Ex- periment

19 – Search for neutrinos from collapsing stars with the LVD experiment – Analysis of underground events recorded in LVD correlated with γ-bursts – Experimental limit on the Solar antineutrino flux – Atmospheric single muon flux measured by LVD at Gran Sasso – Power index of pion and kaon spectrum in the atmosphere obtained by LVD – Neutrino-induced single muon flux measured by LVD at Gran Sasso – Comparison of LVD single muon angular distribution with simulated data – A study of single muon intensity structure observed in the LVD experiment – Landau energy-loss in liquid scintillator and the search for WIMPs with LVD • 1994

1. The Depth-Intensity Distribution of Single and Double Muon Events Measured by the LVD Underground Experiment in the Gran Sasso Laboratory Presented by Hong Tang at International Symposium on Cosmic Ray Physics in Tibet for LVD Collaboration, LAHSA (TIBET), 1994. 2. Present Status Of The Lvd Experiment In The Gran Sasso Lab- oratory M. Aglietta et al. [LVD Collaboration] Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 58, 2063 (1994) 3. Results of the LVD experiment at Gran Sasso M. Aglietta et al. [LVD Collaboration] Prepared for Workshop on Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics (Vulcano Workshop 1994), Vulcano, Italy, 23-28 May 1994