The IceCube international particle physics project continued at the Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole. Researchers deployed light detectors deep in the clear ice to capture the light that is sometimes emitted when neutrinos pass through ice.
A Swede overwintered during the Antarctic winter 2007 and continued to work during the summer season as well. Eight more Swedes, including five drillers, participated in the summer season of 2007/08, when 18 new strings with light detectors was deployed in the ice. Before the season there were 22 working strings collecting data with the earlier neutrino telescope AMANDA. The finished telescope consists of 80 strings and several hundreds of light detectors.
Swedish principal investigator
Per Olof Hulth
Stockholm University