Traditional telescopes observe light or radio waves from distant objects in the Universe. IceCube is designed to detect neutrinos, elementary particles that are expected to be produced in the hot and dense regions surrounding black holes or in the explosions of stars. In this sense, IceCube is a very unusual telescope. It is at the same time one of the biggest particle detector ever built, with an instrumented volume of 1km x 1km x 1km.

Sunrise behind the IceCube building at the South Pole (Photo. K. Rawllins)

Sweden participates in IceCube through groups in Uppsala and Stockholm. These pages are intended to give you an overview of IceCube, what are the physics topics that we study and what are the activities and interests of the Uppsala group. The "Links" section will take you to the official IceCube page as well as related pages from similar projects.

Apart from the swedish groups, the IceCube collaboration includes groups from the USA, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Japan and New Zealand. The project is supported by the Swedish Research Council, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.