Justin Vandenbroucke

I received my PhD from UC Berkeley in December 2009 for work on the IceCube neutrino telescope.  I focused on the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS).  SPATS is an array of acoustic sensors and transmitters that we built and operated to measure the acoustic properties of South Pole ice.  The acoustic technique could be used to extend the high energy sensitivity of IceCube and detect GZK neutrinos.  With SPATS we measured the sound speed, noise level, background transients, and acoustic attenuation in South Pole ice.

Selected publications

Measurement of separate cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Fermi LAT Collaboration. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 011103 (2012). arXiv:1109.0521.

TARGET: A multi-channel digitizer chip for very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes. K. Bechtol et al. arXiv:1105.1832.

Physics and astrophysics with gamma-ray telescopes.  J. Vandenbroucke, for the Fermi LAT collaboration. Invited review at Neutrino 2010. arXiv:1012.0849.

Search for acoustic signals from ultrahigh energy neutrinos in 1500 km^3 of sea water.  N. Kurahashi, J. Vandenbroucke, and G. Gratta.  Phys. Rev. D 82, 073006 (2010).   arXiv:1007.5517.

Discovery of a GeV blazar shining through the Galactic plane.  J. Vandenbroucke et al.  ApJ Letters, 718:L166 (2010).   arXiv:1004.1413.

Measurement of Sound Speed vs. Depth in South Pole Ice for Neutrino Astronomy.  IceCube Collaboration (R. Abbasi et al.).  Astroparticle Physics 33, 277 (2010).   arXiv:0909.2629.

Data Acquisition Embedded in the Antarctic Ice Sheet.  J. Vandenbroucke.  Embedded Computing Design magazine, 2008.

Measurement of Acoustic Properties of South Pole Ice for Neutrino Astronomy.  J. Vandenbroucke, for the IceCube Collaboration.  NIM A604 (2009) S164-S170.  arXiv:0811.1087.

Summary: Acoustic Detection of EHE neutrinos.  J. Vandenbroucke.  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 60 (2007) 101-106.  astro-ph/0611503.

Feasibility of Acoustic Neutrino Detection in Ice: First Results from the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS).  J. Vandenbroucke, for the SPATS group.  Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (2008).  arXiv:0708.2089.

Simulation of a Hybrid Optical/Radio/Acoustic Extension to IceCube for EHE Neutrino Detection.  J. Vandenbroucke et al.  Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 21 (2006) 259-264.  astro-ph/0512604.

Experimental Study of Acoustic Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Detection.  J. Vandenbroucke, G. Gratta, and N. Lehtinen.  The Astrophysical Journal, 621:301-312 (2005).  astro-ph/0406105.