The next generation neutrino telescope, IceCube-Gen2, currently under development, will include a surface array with scintillation panels and radio antennas targeting air showers. The surface detectors will be distributed over an area of 6 square kilometres.

Sebastian Vergara-Carrasco completed a fourth year undergraduate project investigating the potential for the proposed extended surface array to distinguish different types of cosmic ray events. Sebastian used simulation to produce lateral distributions functions. Lateral distribution functions are two dimenional histograms displaying the frequency of hits on the surface array stations as a function of the amount of charge and distance of the array station from the centre of the shower. Read about his research in his project report