Conversion Factor Measurement for the IceCube Upgrade Camera System

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer, in-ice particle detector located at the geographic south pole comprised of several thousand digital optical modules that record the light emitted by the passage of charged particles in the Antarctic ice. In two years' time, construction will begin on the IceCube Upgrade which will deploy an additional 700 optical modules and calibration devices, such as cameras, inside of the existing detector volume. As the sensitivity of the detector is constrained by our understanding of the detector medium, the IceCube Upgrade targets a better understanding of the ice by measuring various ice parameters, such as scattering length. Currently, we are working to produce sets of simulated Upgrade camera images for different ice parameters that will be used to analyze data obtained from the Upgrade instruments after deployment. In this poster, I will describe the process of finding the "conversion factor" that describes how much intensity per pixel is due to one photon so that the photon count output from simulation may be directly compared with the data obtained from a camera measurement.