Seminari INFN

IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos

Name: IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos
Start: 2014-05-29T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-05-29T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G. Marconi

by Francis Halzen (Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Thursday 29 May 2014, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G. Marconi)

Aula Conversi

Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G. Marconi

Description

The IceCube project has transformed one cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector. The instrument detects 100,000 neutrinos per year in the GeV to PeV energy range. Among those, we have recently isolated a flux of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos. I will discuss the instrument, the analysis of the data, and the significance of the discovery of cosmic neutrinos.