Speaker
Description
The discovery of point sources of astrophysical neutrinos is a primary aim of neutrino astrophysics. To date, discovering such point sources has proven difficult because of the large atmospheric background neutrino telescopes must contend with. Because of this, only a handful of neutrino sources have been identified over the past 15 years. The development of high-purity detection techniques that minimize atmospheric backgrounds is thus an urgent need in neutrino astronomy.
TAMBO is a next-generation neutrino telescope designed to perform a nearly background-free measurement of the neutrino sky. This high purity is achieved by the fact that TAMBO is sensitive only to $\geq$ 1 PeV $\nu_\tau$, where the atmospheric background flux is significantly smaller than the astrophysical flux. TAMBO will comprise an array of water Cherenkov and plastic scintillator detectors deployed on the face of a deep valley, such as the Colca Canyon in the Peruvian Andes, with its unique geometry facilitating the high-purity measurement of astrophysical tau neutrinos. In this talk, I will present the prospects of TAMBO in the context of next-generation neutrino observatories and provide an overview of the roadmap of TAMBO-100, a pathfinder experiment.
| Neutrino Properties | Flavor ratios |
|---|---|
| Neutrino Telescopes & Multi-messenger | New telescope, source discovery |
| Neutrino Theory & Cosmology | Sensitivity to GZK flux |
| Data Science and Detector R&D | Will detail current R&D status of detector |
