IceCube: Particle Astrophysics with High Energy Neutrinos

GENEVA UNIVERSITY
École de physique
Département de physique nucléaire et corspusculaire
24, quai Ernest-Ansermet
1211 Genève 4
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Monday 7 May 2012

17h. - Ecole de Physique, Auditoire Stueckelberg

IceCube: Particle Astrophysics with High Energy Neutrinos
Prof. Francis Halzen / University of Wisconsin, Madison

Construction and commissioning of the cubic-kilometer IceCube neutrino detector and its low energy extension DeepCore have been completed. The instrument detects neutrinos over a wide energy range: from 10 GeV atmospheric neutrinos to 1010 GeV cosmogenic neutrinos. We will discuss initial results based on a subsample of the ~100,000 neutrino events recorded during construction. We will emphasize the first measurement of the high-energy atmospheric neutrino spectrum, the search for the still enigmatic sources of the Galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays and for the particle nature of dark matter.

Une verrée en compagnie du conférencier sera offerte après le colloque.

Prof. Markus Büttiker

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