Seminar of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of University of Wrocław
12:15, 14-03-21 UWr, pl. Maksa Borna 9, sala 163
High energy neutrino astronomy - a glimpse to the promised land
prof. Christian Spiering
DESY Zeuthen
First ideas to build a large underwater neutrino detector started in
1973. After a fourty-year march we now are close to the promised land:
IceCube, the cubic kilometer neutrino telescope at the South Pole
reports high-energy neutrino events which apparently cannot be
explained by interactions of neutrinos generated in the Earth's
atmosphere. These observations are opening a third window to the
high-energy universe (after charged cosmic rays and gamma rays). The
talk gives a short introduction into history, physics goals and
functional principles of neutrino telescopes and then focuses to the
results obtained during the last 2 years by IceCube. A discussion of
future perspectives of the field will conclude the talk.
