"High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: A First Glimpse to the Promised Land? "
by
DrChristian Spiering
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Europe/Berlin
Auditorium (MPI fuer Physik)
Auditorium
MPI fuer Physik
Description
First ideas to build a large underwater neutrino detector started
in 1973. After a fourty-year march we now may be close to the promised
land: IceCube, the cubic kilometer neutrino telescope at the South
Pole reports high-energy neutrino events which hardly can be explained by
interactions of neutrinos generated in the Earth's atmosphere.
If confirmed, these observations would open 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 and ANTARES.
A discussion of future perspectives of the field will conclude the talk.