Invited Seminars

IIHE invited seminar: Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Astrophysics with the IceCube Observatory

Name: IIHE invited seminar: Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Astrophysics with the IceCube Observatory
Start: 2016-02-26T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-02-26T15:00:00+01:00
Location: IIHE, VUB

by Dr Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Friday 26 Feb 2016, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Brussels

Jean Sacton Seminar room (1G003) (IIHE, VUB)

Jean Sacton Seminar room (1G003)

IIHE, VUB

Description

Abstract: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the Geographic South Pole, with its volume of 1 km^3, is designed to detect high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. Completed in December 2010, IceCube continues to gather valuable data to unravel the origin of cosmic rays, important to understand the mechanisms of production of energy in the cosmos. With IceCube it was possible to discover neutrinos at PeV energy scale (10^15 eV) that are produced with very high probability from not yet identified astrophysical sources. IceCube was also able to measure the energy spectrum, composition and anisotropy of high energy cosmic rays with unprecedented precision. This presentation will show the results on recent observations of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays and their astrophysical significance.