Colloquia

High-energy Neutrino Astrophysics: Looking at the Universe through the polar ice

by Prof. Elisa Bernardini (University of Padova)

Europe/Athens
Description
IceCube is the first detector of its kind, built to probe the existence of neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources in the Universe.
Completed in the year 2010 after seven years of construction at South Pole, IceCube opened a new observational window onto the Universe in 2013 with the discovery of a diffuse flux of multi-TeV cosmic neutrinos. Five years later, IceCube and partner telescopes announced the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos: the blazar TXS 0506+056. This last year, the first-time observation of a Glashow resonance event was reported, demonstrating the ability of IceCube to do fundamental physics.
 
The seminar focuses on Neutrino Astroparticle Physics and Multi-messenger Astrophysics. It introduces the working principles of high-energy neutrino telescopes and their challenges. Milestones, discoveries and the current state of the art will be discussed.
 
 

 

Videoconference via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85134949564