ICRC2015

Session

Parallel NU 02

31 Jul 2015, 14:00

World Forum

1379. Status of the PINGU detector

Ken Clark (University of Toronto)

31/07/2015, 14:00

NU-IN

Oral contribution

Scientists have created the world's largest neutrino telescope, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, in one of the planet’s most extreme environments at South Pole Station Antarctica. Completed in 2010, and instrumenting more than a cubic-kilometre of ice, IceCube also includes a low-energy detector array, called DeepCore, that has performed world-leading indirect dark matter searches and very...

1014. All-flavour high-energy neutrino astronomy with KM3NeT/ARCA

Paolo Piattelli (INFN)

31/07/2015, 14:18

NU-IN

Oral contribution

The recent discovery by the IceCube collaboration of a high-energy neutrino flux of extra-terrestrial origin has opened a new observational window on the Universe. However, unambiguous identification of the emitting neutrino sources will require next generation neutrino telescopes with full sky coverage. The KM3NeT Collaboration aims at building a research infrastructure in the depths of the...

532. KM3NeT - ORCA: Measuring neutrino oscillations and the mass hierarchy in the Mediterranean

Juergen Brunner (CPPM)

31/07/2015, 14:36

NU-IN

Oral contribution

The atmospheric flux of neutrinos has traditionally been seen as a background to the detection of an astrophysical neutrino signal. In recent years however, it has been realised that in the few-GeV range, this flux holds the key to resolving a fundamental question of particle physics: that of the neutrino mass hierarchy, i.e. whether the mass eigenstate $\nu_3$ is heavier (normal hierarchy) or...

741. The IceCube-Gen2 High Energy Array

Erik Blaufuss (University Of Maryland)

31/07/2015, 14:54

NU-IN

Oral contribution

Given recent observations of an astrophysical flux of neutrinos by the IceCube neutrino observatory, the design of the next generation Antarctic neutrino observatory is well underway. The IceCube Gen2 high-energy array will instrument a $\sim10\,\mathrm{km}^3$ volume of clear glacial ice at the South Pole to deliver substantial increases in the observed astrophysical neutrino sample for all...

1170. Neutrino Telescope Array (NTA): Prospect towards Survey of Astronomical $\nu_\tau$ Sources

Prof. George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University)

31/07/2015, 15:12

NU-IN

Oral contribution

By separating $\nu_{\tau}\to\tau$ conversion from $\tau$-shower generation, the Earth-skimming $\nu_{\tau}$ method allows for huge target mass and detection volume simultaneously. In part motivated by recent IceCube astrophysical PeV neutrino events, the planned NTA observatory will have three site stations watching the air mass surrounded by Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Hualalai on...