Neutrinos, Supernovae & IceCube - M. Kowalski (Bonn)

jeudi 1 avr. 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Salle Grossetete (LPNHE)

IceCube, a kilometer-scale neutrino detector that is currently being constructed at the South Pole, has an unprecedented sensitive to high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. In the talk I present the status of the project and show selected initial results. I will then focus on the search for neutrino emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae, two of the prime candidate sources of high energy neutrinos. A new optical follow-up program for selected neutrino events from IceCube will be presented, that significantly improves the sensitivity of IceCube to Supernovae and other transient sources.