Neutrino astrophysics: the beginning of a new era

par Juan Antonio Aguilar Sanchez (University of Geneva)

lundi 9 déc. 2013, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Amphiteatre (CPPM)

The origin of Cosmic Rays is still one of the unresolved questions of physics. Neutrino astronomy was born with the goal of identifying the sources of cosmic rays by looking at the signature of secondary cosmic neutrinos. Neutrino telescopes like AMANDA and ANTARES proved to be too small for this task and a much larger detector was needed. The recent results of the kilometer-scale IceCube detector had shown evidence for a diffuse component of astrophysical neutrinos with yet an unlocalized origin. I will review the IceCube results regarding this new observation as well as the search of neutrino point-sources. The implications for future analysis and neutrino telescopes designs will be also discussed.

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