Astronomy Seminar
| Date/Time: | Friday, 10 Apr 2015 at 4:10 pm |
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| Location: | 38 Physics |
| Contact: | Steve Kawaler, Physics and Astronomy |
| Phone: | 515-294-5440 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole consists of a cubic-kilometer ice-Cherenkov neutrino detector deep in the glacial ice and a square kilometer array at the surface that detects cosmic-ray extensive air-showers. Thanks to its large size, stability coupled with advances in hardware and analysis techniques, IceCube has conclusively established the existence of a flux high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. This result will be discussed in the context of the history of the experiment along with a look towards the future.