Colloquium Dr. Chad Finley (Stockholm University)

8 november 2013

Friday 8 November, 11:00h, at Nikhef in H331

Speaker: Dr. Chad Finley (Stockholm University)

Title: "Evidence for High Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos Seen by IceCube"

Abstract:
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, built deep within the glacial ice at the South Pole, Antarctica, became fully operational in 2011. IceCube allows the study of a wide range of phenomena, from dark matter searches to neutrino oscillations to cosmic ray physics. Analyses using the first year of data from the completed detector have recently revealed strong evidence of high energy neutrinos reaching Earth from distant space. Among these are the two highest energy neutrinos ever observed. Making a definitive measurement of this extraterrestrial flux will be a major advance toward the century-old goal of understanding the origins of cosmic rays. In this talk, I will review recent highlights, and discuss the latest results and their analysis, which have also turned conventional thinking about neutrino telescopes upside down.

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