Speaker
Anna Bernhard
(TU München)
Description
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the geographic southpole was designed
to study and discover high energy neutrinos coming from both, galactic and
extragalactic astrophysical sources. Since its completion in 2010, the detector
consists of 86 strings with 60 digital optical modules, each deployed in a depth of
1450 to 2450m in the antarctic ice, as well as a surface component called IceTop
with additional 324 DOMs . The analyses that have been done with IceCube cover a
wide range of physics aspects, such as atmospheric oscillation studies or the search
for the origin of cosmic rays and others. A promising way to get insights into the
cosmic ray production is the study of arrival directions, not only of cosmic rays, but
also of neutrinos. Following up the more generic point source search, we have
investigated deviations from isotropy using a 2pt-correlation function based on the
same sample of events. We will present the status of this anisotropy study for
neutrinos and discuss on implications and possible constraints.
Author
Anna Bernhard
(TU München)
Co-author
Sirin Odrowski
(University of Alberta)
