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IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos

by Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin, US)

Europe/Stockholm
Oskar Klein salen

Oskar Klein salen

Description
The IceCube project has transformed one cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector. The instrument detects 100,000 neutrinos per year in the GeV to PeV energy range. Among those, we have recently isolated a flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. I will discuss the instrument, the analysis of the data, and the significance of the discovery of cosmic neutrinos.