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Astrophysical Neutrinos with IceCube

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-10-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The 1 km3^3 IcCube neutrino observatory was built to find high-energy neutrinos that are associated with the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Its 5,160 optical sensors detect Cherenkov light from the charged particles produced when neutrinos interact in the ice. In this talk, I will describe the techniques that IceCube has used to search for astrophysical neutrinos. An emphasis will be given to diffuse neutrinos (not associated with a specific source), including analyses of contained events and energetic through-going neutrinos. At the end, I will discuss multi-messenger astronomy, and present an intriguing correlation between a high-energy IceCube neutrino and a blazar in outburst.

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@article{arxiv.1809.07873,
  title  = {Astrophysical Neutrinos with IceCube},
  author = {Spencer R. Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07873},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Invited talk presented at CIPANP 2018. 8 pages. v2 has a fixed typo

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