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Neutrino astrophysics offers new perspectives on the Universe investigation: high energy neutrinos, produced by the most energetic phenomena in our Galaxy and in the Universe, carry complementary (if not exclusive) information about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-11 T. Chiarusi , M. Spurio

The 1 km$^3$ 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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-02 Spencer R. Klein

Current generation neutrino telescopes cover an energy range from about 10 GeV to beyond $10^9$ GeV. IceCube sets the scale for future experiments to make improvements. Strategies for future upgrades will be discussed in three energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Albrecht Karle

The observation of high energy cosmic neutrinos can shed light on the astrophysical sites and mechanisms involved in the acceleration of protons and nuclei to the high energies observed at Earth by cosmic ray detectors. More generally, high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Juan Jose Hernandez-Rey

Neutrinos offer a window to physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, with TeV-PeV energies, may provide evidence of new, "secret" neutrino-neutrino interactions that are stronger than ordinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Mauricio Bustamante , Charlotte Amalie Rosenstroem , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Next generation kilometer-scale neutrino telescopes, such as ICECUBE, can test standard model predictions for neutrino-nucleon cross sections at energies well beyond the reach of collider experiments. At energies near a PeV and higher, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Dan Hooper

We show that a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, though optimized for detecting neutrinos of TeV to PeV energy, can reveal the science associated with the enigmatic super-EeV radiation in the Universe. Speculations regarding its origin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Alvarez-Muniz , F. Halzen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is currently the largest and most sensitive detector for astrophysical neutrinos and has pioneered the field of high-energy neutrino astronomy. Despite being designed with the primary goal of identifying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Per Arne Sevle Myhr , Gwenhaël de Wasseige

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s; by the 1970s, it was realized that kilometer-scale neutrino detectors were required. The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data. The IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-15 Francis Halzen , Spencer R. Klein

While the Standard Model has experienced great predictive success, the neutrino sector still holds opportunities for surprises. Numerous ongoing and planned experiments exist to probe neutrino properties at low energies. The IceCube…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-24 Tianlu Yuan

Decades of progress have culminated in first light for high-energy neutrino astronomy: the identification of the first astrophysical sources of TeV-PeV neutrinos by the IceCube neutrino telescope, the active galactic nuclei NGC 1068 and TXS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Lisa Johanna Schumacher , Mauricio Bustamante , Matteo Agostini , Foteini Oikonomou , Elisa Resconi

Cherenkov telescopes could have the capability of detecting high energy tau neutrinos by searching for very inclined showers. If a tau lepton, produced by a tau neutrino, escapes from the Earth crust, it will decay and initiate an air…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-02 Dariusz Gora , Elisa Bernardini

This review describes telescopes designed to study neutrinos from astrophysical sources. These sources include the Sun and Supernovae emitting neutrino energies up to tens of MeV, atmospheric neutrino sources caused by cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. McDonald , C. Spiering , S. Schoenert , E. T. Kearns , T. Kajita

Neutrino telescopes, including IceCube, can detect galactic supernova events by observing the collective rise in photomultiplier count rates with a sub-second time resolution. Leveraging precise timing, we demonstrate the ability of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Jeff Lazar , Ying-Ying Li , Carlos A. Arguelles , Vedran Brdar

A search for extremely high energy cosmic neutrinos has been carried out with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The main signals in the search are neutrino-induced energetic charged leptons and their rate depends on the neutrino-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Shigeru Yoshida

Do neutrinos have sizable self-interactions? They might. Laboratory constraints are weak, so strong effects are possible in astrophysical environments and the early universe. Observations with neutrino telescopes can provide an independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-07 Ivan Esteban , Sujata Pandey , Vedran Brdar , John F. Beacom

IceCube is the first representative of the km^3 class of neutrino telescopes and currently the most sensitive detector to high-energy neutrinos. Its main mission is to search for Galactic and extragalactic sources of high-energy neutrinos,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexander Kappes

Cosmic-ray interactions with the nuclei of the Earth's atmosphere produce a flux of neutrinos in all directions with energies extending above the TeV scale. However, the Earth is not a fully transparent medium for neutrinos with energies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Andrea Donini , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jordi Salvado

With the completion of the first cubic-kilometer class neutrino telescopes, IceCube, the race for the discovery of the first cosmic high-energy neutrino sources enters into a new phase. The usage of neutrinos as cosmic messengers has the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-01 Alexander Kappes