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High-energy Neutrino Astronomy: From AMANDA to IceCube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Francis Halzen
Francis Halzen*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

Abstract

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Kilometer-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments covering nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and astronomy. Examples of their multidisciplinary missions include the search for the particle nature of dark matter and for additional small dimensions of space. In the end, their conceptual design is very much anchored to the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 1020 and 1013 eV, respectively. The cosmic ray connection sets the scale of cosmic neutrino fluxes. In this context, we discuss the first results of the completed AMANDA detector and the reach of its extension, IceCube.

Type
I. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 13 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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