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Friday, 10 October 2025, 14:30 in AQ3149
Prof. Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
IceCube: The first decade of neutrino astronomy (physics colloquium)
Below the geographic South Pole, the IceCube project has transformed one cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector. IceCube detects more than 100,000 neutrinos per year in the GeV to 10 PeV energy range. Among those, we have isolated a flux of high-energy neutrinos originating beyond our Galaxy, with an energy flux that is comparable to that of the extragalactic high-energy gamma-ray flux observed by astronomers. With a decade of data, we have identified their first sources, which point to the obscured dense cores associated with the supermassive black holes at the centers of active galaxies as the origin of high-energy neutrinos and high-energy cosmic rays. We recently also observed neutrinos originating in our own Milky Way which is, interestingly, not a prominent feature in the neutrino sky.
Upcoming Seminars:
2025-12-01 14:30 in P8445B - Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine): Successes and challenges in neutrino cosmology and structure formation
Past Seminars:
2025-11-24 15:30 in P8445B - Gopolang Mohlabeng (SFU): Searching for light accelerated dark matter 2025-11-17 14:30 in P8445B - Afif Omar (UVic): Probing Hadronic Dark Matter Annihilation with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis 2025-11-10 14:30 in P8445B - Qinrui Liu (SFU): High-energy cosmic neutrinos: A unique window to the universe 2025-10-27 14:30 in SSB7109 - Levon Pogosian (SFU): A theorist's perspective on cosmological tensions 2025-10-20 14:30 in P8445B - Meng-Xiang Lin (SFU): Cosmological tensions and interactions between dark matter and dark energy 2025-10-10 14:30 in AQ3149 - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison): IceCube: The first decade of neutrino astronomy (physics colloquium)
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