Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube and Beyond
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole. Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles from neutrino interactions is observed by IceCube using an array of 5160 photomultiplier tubes embedded between a depth of 1.5 km...
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Zusammenfassung: | The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope
located at the geographic South Pole. Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged
secondary particles from neutrino interactions is observed by IceCube using an
array of 5160 photomultiplier tubes embedded between a depth of 1.5 km to 2.5
km in the Antarctic glacial ice. The detection of astrophysical neutrinos is a
primary goal of IceCube and has now been realized with the discovery of a
diffuse, high-energy flux consisting of neutrino events from tens of TeV up to
several PeV. Many analyses have been performed to identify the source of these
neutrinos, including correlations with active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray
bursts, and the Galactic plane. IceCube also conducts multi-messenger campaigns
to alert other observatories of possible neutrino transients in real time.
However, the source of these neutrinos remains elusive as no corresponding
electromagnetic counterparts have been identified. This proceeding will give an
overview of the detection principles of IceCube, the properties of the observed
astrophysical neutrinos, the search for corresponding sources (including
real-time searches), and plans for a next-generation neutrino detector,
IceCube-Gen2. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1705.00383 |