Astrophysical Neutrinos with IceCube
Abstract
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 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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2018
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1809.07873
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180907873K
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- Invited talk presented at CIPANP 2018. 8 pages. v2 has a fixed typo