Conveners
Public Talk: Neutrinos from shredded stars
- Robert Stein
Description
High-energy neutrinos were discovered by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in 2013, but their origin remains an unsolved mystery. I will present the latest results on the search for neutrino sources, which suggest that some neutrinos are produced by so-called “tidal disruption events”, the process by which stars are shredded when passing close to supermassive black holes.
