12–23 Jul 2021
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Searching for neutrino transients below 1 TeV with IceCube

16 Jul 2021, 18:00
1h 30m
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Talk NU | Neutrinos & Muons Discussion

Speaker

Michael Larson (University of Maryland)

Description

Recent observations of GeV gamma-rays from novae have led to a paradigm shift in the understanding of these objects. While it is now believed that shocks contribute significantly to the energy budget of novae, it is still unknown if the emission is hadronic or leptonic in origin. Neutrinos could hold the key to definitively differentiating between these two scenarios, though the energies of such particles would be much lower than are typically targeted with neutrino telescopes. IceCube's densely instrumented DeepCore sub-array provides the ability to reduce the threshold for observation from 1 TeV down to approximately 10 GeV. We will discuss recent measurements in this low energy regime, details of a new sub-TeV selection, and prospects for future searches for transient neutrino emission.

Keywords

Sub-TeV; Neutrino Astronomy

Subcategory Experimental Results
Collaboration IceCube

Primary authors

Michael Larson (University of Maryland) Justin Vandenbrouck (University of Wisconsin Madison) Alex Pizzuto (University of Wisconsin Madison)

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