Latest results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
by
Anne Schukraft(Aachen University)
→
Europe/Berlin
Building 67, SemRm 10 (DESY Hamburg)
Building 67, SemRm 10
DESY Hamburg
Description
With an instrumented volume of 1km^3 of Antarctic ice, the IceCube Neutrino
Observatory is the largest neutrino detector in the world. It is able to
detect neutrinos with GeV to EeV energies and therefore covers a broad range
of topics in particle and astroparticle physics. High-energy neutrinos from
beyond our Earth and Galaxy would be ideal messenger particles to explore
the yet unknown sources and acceleration mechanism of cosmic rays, because
neutrinos propagate unaffected through the Universe. In searches for
point-like steady and transient neutrino sources as well as diffuse neutrino
fluxes, the completed IceCube detector reaches an unprecedented sensitivity.
The large statistics of neutrinos and muons from cosmic ray air showers
detected with the IceCube detector as well as with its surface component
IceTop allows for cosmic ray anisotropy, spectrum and composition
measurements around the knee. The study of neutrinos below 100 GeV with
IceCube's low-energy extension DeepCore supplements classical neutrino
oscillation experiments with its sensitivity to the deficit of atmospheric
muon neutrinos at 25 GeV and searches for neutrinos from the annihilation of
dark matter. This talk will summarize recent results.
