Allgemeines Physikalisches Kolloquium - SS 2014

Ort:	48149 Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 10, IG 1, HS 2
Zeit:	Donnerstag, 08.05.2014, 16 Uhr c.t.
	Kolloquiums-Kaffe: ab 15:45 Uhr vor dem Hörsaal

ice cube: the start of high-energy neutrino astronomy

Dr. Christian Spiering, DESY, Zeuthen

First ideas to build a large underwater neutrino detector started in 1973. After a fourty-year march, in 2013 we got the first glimpse of the promised land: IceCube, the cubic kilometer neutrino telescope at the South Pole has detected high-energy neutrino events which hardly can be explained by interactions of neutrinos generated in the Earth's atmosphere. These observations open a third window to the high-energy universe (after charged cosmic rays and gamma rays). The talk gives a short introduction into history, physics goals and functional principles of neutrino telescopes and then focuses to the recent IceCube results. A discussion of future perspectives of the field will conclude the talk.

Einladender: Prof. Dr. Christian Weinheimer

Im Auftrag der Hochschullehrer des Fachbereichs Physik

Prof. Dr. N.A. Stolwijk