Physics Club: Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology, “IceCube and the birth of high-energy neutrino astrophysics”

IceCube is the largest neutrino telescope in operation in the World. IceCube’s main objective is neutrino astrophysics, but it has significant contributions to the search for Dark Matter, Neutrino Physics, Glaciology, Physics beyond the Standard Model, etc. In 2013, IceCube discovered an all-sky, isotropic and all-flavor, flux of ~10 TeV to ~10 PeV astrophysical neutrinos. The class or classes of this objects responsible for this flux have not been identified.
In this presentation I’ll review the technique used by IceCube for neutrino detection. I’ll discuss the motivation for doing neutrino astronomy and I’ll present the latest results by IceCube with an emphasis on astrophysics.
Host: Reina Maruyama (reina.maruyama@yale.edu)