Friday, December 8, 2017

Stopping a neutrino beam; measuring their interaction cross-section

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Neutrinos are popularly known as the particles that go through anything and everything.  Neutrinos from beta decay can escape from the best ...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Gravity waves, Gamma-rays and gold jewelery

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It has been a bumper month for astrophysicists. On October 16th, the combined LIGO / VIRGO collaborations announced the observation of ...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Where have all the sunspots gone?

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One use for IceCube is to study solar flares, or, more generally, solar weather.  Solar weather is important; solar flares are often accompa...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

Searching for something new - beyond the "Standard Model"

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Particle and nuclear physicists face a real dilema.  Our "Standard Model" explains most of what we observe at accelerator and non-...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

Make IceCube Big Again

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As a scientific experiment, IceCube is approaching maturity.   We have collected 6 years of data with the complete detector.  In one wa...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Nailing down the astrophysical neutrinos - a new analysis

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IceCube has just released a new analysis of the astrophysical neutrino flux, using 6 years of through-going neutrino data.  The results ...
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Monday, July 25, 2016

The highest energy neutrinos

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It has been a while since I last discussed the so-called 'GZK' neutrinos, neutrinos which are produced when ultra-high energy cosmic...