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Interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos in IceCube
Add to Calendar 2019-01-17T15:45:00 2019-01-17T16:45:00 UTC Interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos in IceCube

Physics Colloquium

Osmond Lab (117)
Start DateThu, Jan 17, 2019
10:45 AM
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End DateThu, Jan 17, 2019
11:45 AM
Presented By
Spencer Klein, University of California Berkley

Physics Colloquium

Event Series:

IceCube has observed astrophysical neutrinos with energies up to 10 PeV (1 PeV = 10^15 eV)), 20,000 times higher in energy than are studied with particle accelerators.  They allow us to extend studies of neutrino interactions by many orders of magnitude upward in energy.  I will present two specific measurements: a measurement of the neutrino interaction cross-section, determined by measuring neutrino absorption in the Earth, and a measurement of the inelasticity, the fraction of neutrino energy transferred to the outgoing lepton.   In addition to probing neutrino physics and searching for new (beyond-standard-model) physics, these studies also allow us to make better measurements of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux.    I will also discuss planned future measurements, using a new technique: looking for coherent radio Cherenkov emission from ultra-high energy neutrino showers.  A new radio-array would instrument 100 km^3 of Antarctic ice, and could extend these studies up to 10^20 eV – beyond the energy reach of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider