Francis Halzen: Catching Neutrinos at the South Pole (#276)

Francis Halzen is the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished
Professor of Physics at the University Wisconsin-Madison and
principal investigator for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the
world's largest neutrino detector, he is the Director of the
Institute for Elementary Particle Physics, and the Hilldale and
Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. A theoretician studying problems at the
interface of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, Halzen
has been working since 1987 on the AMANDA experiment, a
first-generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole. AMANDA
observations represent a proof of concept for IceCube. After six
years of construction, IceCube became operational in 2010. IceCube
searches for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources:
events like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts, and cataclysmic
phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. The IceCube
telescope is a powerful tool to search for dark matter, and could
reveal the new physical processes associated with the enigmatic
origin of the highest energy particles in nature. The most
important result from the IceCube was the clear break-through
observation of high-energy neutrinos (about 100 times more
energetic than the particles accelerated today in the world’s most
powerful machine, the LHC at CERN) in 2013, from as yet not
identified sources outside the Galaxy. This discovery has
stimulated the planning and development of even larger neutrino
telescopes, both at the South Pole and deep under the ocean.
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