Friday's Presentation -- A Phy 784

Prof. Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Drexel University

Department of Physics

“The Present and Future of

High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy”

In the past decade, neutrino astronomy went from dream to reality with IceCube producing spectacular observations of the very first neutrino sources in the sky. Last year, the diffuse emission of the Galactic Plane was observed in high energy neutrinos, making it the first non-electromagnetic view of our own galaxy. Fundamentally, the IceCube detector is a particle physics detector, and astronomical observations are only possible by teasing out the signal while the backgrounds dominate at many orders of magnitude higher. The successes of neutrino astronomy in the past decade opened a new field, and the current state of neutrino astronomy is evolving. With more future neutrino telescopes planned, the field is poised to make more discoveries.

Refreshments --  2:45
Presentation starts – 3:00p.m.