[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Colloquium today at 14:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Fri 2012-11-23 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Darren Grant (University of Alberta)

Title:     Recent results from IceCube

Abstract: The IceCube neutrino observatory is the world's largest high-energy neutrino telescope, utilizing the deep Antarctic ice as the Cherenkov detector medium.  In December 2010 the last of the observatory's 86 strings of optical detectors was deployed, completing the approximate cubic-kilometer array.  With the addition of a low-energy extension, called DeepCore, the observatory has very high neutrino detection efficiency for energies ranging from ~10 GeV to a few EeV.  The most recent results from the observatory's broad physics efforts will be discussed, including those from an emerging particle physics program that may lead to potential future detector upgrades at lower energy thresholds.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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