Lectures on high-energy neutrino astronomy
Jan 3, 200634 pages
Part of Proceedings, Cinvestav Advanced Summer School 2005 : Cinvestav, Mexico , 11-22 Jul 2005, 130-163
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- AIP Conf.Proc. 809 (2006) 1, 130-163
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Kilometer‐scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments covering nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and astronomy. Examples of their multidisciplinary missions include the search for the particle nature of dark matter and for additional small dimensions of space. In the end, their conceptual design is very much anchored to the observational fact that Nature produces protons and photons with energies in excess of 1020 and 1013 eV, respectively. The cosmic ray connection sets the scale of cosmic neutrino fluxes. In this context, we discuss the first results of the completed AMANDA detector and the science reach of its extension, IceCube. Similar experiments are under construction in the Mediterranean. Neutrino astronomy is also expanding in new directions with efforts to detect air showers, acoustic and radio signals initiated by super‐EeV neutrinos. The outline of these lectures is as follows: • Introduction • Cosmic Neutrinos Associated with the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays • Why Kilometer‐Scale Detectors? • Blueprints of Cosmic Accelerators: Gamma Ray Bursts and Active Galaxies • High Energy Neutrino Telescopes: Methodologies of Neutrino Detection • High Energy Neutrino Telescopes: Status- 96.50.-e
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- neutrino detection
- cosmic ray apparatus
- astronomical telescopes
- cosmic ray neutrinos
- lectures
- neutrino: astrophysics
- dark matter
- space-time: higher-dimensional
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