Thursday, November 08, 2007, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
C. Spiering,
DESY Zeuthen
Abstract:
The main goal of neutrino astrophysics at highest energies
is the understanding of the sources of energetic cosmic rays.
Based on the solid technological success of AMANDA (Antarctic
Muon And Neutrino Detector Array), IceCube, a cubic kilometre
neutrino telescope, is currently constructed at the South Pole.
Apart from high energy astronomy, AMANDA and IceCube are used
to indirectly search for dark matter and to study physics
beyond the standard model.
The talk sketches the physics motivation, summarizes the AMANDA results and describes construction and operation of IceCube.