Thursday, September 30, 2010, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
A. Kappes, University of Erlangen
Abstract:
Even 100 years after their discovery, the origin of cosmic rays still
remains a mystery. Though large progress has been made in measuring
their spectrum and high-energy gamma rays have been observed from a
large number of sources in the near and distant universe, the results
have been elusive with respect to the identification of the sources of
cosmic rays. One of the main missions of neutrino telescopes is the
localization of these sources. With the nearing completion of IceCube,
for the first time we advance into a sensitivity region where the
first observation of cosmic high-energy neutrino sources is
likely. After an introduction to neutrino astronomy and neutrino
telescopes, the talk presents the current status and latest results
from the IceCube detector, focusing on searches for Galactic and
extragalactic sources of high-energy neutrino emission. At the end, an
outlook into the future of neutrino astronomy is given.