27 Feb 2024
Seminars and colloquia
Time
Venue
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
Speaker(s)
Prof. Doug Cowen
Penn State
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Knowledge of physics?
Yes, knowledge of physics required
Abstract
Neutrinos are very reticent fundamental particles. Tau neutrinos make electron and muon neutrinos look positively gregarious. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has sensitivity to all three active neutrino flavors over an energy scale spanning six orders of magnitude. We report on the first high-significance measurement of the most energetic tau neutrino candidates ever observed.