First field season for IceCube Upgrade ongoing at the South Pole
A view of the seasonal equipment site from the first field season for the IceCube Upgrade. Image: Kurt Studt, IceCube/NSF
Search for neutrino multiplets from transient sources
Ever since high-energy astrophysical neutrinos were first observed in 2013, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has continued searching for their elusive sources. Thus far, evidence of high-energy neutrino emission has been found from the blazar TXS 0506+056, the active galaxy NGC 1068, and most recently, the Milky [...]
First IceCube search for heavy neutral leptons
Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless particles that traverse long distances across the universe, interacting with matter only through the weak force. During their journey through the atmosphere and Earth, they can transform, or “oscillate” from one “flavor”—electron, muon, and tau—to another. This phenomenon has led scientists to conclude that neutrinos [...]
Week 6 at the Pole
And just like that, summer’s over and winter begins. At the Pole last week, a bunch of winterovers stood out on the ice as the last of the summer personnel boarded their plane headed for McMurdo Station, the first leg of their trip home. Below we see front and back [...]