IceCube reveals neutrinos emanating from galactic neighbor with a gigantic black hole. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.
IceCube measurement of atmospheric neutrino mixing using improved DeepCore calibration, data processing
When cosmic rays strike Earth’s atmosphere, they produce air showers containing atmospheric muons and neutrinos—tiny, nearly massless particles—that rain down on Earth. The atmospheric neutrinos are then detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. These atmospheric neutrinos come in three different flavors—electron, muon, and tau–and can become [...]
IceCube meets in Aachen for its spring 2023 collaboration meeting
The spring IceCube Collaboration meeting wrapped up last week in Aachen, Germany, which was hosted by RWTH Aachen University. Over 200 members of the IceCube community attended the meeting either in person or virtually. For the second straight year since the pandemic began, the biannual collaboration meeting was held in [...]
Week 18 at the Pole
IceCube winterover Hrvoje, who took the photo above, was excited to see the sun coming up again at the South Pole, except...that’s the moon and not the sun! (Of course, he knew that all along.) But what an illusion, this image of the moon—it could fool anyone. And the moon [...]