Meet Jocelyn Argueta, our 2019 PolarTREC educator

Posted on by Madeleine O'Keefe
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IceCube’s South Pole crew will have another pair of helping hands (and flippers) this summer season: Jocelyn Argueta will be at the Pole from November 30 to December 27 as our 2019 PolarTREC educator. (As for the flippers…keep reading to find out.)
Jocelyn is a bilingual scientist-performer with Phantom Projects Theatre Group in La Mirada, California. She has a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Irvine, and has her own show based around her character, Jargie the Science Girl! […]

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IceCube featured in Supercomputing 2019 keynote address

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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory recently took center stage at Supercomputing 2019—the largest high-performance computing conference in the world—when NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, gave a keynote address. In it, Huang highlighted science projects using NVIDIA hardware and forthcoming products that focus on scientific innovation. One of these projects involved IceCube. […]

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Putting neutrino masses in their place (soon!) with the IceCube Upgrade and JUNO

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Neutrino mass ordering is one of the foremost problems in neutrino physics today. But two new neutrino oscillation experiments are on the horizon—the IceCube Upgrade and JUNO. So the IceCube Collaboration and the JUNO Collaboration studied the combined performance of their respective experiments, which employ very distinct and complementary routes in order to resolve the neutrino mass ordering. In a paper submitted recently to Physical Review D, they show that a combined analysis could eliminate the wrong mass ordering in as few as three years from the start of data taking. […]

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Meet Shaun O’Boyle: Photographer of Antarctica

Posted on by Madeleine O'Keefe
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American photographer Shaun O’Boyle is about to embark on his third Antarctic expedition. His unique trips are possible through the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers (AAW) Program, which has sent him to McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, and now the South Pole. On this trip, O’Boyle plans on photographing IceCube’s scientific instruments. […]

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What can cascade events tell us about neutrino sources?

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Cascade events are more difficult to reconstruct than tracks, which are usually used in searches for astrophysical neutrino sources, but cascades have their own advantages, including providing a better measurement of neutrino energy. In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, the IceCube Collaboration outlined recent results from a source search that used seven years of data from cascade events. While they did not find any statistically significant sources of neutrino emissions, this work is an improvement on the previous source search with cascades. […]

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