Fruits of the Universe – A lunch talk with food for body and mind

by Elisa Resconi (TUM)

Thursday 12 Dec 2013, 12:30 → 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Foyer, 1st floor (Excellence Cluster Universe)

News from the South Pole: Detecting high-energy neutrinos with the IceCube experiment The IceCube experiment is one of the biggest and most fascinating detectors in modern physics. Being installed at one of the coldest and most deserted sites of the world directly at the Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole, IceCube is built to detect neutrinos, elementary and electrically neutral particles which easily penetrate matter. Neutrinos are produced in the interior of the Earth and the Sun, however, IceCube's task is to catch extragalactic very energetic neutrinos coming – very likely – from supernova remnants and relativistic jets of active galaxies. The detector volume is the ice shield itself which is transparent in depths of 2 to 2.5 km and which is pierced by cables carrying several thousand light detectors. Prof. Dr. Elisa Resconi (TU München) who is a member of the IceCube Collaboration and the Excellence Cluster Universe will present this fascinating project, comment on daily work in an about -50°C surrounding and give a status on the recent discovery of extragalactic neutrinos with IceCube. The audience is cordially invited to discuss and comment. During this 30-minutes lunch event, we will serve drinks and fingerfood. Venue: Cluster building, Foyer 1st floor, Boltzmannstr. 2, Garching