Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, Latex2e, 4 postscript figures. Talk presented at the Nobel Symposium 129: Neutrino Astronomy, Enkoping, Sweden, Augu
Scientific paper
10.1088/0031-8949/2005/T121/015
Kilometer-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments covering nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and astronomy. Examples of their multidisciplinary missions include the search for the particle nature of dark matter and for additional small dimensions of space. In the end, their conceptual design is very much anchored to the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. The cosmic ray connection sets the scale of cosmic neutrino fluxes. In this context, we discuss the first results of the completed AMANDA detector and the reach of its extension, IceCube. Similar experiments are under construction in the Mediterranean. Neutrino astronomy is also expanding in new directions with efforts to detect air showers, acoustic and radio signals initiated by neutrinos with energies similar to those of the highest energy cosmic rays.
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