Status and Perspectives of Neutrino Telescopes

por Juan de Dios Zornoza Gómez (IFIC - UW-Madison))

miércoles 21 dic. 2005 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

Neutrino telescopes had begun to open a new window to study the Universe. The fact that neutrinos only interact weakly is an important advantage to get information from very far or dense astrophysical sources. However, this also represent a challenge for their detection. Experiments like Baikal and AMANDA have shown that the idea is feasible and they are obtaining important results, constraining theoretical models and measuring the atmospheric flux. ANTARES will also join them soon, being able to observe the Galactic Center. On the other hand, larger detectors will be needed to improve the sensitivity up to the fluxes predicted by many models. The installation of IceCube has already started in the South Pole. In the Northern hemisphere, the project KM3Net is already shaping the design of a cubic kilometer detector in the Mediterranean.