Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole: latest Results from AMANDA-II

Abstract. AMANDA-II is the largest neutrino telescope collecting data at the moment, and its main goal is to search for sources of high energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos. The detection of such sources could give non-controversial evidence for the acceleration of charged hadrons in cosmic objects li...

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Main Authors: Paolo Desiati, For The Icecube Collaboration
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2006
Subjects:
neutrino
astrophysics
cosmic rays PACS
95.85.Ry
95.55.Vj
98.54.-h
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.257.7091
http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0601571v1.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. AMANDA-II is the largest neutrino telescope collecting data at the moment, and its main goal is to search for sources of high energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos. The detection of such sources could give non-controversial evidence for the acceleration of charged hadrons in cosmic objects like Supernova Remnants, Micro-quasars, Active Galactic Nuclei or Gamma Ray Bursts. No significant excess has been found in searching for neutrinos from both point-like and non-localized sources. However AMANDA-II has significantly improved analysis techniques for better signal-tonoise optimization. The km 3-scale IceCube telescope will enlarge the observable energy range and improve the sensitivities of high energy neutrino searches due to its 30 times larger effective area.

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