Uppsala UniversityProceedings of the first Workshop on Exotic Physics with Neutrino Telescopes

• Main Author: Carlos P. De Los Heros
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Nestor; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.317.7739; http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0701333v1.pdf

Sweden, between September 20-22, 2006. The main idea behind the organization of the workshop was to discuss the possibilities of using large–scale neutrino telescopes to study physics topics beyond the search for astrophysical point sources of neutrinos, which constitutes the main rationale for the construction of such detectors. The label ’exotics ’ is therefore to be understood in this spirit. Indeed many of the topics discussed in the workshop were not ’exotic ’ at all in a generic sense. The workshop was based on several review talks giving an overview of relevant subjects, and contributed talks from experiments and theorists touching upon more detailed developments. The smaller neutrino detectors, MACRO, Baksan and Super-K and the large– scale neutrino telescopes already in operation, Baikal and AMANDA, reviewed the status of their analyses and results on topics ranging from particle searches to tests of fundamental laws, proving that their detection techniques can produce competitive limits in comparison with present accelerator results. The next–generation experiments, IceCube at the South Pole and ANTARES and NESTOR in the Mediterranean