High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: a Glimpse of the Promised Land

• Published in: Physics-Uspekhi
• Main Author: Spiering, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Turpion 2014
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530; South Pole; Hess; South pole
• Online Access: https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/206052; https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2015-00585%22

In 2012, physicists and astronomers celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the detection of cosmic rays by Viktor Hess. A year later, in 2013, the first evidence of extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos emerged, promising fundamental insight into the origin of cosmic rays. The evidence was obtaine...