High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: where do we stand, where do we go?

• Main Author: Spiering, Christian
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/400212; https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2018-01180%22

With the identification of a diffuse flux of astrophysical ('cosmic') neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range, IceCube has opened a new window to the Universe. However, the corresponding cosmic landscape is still uncharted: so far, the observed flux does not show any clear association with known source classes. In the present talk, I sketch the way from Baikal-NT200 to IceCube and summarize IceCube's recent astrophysics results. Finally, I describe the present projects to build even larger detectors: GVD in Lake Baikal, KM3NeT in the Mediterranean Sea and IceCube-Gen2 at the South Pole. These detectors will allow studying the high-energy neutrino sky in much more detail than the present arrays permit.