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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 87: Neutrinoastronomie 2

T 87.6: Talk

Monday, March 4, 2013, 18:00–18:15, HSZ-E03

Perspectives of the search for neutrino point sources after two years of the full detector — •Anna Bernhard and Sirin Odrowski — TU München

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the geographic southpole was designed to study and discover high energy neutrinos coming from both, galactic and extragalactic astrophysical sources. Since its completion in 2010, the detector consists of 86 strings with 60 digital optical modules, each deployed in a depth of 1450 to 2450m in the antarctic ice, as well as a surface component called IceTop with additional 324 DOMs . The analyses that have been done with IceCube cover a wide range of physics aspects, such as atmospheric oscillation studies or the search for the origin of cosmic rays and others. A promising way to get insight into the cosmic ray production is the study of arrival directions, not only of cosmic rays, but also for neutrinos. We will show the expected results of an anisotropy study for neutrinos and discuss on implications and possible constraints of these results. In addition, we will present the latest numbers on the sensitivity and the discovery potential for neutrino point source searches after five years of data taking.