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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 61: Neutrinoastronomie III

T 61.1: Group Report

Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 16:45–17:05, VMP9 SR 08

Recent results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory — •Sebastian Schoenen for the IceCube collaboration — 3. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope buried deep in the glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. It is a multi-purpose detector covering a broad physics program in high-energy neutrino astronomy and particle physics. Already the data from IceCube's first few years of operation have revealed an excess of high-energy neutrino events in multiple detection channels from a few tens of TeV up to a few PeV. The flux observed at these energies is incompatible with a purely atmospheric origin and thus confirmed the existence of a high-energy extraterrestrial neutrino flux. However, the astrophysical sources of this flux still remain unresolved. In this talk we will provide an overview about recent IceCube results in the field of neutrino astrophysics.