“Ghosts in the ice – hunting for the universe’s most elusive particles in Antarctica”

Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/04/2019
7:00 pm

Tuesday April 9th 2019, McMaster Innovation Park Room AB, 175 Longwood Road South.

7.00pm Doors Open and Light Refreshments. 7.30pm Lecture.

Abstract: In some of the planet’s most extreme environments scientists are constructing enormous detectors to study the very rare interactions produced by neutrinos. At South Pole Station Antarctica more than a cubic kilometre of the deep glacial ice has been instrumented to construct the world’s largest neutrino detector: the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.  Designed to detect the highest energy neutrinos expected to be produced in the most violent astrophysical processes, IceCube recently announced the discovery of the first neutrinos originating from a distant supermassive black hole.  Presented will be a view into this new window to the universe and the future outlook for this rapidly evolving field.