March 13
The Installation of the IceCube Upgrade
Speaker: Rachel Proctor-Murphy, UMD
Abstract: IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer detector located at the South Pole. The original IceCube array was completed in 2011 and since its completion, IceCube has detected high energy astrophysical neutrinos, measured the astrophysical diffuse flux, and identified three astrophysical neutrino sources. This past winter over 50 people from IceCube deployed to the South Pole to install the first upgrade to the detector in almost 15 years. In this talk I will discuss the challenges and logistics of installing a detector at the South Pole, the science goals of the Upgrade, and my experience living and working in Antarctica for two months.
Host: Jillian Chin Rastinejad & Robert Stein