Tag Archives: IceCube

AMS-02

Posted on January 4, 2017 by PlatoHagel

Information gathering. Unlock Secrets of the Cosmos AMS-02 is a multipurpose magnetic spectrometer designed to measure elementary particles and nuclei to the TeV region. In the five years since its installation on the International Space Station, it has collected more … Continue reading →

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The Neutrino Sky

Posted on December 23, 2013 by PlatoHagel

A neutrino sky map based on data taken with 40 and 59 strings in the IceCube detector. Image credit: Juan Aguilar/IceCube. Astrophysical neutrinos are produced in the interactions of cosmic rays with an ambient medium of gas (protons) and photons of … Continue reading →

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How to Make a Neutrino Beam

Posted on August 24, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Hey why not get an animated view of the reasons how? It is from an Symmetry Magazine article on November of 2012. It is information worth remembering in the scheme of particle reductionism.. Neutrinos are elusive particles that are difficult … Continue reading →

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Neutrino Events in IceCube Strings

Posted on May 16, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Neutrino Events-A compilation of some cool and unique neutrino events captured by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. See Also: GRB 130427A: Highest-energy Light Ever Detected Dialogos of Eide

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Dark Matter Results From AMS II are Coming.

Posted on April 1, 2013 by PlatoHagel

  April first is always a good day to carry out some prank which will catch the believers fully engaged. So when our teachers goad us,  we realize that they are toying with the gullible and most eager ears,  as … Continue reading →

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SNOLAB Grand Opening

Posted on May 19, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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A Blue Flash in Ice

Posted on April 21, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Little is known about the ultra high-energy cosmic rays that regularly penetrate the atmosphere. Recent IceCube research rules out the leading theory that they come from gamma ray bursts. (Credit: NSF/J. Yang) Future directions  The lack of observation of neutrinos … Continue reading →

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A Message from the Past?

Posted on April 20, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The ATLAS Experiment offers the exciting possibility to study them in the lab (if they exist). The simulated collision event shown is viewed along the beampipe. The event is one in which a microscopic-black-hole was produced in the collision of … Continue reading →

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ICECUBE Neutrinos

Posted on October 27, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Another Big thank you to ICECUBE Blog. The IceCube project at the South Pole needed a new server cluster to reconstruct raw data, so it selected Dell PowerEdge servers for the HPC solution. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has just completed … Continue reading →

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ICECUBE Blogging Research Material and more

Posted on October 27, 2011 by PlatoHagel

In regards to Cherenkov Light Thinking outside the box See: A physicist inthe cancer lab Ackerman became interested in physics in middle school, reading popular science books about quantum mechanics and string theory. As an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute … Continue reading →

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