Category Archives: Research

Can cosmic rays eventually reveal their origin?

A recent work by Markus Ahlers, a John Bahcall fellow at WIPAC, has shown that [...]

Meet Gretel and Roberto, two physicists-in-training

This summer, two students worked with WIPAC throught the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at [...]

IceCube search for the ‘sterile neutrino’ draws a blank

In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, [...]

TARGET 5, enabling precision gamma-ray astronomy

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will detect gamma rays with unprecedented precision. To do this, [...]

A first search for sterile neutrinos in IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration has performed two independent searches for light sterile neutrinos, both with one [...]

HAWC reveals new look at the very high energy sky

Today, at the APS April Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, scientists operating the High-Altitude [...]

Five years since IceCube Neutrino Observatory completion

Decades ago, the aspiration to build a kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the South Pole seemed [...]

Star-forming galaxies are not the main source of IceCube neutrinos

IceCube data are stubbornly showing us only a glimpse of the extreme universe at a [...]

Unveiling the insights of your phone using cosmic rays

If learning that you can turn your smart phone into a cosmic-ray telescope was astonishing, [...]

Francis Halzen wins 2015 Balzan Prize

Francis Halzen, IceCube PI and professor at the UW–Madison. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias, WIPAC. Francis Halzen, [...]