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, [...]