Category Archives: Research
Francis Halzen wins 2015 Balzan Prize
Francis Halzen, IceCube PI and professor at the UW–Madison. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias, WIPAC. Francis Halzen, [...]
Our summer research experience working on PINGU with researchers at Universität Mainz
The “IRES: U.S.-European International Research Experience-Particle Astrophysics for Undergraduates” program, funded by NSF and led [...]
Antarctic neutrino detector firms up cosmic neutrino sighting
Sorting through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each [...]
ARA presents first results with two complete radio stations
The ARA Collaboration announces today the first results using data taken during 10 months in [...]
The ARA Collaboration meets in Madison
Members of the ARA Collaboration during their meeting in Madison. Image: Jamie Yang, WIPAC Today, [...]
2015 GNN Dissertation Prize awarded to van Santen
Jakob van Santen in front of Bascom Hall with Bucky Badger, two of the most [...]
First search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos in ARA while future remains uncertain
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is designed as a teraton-scale ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino detector in [...]
A new year of data for IceCube
Not everyone begins a new year on January 1, right? That includes IceCubers, who decided [...]
Going green on the white continent
An Akyaryan Radio Array solar panel rests on top of a gear box before being [...]
Here comes HAWC: New observatory to seek out gamma rays
Image: HAWC Collaboration High on a sleeping Mexican volcano, a new particle astrophysics observatory is [...]