Category Archives: Research
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, [...]
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 [...]