Category Archives: Research

Growing evidence of an astrophysical neutrino flux in IceCube: results from neutrino-induced particle showers

Results from several new analyses with partial IceCube configurations are being published these days. The [...]

Looking for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with IceCube

A few days ago, the IceCube Collaboration presented strong evidence for an extraterrestrial neutrino flux [...]

HAWC explores gamma-ray astronomy

The above image depicts HAWC as it will appear when construction is complete in 2014. [...]

Published in Science: Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

Today, nearly 25 years after the pioneering idea of detecting neutrinos in ice, the IceCube [...]

Maruyama named APS Woman Physicist of the Month

Reina Maruyama, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and faculty member at the Wisconsin [...]

IceCube reveals two neutrinos over 1 PeV

Last June, attendees at the Neutrino 2012 international conference heard about two rare events observed [...]

High Energy HAWC Results at APS

Image: HAWC Collaboration As covered in a recent BBC article, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophyics Center [...]

IceCube reveals interesting high-energy neutrino events

Each of the white dots represents an optical module in the IceCube neutrino detector. The [...]

IceCube high school internship program launches in Madison, WI

Students working together on an LED activity. The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) is [...]

Cosmic Rays: 100 years of mystery

Little is known about the ultra high-energy cosmic rays that regularly penetrate the atmosphere. Recent [...]