Tag Archives: cosmic rays
WIPAC scientist and collaborators develop magnetic shield to protect astronauts and computers
WIPAC's Paolo Desiati is collaborating with UW astronomy professor Elena D’Onghia and Kieran Furlong, a [...]
How do astronomers test-drive a telescope?
Graduate student Leslie Taylor helped fine-tune a high-energy gamma-ray telescope this summer. Detecting the Crab [...]
An all-sky cosmic-ray proton anisotropy search with Fermi-LAT
Collaborators from Fermi-LAT realized that the abundance of cosmic-ray protons in the LAT data set [...]
A successful ICRC 2019
It has been a week since the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference ended in Madison, [...]
36th International Cosmic Ray Conference kicks off tomorrow in Madison
The 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) kicks off tomorrow in Madison, WI. ICRC is [...]
IceCube and HAWC unite efforts to dissect the cosmic-ray anisotropy
In an attempt to better understand the anisotropy, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the HAWC [...]
Solving the mysteries of cosmic rays
Since cosmic rays were discovered in 1912, scientists have sought the origins of these mysterious [...]
APS April meeting highlights: IceCube results on neutrino oscillations and WIPAC talks
The American Physical Society meeting on astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, the so-called April [...]
Advancing neutrino, gamma-ray, and cosmic-ray astrophysics
Those of us working with high-energy neutrinos always have great expectations for a new year, [...]
Can cosmic rays eventually reveal their origin?
A recent work by Markus Ahlers, a John Bahcall fellow at WIPAC, has shown that [...]