Speaker
Prof.
Dawn Williams
(University of Alabama)
Description
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, completed in 2010 and located at the
geographic South Pole, is the largest neutrino telescope in the world.
IceCube includes the more densely instrumented DeepCore subarray, which
increases IceCube's sensitivity at neutrino energies down to 10 GeV.
DeepCore has recently demonstrated sensitivity to muon neutrino
disappearance from atmospheric neutrino oscillation. A further extension
is under consideration, the Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade
(PINGU) which would lower the energy threshold and increase the
sensitivity to low energy neutrino physics. In particular, PINGU would
be sensitive to the effects of the neutrino mass hierarchy, which is one
of the outstanding questions in particle physics. I will discuss the status of the
planned PINGU array.
Primary author
Prof.
Dawn Williams
(University of Alabama)
