Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar: Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University, “Search for Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos”

Thursday Nov 9, 2017, 1:00 PM → 2:00 PM US/Eastern

WL 216

High-energy neutrinos are expected to be produced in cosmic-ray interactions with the solar atmosphere. The resulting neutrino flux is expected to offer insights into cosmic ray transport in the inner solar system and on solar magnetic fields. Besides the high theoretical interest in solar atmospheric neutrinos, an observed signal could be the first high-energy neutrino point source and valuable for calibration. Preliminary selection criteria and optimization studies will be discussed. We present sensitivities and the prospects to observe the solar atmospheric neutrino signal with IceCube data. The interplay with on-going dark matter searches from the Sun will be discussed.

Lunch will be served at 12:00 noon outside WLC-108.

RSVP required: https://goo.gl/forms/mF3MfnoE9FWiAZs83

Sponsored By: 

The Flint Fund, Yale Wright Lab, Yale Physics Department, and Yale University

Host: 

jayhyun.jo@yale.edu

Rott_NPA_11092017.pdf