Wednesday Nite at the Lab � Jeff Cherwinka, April 8th, 2009 Building ICECUBE A Neutrino Telescope at the South Pole Jeff Cherwinka University of Wisconsin Physical Sciences Lab Outline: Neutrinos � What are they, where do they come from, what can they tell us Neutrino Telescope � What it is, How it works South Pole � Why at the south pole Building IceCube � DOMs, Drilling Holes Recent trip to the South Pole Wednesday Nite at the Lab � Jeff Cherwinka, April 8th, 2009 Briefly, what is IceCube? One possible componet for this dark matter are particals named Weakly Interacting Massive Particles WIMPs WIMPs might be captured by the mass of the sun and interact there Producing lots of medium ...
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