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IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory.
Neutrinos.
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Bowen, Mark (Mark Stander)
IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory.
Neutrinos.
MARC Display
The telescope in the ice : inventing a new astronomy at the
South
Pole
/ Mark Bowen.
by
Bowen, Mark (Mark Stander)
St. Martins Press, c2017.
Call #:
522.686 B786t
Subjects
IceCube
South
Pole
Neutrino
Observatory
.
Neutrinos.
ISBN:
9781137280084 (hc.)
1137280085 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Inventing a new astronomy at the
South
Pole
Description:
viii, 424 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Making mistakes -- Part I. The birth and youth of the
neutrino
-- This crazy child -- Infancy and youth -- From poltergeist to particle -- Part II. The dream of
neutrino
astronomy -- Wisconsin-style physics -- Peaceful exploration by interested scientists throughout the world -- Science at its best -- Part III. Touching the mystery -- Solid-state DUMAND -- Enter Bruce -- The crossover -- A supernova of science -- Doubling down -- Glory days -- Night on the ice -- The first nus -- The Peacock and Eva events -- Y2K at
Pole
-- Part IV. The real thing -- Sometimes you get what you ask for -- No new starts -- The coming of Yeck -- Failure and success -- As quickly as it all began... -- Crossing the threshold -- Epilogue: The dawn of multi-messenger astronomy.
Summary:
The
IceCube
Observatory
has been called the one of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic
South
Pole
,
IceCube
is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It employs a cubic kilometer of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the
neutrino
. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy.
IceCube
is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. And since the
neutrino
is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground.
Neutrino
physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and
IceCube
is at the forefront. The Telescope in the Ice is, ultimately, a book about people and the thrill of the chase: the struggle to understand the
neutrino
and the pioneers and inventors of
neutrino
astronomy. It is a success story.
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