An international team of scientists has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that can travel unhindered for billions of light years from the most extreme environments in the universe to Earth. The observations, made by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station and confirmed […]
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
The AMON team would like to congratulate Takaaki Kajita from the Super-Kamiokande (SK) Collaboration and Arthur B. McDonald from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) Collaboration for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015. Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald lead the neutrino experiments, which demonstrated that neutrinos change their flavour and thus have mass. In 1962, Z. Maki, N. […]
AMON in Physics Today
Here is a short article in the September issue of Physics Today about AMON, entitled “Spotting coincidences in astronomical signals”. Find the article here or read it in the hardcopy of Physics Today this month.