Seminar: Radio Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos

Detection of neutrinos at ultra-high energies (UHE, E >1017eV) would be one of the most important breakthroughs in astroparticle physics in the 21st century and would open a new window to the most violent phenomena in our universe. Their small flux and cross-section require the instrumentation of huge volumes which can be achieved with a sparse array of radio detector stations installed in polar ice sheets.

In this seminar, I will present the status of radio detection of UHE neutrinos. I will give an overview of the landscape of radio-neutrino experiments and explain the detection principle. I will report on the results from the pilot arrays ARA and ARIANNA, the status of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) that is currently being constructed and the plans for the IceCube-Gen2 observatory at the South Pole. I will briefly discuss how we use deep learning to accelerate the research field and report on my ERC project on AI based optimization of future radio neutrino detectors.

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We shall leave for lunch at around 12:15. There will be fika after the seminar.