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Source: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Illustration by: Dan Brennan.
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Caption: Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of physics and principal investigator of the UW IceCube Project.
Photo by: Bryce Richter / UW–Madison
Date: 2013
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Caption: Event 14: Aug. 9, 2011
This is the second highest-energy neutrino ever observed, with an estimated energy of 1.04 PeV. IceCube physicists named it Bert. Twenty-eight events with energies around and above 30 TeV were observed in an all-sky search, conducted between May 2010 and May 2012, for high-energy neutrino events with vertices contained in the IceCube neutrino detector.
Credit: IceCube Collaboration
Date: Aug. 9, 2011
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Caption: The IceCube Lab in March, 2012
The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for use by any member of the IceCube Collaboration.
Credit: Sven Lidstrom. IceCube/NSF
Date: March, 2012
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