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Learning Objective: This video clip introduces the viewer to IceCube, a telescope at the South pole, peers through the Earth to open a new window onto the universe. Like its predecessor, AMANDA, IceCube will search for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. The IceCube telescope is a powerful tool to search for dark matter, and could reveal the new physical processes associated with the enigmatic origin of the highest energy particles in nature. Rather than using light, this "new window" on the universe opens using a novel astronomical messenger called a neutrino. IceCube will probe the universe by detecting these elusive subatomic particles hurting through space. PlayNote: PowerPoint .ppt file may be available by request. Please view the website for more information or contact Les Howles.
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