Neutrinoastronomy from MeV to PeV energies, Prof. Lutz Köpke (Uni Mainz)

The IceCube neutrino telescope instruments the Antarctic ice at the South Pole with a grid of optical sensors. Fully completed in 2011, it is the first cubic kilometer-scale neutrino telescope collecting data. One of the main goals of IceCube is to detect astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos and to eventually identify the sources of the high-energy cosmic radiation. IceCube also provides tests of particle physics, e.g. by indirect searches for dark matter and studying neutrino oscillations. Neutrinos from galactic supernovae could shed light on the neutrino hierarchy. This is also the driving physics theme for envisaged low energy extensions both at the South Pole and the Mediterranean. The smaller Antares detector complements the search; a technical design report for the mediterranean Km3Net detector, envisaged to be substantially larger than IceCube, was completed in 2011.