Particle Astrophysics 2011

Session

Neutrino Telescopes - A Journey - Christian Spiering, DESY

Nu Tels

29 Apr 2011, 14:30

8. Neutrino Telescopes - A Journey

Christian Spiering (DESY)

29/04/2011, 14:30

Neutrino Telescopes - A Journey - Christian Spiering

One can write the history of large neutrino telescopes as a story of leaking glass spheres, of light-scattering bubbles in ice, of the impact of the Cold War and of breaking empires, of failures and of over-optimistic assumptions. It was all of that. But more importantly, it was and is a great journey, made possible through stamina, eventual technological breakthroughs, great innovations,...