Astroparticle Physics with the IceCube Neutrino and Cosmic Ray Observatory at the South Pole and a High-Energy Extension of One complete BAS BigRAID system (IceCube) Ghent University
Since the discovery of cosmic rays in 1912, we still do not know what the sources of these charged energetic particles are. Cosmic rays are detected through interactions in the Earth's atmosphere, and to identify the sources, one must determine the composition by measuring the secondary particles produced. However, the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos by IceCube has ushered in a new era called neutrino astronomy and heralded as the "breakthrough of 2013." Neutrinos are excellent astrophysical messengers; they interact only weakly and point back to their source. The sources of ...