Colloquium speaker, Steven Prohira (The Ohio State University) at 3:45pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please join us for the Physics Colloquium today, at 3:45 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception at 3:30PM in the Atrium. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:         Steven Prohira (The Ohio State University)
Date:               Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Time:              3:45PM
Place:             1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:              Observation of Radar Echoes from Ultra-High Energy Particle Cascades: Toward Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Astronomy at 10PeV and Beyond

Abstract: Neutrinos with energies above 1016 electronvolts have yet to be detected, but offer great opportunities for discovery, uniquely probing astrophysical sources at the highest energies and greatest distances. I am leading work to develop a new technique - using radar - to detect these neutrinos when they interact in ice. In this talk I will detail our recent, OSU-led test beam experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where our collaboration made the first definitive observation of a radar echo from an electron-beam induced particle cascade. This observation - along with our current efforts toward an in-nature prototype station described here for the first time - may lead to a new neutrino detection technology for energies unreachable by current techniques.

The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule


Also, there is the speaker/student discussion starting just after the colloquium, at 4:45pm in the Smith Seminar Room.



Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Program Coordinator
Department of Physics
1040K Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-8523 Office     (614) 292-7557 Fax
patterson.716 at osu.edu<mailto:patterson.716 at osu.edu> osu.edu<http://osu.edu/>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/physics-staff-df/attachments/20191119/39b6e75a/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 3605 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/physics-staff-df/attachments/20191119/39b6e75a/attachment.png>