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High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Where Do We Stand, Where Do We Go?

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With the identification of a diffuse flux of astrophysical (“cosmic”) neutrinos in the TeV–PeV energy range, IceCube has opened a new window to the Universe. However, the corresponding cosmic landscape is still uncharted: so far, the observed flux does not show any clear association with known source classes. In the present talk, I sketch the way from Baikal-NT200 to IceCube and summarize IceCube’s recent astrophysics results. Finally, I describe the present projects to built even larger detectors: GVD in Lake Baikal, KM3NeT in the Mediterranean Sea and IceCube-Gen2 at the South Pole. These detectors will allow studying the high-energy neutrino sky in much more detail than the present arrays permit.

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Spiering, C. High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Where Do We Stand, Where Do We Go?. Phys. Part. Nuclei 49, 497–507 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779618040536

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