The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole - Couverture rigide

Bowen, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137280085 ISBN 13 : 9781137280084

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

Located near the U.S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It employs a cubic kilometer of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy. IceCube is alsothe largest particle physics detector ever built. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront. The Telescope in the Ice is, ultimately, a book about people and the thrill of the chase: the struggle to understand the neutrino and the pioneers and inventors of neutrino astronomy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark Bowen is a writer, physicist. He earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in physics at MIT and worked for a decade in the medical industry. Bowen has written for Climbing, Natural History, Science, Technology Review, and AMC Outdoors. He is considered an adjunct member of AMANDA and IceCube, with full access. He lives in Vermont.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137280085
• ISBN 13: 9781137280084
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
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