Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9781137280084 Number of pages: 432 Dimensions: 244 x 165 mm You may also be interested in. 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. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most. Those elements include the five thin layers of the tennis-court-size.

History of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. The unfolding of the primary mirror follows the setup of other elements of the 10 billion telescope, which launched Dec. In The Telescope in the Ice,Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. the original ideas for experiments to detect neutrinos in ice was put forth in 1960. IceCube is alsothe largest particle physics detector ever built. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy. 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. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole is written by Mark Bowen and published by St.

The Telescope in the Ice by Mark Bowen