The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Neutrino Counterparts
- Date
- May 20 (Fri) at 16:00 - 17:00, 2022 (JST)
- Speaker
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- Yannis Liodakis (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Turku, Finland)
- Venue
- via Zoom
- Language
- English
- Host
- Shigehiro Nagataki
The origin of high-energy neutrinos is fundamental to our understanding of the Universe. Apart from the technical challenges of operating detectors deep below ice, oceans, and lakes, the phenomenological challenges are even greater. The sources are unknown, unpredictable, and we lack clear signatures. Neutrino astronomy therefore represents the greatest challenge faced by the astronomy and physics communities thus far. The possible neutrino sources range from accretion disks and tidal disruption events, through relativistic jets to galaxy clusters with blazar TXS 0506+056 the most compelling association thus far. Since then, immense effort has been put into associating AGN-jets with high-energy neutrinos, but to no avail. I will discuss our current efforts in understanding the multimessenger processes in the Universe, and once and for all proving or disproving if AGN-jets are neutrino emitters.
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