Ignacio Taboada
Georgia Institute of Technology, GA·Astronomy & Astrophysics
Neutrinos are nearly massless subatomic particles that pass through almost anything. Because they can escape from dense places where light cannot, they offer a view of the most energetic events in the universe.
- Fields
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physics
- Topics
IceCube Neutrino Observatory
IceCube Upgrade
neutrinos
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Develop calibrations and reconstruction algorithms for the new IceCube Upgrade sensors to improve low-energy sensitivity and reduce systematic errors across IceCube's existing neutrino dataset.
- Identify astrophysical neutrino sources using IceCube data together with gamma-ray satellites and ground-based optical telescopes, extending neutrino astronomy to higher and lower energies.
- Measure neutrino oscillations and other basic neutrino properties, characterize the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux, and search for physics beyond the standard model, using techniques such as neural networks.
- Monitor the Milky Way for supernova explosions using the IceCube detector.
More about the research
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects them with sensors buried in nearly 1,000 megatons of clear ice near the South Pole. It is the world's largest operating neutrino detector. Since its completion in 2011, the collaboration has found high-energy neutrinos from beyond our galaxy, with energies above 10 PeV (petaelectronvolts). It has also detected neutrino emission from the plane of the Milky Way, helping establish neutrinos as a key part of multimessenger astrophysics, the study of the cosmos using several kinds of signals at once.
Why it matters
This work adds to basic understanding of where the universe's highest-energy particles come from and of how neutrinos themselves behave. Improved neutrino oscillation measurements and searches for new physics could help test the standard model of particle physics. Supernova monitoring could provide early detection of a stellar explosion in our galaxy.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Joanna Kiryluk
Stony Brook University, NY·Physics
Calibrate the newly installed IceCube Upgrade sensors and develop reconstruction algorithms that rebuild neutrino events, aiming to sharpen low-energy sensitivity and reduce systematic errors in the existing data.
Ke Fang
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI·Astronomy & Astrophysics·Early-career
Search for PeVatrons, sources that accelerate protons above 1 PeV, by jointly analyzing high-energy neutrino data from IceCube and gamma-ray data from the HAWC observatory.
Kaeli Hughes
Ohio State University, OH·Physics
Develop high-fidelity simulations of the radio emission produced when neutrinos and cosmic rays interact in and above Greenland's glacial ice, for use in analyzing RNO-G data.
The school
Georgia Institute of Technology: 50 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 572 research doctorates a year.
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