Speaker
Michael Unger
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Description
Michael Unger from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
This lecture provides an introduction to astroparticle physics, with a focus on cosmic rays and astrophysical neutrinos. Topics include the cosmic speed limit (the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin cutoff), gigantic cascades of elementary particles in the atmosphere (air showers), the operation of particle detectors covering more than 3000 km² (such as the Pierre Auger Observatory), the search for cosmic neutrinos, and astrophysical accelerators that reach beam energies over ten million times greater than those of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN