Ice cube

Ice Cube is an experiment under construction at the South Pole. Hence the name. Their main aim is to search for neutrinos, subatomic particles that are expected to be created during nuclear fusion (like that powering the sun), as well as in stellar explosions (supernovae and the like). Problem is that neutrinos are very hard to catch because they interact very weakly with human-made detectors. Ice Cube hopes to capture a neutrinos through their interactions with atoms in the ice sheets, which might eventually produce photons that instruments can actually detect. Debanjan Bose, one of the postdocs in our group, has received an offer to move to Belgium and join the neutrino search. We wish him well.