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A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2013 – the first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos

05 Dec 2019 Tami Freeman

With the Physics World 2019 Breakthrough of the Year due to be announced on 12 December, Physics World journalists look back at the past decade of winners and explore how research in that field has moved on. Here, Tami Freeman examines the 2013 breakthrough, awarded to the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory for “making the first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos”.

IceCube Lab
The Sun setting behind the IceCube Lab at the South Pole. (Courtesy: Kathrin Mallot, IceCube/NSF)
IceCube is a particle detector comprising 5160 digital optical modules suspended along 86 strings, e

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