Neutrino detectors in ICE: Results and perspectives
Frascati Physics Series 42:SPEC. ISS. (2006) 87-101
Abstract:
The AMANDA neutrino detector has been in operation at the South Pole for several years. A number of searches for extraterrestrial sources of high energy neutrinos have been performed. A selection of results is presented in this paper. The much larger IceCube detector will extend the instrumented ice volume to a cubic kilometer and 9 out of 80 planned IceCube strings have been deployed to date. We present the status for both detectors.Contributions to 2nd TeV Particle Astrophysics Conference (TeV PA II). Madison, Wisconsin 28-31 Aug 2006
TeV particle astrophysics. Proceedings, 2nd Workshop, Madison, USA, August 28-31, 2006 (2006)
Review of particle physics
33:1 (2006) 1-+
Large-scale galaxy correlations as a test for dark energy
ArXiv astro-ph/0512085 (2005)
Abstract:
We have shown earlier that, contrary to popular belief, Einstein--de Sitter (E--deS) models can still fit the {\sl WMAP} data on the cosmic microwave background provided one adopts a low Hubble constant and relaxes the usual assumption that the primordial density perturbation is scale-free. The recent {\sl SDSS} measurement of the large-scale correlation function of luminous red galaxies at $z \sim 0.35$ has however provided a new constraint by detecting a `baryon acoustic peak'. Our best-fit E--deS models do possess a baryonic feature at a similar physical scale as the best-fit $螞$CDM concordance model, but do not fit the new observations as well as the latter. In particular the shape of the correlation function in the range $\sim 10-100 h^{-1}$ Mpc cannot be reproduced properly without violating the CMB angular power spectrum in the multipole range $l \sim 100-1000$. Thus, the combination of the CMB fluctuations and the shape of the correlation function up to $\sim 100 h^{-1}$Mpc, if confirmed, does seem to require dark energy for a homogeneous cosmological model based on (adiabatic) inflationary perturbations.Large-scale galaxy correlations as a test for dark energy
(2005)