AstroParticle Physics
Sept. 28-29, 2015, KIAA at Peking University, Beijing - P. R. China


Invited Talk

IceCube-Gen2 and Future Astronomy

Xinhua Bai

Physics Department, SDSMT

Abstract: IceCube has discovered a new component on the neutrino spectrum at high energies. The astronomical meaning of this discovery has drawn great attention from astronomy, astrophysics and astroparticle physics communities. Since neutrinos are the only messenger that are feasible to unveil processes deep in astronomical objects and probe high energy phenomena at largest distances, the success of IceCube has well defined a new frontier that goes beyond those reachable by all other technical approaches. In the meantime, the excellent performance of IceCube experiment and recent R&D also demonstrated that a much larger ice-based detector is technically achievable to reach better sensitivity in a much broader energy range from tens of GeV to the GZK scale. In this presentation, I will highlight several IceCube recent results. By introducing the IceCube extension plan, I will discuss how IceCube-Gen2 may shape further astronomy.