Joanna Kiryluk
Stony Brook University, NY·Physics
Neutrinos are nearly massless subatomic particles that pass through almost everything, so they can carry information out of places where light cannot escape, such as the dense cores of distant astrophysical objects. Catching them requires an enormous detector.
- Fields
Physics
Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Topics
IceCube
neutrino astronomy
neutrinos
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Calibrate the newly installed IceCube Upgrade sensors and develop reconstruction algorithms that rebuild neutrino events, aiming to sharpen low-energy sensitivity and reduce systematic errors in the existing data.
- Study neutrino oscillation, the shifting of neutrinos between types, using the improved low-energy data from the IceCube Upgrade.
- Identify astrophysical neutrino sources by combining IceCube data with observations from gamma-ray satellites and ground-based optical telescopes in multi-messenger studies.
- Characterize the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux and search for signs of physics beyond the standard model, using neural networks and other new analysis methods on IceCube data.
More about the research
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory uses sensors buried in nearly 1,000 megatons of deep, clear Antarctic ice near the South Pole to spot the rare flashes produced when neutrinos interact. Since its completion in 2011, the IceCube collaboration has detected high-energy neutrinos from outside our galaxy and neutrino emission from the plane of the Milky Way.
Why it matters
This work is basic science about the high-energy universe and the particles that fill it. Finding where cosmic neutrinos come from could show how extreme objects accelerate matter. Measuring neutrino oscillations helps pin down the basic properties of these particles. Watching the Milky Way for supernova neutrinos could give early notice of a nearby stellar explosion that other telescopes can then observe.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Ignacio Taboada
Georgia Institute of Technology, GA·Astronomy & Astrophysics
Develop calibrations and reconstruction algorithms for the new IceCube Upgrade sensors to improve low-energy sensitivity and reduce systematic errors across IceCube's existing neutrino dataset.
Kaeli Hughes
Ohio State University, OH·Physics
Develop high-fidelity simulations of the radio emission produced when neutrinos and cosmic rays interact in and above Greenland's glacial ice, for use in analyzing RNO-G data.
Ke Fang
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI·Astronomy & Astrophysics·Early-career
Search for PeVatrons, sources that accelerate protons above 1 PeV, by jointly analyzing high-energy neutrino data from IceCube and gamma-ray data from the HAWC observatory.
The school
Stony Brook University: 32 labs on PI Pages, $319M a year on research, 289 research doctorates a year.
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