Speaker: Bennett Link

Dept. of Physics, Montana State University (USA)

"High-energy neutrinos from neutron stars"

he search for high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources has
begun; the first detection will be a breakthrough that will open a
new window through which to study the Universe. I will describe how
neutron stars, dense stellar remnants produced in supernova explosions,
could produce neutrinos at energies of about 50 TeV (5x10^13 eV) at
fluxes detectable by current large-area detector technology. Detection
of such neutrinos would provide a valuable probe of the physical
conditions that prevail in the dense magnetosphere that surrounds a
neutron star.