Not so Fast Supernova: Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Detected in Star Clusters - Livestream

It’s not just light we receive from the Universe. We receive cosmic particles on the Earth that have travelled enormous distances at incredibly high speeds. Some of these particles carry extreme energies, millions of times higher than we can achieve using man-made particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider, here on Earth. Half a century after their first discovery, these cosmic rays remain mysterious. Where do they come from? Is there a smoking gun signal from their origin? How does nature manage to accelerate them to such high energies? This talk will tell you about these energetic messengers and what they say about nature’s accelerators, including the star clusters.

Speaker: Ke Fang, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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