Penn State University researchers study the area of astrophysics that explores the cosmos using particle physics techniques and the subatomic world using astronomical observations. Penn State researchers are helping to design, construct and analyze the data from vast detectors spread out on the South America pampas, buried in the South Pole icecap, and flown from enormous balloons in Texas and the Antarctic coast. From these experiments they can then study ultrahigh energy cosmic-rays, cosmological neutrinos, cosmic antimatter and many other astrophysical and particle physics phenomena. Theoretical work includes investigations of gamma ray bursts, active galactic nuclei and supernovae as sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos.

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• Center for Particle Astrophysics at Penn State

• Official IceCube Site
• Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
• Cosmic ray astrophysics at Penn State
• Ultra-high energy neutrino astrophysics at Penn State