Speaker
Description
While IceCube has measured the flux of astrophysical neutrinos at energies up to several PeV, much remains to be learned about its origin and nature. Tackling these questions will require a new generation of novel observatory designs. TAMBO, the Tau Air Shower Mountain-Based Observatory, will comprise an array of 5,000 plastic scintillator detectors deployed along the face of a wide, steep canyon. This unique geometry will enable TAMBO to carry out low-background studies of tau neutrinos with energies above ~1PeV across a broad strip of the sky.
In this talk, I will discuss the physics sensitivities of TAMBO and its synergies with other next-generation neutrino observatories. I will also discuss recent progress on TAMBITO, the 100-module TAMBO demonstrator, including simulation development, detector optimization, and hardware prototyping.
