Francis Halzen
Wisconsin
IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
222
West Washington Avenue
Madison,
Wisconsin 53726
USA
Appointments at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison
Vilas Research Professor and Gregory
Breit Professor
Publications (selected from more
than 1,000)
Testing QCD
in the Hadroproduction of Real and Virtual Photons (with D. Scott), Phys. Rev.
Lett. 40, 1117 (1978)
Soft Hard
Scattering in the TeV Range (with T. Gaisser), Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1754 (1985)
High Energy
Neutrino Detection in Deep Polar Ice (with J.G. Learned), Proceedings of the 5th Int’l Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray
Interactions, Lodz, Poland (1988)
Observation
of Muons Using the Polar Ice Cap as a Cerenkov Detector (with D.M. Lowder, T.
Miller, R. Morse, P.B. Price and A. Westphal), Nature 353, 331 (1991)
Delta r Beyond One Loop (with B. Kniehl),
Nucl. Phys. B 353, 567 (1991)
Particle
Astrophysics with High Energy Neutrinos (with T.K. Gaisser and T. Stanev),
Physics Reports 258, 173 (1995)
Ultratransparent
Antarctic Ice as a Supernova Detector (with J. Jacobsen and E. Zas), Phys. Rev.
D 53, 7359 (1996)
Tau Neutrino
Appearance with a 1000 Megaparsec Baseline (with D. Saltzberg), Phys. Rev.
Lett. 81, 4305 (1998)
Observation
of High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA (with the AMANDA collaboration), Nature 410, 441 (2001)
An Absence of Neutrinos Associated with Cosmic
Acceleration in Gamma Ray Bursts (with the IceCube Collaboration), Nature 484, 351 (2012).
Search
for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector (with the IceCube Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 131302 (2013)
First
observation of PeV-energy neutrinos with IceCube (with the IceCube
Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021103 (2013)
Evidence
for high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos at the IceCube Detector (IceCube Collaboration,
Science 342, 6161, 1242856 (2013)
Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with
high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A (IceCube Collaboration, Fermi-LAT
collaboration, MAGIC collaboration et al.), Science 361, 6398,
eaat1378 (2018)
Neutrino
emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the
IceCube-170922A alert, Science 361, 6398, 147 (2018)
Evidence
for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068, Science 378 6619, (2022)
Observation of high-energy
neutrinos from the Galactic plane, Science 380 6652 (2023)
Recent Honors
Member of the
National Academy of Sciences (2024)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Ruhr
University Bochum (2022)
Homi Bhabha Prize and Medal,
IUPAP (2021)
Bruno Rossi Prize of the
American Astronomical Society (2021)
Yodh Prize of IUPAP (2019)
Pontecorvo Prize (2018)
Member Academia Europeae (2018)
Julius Wess Award (2017)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Southern
Methodist University (2017)
Member Royal National Academy,
Belgium (2016)
Bethe lectures,
Cornell (2016)
Brinson lectures, University
of Chicago (2016)
Balzan Prize
(2015)
European Physical Society Prize for Particle
Astrophysics and Cosmology (2015)
International Francqui
Professor, VUB–ULB–UGent–UMons–UA–ULg–KULeuven, Belgium (2014)
Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Physical
Sciences (2014)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Ghent
University, Belgium (2013)
Physics World
Breakthrough of the Year Award for making the first observation of cosmic
neutrinos (2013)
APS Highlights of the Year
(2013)
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hilldale Award (2013)
Affiliated Distinguished
Professor, Technische Universität München, Germany (2012)
Synergistic Activities
·
IceCube
principal investigator
·
Service
on advisory committees includes:
o
SNO
and Telescope Array and the Auger-Upgrade experiments
o
Max
Planck Institutes in Heidelberg and Munich
o
ICRR
of the University of Tokyo
o
US
Particle Physics Prioritization Panel
o
ApPEC
particle astrophysics advisory panel in Europe
o
Member
Fermilab PAC