Francis Halzen
Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
222 West Washington Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53726
USA
Appointments
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hilldale
and Gregory Breit Professor
Publications
(selected from more than 700)
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, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, AGILE, ASAS-HN, HAWC,
H.E.S.S., INTEGRAL, Kanata, Kiso, Liverpool Telescope, Subaru, Swift/NuSTAR,
VERITAS and VLA/178-403 collaborations and teams), 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)
Recent Honors
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
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SNO and Telescope Array and the Auger-Upgrade experiments
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Max Planck Institutes in Heidelberg and Munich
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ICRR of the University of Tokyo
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US Particle Physics Prioritization Panel
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ApPEC particle astrophysics advisory panel in Europe
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Member Fermilab PAC