Dr. Leonora Kardum successfully completes her PhD
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Dr. Leonora Kardum successfully completes her PhD at our chair.
We would like to congratulate our chair member, Leonora Kardum, on the successful completion of her PhD! The title of her dissertation is "Unfolding the muon neutrino flux".
The IceCube neutrino observatory is located at the Earth's South Pole in a cubic kilometer of underground ice. The experiment is used to study high-energy particles, with a particular focus on neutrinos. Neutrinos are divided into three categories according to their source: extraterrestrial neutrinos, neutrinos produced in the Earth's atmosphere in atmospheric cosmic ray cascades, and prompt neutrinos, which are expected to be produced by charmed hadron decay. The latter have not yet been detected. During her PhD, Dr. Leonora Kardum worked on the reconstruction of the total neutrino flux on Earth. Using IceCube measurements from the last 11 years, she determined the energy spectrum and the zenith angle spectrum of the neutrino flux. The energy spectrum describes the energy distribution of the neutrinos arriving at the IceCube experiment. The zenith angle spectrum shows the distribution of the directions from which the neutrinos come. Dr. Leonora Kardum investigated the prediction that the neutrino flux has an angular dependence.