The latest IceCube results

The IceCube detector is unique. It uses the Antarctic glacial ice as an interaction and detection medium. An array of optical sensors observes Cherenkov light from secondary charged particles resulting from neutrino interactions. The high transparency of the ice enabled the realization of a 1 km3 large detection volume in order to detect rarely interacting particles. Neutrinos are ideal probes of the deep universe because they rarely interact with matter and propagate in straight lines. Neutrinos are thought to be produced in hadronic processes at astronomical sources such as active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts. IceCube aims to detect neutrinos from such astronomical sources. IceCube recently found 28 events in an energy range approximately from 50 TeV to 1 PeV. These events are not easily explained by background derived from atmospheric origin, and therefore represent the first evidence for high energy neutrinos from an extraterrestrial origin. IceCube can also perform elementary particle physics by searching for neutrinos from SUSY particles such as neutralinos and measuring atmospheric neutrino oscillations. An overview of the latest IceCube results is provided in this paper including the 28 candidate observations and the corresponding implications.