Status of Neutrino Astronomy: The Quest for Kilometer-Scale Instruments

Abstract

This is a (very) personal attempt to summarize the status of neutrino astronomy: its scientific motivations, our understanding of natural water and ice as particle detectors and, finally, the detector technology.

Latex 2.09 using epsf.sty, 13 pages, 5 postscript figures. Postscript version of complete paper available soon at http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1996/madph-96-981.ps.Z or at ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1996/madph-96-981.ps.Z