Kaeli Hughes, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University The Next Generation of Neutrino Astrophysics with PUEO Abstract: Neutrinos provide a unique window into the highest energy accelerators in the Universe. Due to only interacting weakly, they are capable of traveling directly from their sources to detectors built on Earth. They are ideal candidates for unraveling the mysteries of the ultra high energy cosmic ray flux and understanding particle physics at energies beyond the capabilities of detectors on Earth.
In this talk, I will provide an overview of past, present, and future astrophysical neutrino detectors, with specific focus on the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO), a new experimental effort that will fly out of Antarctica in December 2025. I will discuss how updates to the trigger and instrument make PUEO a discovery instrument. And finally, I will talk about how PUEO fits into the larger field of neutrino astrophysics