Douglas Cowen

Affiliate Researcher

Professor, Physics

Associate Director, Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos

104 Davey Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802

Research Summary

Research interests include particle astrophysics as well as particles and fields; IceCube telescope to detect ultra-high energy neutrinos in an effort to gain information about distant reaches of the cosmos and inside some of the most violent astrophysical objects.

In the News

Apr 20, 2026 | psu.edu

Q&A: IceCube Observatory upgrades improve search for elusive cosmic messenger

Oct 16, 2024 | psu.edu

Two Penn State physics professors elected as Americal Physical Society Fellows

Aug 2, 2024 | psu.edu

Professor’s new book examines universities’ role in advancing science

Apr 25, 2024 | theconversation.com

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

Mar 14, 2024 | space.com

Scientists may have just caught 7 exotic 'ghost particles' as they pierced through Earth

Jun 29, 2023 | psu.edu

IceCube Observatory produces first image of the Milky Way using neutrinos

Research Keywords

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High Energy Neutrinos

IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Astrophysical Neutrinos

Atmospheric Neutrinos

Recent Publications

Evidence for Neutrino Emission from X-Ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere Using Enhanced Starting Track Events with IceCube

Abbasi, R., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Agarwalla, S. K., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Alameddine, J. M., Ali, S., Amin, N. M., Andeen, K., Argüelles, C., Ashida, Y., Athanasiadou, S., Axani, S. N., Babu, R., Bai, X., Baines-Holmes, J., Balagopal V, A., Barwick, S. W. & Bash, S. & 411 others, Basu, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Becker Tjus, J., Behrens, P., Beise, J., Bellenghi, C., Benkel, S., BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Besson, D. Z., Blaufuss, E., Bloom, L., Blot, S., Bodo, I., Bontempo, F., Motzkin, J. Y. B., Boscolo Meneguolo, C., Böser, S., Botner, O., Böttcher, J., Braun, J., Brinson, B., Brisson-Tsavoussis, Z., Burley, R. T., Butterfield, D., Campana, M. A., Carloni, K., Carpio, J., Chattopadhyay, S., Chau, N., Chen, Z., Chirkin, D., Choi, S., Clark, B. A., Coleman, P., Collin, G. H., Borja, D. A. C., Connolly, A., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., De Clercq, C., DeLaunay, J. J., Delgado, D., Delmeulle, T., Deng, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., DiKerby, S., Ding, T., Dittmer, M., Domi, A., Draper, L., Dueser, L., Durnford, D., Dutta, K., DuVernois, M. A., Ehrhardt, T., Eidenschink, L., Eimer, A., Eldridge, C., Eller, P., Ellinger, E., Elsässer, D., Engel, R., Erpenbeck, H., Esmail, W., Eulig, S., Evans, J., Evenson, P. A., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Farrag, K., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feigl, N., Finley, C., Fischer, L., Fox, D., Franckowiak, A., Fukami, S., Fürst, P., Gallagher, J., Ganster, E., Garcia, A., Garcia, M., Garg, G., Genton, E., Gerhardt, L., Ghadimi, A., Glaser, C., Glüsenkamp, T., Gonzalez, J. G., Goswami, S., Granados, A., Grant, D., Gray, S. J., Griffin, S., Griswold, S., Groth, K. M., Guevel, D., Günther, C., Gutjahr, P., Ha, C., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halve, L., Halzen, F., Hamacher, L., Ha Minh, M., Handt, M., Hanson, K., Hardin, J., Harnisch, A. A., Hatch, P., Haungs, A., Häussler, J., Helbing, K., Hellrung, J., Henke, B., Hennig, L., Henningsen, F., Heuermann, L., Hewett, R., Heyer, N., Hickford, S., Hidvegi, A., Hill, C., Hill, G. C., Hmaid, R., Hoffman, K. D., Hooper, D., Hori, S., Hoshina, K., Hostert, M., Hou, W., Hrywniak, M., Huber, T., Hultqvist, K., Hymon, K., Ishihara, A., Iwakiri, W., Jacquart, M., Jain, S., Janik, O., Jansson, M., Jin, M., Kamp, N., Kang, D., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Kardum, L., Karg, T., Karl, M., Karle, A., Katil, A., Kauer, M., Kelley, J. L., Khanal, M., Khatee Zathul, A., Kheirandish, A., Kimku, H., Kiryluk, J., Klein, C., Klein, S. R., Kobayashi, Y., Kochocki, A., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Kontrimas, T., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Koskinen, D. J., Koundal, P., Kowalski, M., Kozynets, T., Kravka, A., Krieger, N., Krishnamoorthi, J., Krishnan, T., Kruiswijk, K., Krupczak, E., Kumar, A., Kun, E., Kurahashi, N., Lad, N., Lagunas Gualda, C., Arnaud, L. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lazar, J. P., Leonard DeHolton, K., Leszczyńska, A., Li, C., Liao, J., Lin, C., Liu, Q. R., Liu, Y. T., Liubarska, M., Love, C., Lu, L., Lucarelli, F., Luszczak, W., Lyu, Y., Macdonald, M., Madsen, J., Magnus, E., Makino, Y., Manao, E., Mancina, S., Mand, A., Mariş, I. C., Marka, S., Marka, Z., Marten, L., Martinez-Soler, I., Maruyama, R., Mauro, J., Mayhew, F., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Mechbal, S., Medina, A., Meier, M., Merckx, Y., Merten, L., Mitchell, J., Molchany, L., Mondal, S., Montaruli, T., Moore, R. W., Morii, Y., Mosbrugger, A., Moulai, M., Mousadi, D., Moyaux, E., Mukherjee, T., Naab, R., Nakos, M., Naumann, U., Necker, J., Neste, L., Neumann, M., Niederhausen, H., Nisa, M. U., Noda, K., Noell, A., Novikov, A., Obertacke, A., O’Dell, V., Olivas, A., Orsoe, R., Osborn, J., O’Sullivan, E., Palusova, V., Pandya, H., Parenti, A., Park, N., Parrish, V., Paudel, E. N., Paul, L., de los Heros, C. P., Pernice, T., Petersen, T. C., Peterson, J., Plum, M., Pontén, A., Poojyam, V., Popovych, Y., Rodriguez, M. P., Pries, B., Murphy, R. P., Przybylski, G. T., Pyras, L., Raab, C., Rack-Helleis, J., Rad, N., Ravn, M., Rawlins, K., Rechav, Z., Rehman, A., Reistroffer, I., Resconi, E., Reusch, S., Rho, C. D., Rhode, W., Ricca, L., Riedel, B., Rifaie, A., Roberts, E. J., Rodan, S., Rongen, M., Rosted, A., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruohan, L., Ryckbosch, D., Saffer, J., Salazar-Gallegos, D., Sampathkumar, P., Sandrock, A., Sanger-Johnson, G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Scarnera, M., Schaile, P., Schaufel, M., Schieler, H., Schindler, S., Schlickmann, L., Schlüter, B., Schlüter, F., Schmeisser, N., Schmidt, T., Schröder, F. G., Schumacher, L., Schwirn, S., Sclafani, S., Seckel, D., Seen, L., Seikh, M., Seunarine, S., Myhr, P. A. S., Shah, R., Shah, S., Shefali, S., Shimizu, N., Skrzypek, B., Snihur, R., Soedingrekso, J., Soldin, D., Soldin, P., Sommani, G., Spannfellner, C., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stezelberger, T., Stürwald, T., Stuttard, T., Sullivan, G. W., Taboada, I., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Thakuri, A., Thiesmeyer, M., Thompson, W. G., Thwaites, J., Tilav, S., Tollefson, K., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Trettin, A., Upadhyay, A. K., Upshaw, K., Vaidyanathan, A., Valtonen-Mattila, N., Valverde, J., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Eeden, T., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Rootselaar, L., van Santen, J., Vara, J., Varsi, F., Venugopal, M., Vereecken, M., Carrasco, S. V., Verpoest, S., Veske, D., Vijai, A., Villarreal, J., Walck, C., Wang, A., Warrick, E. H. S., Weaver, C., Weigel, P., Weindl, A., Weldert, J., Wen, A. Y., Wendt, C., Werthebach, J., Weyrauch, M., Whitehorn, N., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Witthaus, L., Wolf, M., Wrede, G., Xu, X. W., Yanez, J. P., Yao, Y., Yildizci, E., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Yu, F., Yu, S., Yuan, T., Yun-Cárcamo, S., Jurowitzki, A. Z., Zegarelli, A., Zhang, S., Zhang, Z., Zhelnin, P. & Zilberman, P., Apr 1 2026, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 1000, 2, L37.