Felix Aharonian
(DIAS and MPIK)
04/07/2016, 14:30
The key role of high energy gamma-ray observations is described in the
context of the origin of galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays. The
achievements of recent years regarding both the experimental and
theoretical activities are highlighted, and the prospects of the field
are discussed.
Francesca Romana Spada
(PI)
04/07/2016, 15:20
The Fermi mission is operating in low Earth orbit since June 2008, and has collected more than one billion photons from the whole sky in the 100 MeV - 100 GeV band.
Thanks to the large acceptance of the Large Area Telescope, a pair-conversion telescope for high-energy electromagnetic radiation, Fermi also provided the largest high-energy cosmic-ray electron sample to date, with about 10k...
Alessandro De Angelis
(INFN)
04/07/2016, 17:00
The present generation of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) has
greatly improved our knowledge on the Very High Energy side of the Universe. The MAGIC IACTs operate in stereoscopic configuration since 2009 in La Palma, Canary Islands.
This talk will present a few of MAGIC latest and most relevant results, in particular related to the physics of extragalactic objects and...
Dr
Johannes Knapp
(DESY Zeuthen)
04/07/2016, 17:30
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the global, next-generation instrument for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, with unprecedented performance in every respect. It will be an observatory with telescopes in the South and North, and will gradually become an open observatory. CTA is rapidly approaching its realisation. Construction of pre-production telescopes has commenced and data...
Dr
Markus Garczarczyk
(DESY)
04/07/2016, 18:00
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is an international project for the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be dominated by up to 40 Medium Size Telescopes (MSTs) distributed over the northern and southern observatory sites.
The MST has a modified Davies-Cotton reflector...
Nepomuk Otte
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
05/07/2016, 09:00
VERITAS is an array of four 12-m imaging Cherenkov telescopes, sensitive to very-high energy (VHE; >100 GeV) gamma-ray photons. The science program of VERITAS includes the characterization of the VHE gamma-ray sky, the study of cosmic ray accelerators (both within and outside of the Galaxy), and other topics in astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics. Collaboration with...
Prof.
Miguel Mostafa
(Penn State Univ.)
05/07/2016, 09:30
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) experiment is a large field of view, continuously operated TeV gamma ray observatory located at 4,100 meters above sea level inside the Pico de Orizaba national park in Mexico. It consists of an array of 300 water Cherenkov detectors densely-spaced over an area of 22,000 square meters. The high altitude, the large active area, and the optical isolation...
Dr
Carmela Bonavolontà
05/07/2016, 10:20
Dr
Melania Del Santo
(INAF/IASF-Palermo)
05/07/2016, 10:22
Tristano Di Girolamo
(NA)
05/07/2016, 10:24
Emanuele Fiandrini
(PG)
05/07/2016, 10:26
Francesco Giordano
(BA)
05/07/2016, 10:28
Mr
Stefano Grazzi
(Study and Research Centre “Enrico Fermi” (Rome))
05/07/2016, 10:30
Andrea Lavagno
(TO)
05/07/2016, 10:32
Mr
Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu
(HoriaHulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics)
05/07/2016, 10:34
Dr
Beatrice Panico
(NA)
05/07/2016, 10:36
Julio Arturo Rabanal Reina
(LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)
05/07/2016, 10:38
Giuliana Russano
(TIFP)
05/07/2016, 10:40
Dr
VALENTINA SCOTTI
(NA)
05/07/2016, 10:42
Dr
VALENTINA SCOTTI
(NA)
05/07/2016, 10:44
Daniela Simone
(BA)
05/07/2016, 10:46
Dr
Gerd Puehlhofer
(IAAT, University of Tuebingen)
05/07/2016, 11:00
The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) collaboration runs a system of meanwhile five Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia. Observations of the sky in the photon energy range between below 100 GeV and ~100 TeV have revealed a large number of objects that are capable of efficiently accelerating particles to TeV energies. In this contribution, recent...
Dr
Francois Brun
(CENBG, CNRS/IN2P3, Bordeaux, France)
05/07/2016, 11:50
The supernova remnant (SNR) W49B originated from a core-collapse supernova that occurred between one and four thousand years ago, and subsequently evolved into a mixed-morphology remnant, which is interacting with molecular clouds (MC). SNR/MC associations are particularly interesting for probing the acceleration of hadrons in SNRs and consequently the origin of Galactic cosmic rays. The...
Nicola Giglietto
(Politecnico di BARI e INFN - BARI),
Silvia Rainò
(Università e INFN-BARI)
05/07/2016, 12:10
The high energy gamma-ray emission from the Sun is due to the interactions of cosmic ray (CR) protons and electrons with matter and photons in the solar environment. Such interactions lead to two component gamma-ray emission: a disk-like emission due to the nuclear interactions of CR protons and nuclei in the solar atmosphere and a space extended emission due to the inverse Compton (IC)...
Mr
Alberto Oliva
(CIEMAT (Spain))
05/07/2016, 15:20
AMS-02 is a wide acceptance high-energy physics experiment installed on the International Space Station in May 2011 and operating continuously since then.
With a collection rate of approximately 1.7 × 10^{10} events/year, combined with the particle identification capabilities of 5 independent detectors, AMS is able to accurately measure all the charged cosmic rays (CRs) species separating...
Alan Watson
(University of Leeds)
06/07/2016, 09:00
Measurements relevant to the arrival direction distribution, the energy spectrum and the mass composition of cosmic rays above 1 PeV will be reviewed. Interpretation of raw data is affected, to a greater or lesser extent, by our lack of knowledge of key parameters of hadronic interactions: the limitations will be emphasised. Work at the Auger Observatory leads to the view that there is a...
Martina Bohacova
(Institute of Physics, Prague)
06/07/2016, 09:50
The Pierre Auger Observatory, based in Mendoza province, Argentina,
represents the largest Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray observatory ever built. After twelve years of operation the exposure reached almost 60 000 km2 sr yr and the unprecedented quality data set spans three orders of magnitude in energy. The status and performance of the detectors and their enhancements will be described. The...
Mr
Benedikt Zimmermann
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
06/07/2016, 10:20
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) consists of 153 autonomous radio stations at the site of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargüe, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina. With an area of 17 km^2 covered, AERA is the largest radio-detector worldwide for UHECR physics. The radio stations are sensitive in the 30 to 80 MHz band to the coherent radio signal emitted by the electromagnetic air shower...
Dr
Daisuke Ikeda
(Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)
06/07/2016, 11:30
The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, located in Utah, US, is the largest ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observatory in the northern hemisphere. TA observes the UHECR using the hybrid technique which consists of 507 surface detectors (SD) on a 1.2km grid covering about 700 km^2 area and three fluorescence detector (FD) stations surrounding the SD array. Specification of the detectors,...
Mr
Philippe Gorodetzky
(APC-Paris 7)
06/07/2016, 12:00
Jem-Euso is a project to set-up a large fiel of view UV telescope in space to detect HECR. The surface on ground is about 200 000 km^2. The air mass seen by the instrument makes it very good to detect high energy neutrinos. Very luminous atmospheric events will also be studied through special electronics.
The pathfinders are:
- Timmins balloon (CNES), launched in 2014, was able during the 5...
Mr
Philippe Gorodetzky
(APC-Paris 7)
06/07/2016, 12:20
The EUSO-SPB (Extreme Universe Space Observatory - Super Pressure Balloon) is a fluorescence telescope at a stratospheric balloon with the main goal of detecting UV- light from Extensive Air Showers for the first time from (near) space. For this purpose
it will employ a UV telescope consisting of three 1 m2 Fresnel lenses focusing light on 2304 channels of multi-anode photomultipliers. The...
Massimiliano Razzano
(PISA)
07/07/2016, 09:50
Since 2011 the Virgo collaboration has undertaken a major detector upgrade towards a second generation detector with the aim of increasing the number of observable galaxies (and thus the detection rate) by three orders of magnitude. The installation and integration of Advanced Virgo was recently completed and the commissioning phase has begun with the objective of joining the two Advanced LIGO...
Luciano Di Fiore
(INFN Napoli)
07/07/2016, 10:20
A torsion pendulum with 2 soft degrees of freedom (DOF), realized by off-axis cascading two torsion fibers, has been built and operated. This instrument allows simultaneous measurement, of force and torque acting on the suspended test mass, approaching free-fall condition down to a few mHz. It was developed for ground testing on two DOFs, before the launch, of the Gravitational Reference...
Dr
ik siong heng
(University of Glasgow)
07/07/2016, 11:10
The detection of gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescence and merger was a major highlight of Advanced LIGO's first observing run (O1). These detections of gravitational wave heralded the dawn of gravitational wave astronomy. The Advanced LIGO detectors, though significantly more sensitive than any other gravitational wave detector before, were not operating at design sensitivity...
Massimiliano Razzano
(on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)
07/07/2016, 12:10
The direct detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary black holes marked the birth of gravitational wave astronomy and opened a new chapter in the multimessenger study of the cosmos. Among gravitational wave sources, mergers of compact objects containing at least one neutron star are thought to be associated with electromagnetic transient phenomena, such as short Gamma Ray...
Dr
Lorenzo Natalucci
(INAF/IAPS)
07/07/2016, 12:40
The detection of the first gravitational waves from GW150914 by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has triggered many multi-wavelength campaigns using space and ground observatories. Large field-of-view gamma-ray telescopes, such as those onboard INTEGRAL have the capability of detecting relatively faint transient events (>~ a few 10^-8 erg cm-2) and are unique for the study of the prompt emission....
Angela Dora Vittoria Di Virgilio
(PI)
07/07/2016, 13:00
GINGER (Gyroscopes IN General Relativity) is a proposal aiming at measuring the Lense-Thirring effect with an experiment based on Earth. It is an array of ringlasers, which are the most sensitive inertial sensors to measure the rotation rate of the Earth. After reviewing the importance of light as a probe for testing the structure of space-time, we describe the GINGER project. GINGER is based...
Shigeru Yoshida
(Chba University)
07/07/2016, 15:00
The IceCube neutrino observatory has detected the bulk of cosmic neutrinos with energies from TeV to PeV together with the stringent limits on the EeV-energy neutrino flux. It has already contained rich informative implications to the yet-unknown origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In this talk we discuss what the neutrino observations have revealed the characteristics of cosmic accelerators.
Piera Sapienza
(Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud INFN)
07/07/2016, 16:50
The KM3NeT Collaboration aims at the discovery and subsequent observation of high neutrino sources in the Universe (ARCA) and at the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy (ORCA). The KM3NeT technologies, current status and expected performances are reported. In particular the ARCA detector is described and its perspectives for detection of high energy neutrinos signals from different...
Daniele Fargion
(Università Roma 1)
07/07/2016, 17:50
The recent UHECR events by AUGER and TA offered wide clustering as the
North and South Hot Spot possibly related to near AGN as M82 and Cen A,
as well as rare narrow clustering along SS433 and in opposite side of
the galactic plane multiplet events: we tag them, with a very few other
sky regions, a couple of years ago. Last year highest UHE tens-hundreds
TeV neutrino events did...
Dr
Ralph Engel
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
08/07/2016, 09:00
Thanks to new data from LHC and fixed-target experiments and an improved understanding of the phenomenology of extensive air showers, significant progress has been made in predicting composition-relevant observables. The current status of predictions for air showers is reviewed and discussed on the basis of general features of hadronic multiparticle production. Implications for the...
Dr
Anatoli Fedynitch
(DESY Zeutehn)
08/07/2016, 09:50
Dr
Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez
(Universidad Michoacana)
08/07/2016, 10:20
KASCADE-Grande was an air-shower experiment aimed to investigate cosmic rays between 10^16 and and 10^18 eV. The instrument was located at the site of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany at an altitude of 110 m a.s.l. and covered an area of 0.5 km^2 . KASCADE-Grande consisted of several detector systems dedicated to measure different components of the cosmic ray induced air showers,...
emanuele fiandrini
(University&Infn erugia)
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground-based observatory of very high energy gamma ray sources.
The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is involved in the R&D effort for the development of a possible solution for one of the Cherenkov photon camera designs, working on replacing the Hamamatsu MPPC S12642- 0404PA-50 with more UV sensitive ones from...
Dr
Stefano Grazzi
(Study and Research Centre “Enrico Fermi” (Rome))
The Extreme Energy Events Project is an extended array for Cosmic Rays survey, conceived by Antonino Zichichi and supported by the Study and Research Centre “Enrico Fermi” (Rome) with the collaboration of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)....
Dr
Tristano Di Girolamo
(Universita` di Napoli "Federico II")
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi gamma-ray satellite telescope observes Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) at energies above 100 MeV. Thanks to a new detection algorithm and a new event reconstruction, it is expected to publish a catalogue with more than 100 GRBs. This work aims at revising the prospects for GRB alerts with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) based on the new LAT results. We...
Julio Arturo Rabanal Reina
(LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)
The JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on Japanese Experiment Module) experiment is about a space telescope that will be installed on the ISS in 2020. The UHECR study aims to improve by a factor of 100 the current measures of Pierre-Auger observatory.
The telescope EUSO-Balloon, which was technologically validated in 2014 was the first prototype with the whole chain of...
