Prof.
Teresa Montaruli
(university of geneva)
18/06/2018, 10:00
I will illustrate current and future technologies and planned observatories and discuss some of the highlight results concerning source observations and multi-messenger programs.
Brian Humensky
(Columbia University)
18/06/2018, 11:15
Our universe carries a small but important population of highly energetic denizens: supernova remnants with fast shocks, pulsars with powerful winds, intensely-interacting binary systems built from a compact object and a massive star, relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes. All of these environments conspire to generate populations of nonthermal particles, and observations of...
Dr
Raffaella Bonino
(IFSI-INAF & INFN Torino)
18/06/2018, 12:05
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched 10 years ago and since then it has dramatically changed our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky.
The status of the observatory, and in particular of the Large Area Telescope, and the main results of these first ten years of data taking will be presented, with particular attention to the multi-messenger context.
Ms
Roberta Zanin
(Universitat de Barcelona)
18/06/2018, 12:40
The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the next generation ground-based
gamma-ray observatory designed to detect photons in the 0.02 to 300
TeV energy range. With a sensitivity improvement of one order of
magnitude over currently operating facilities, coupled with
significantly better angular resolution, the array will be used to
address many open questions in gamma-ray and cosmic-ray...
Thomas Weisgarber
(University of Wisconsin--Madison)
18/06/2018, 13:10
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide-field survey instrument sensitive to cosmic rays and gamma rays in the energy range from a few hundred GeV to >100 TeV. Located in the state of Puebla, Mexico at 4100 m above sea level, HAWC has been fully operational for over 3 years, since its inauguration in March 2015. In this talk, I will highlight recent results from HAWC,...
Prof.
Szabolcs Marka
(Columbia University)
18/06/2018, 17:00
Giuseppina Fiorella Burgio
(CT)
18/06/2018, 17:10
The equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter is one of the key issues in understanding the internal structure of neutron stars (NS), the remnants of massive stellar collapses. They populate the plane of our Galaxy, isolated or in binary systems, and play a crucial role in the indirect (Hulse & Taylor 1975) and direct (Abbott et al. 2017a) testing of the existence of gravitational waves...
Dr
Aniello Grado
(INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)
18/06/2018, 17:30
With the gravitational event GW170817 on August 17th 2017 the Multi-Messenger astronomy era is started showing the capability of the synergic searches to provide an incredible amount of physical informations.
A world-wide effort has been carried out in optimizing the use of several observing facilities operating at all the available electromagnetic wavelenghts. This led to the...
Dr
Andrea Melandri
(INAF - OAB)
18/06/2018, 17:50
The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has been monitored from early to very late times at all wavelengths. In this talk, we discuss the temporal evolution of the associated afterglow emission in the X-rays and radio bands. These observations seem finally to support a flattening/decaying behaviour, favouring the "structured jet" interpretation for the origin...
Paolo Walter Cattaneo
(PV)
18/06/2018, 18:10
The gamma-ray satellite AGILE, launched on 2007, has just completed its eleventh year of operations in orbit. The main on-board instrument is the gamma-ray imaging detector (GRID) sensitive to gamma-rays in the energy range 30 MeV--30 GeV. The GRID is composed by the
gamma-ray silicon tracker, the mini-calorimeter (MCAL) and the anti-coincidence (AC) system for particle background rejection....
Dr
Imre Bartos
(Columbia University)
18/06/2018, 18:30
The recent discoveries of gravitational waves by LIGO and Virgo unveiled
numerous opportunities in astrophysics, as well as in the study of the cosmos and
the laws of physics. In particular, the observation of a binary neutron star merger
and the ensuing multi-messenger follow-up campaign already yielded a range of
expected and unexpected findings, giving us a taste of what is yet to...
Prof.
Giorgio Matthiae
(Università di Tor Vergata)
19/06/2018, 09:30
In the field of cosmic ray physics the energy spectrum of the high-energy primary particles is the basic information. The discovery and further investigation of the main features of the spectrum - first and second knee, ankle and GZK cutoff are described following the historical development.
Dr
Charles for the Pierre Auger Collaboration Timmermans
(Nikhef and Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
19/06/2018, 10:15
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world’s largest air-shower detec- tor for cosmic rays with energies above 10^17 eV. Located near the small town of Malargue in Argentina, it consists of an array of about 1660 water Cherenkov detectors in a triangular grid which covers an area of more than 3000 km^2. In total 27 fluorescence telescopes at four sites overlooking the detector array provide an...
Prof.
Charles Jui
(University of Utah)
19/06/2018, 10:45
The Telescope Array (TA) is a hybrid experiment observing ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the northern sky. Three fluorescence stations each view 108 degrees in azimuth and up to 30 degrees in elevation. They are located at the periphery of a ground array consisting of 507 plastic scintillator counters, of 1.2km spacing, and covering over 700 square kilometers. A low energy extension...
Dr
Olivier Deligny
(CNRS/IN2P3 - IPN Orsay)
19/06/2018, 11:35
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays are observed through the giant air showers they produce in the atmosphere. With the construction and operation of the new generation of cosmic-ray experiments—the Pierre Auger Observatory in the Southern hemisphere and the Telescope Array in the Northern one—the study of these particles, the most energetic ever detected, has experienced a jump in statistics as...
Prof.
Lawrence Wiencke
(Colorado School of Mines)
19/06/2018, 12:05
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB), launched from Wanaka NZ, completed a 12 day flight above the Pacific Ocean in May of 2017. The mission goals were to observe high energy extensive air showers with a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere, search for other transient signatures, and characterize the UV emission from Earth. Although the...
Joerg Hoerandel
(Radboud University Nijmegen)
19/06/2018, 12:35
Quentin Luce
(for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
19/06/2018, 13:05
The persisting unknown origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is constantly investigated at the Pierre Auger Observatory on all angular scales.
Recent studies on the large angular scale have discovered the existence of anisotropy with a 5.2 \sigma level of significance in the arrival directions of events with energies higher than 8 EeV. This anisotropy can be described by a dipole with an...
Paolo Zuccon
(TIFP)
19/06/2018, 17:15
I will review the AMS-02 data and the measurements performed in the first 7-years of data taking. I will then discuss the perspectives of the AMS-02 cosmic ray data in the landscape of the current puzzling scenario of the astroparticle physics.
Prof.
Ivan De Mitri
(GSSI & INFN)
19/06/2018, 18:15
The DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) satellite was launched on December 17th, 2015
and is in smooth data taking since few days after. It was designed in order to properly work for at least
three years and, thanks to its deep calorimeter, the precise tracking, and a large geometric factor,
is providing high quality measurements of leptonic and hadronic spectra up to about 10 and 100...
Mr
Francesco Dimiccoli
(TIFPA)
19/06/2018, 18:45
Deuterons are the most abundant secondary light isotopes among cosmic rays (CR) and thus are an extremely sensitive tool to test and constrain cosmic ray propagation models.
Another important feature of the deuteron component of CR is the particularly low threshold of the proton-proton fusion reaction, one of the most important contributors of the sub-GeV deuteron abundance, an energy range...
Paolo Walter Cattaneo
(PV)
19/06/2018, 19:05
A few years from now, the HERD (High Energy Cosmic Radiation Detection) detector will be installed on the China's Space Station.
The main science objectives of HERD are searching dark matter particle, study of cosmic ray chemical composition up to the knee and high energy gamma-ray observations.
The main constraints imposed on HERD are: total weight less than around 2 tons and total power...
Frederique Marion
(LAPP - Annecy)
20/06/2018, 09:30
The advent of advanced detectors truly opened the era of GW astronomy with the first signals from transient sources detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during the O1 and O2 runs. These include binary black hole mergers and the spectacular GW170817, the first signal from a binary neutron star coalescence and its associated electromagnetic counterparts. The talk will review the wealth...
Prof.
Szabolcs Marka
(Columbia University)
20/06/2018, 10:15
The discovery of gravitational waves and their
multimessenger fingerprint has opened tremendous opportunities for
astrophysics. Extraordinary instrumental breakthroughs in
gravitational-wave detectors on Earth and in Space, in electromagnetic
and in neutrino observatories shall lead to an information explosion
during the coming years and decades, rapidly expanding humanity’s cosmic...
Prof.
Hartmut Grote
(Cardiff University)
20/06/2018, 10:45
The first detections of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars in 2015 and 2017 have started the field of gravitational-wave astronomy.
In this talk I will introduce some principles of the instruments making
these detections possible, focusing on the US-based LIGO detectors.
These exquisitely sensitive laser interferometers combine elements
from different fields...
Martina De Laurentis
(NA)
20/06/2018, 11:35
After the exciting results obtained by Advanced Virgo in the last joint run with LIGO, the observation of first GW source together with gamma and X satellites and astronomical
observatories and the scientific outcomes of this revolutionary observation, we report on the status of Advanced Virgo before the next, new observation run and on the perspectives of the upgrades for the future
Dr
Johannes Knapp
(DESY Zeuthen)
20/06/2018, 16:30
Despite much effort in the past, only very recently the first true multi-messenger measurements have been made. Gamma ray emission has been seen from a gravitational wave merger event and a gamma transient has been seen in coincidence with a high-energy neutrino event. Thus, the excitement and expectations are high, even though the journal papers are just written. Both events are transients...
Prof.
Miguel Mostafa
(Penn State Univ.)
20/06/2018, 17:15
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) is the first continuous, real-time system designed to enable the discovery of the sources of transient multimessenger signals. By sifting through subthreshold event streams from several multimessenger facilities, and correlating them in real-time in search of coincident subthreshold events, AMON provides a significant enhancement in...
Prof.
Shigeru Yoshida
(Chba University)
20/06/2018, 17:45
The era of high energy neutirno astronomy has come. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory started to operate the two online neutrno event selection channels, HESE (High-Energy Starting Event) and EHE (Extremely-High Energy).
Informations on a cosmic neutrino event candidate identified by these selections are delivered in public to world-wide astronomical facilities, which realize prompt follow-up...
Tristano Di Girolamo
(NA)
20/06/2018, 18:15
With the observation of the first electromagnetic counterpart of
Gravitational Wave (GW) transient GW170817, the potential of
multi-messenger astronomy has been clearly demonstrated. In its full
configuration, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be capable of rapidly covering the regions localized by future GW observations with sufficient sensitivity at very high-energy...
Dr
Charles for the Pierre Auger Collaboration TIMMERMANS
(Nikhef/Radboud University)
21/06/2018, 09:30
The scale and scope of the physics studied at the Pierre Auger Observatory continue to offer significant opportunities for original outreach work. Education, outreach and public relations of the Auger Collaboration are coordinated in a separate task whose goals are to encourage and support a wide range of education and outreach efforts that link schools and the public with the Auger scientists...
Dr
MARIAGABRIELLA PUGLIESE
(INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI)
21/06/2018, 09:50
This work investigates the importance of Work-Based Learning experiences of Italian high school students and how some extracurricular basic knowledge may influence the student's intrinsic motivation.
The Italian model, named Alternation School-Work, highlights the partnership between schools and workplaces or real life situations. So that, we consider the experience of about 120 students of 3...
Prof.
Justin Vandenbroucke
(University of Wisconsin)
21/06/2018, 10:10
Camera image sensors in cell phones can be used as detectors not only of optical photons but also of high energy particles. The Distributed Electronic Cosmic-ray Observatory (DECO) is a citizen science project launched in 2014 to detect cosmic rays and other ionizing radiation using smart phones. It consists of a free app and associated public web-based data browser. Users in over 80...
Felicia Carla Tiziana Barbato
(NA)
21/06/2018, 10:50
Physics and Optics Naples Young Students (PONYS) is a group of students and young researchers of the Department of Physics at the University of Naples “Federico II”.
Their missions are: outreach, networking and professional development. The activities organized by the group are financially supported by three main associations: the European Physical Society (EPS), the Optical American Society...
Prof.
Ilaria Veronesi
(Centro ricerca Limat dipmat Unisa)
21/06/2018, 12:05
In this presentation it will be described a peculiar educational experience with a class of Italian students aged 17-18 during the competition "at the school of Astroparticles" organized by the National Institute for nuclear physics INFN. It will also be shown how the action-research in scientific methodology formed an alternative, effective, and motivating approach to the study of Physics....
Prof.
Daniele Fargion
(ROMA1)
21/06/2018, 12:20
Highest energy neutrino in ICECUBE (hundred TeV or PeVs) suggested since five years the birth of a Neutrino Astronomy.
However the possible pollution by atmospheric neutrino signals, in particular prompt charmed ones, might offuscate the ability to discover the main astrophysical UHE neutrino sources. Indeed up to now no AGN or GRB or galactic sharp signal have detected.
A possible...
Mr
Marco Grassi
(APC - IN2P3 - CNRS)
21/06/2018, 12:40
JUNO is a Liquid Scintillator Detector (LSD) currently under construction in the south of China (Jiangmen city, Guangdong province). JUNO aims to detect reactor antineutrinos at a baseline of 53 km, with the goal of determining the neutrino mass ordering and performing a sub-percent measurement of three of the neutrino oscillation parameters. Its physics programme also includes the detection...
Prof.
Justin Vandenbroucke
(University of Wisconsin)
21/06/2018, 16:00
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has discovered and measured a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux spanning energies from several TeV to several PeV. The origins of the neutrinos are still unknown despite intense investigation using a variety of multi-messenger approaches. Spectral, temporal, and spatial studies of the astrophysical neutrinos have disfavored individual source classes...
Vladimir Kulikovskiy
(GE)
21/06/2018, 16:30
The ANTARES deep sea neutrino telescope, anchored on the seabed of the Mediterranean Sea, has been continuously taking data for more than ten years. Thanks to its excellent angular resolution in both the muon channel induced by muon neutrinos and the cascade channel induced by interactions of neutrinos of all flavours ANTARES has very large sensitivity for neutrino source searches in the...
Giorgio Maria Riccobene
(LNS)
21/06/2018, 17:00
The multimessenger astronomy era has begun: combined measurement of
gravitational waves, gammas and high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
provide unprecedented tools to understand the birth and evolution of
cosmic sources. Hundred kilometres South West off Capo Passero, Sicily
the KM3NeT Collaboration is building the ARCA neutrino detector, formed
by 230 vertical units equipped with 130...
Mr
Michael Schimp
(Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
21/06/2018, 17:50
The surface detector (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory is
sensitive to neutrinos at energies in the 100 PeV to 100 EeV range.
This sensitivity, together with its large acceptance, makes it a complementary detector to other
neutrino telescopes, which have their peak sensitivities at lower energies.
The neutrino-induced air showers that the SD of the Pierre Auger
Observatory is sensitive...
Francesco Giordano
(BA)
22/06/2018, 09:30
Dr
Lucia Consiglio
(INFN Napoli)
22/06/2018, 10:35
The Cerenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a new generation observatory of ground telescopes for high energy gamma ray astronomy. The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) together with the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is carring out an intensive R&D program to develop possible solutions for the Cherenkov photon cameras based on Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) devices at the near...
Pierluca Sangiorgi
(INAF - IASF Palermo)
22/06/2018, 11:50
Within the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is leading the “Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana” (ASTRI) Project mainly devoted to the definition and development of a set of small-size class telescopes under dual-mirror optical design (SST-2M) for the CTA southern site. The prototype of...
Carlos Maximiliano Mollo
(NA),
Pasquale Migliozzi
(NA)
22/06/2018, 12:30
Depending on the application, there is a large variety of small PMTs available on the market. The photocathode sensitivity ranges from the UV to the NIR; the characteristics of the PMTs depend on the specific application: scintillation readout, scintillation counting, high speed, Cherenkov, High Magnetic Field, low radioactivity, cryogenic experiments and so on. Moreover, the characteristics...
Alessandro Bruno
(INAF-IASF Palermo, Italy)
22/06/2018, 12:50
Several projects and already-operative observatories aimed at detecting High Energy Cosmic Rays (HECR) are/will be equipped with instruments to monitor the atmosphere. Since cloud presence can affect the night-time indirect measurements of the HECRs and Cherenkov radiation, it is crucial to know the meteorological conditions during the observation period of the HECR detectors. Several...
Prof.
Szabolcs Marka
(Columbia University)
The discovery of gravitational waves and their
multimessenger fingerprint has opened tremendous opportunities for
astrophysics. Extraordinary instrumental breakthroughs in
gravitational-wave detectors on Earth and in Space, in electromagnetic
and in neutrino observatories shall lead to an information explosion
during the coming years and decades, rapidly expanding humanity’s cosmic...
Prof.
Ilaria Veronesi
(Centro ricerca Limat dipmat Unisa)
In this presentation it will be described a peculiar educational experience with a class of Italian students aged 17-18 during the competition "at the school of Astroparticles" organized by the National Institute for nuclear physics INFN. It will also be shown how the action-research in scientific methodology formed an alternative, effective, and motivating approach to the study of Physics....
