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18–22 Jun 2018
Hotel Vittorio, Portopalo di Capo Passero (SR) - Italy
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  1. 146. Gamma-rays and their future
    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.
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  2. 80. 15 years of MAGIC observation of a crowded TeV sky.
    Michele Doro (PD)
    18/06/2018, 10:45
    The first MAGIC telescope was built in 2003, and operated as a standalone instrument until 2009, when the addition of a second twin telescope allowed stereoscopic observations. Since then, we have acquired more than 40 extragalactic and more than 10 galactic sources of very high energy gamma rays. The portfolio of physics that can be done with such observations is wide: it includes accretion...
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  3. 140. Particle Accelerators in Space: Recent News from VERITAS
    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...
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  4. 137. 10 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
    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.
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  5. 46. Cherenkov Telescope Array: overview and Galactic science program
    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...
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  6. 37. Highlights from the HAWC Observatory
    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,...
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  7. 123. Introduction to Gravitational Wave detection : GW170817
    Prof. Szabolcs Marka (Columbia University)
    18/06/2018, 17:00
  8. 10. Constraining the nuclear matter EoS from the GW170817 merger event
    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...
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  9. 47. The electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave event GW170817
    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...
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  10. 115. The evolution of the X-ray and radio emission of GW170817/GRB170817A
    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...
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  11. 18. Multi messenger astronomy with the $\gamma$-ray satellite AGILE: gravitational-wave events and ultra high energy astrophysicsal neutrinos
    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....
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  12. 44. LIGO-Virgo’s Discovery of a Binary Neutron Star Merger from a Multi-messenger Perspective
    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...
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  13. 50. Knee, ankle and GZK cutoff in historical perspective
    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.
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  14. 33. Highlights from the Pierre Auger Experiment
    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...
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  15. 43. Results from the Telescope Array Experiment
    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...
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  16. 114. Energy spectrum estimation and mass composition inferences from Xmax measurements of cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory and at the Telescope Array: an inter-collaborative look at the differences at the highest energies
    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...
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  17. 39. The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB) Missions
    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...
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  18. 124. Cosmic Rays Measurements with LOFAR
    Joerg Hoerandel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
    19/06/2018, 12:35
  19. 8. Study of the origins of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory
    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...
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  20. 40. Cosmic rays: direct measurements
    Roberta Sparvoli (ROMA2)
    19/06/2018, 16:30
    In this talk I will review the field of cosmic ray measurements by direct observations. A wealth of new results obtained by balloon-borne and space-based experiments have enriched the field, covering several observation targets from nuclei and isotopes, to electrons and positrons, to antiprotons, measured over six decades in energy from few MeV up to some TeV. The measurements from the...
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  21. 116. AMS-02, result and perspectives
    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.
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  22. 5. A decade of Cosmic Rays Investigation with the PAMELA Experiment
    Matteo Martucci (LNF)
    19/06/2018, 17:45
    It was the 15th of June 2006 when the PAMELA satellite-borne experiment was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Then, for nearly ten years, PAMELA has been making high-precision measurements of the charged component of the cosmic radiation opening a new era of precision studies in cosmic-ray physics. The measured antiparticle component of the cosmic radiation shows features...
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  23. 135. Results form the DAMPE space mission
    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...
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  24. 2. Measurement of Deuteron over Proton flux ratio among CR with the AMS-02 experiment
    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...
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  25. 22. The satellite-based detector HERD: precise high-energy cosmic rays' physics and multimessenger astronomy.
    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...
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  26. 34. Gravitational wave transient sources and what we learn from them
    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...
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  27. 126. Where are we coming from and where are we going: Comprehensive Multisensory Multimodal Integration in Gravitationa-wave Astrophysics
    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...
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  28. 48. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory LIGO: Principles and Upgrades
    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...
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  29. 6. Status of AdVirgo before the new Observation Run
    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
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  30. 117. The multi-messenger astronomy era : status and potential
    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...
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  31. 41. The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network
    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...
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  32. 38. Multi-messenger astronomy driven by the High-energy cosmic neutrinos.
    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...
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  33. 11. Strategies for the Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Transients at Very High-Energy Gamma Rays with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
    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...
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  34. 42. Education and public outreach of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    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...
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  35. 15. Dissemination about natural radioactivity through Work-Based Learning experiences
    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...
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  36. 142. The Distributed Electronic Cosmic-ray Observatory
    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...
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  37. 3. Search for coincident air showers over large scale distances with the EEE network
    Paola La Rocca (CT)
    21/06/2018, 10:30
    The existence of time correlations in detectors separated by distances much larger of the size of the highest energy extensive air showers (EAS) has been long discussed over the years. Several mechanisms have been proposed to justify the existence of such events and, in the last decade, some experiments have also tried to search for correlations on a large scale distance, beyond one hundred...
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  38. 49. PONYS outreach activities
    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...
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  39. 145. Virgo Outreach
    Frederique Marion (LAPP - Annecy)
    21/06/2018, 11:30
  40. 129. "A scuola di astroparticelle"
    Mrs Lucia Consiglio (NA)
    21/06/2018, 11:50
  41. 144. “THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY” a peculiar didactical experience between school and work
    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....
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  42. 0. Tau Airshower Astronomy in space
    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...
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  43. 45. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory
    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...
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  44. 32. The ICARUS experiment
    Francesco Tortorici (CT)
    21/06/2018, 13:10
    The 760 ton ICARUS T600 detector performed a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratories, studying neutrino oscillations with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN, and searching for atmospheric neutrino interactions. ICARUS performed a sensitive search for LSND like anomalous nu_e appearance contributing to constrain the allowed parameters to a narrow region around...
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  45. 143. Highlights from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
    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...
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  46. 12. ANTARES highlights and recent multi-messenger studies.
    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...
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  47. 26. Status and development of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector
    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...
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  48. 132. The Detection Unit of the KM3NeT: qualification, integration procedures and technical results
    Dr Irene Sgura (BA)
    21/06/2018, 17:30
    KM3NeT is a multisite research infrastructure in the Mediterranean Sea hosting neutrino detectors. The basic element of the detectors is the detection unit. From a mechanical point of view, it is a flexible structure anchored to the seabed that allows for a staged construction of the detectors. In this talk I will review the DU mechanical components and their features, the qualification and...
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  49. 21. Ultra-high energy neutrino searches and GW follow-up with the Pierre Auger Observatory
    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...
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  50. 133. Instrumentation in Astroparticle Physics
    Francesco Giordano (BA)
    22/06/2018, 09:30
  51. 24. Assembly and validation of SiPM optical modules for the Schwarzschild-Couder Medium Size Telescope proposed for the CTA observatory.
    Valerio Vagelli (PG)
    22/06/2018, 10:15
    Silicon Photomultipliers are particularly suitable as optical units of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes to detect the fast and low-intensity Cherenkov signal emitted by high energy atmospheric showers. The third generation of high density NUV SiPMs (NUV-HD3) produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in collaboration with INFN have been used to equip optical modules intended to be integrated...
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  52. 4. Performance of the FBK NUV HD technology for the realization of a camera prototype based on Silicon Photomultipliers for the Cerenkov Telescope Array project
    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...
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  53. 19. The HEPD detector on board CSES satellite: in-flight performance
    Dr VALENTINA SCOTTI (NA)
    22/06/2018, 10:55
    CSES (China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite) is a scientific mission dedicated to monitoring electromagnetic field, plasma and particles perturbations of atmosphere and inner Van Allen belts caused by solar and terrestrial phenomena and to the study of the low energy component of the cosmic rays. The satellite hosts several instruments onboard: two magnetometers, an electrical field...
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  54. 118. Novel type of compact satellite borne gamma-ray telescope based on oriented crystals
    LAURA BANDIERA (FE)
    22/06/2018, 11:15
    It has been known since the ‘50s that the lattice structure may strongly influence the electromagnetic processes in oriented crystals. In particular, if a beam of electrons or photons is aligned with the crystalline axes or planes, the probability of bremsstrahlung or pair production, respectively, are strongly enhanced. This results in a shortening of the radiation length, X0, and thereby of...
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  55. 13. The ASTRI Camera control software of the ASTRI SST-2M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
    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...
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  56. 14. Brand-new optical modules for the KM3NeT neutrino detector
    Emanuele Leonora (CT)
    22/06/2018, 12:10
    The discovery of cosmic neutrinos by IceCube in 2013 gave to the field of high-energy neutrino astronomy a new exciting momentum. IceCube and ANTARES detectors, respectively in the ice of the South Pole and in the French deep-water of the Mediterranean Sea, are providing high-quality data and have become an important component of multi-messenger astronomy. New cubic kilometer size detectors...
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  57. 134. Status and perspectives for small-size photomultipliers
    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...
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  58. 17. Measurements of High Energy Cosmic Rays and Cloud presence: A method to estimate cloud coverage in infra-red images taken from space and the ground
    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...
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  59. 51. Using reference stars to verify the end-to-end absolute calibration and for the long term monitoring of the Fluorescence Detector telescopes at the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Alberto Segreto (CT)
    22/06/2018, 13:10
    The absolute calibration of the Fluorescence Detectors telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory is an important element for correctly determining the energy of primary cosmic rays producing Extensive Air Showers in the atmosphere. In this contribute we show that signals generated by stars traversing the field of view of the Fluorescence Detectors can effectively be used as a tool to verify...
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  60. 120. Gamma-ray and the future
    Prof. teresa montaruli (university of geneva)
  61. 130. Highlights on DUNE
    Prof. Ernesto Kemp (University of Campinas)
  62. 136. Highlights on LISA-Pathfinder and LISA
    In 2016, the LISA Pathfinder satellite demonstrated an unprecedented level of residual acceleration between two freely falling test masses in space, at the level required for a space based gravitational wave detector. This achievement has been the basis for the selection in 2017 of LISA as the 3rd Large class mission in the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. The promised scientific outcomes...
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  63. 35. Observations of the Sun with Fermi-LAT in the first 10 years on-orbit
    We present the results of the observations of the Sun in its quiescent state with Fermi-LAT in almost 10 years on orbit. 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...
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  64. 138. The Fermi view of GW170817
    Dr Elisabetta Bissaldi (BA)
    The detection of the gravitational wave event GW 170817 by LIGO and Virgo was accompanied by the independent detection of the short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 170817A by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and a follow-up observation with the Anti-Coincidence Shield for the Spectrometer of Integral (SPI-ACS). Here we focus on the results by Fermi-GBM, discussing the characteristics of the GRB and...
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  65. 36. The gamma-ray properties of a sample of low-redshift BL Lacs
    With its discovery and characterization of several hundred sources, Fermi-LAT has revolutionized our knowledge and understanding of the BL Lac population with respect to other AGNs. The multi-wavelength picture has however not kept up the pace of the γ-ray observations. We have selected an unbiased sample of 42 nearby BL Lacs, located at z<0.2 and within the SDSS footprint, independent of flux...
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  66. 119. Where are we coming from and where are we going: Comprehensive Multisensory Multimodal Integration in Gravitationa-wave Astrophysics
    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...
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  67. 141. “THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY” a peculiar didactical experience between school and work
    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....
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