Dr
Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde
(Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
5/26/11, 4:45 PM
Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. This may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as AGNs. Here we simultaneously consider both the photon/ALP mixing that takes place in the gamma-ray source itself and the one expected to occur in the intergalactic magnetic fields. We show that photon/ALP...
Gemma Testera
(GE)
5/26/11, 5:05 PM
Two new experimental data about solar 7Be neutrinos have been released in the middle April 2011 by the Borexino collaboration: the new high precision interaction rate and the absence of the day night effect. The two results will be discussed together with their physical consequences about low energy neutrino oscillations.
Dr
Monica Brigida
(Bari University)
5/26/11, 5:45 PM
We show the latest results of Fermi-LAT observations of the quiescent Sun during the first 18 months of the mission.
During this period the solar activity was at its minimum, hence the solar emission induced by cosmic rays was at its maximum. Two emission components are clearly distinguished: the point-like emission from the solar disk due to the cosmic-ray cascades in the solar atmosphere,...
Dr
Philipp Mertsch
(Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics)
5/26/11, 6:00 PM
Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT reveal a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50 degrees above and below the galactic centre, which presumably originated in some form of energy release there less than a few million years ago. It has been argued that the gamma-rays arise from hadronic interactions of high energy cosmic rays which are advected out by a strong wind, or from inverse-Compton...
Dr
Beatriz CANADAS DEL RIO
(ROMA2)
5/26/11, 6:15 PM
The inner region of the Milky Way Galaxy is one of the most interesting and complicated regions of the gamma ray sky because of the many point sources and potential confusion, the uncertainties associated with the diffuse gamma-ray emission, together with the potential for dark matter detection. In this talk, we report on the Fermi LAT team analysis of a 10 degree region around the direction...
