Conveners
Flash Talks-2
- Roberta Colalillo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
The presence of hadronic sub-showers in vertical extensive air showers produces non-uniformities in the azimuthal distribution of secondary particle densities at ground.
At a fixed distance from the shower axis, these non-uniformities are more pronounced in the case of showers induced by protons compared to those induced by iron nuclei, primarily due to larger fluctuations in the heights of...
The majority of the mass of the universe is composed of Dark Matter (DM),
whose unknown nature has to be determined via expansions of the standard model of particle physics (SM). A class of candidates frequently taken into account are Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs): stable and massive particles coupled with SM via weak interaction. According to different models, WIMPs may...
Since 2019, three scintillator-based cosmic ray telescopes, readout by SiPM and controlled by low-cost electronics, are installed in the scientific research site in Ny Ålesund (Svalbard) at 79°N, recording muons from secondary cosmic rays. The detectors are part of the EEE project, involving almost 100 secondary schools in Italy.
After collecting nearly 5 years of data, we were able to...
The possible presence of low energy anti-deuterons in cosmic rays is a golden channel to test the antimatter asymmetry in the Universe or to identify annihilating Dark Matter particles in the galactic halo.
The “PHeSCAMI” (Pressurized Helium Scintillating Calorimeter for AntiMatter Identification) project is aiming to study a new signature for the identification of anti-deuteron and...
The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international project led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) to deploy an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife. The system will study astronomical sources emitting in the very high-energy band above 1 TeV up to 200 TeV. The telescope array is an improved version of the ASTRI-Horn telescope...
Water Cherenkov detectors are playing a central role in neutrino physics, gamma-ray astronomy, and cosmic-ray research. These detectors usually rely on the use of large area photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect Cherenkov radiation emitted by particles moving faster than the speed of light in water. Recent studies suggest that using multiple small area PMTs in a compact structure enhances...
NUSES is a pathfinder for new satellite platforms developed by THALES and
cutting-edge photo sensing technologies, such as SiPM and their associated low-power-consuming electronics. NUSES is financed by the Italian Ministry and conducted by GSSI, with INFN sections and the University of Geneva. NUSES hosts two payloads: Ziré is devoted to low-energy cosmic rays and gamma-rays from gamma-ray...
Crystal Eye is a new concept of space-based all sky monitor for the observation of 30keV-30MeV photons exploiting a new detection technique,
which foresees enhanced localization capability with respect to current instruments.
This is now possible thanks to the use of new materials and sensors. The primary scientific goal is the detection of the electromagnetic signal of extreme phenomena...
Cosmic Rays (CR) inside the Heliosphere are subject to the effects of the Solar Modulation, resulting from their interaction with the solar wind and with the interplanetary magnetic field. These effects are strongly related to the solar activity and lead to a temporal variation of the cosmic ray intensity near Earth for rigidities up to few tens of GV.
In this contribution, properties of...
