Dr
Antonio Caciolli
(INFN Padova)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Hydrogen burning of 17O sensitively influences nucleosynthesis in a number of stellar sites, including red giants, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, massive stars, and classical novae. In particular, the ratio between reaction rates of 17O(p,alpha)14N (Q = 1.2 MeV) and 17O(p,g)18F (Q = 5.6 MeV) channels on 17O is one of the most important parameters for the galactic synthesis of 17O,...
Mr
Gabriele Piperno
(Sapienza University of Rome)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Bolometric detectors are one of most promising techniques to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. They are calorimeters working at cryogenic temperatures, featuring low background and excellent energy resolution.
It has been demonstrated that the main source of residual background is due to ฮฑ particles generated by natural radioactive contaminants of the detector materials. This...
Ms
Giuseppina Larosa
(UPV-IGIC)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
KM3NeT is a European Consortium with the goal to build and operate a neutrino telescope with a volume of several cubic kilometres at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. It will be composed at least 300 vertical structures of several hundred metres length, named detection units (DU), anchored on the seabed and kept vertical with a buoy.
The DU will host optical sensors able to detect the...
Dr
Paolo Camarri
(INFN - Roma2)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The ARGO-YBJ experiment at 4300 m above sea level on the Tibet plateau is a full-coverage array of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) operated in streamer mode, covering a surface of 74 ร78 m$^2$ surrounded by a guard ring. It has been running uninterruptedly with its complete layout since October 2007, providing results in gamma-ray astrophysics and cosmic-ray physics. The results of ARGO-YBJ in...
Dr
Miroslav Sulc
(Technical University of Liberec)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
OSQAR experiment in CERN is laser-based experiment for search of axions. Two methods are used for this research. The first one, the photon regeneration effect is looked as a light shining through the wall, whereas in the second one, ultra-fine magnetic birefringence of the vacuum is aimed to be measured for the first time.
The photon regeneration experiment is using two LHC dipole magnets of...
Dr
Erica Andreotti
(JRC-IRMM)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
A complete characterization of new Germanium detectors of BEGe type is being carried out in the HADES underground laboratory, located 225 m below ground in Mol (Belgium). The aim is to determine all the important operational parameters, like the detector active volume, the dead layer thickness and uniformity over the surface and to test the performance of the diodes in terms of energy...
Ezio Previtali
(MIB)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0ฮฝDBD) in Te-130 and other rare processes. The observation of 0ฮฝDBD would indicate that neutrinos are Majorana particles and would provide information about the absolute neutrino mass scale. CUORE is a bolometric detector composed of 988 TeO2 crystals, with the total...
Dr
David DeMuth
(University of Minnesota, Crookston)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The NOvA Collaboration is building a massive tracking liquid-scintillator calorimeter at a location in Northeastern Minnesota, which is 14 mrad off-axis of a high power muon neutrino beam (NuMI) originating 810 km away at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (near Chicago), for the purpose of recording the appearance of electron neutrino events. The principle goals are in comparing...
Mr
Marco Faverzani
(Universitร di Milano-Bicocca and INFN Milano Bicocca)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Low temperature detectors have proven that they are suitable for energy spectrometry. Nowadays one of the most current issue is to increase the number of detectors. Superconducting microwave microresonators are low temperature detectors which are compatible with large-scale multiplexed frequency domain readout. We aim to adapt and further advance the technology of microresonator detectors to...
Dr
Tatsuhiro Naka
(Nagoya University)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Nuclear emulsion is a kind of photographic film and very high resolution tracking detector. We propose the directional dark matter search project with the nuclear emulsion. It is possible to make the large mass detector which sensitive to direction
. However, solid tracking detector is very difficult to detect the nuclear recoil tracks induced by dark matter because the track length in...
Dr
Gwenaelle Lefeuvre
(University of Sussex)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment in construction in the deepest underground laboratory: SNOLAB, Canada. It succeeds to the SNO experiment by replacing heavy water by liquid scintillator, thus lowering the sensitivity threshold to a lower energy.ย Loading the liquid scintillator with O(t) of Nd will enable the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with an expected sensitivity to...
Mr
Daniele Dequal
(PD)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The ICARUS-T600 detector at LNGS laboratory is the largest Liquid Argon TPC (LAr-TPC) operating in an underground laboratory. Its calorimetric resolution and topology reconstruction capabilities permit a wide physics program, which goes from the study of neutrino oscillation on CNGS neutrino beam to nucleon decay searches. Atmospheric as well as solar neutrinos are also a case of study. A...
Dr
Matthias Kleifges
(Karlsruher Institut fรผr Technologie (KIT) - IPE)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The measurement of radio signals from air showers is studied in detail with the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) at the site of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. The first stage of AERA is in operation since autumn 2010 and consists of 23 autonomous radio-detector stations. The design of the stations including the radio antennas, the electronics system and the communications...
Dr
Blake Leverington
(LNF)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
This talk will describe prototype particle tracking detectors constructed at LNF with thick 1~mm and 0.7~mm plastic scintillating fibres with a 64 channel Hamamatsu H7600 flat-panel multi-anode photomultiplier readout. Cosmic ray tracks from an array of 11 gas-filled drift tubes were matched to signals in the scintillating fibres in order to measure the resolution and efficiency of tracks...
Dr
Eduardo Medinaceli Villegas
(PD)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
In the last few years the experimental results on neutrino/antineutrino oscillations at Short-Baseline (SBL) have shown a tension with several phenomenological models. The recent and carefully recomputed antineutrino flux from nuclear reactors has further increased this tension suggesting the need of a better study of the neutrino physics at SBL. In this paper we present a proposal for two...
Dr
David DeMuth
(University of Minnesota, Crookston)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
A 15 kTon detector is being built at Ash River, MN to record particle interactions from neutrinos generated in a 700kW beam located 810 km away at Fermilab, in Chicago, IL. Assembly of this massive PVC detector is tracked via an enterprise level software system (Java EE) designed to ensure high quality construction. Each of the dozen client stations which are located throughout the detector...
Kirill Pushkin
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The EXO collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using 80% of isotopically enriched xenon (136Xe) to probe its Majorana nature and measure its mass. A 100 kg liquid xenon detector is currently running at WIPP. EXO is also conducting R&D on a high pressure xenon gas detector using natural xenon in the pressure range of 1 to 10 atm. This technique may offer superior energy...
Dr
Angela Dora Vittoria Di Virgilio
(INFN - Pisa)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Ring-Lasers are commonly employed as gyroscope, since they measure angular velocity for the Sagnac Effect. The range of applicability is very wide: from aircraft guidance, to geodesy and geophysics. The large ring G in the Laser Ranging station of Wettzell (Baviera) has obtained the accuracy of fractions of prad/s, close to the one required to provide a tool for general relativity test. In...
Mr
Oleksandr Volynets
(Max-Planck-Insitute for Physics)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Segmented high-purity germanium detectors have been developed for a variety of experiments. The segmentation is used to augment the excellent energy resolution of such a device with spatial information to disentangle event topologies. Several performance aspects of true-coaxial segmented detectors are discussed, especially the effects of axes orientation and the problem of events close to the...
Dr
Stefano Riboldi
(Universita' di Milano - INFN Milano)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Phase I of GERDA, aimed at investigating neutrino-less double beta decay of 76Ge, is active at LNGS since November 2011.
For the first time in a physics experiment, 8 (enriched) bare coaxial Germanium detectors are operated since months immersed in liquid Argon, acting as shield against external radiation and as cooling medium; the cryostat is surrounded by a tank containing ultra-pure water,...
Dr
Serena Fattori
(INFN - LNGS)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
XENON is a dark matter direct detection experiment, consisting of a time-projection chamber (TPC) using xenon in double phase as sensitive detector medium. The XENON project is currently taking dark matter data at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (Italy) with the XENON100 experiment (100 kg scale mass of target volume) devoted to explore the spin-indipendent elastic WIMP-nucleon...
A. Lavagno
(Politecnico di Torino and INFN Torino)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Cerium-doped lanthanum bromide, LaBr3(Ce), crystal is the latest among the family of scintillation counters and shows same attracting properties for $\gamma$ spectroscopy that makes it a suitable solution for security, medical, geophysics and high energy physics applications. Among these properties are good density (5.1 g/cm$^3$), brightness (>65000 photon/MeV), time resolution and excellent...
Laura Cardani
(ROMA1)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The direct detection of rare alpha decays is very challenging, as
detectors like gas counters or semiconductors can not achieve a sufficient sensitivity to study these processes.
The background suppression against beta and gamma decays, which is a crucial issue for the disentanglement of the alpha peak, can be easily obtained by means of scintillating bolometers.
These detectors can be...
Dr
Luca Gironi
(MIB)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
Bolometers are very promising detectors for neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (0$\nu$DBD) searches because of their excellent energy resolution, the high detector efficiency and a wide choice of different materials used as absorber. In order to further improve the sensitivity achievable, in recent years many studies have been done in order to understand and thereby reduce the radioactive...
Prof.
Divic Rapin
(DPNC, University of Geneva)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high-energy physics experiment operating on the International Space Station since May 19th 2011.
It measures the different components of cosmic rays to search for primordial antimatter and annihilation products of dark matter.
With its large acceptance and at least 10 years of operation, AMS-02 will measure more than $10^{10}$ charged particles...
Alexandre Creusot
(APC - Paris)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope is the first operational Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. It has been completed in May 2008 and is meant to perform neutrino astronomy via a large three-dimensional array of photo-multiplier tubes. This presentation describes the design, the construction and the installation of the telescope in the deep sea, offshore from Toulon in France, as well as...
Dr
Francesco Saverio Cafagna
(INFN - Bari)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on-board of the
Japanese Experiment Module on the ISS) mission has the primary
scientific objective of doing astromony and astrophysics detecting
extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs), above 10$^{20}$ eV, measuring particle
arrival directions and energies. This will extend the knowledge of the
sources, spectra and composition of the cosmic...
Prof.
Herbert Loehner
(KVI)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
For the KM3NeT neutrino telescope a novel optical network has been designed for data transfer and communication between the on-shore control room and optical sensors off-shore at distances up to 100 kilometers. The implementation relies on sensor technologies using a FPGA and photonic components and a 10 Gb/s optical network for readout, data acquisition and communication. Much functionality...
Prof.
Herbert Loehner
(KVI, University of Groningen)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
KM3NeT, the future deep-sea neutrino telescope of multi-cubic km size, is being designed to search for high energy neutrinos originating from galactic and extragalactic sources. The neutrinos can be detected by collecting Cherenkov light emitted from relativistic charged secondary particles caused by the interaction of neutrinos with the medium surrounding the detector. To collect the...
Ugo Gastaldi
(LNL)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The PVLAS experiment aims at the observation and measurement of the effect of magnetic birefringence of vacuum (MBV). This effect (predicted since long, but so far never observed directly) is the consequence of non linear terms present in the QED lagrangian. These terms result from vacuum fluctuations due to creation and annihilation of pairs of virtual charged particles and antiparticles....
Dr
Veronica Bindi
(INFN/University of Hawaii at Manoa)
25/05/2012, 13:31
P7 - Experimental Systems without Accelerators
Poster
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 has been installed in May 19th 2011 on the International Space Station, where it will detect cosmic rays for the next decades. AMS-02 with its accurate measurements up to the TeV scale will contribute to our knowledge of the Universe providing the most sensitive search for the existence of primordial anti matter and indirect search for dark matter. The...
