RICAP-14, Noto (Sicily, Italy) September 30th- October 3rd

Session

II Plenary Session

Sep 30, 2014, 11:10 AM

C.U.M.O. Noto (SR), Italy

Conveners

II Plenary Session

• Antonio Capone (ROMA1)

111. Precision Cosmic Ray Phyics with Space-born Experiments

Marco Incagli (PI)

9/30/14, 11:10 AM

oral

After more than 100 years after their discoveries, cosmic rays have been extensively studied, both with balloon experiments and with ground observatories. More recently, the possibility of mounting detectors on satellites or on the International Space Station has allowed for a long duration (several years) continuous observation of primary cosmic rays, i.e. before their interaction with the...

100. Borexino: recent solar and terrestrial neutrino results

Marco Pallavicini (GE)

9/30/14, 11:50 AM

The first phase of the Borexino experiment, currently running at the Laboratori del Gran Sasso in Italy, has been completed in 2010, and after a successful purification campaign which have further brought down the background levels, a second data taking phase is now in progress, started in October 2011. In this talk, after recalling the main features of the detector, the final results of...

103. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: where do we stand 50 years after their first detection?

Piera Luisa Ghia (LPNHE-CNRS, Paris)

9/30/14, 12:25 PM

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR, E>10^18 eV) can be studied only through the giant air-showers they produce in atmosphere. First UHECRs were detected 50 years ago by the pioneering Volcano Ranch air-shower array. Since then, many more UHECR data have been collected, by larger and higher quality experiments that have followed each other in half a century. We make a retrospective survey of...