Dr
Frank G. Schrรถder
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
5/29/15, 10:00โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The Tunka observatory is located close to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. Its main detector, Tunka-133, is an array of photomultipliers measuring the Cherenkov light emitted by cosmic-ray air showers. It is used to study cosmic rays up to energies of approximately 1 EeV, which is the energy range of the assumed transition from galactic to extra-galactic cosmic rays. The Tunka Radio Extension...
Dr
David Hadley
(University of Warwick)
5/29/15, 10:01โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The Tokai Intermediate Tank for Unoscillated Spectrum (TITUS)
detector is a proposed addition to the Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K)
experiment, located approximately 2 km from the J-PARC neutrino beam.
The design consists of a 2 kton Gd-doped water Cherenkov tank, partially
covered by a magnetised muon range detector. The target material and
location were chosen so that the neutrino...
Caroline Lahonde-hamdoun
(cea)
5/29/15, 10:02โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The goal of the Stereo experiment is to answer the question of the existence of a sterile neutrino with a mass around 1 eV. The proposed measurement will take place at short distance from the research reactor of ILL in Grenoble. If a sterile neutrino exists then one should observe a distortion of the energy spectrum of the reactor electron antineutrinos induced by the mixing with the new...
Dr
Gianpiero Gervino
(Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN Torino)
5/29/15, 10:04โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
To precisely determine BBN 6Li production, the cross section of the nuclear reaction $^2$H(ฮฑ,ฮณ)$^6$Li must be directly measured within the astrophysical energy range of 30-400 keV.
Since the cross section is of the order of nanobarn, the expected counting rate is very low indeed, therefore this measurement requires an ultra-low ฮณ-ray background in the experimental set-up.
We have realized...
Prof.
Dong Li
(Institution: North Night Vision Technology Co.,Ltd Nanjing Branch), Prof.
Shuguang Si
(Institution: North Night Vision Technology Co.,Ltd Nanjing Branch)
5/29/15, 10:05โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
Microchannel plate (MCP) adsorbed plenty of gases when it is produced. We had degased in the manufacture of MCP-PMT, but it isn't enough, it still affect the parameters of the MCP-PMT. We raerch the aging test of the MCP-PMT to stabilize the parameters of the MCP-PMT.
Aging test condition and procedure :put the MCP-PMT in the Camera obscura and it continuous operated with the voltage of...
Martina De Laurentis
(NA)
5/29/15, 10:06โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
POLIS is a suspended interferometer, presently under construction, devoted
to the generation of ponderomotive squeezed light and to the study of the
interaction of non classical quantum states, of light, and macroscopic
objects. The interferometer is a Michelson whose half-meter long arms are
constituted by high-finesse cavities, suspended to a seismic isolation
chain similar to the...
Sven Herrmann
(SLAC)
5/29/15, 10:07โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) instrument consists of a main science array of 189 4K x 4K CCDs and four guiding and wavefront sensing subsystems located at the four corners of the instrumented field of view. Each wavefront/guiding subsystem comprises a pair of 4K x 4K guide CDDs and a pair of offset 2K x 4K wavefront curvature sensors. The guide CCDs read a region of interest...
Ms
Maria Paola Panetta
(INFN Lecce)
5/29/15, 10:09โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The EEE (Extreme Energy Event) Project is an experiment to study high energy extensive air
showers (EAS) over a very large area, using an array of muon telescopes, based on positionsensitive
Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers. Each telescope is composed by three MRPC, with an
active area of 0.82 x 1.58 m2. Each chamber is segmented into 24 strips, and a readout at the two
ends. Strip size...
Dr
Paola Puppo
(ROMA1)
5/29/15, 10:10โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
Archimedes is an INFN funded pathfinder experiment aimed at verifying the
feasibility of measuring the interaction of vacuum fluctuations with gravity.
The final experiment will measure the force exerted by the gravitational
field on a Casimir cavity whose vacuum energy is modulated with a
superconductive transition, by using a balance as a small force detector.
Archimedes is devoted to...
Dr
Paola Puppo
(ROMA1)
5/29/15, 10:11โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The detection of gravitational waves is one of the most challenging prospects faced by experimental physicists. Suspension thermal noise is an important noise source at operating frequencies between approximately 10 and 30 Hz, and represents a limit to the sensitivity of the ground based interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Its effects can be reduced by minimizing the losses and...
Daniel Krasnicky
(GE)
5/29/15, 10:12โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The AE$\bar\textrm{g}$IS experiment plans to perform a direct
measurement of the gravitational acceleration $\bar g$ of antihydrogen in the gravitational field of the Earth and thus test the validity of the weak equivalence principle on antimatter.
The production of antihydrogen will be performed by combining the
advantages of pulsed charge-exchange reaction between highly excited...
Giovanni Signorelli
(PI)
5/29/15, 10:13โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
One of the main backgrounds in the search for 129Xe nutrinoless double-beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) is the signal from Compton scattering of photons with energy around the decay end point at 2.458 MeV.
One efficient method to exclude this background is by self-shielding, resulting in a waste of active volume.
Another proposed method is tagging the daughter barium nucleus, which relies on...
Dr
Kazuhiro Agatsuma
(National Institute for Subatomic Physics)
5/29/15, 10:14โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
We will report a study of the phase camera, which is a wave-front sensor of laser. Especially, this sensor is utilized for observing phase-modulated laser in an interferometer of gravitational wave (GW) detectors. We are preparing this phase camera for advanced VIRGO and its installation is on going. The sideband signals in power recycling cavity are easily degraded by mirror aberrations in...
Dr
Philippe Gros
(LLR, Ecole Polytechnique)
5/29/15, 10:16โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
Gamma-ray astronomy allows us to explore the non-thermal emissions of
objects such as Active Galatic Nuclei (AGN), Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) and pulsars. Current gamma-ray telescopes based on photon conversion to electron-positron pair use tungsten converters. They suffer of limited angular resolution at low energies, and their sensitivity drops below 1 GeV. A gaseous detector can achieve higher...
Riccardo Paoletti
(SI)
5/29/15, 10:18โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a world-wide project with the aim of exploring the highest energy region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Two arrays will guarantee the full sky coverage in the energy range from few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV, with improved angular resolution and a sensitivity in the TeV energy region better by one order of magnitude than the currently operating arrays....
Dr
Roberto Acciarri
(FNAL)
5/29/15, 10:19โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The last decade has seen an increase in the importance and application of liquified noble gases as detecting medium, both in the dark matter search and accelerator-based neutrino experiments. Especially in the latter field, Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are promising candidates for future short and long baseline oscillation experiments.
Hence, characterization of both...
Mr
Dominik Mรผller
(Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
5/29/15, 10:20โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
Photo Multiplier Tubes (PMT) are the most wide spread detectors for fast, faint light signals. Some five years ago, an improvement program for the PMT candidates for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project was started with the companies Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Japan) and Electron Tubes Enterprises Ltd. (England). CTA is the next major Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes array for...
Dr
Valentina Scotti
(INFN Napoli)
5/29/15, 10:21โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on-board the Japanese Experiment Module), the near-UV telescope proposed to be installed on board the International Space Station (ISS) before the end of this decade. The main objective of this pathfinder mission is to perform a full scale end-to-end test of all the key technologies of JEM-EUSO detectors and...
Ms
Francesca Bisconti
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
5/29/15, 10:22โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
EUSO-TA is one of the prototypes developed for the JEM-EUSO project, a space-based large field-of-view telescope to observe the fluorescence light emitted by cosmic ray air showers in the atmosphere. EUSO-TA is a ground-based prototype located at the Telescope Array (TA) site in Utah, USA, where an Electron Light Source and a Central Laser Facility are installed. The purpose of the EUSO-TA...
Andrey Alexandrov
(NA)
5/29/15, 10:23โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The Dark Matter (DM) existence is one of the most open and discussed questions nowadays. The best candidates are so-called Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) with mass ranging from few GeV to a few TeV that interact with ordinary matter with cross sections typical or smaller than that of the weak processes. The motion of the Sun inside the galaxy causes an anisotropy in direction of...
Ms
SHARMILI RUDRA
(University of Calcutta), Dr
Saikat Biswas
(National Institute of Science Education and Research)
5/29/15, 10:24โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
A simple and new technique has been developed for gamma ray and cosmic ray muon pulse height spectroscopy without using SCA or MCA. Only scintillator detector, a leading edge discriminator and a NIM scaler have been used in this technique. Gamma ray spectrum has been obtained for Co60 and Cs137 sources. Proportionality in energy and pulse height has been observed. The energy resolution for the...
Luca Gironi
(MIB)
5/29/15, 10:25โฏAM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Poster
The main goal of the LUCIFER experiment is to study the neutrinoless double beta decay, a rare process allowed if neutrinos are Majorana particles. Although aiming at a discovery, in the case of insufficient sensitivity the LUCIFER technique will be the demonstrator for a higher mass experiment able to probe the entire inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass. In order to achieve this...
