Conveners
Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
- Cristiano Galbiati (LNGS)
- Aldo Morselli (ROMA2)
Monica Sisti
(MIB)
5/29/15, 8:30 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
Compelling experimental evidences of neutrino oscillations and their implication that neutrinos are massive particles have given neutrinoless double beta decay (\bbzn) a central role in astroparticle physics. In fact, the discovery of this elusive decay, besides giving precious information concerning the absolute neutrino mass scale, would unambiguously demonstrate that neutrino and...
Mr
Guillaume Plante
(Columbia University)
5/29/15, 8:50 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
The XENON1T experiment, currently under construction at the Laboratori
Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, aims at detecting dark matter weakly
interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with a dual-phase time projection chamber filled with 3300 kg of liquid xenon. The new experiment will be sensitive to a spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section of 2 x 10^-47 cm^2 (40 GeV/c^2),...
Dr
Thomas ODonnell
(UC Berkeley / LBNL)
5/29/15, 9:10 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is theoretically
motivated but has never been observed. It's discovery would
demonstrate lepton number violation, establish neutrinos are Majorana
fermions and possibly constrain the absolute neutrino-mass scale.
The last decade has seen tremendous progress in the search for this
decay but to push the frontier forward improved detectors...
Dr
David Hadley
(University of Warwick)
5/29/15, 9:30 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K), a proposed one-megaton water Cherenkov detector, is the logical continuation of the highly successful program of neutrino (astro)physics and proton decay using the water Cherenkov technique.
In its baseline design, the Hyper-K detector consists of two cylindrical tanks lying side-by-side, the outer dimensions of each tank being 48m x 54m x 250m. The inner detector...
Marco Circella
(BA)
5/29/15, 9:50 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
KM3NeT is a multi-site, deep-sea research infrastructure being constructed in the Mediterranean Sea. It will comprise the next generation neutrino telescope and it will offer the opportunity of a variety of multi-disciplinary, real-time measurements. The apparatus will be equipped with a large number of digital optical modules (DOMs), each equipped with 31 PMTs of 3” photocathode, arranged on...
Pier Simone Marrocchesi
(University of Siena and INFN Pisa)
5/29/15, 10:10 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
A prototype of an Internal Reflection Cherenkov detector, with a SiO2 (Fused Silica) radiator bar optically connected to a cylindrical mirror, was tested at CERN SPS in March 2015 with a beam of relativistic ions obtained from fragmentation of primary argon nuclei at energies 13 and 30 GeV/n. The detector, designed to identify cosmic nuclei, features an imaging focal plane of dimensions ~4 cm...
Mr
Joris van Heijningen
(Nikhef)
5/29/15, 11:25 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
The European Gravitational wave Observatory Virgo is undergoing an upgrade to increase its strain sensitivity to about 3e-24 1/√Hz in the detection band of 10 Hz – 10 kHz. The upgrade for this detector necessitates seismically isolating sensing optics in a vacuum environment that were on an optical bench outside vacuum in previous Virgo configurations. For this purpose, Nikhef has designed and...
Dr
Frank G. Schröder
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
5/29/15, 11:45 AM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an enhancement of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. AERA is the world’s largest antenna array for cosmic-ray observation. It consists of more than 150 antennas detecting the radio signal emitted by air showers, i.e., cascades of secondary particles caused by primary cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere. At the beginning, technical goals had...
Prof.
Toru Tanimori
(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
5/29/15, 12:05 PM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
ETCC with a TPC and scintillators, by measuring electron tacks, provides a strong background rejection by dE/dx of the track and clear imaging by the arc direction of MeV gammas for MeV Gamma Astronomy. In 2006 its background rejection was revealed by SMILE-I balloon using the dE/dx of tracks. In 2013, 30cm-cube-ETCC was developed to catch gammas from Crab in next SMILE-II balloon with...
Dr
Luciano Gottardi
(SRON - Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
5/29/15, 12:25 PM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
The Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) has been selected by ESA as its second Large-class mission. The future European X-ray observatory will study the hot and energetic Universe with its launch foreseen in 2028.
Microcalorimeters based on superconducting Transition-edge sensor (TES) are the chosen technology for the detectors array of the X-ray Integral Field Unit...
Dr
Oliver Grimm
(ETH Zurich, FHNW Windisch)
5/29/15, 12:45 PM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
Solar Orbiter is a Sun-observing mission of the European Space Agency, addressing the interaction between the Sun and the heliosphere, with launch planned for 2018. The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX), one of ten instruments on-board the spacecraft, will determine the intensity, spectrum, timing, and location of thermal and accelerated electrons near the Sun through their...
Raffaello D'Alessandro
(FI)
5/29/15, 1:05 PM
S8 - Detector Techniques for Cosmology, Astroparticle and General Physics
Oral
Future research in High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics concerns fundamental questions on their origin, acceleration mechanism, and composition.
Well known "features" of the energy spectra of cosmic rays such as the "knee" region can provide some of the answers to the above questions.
The limits of ground based observations, which rely on sophisticated models describing high energy interactions in...
