7th Air Fluorescence Workshop

22 Sept 2010, 08:30 → 24 Sept 2010, 17:00 Europe/Lisbon

Coimbra, Portugal

Wednesday 22 September

08:30 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:00 Opening Session

10:00 → 10:30 The energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Valerio Verzi (INFN, Roma)

Slides Verzi.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Observation and Reconstruction of Extensive Air Showers with the Fluorescence Detectors of the Telescope Array Experiment

Speaker: Daisuke Ikeda (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

Slides ikeda.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Results from the Telescope Array Experiment

Speaker: Yoshiki Tsunesada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Slides Tsunesada.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Atmospheric monitoring in the Telescope Array Experiment

Speaker: Takayuki Tomida (University of Yamanashi)

Slides 7AFWS_tomida.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 A small linear accelerator for absolute energy calibration of fluorescence detector of Telescope Array project

Speaker: Tatsunobu Shibata (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

Slides Shibata.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Comparison of available measurements of the absolute air-fluorescence yield

Speaker: Jaime Rosado (Universitad Complutense, Madrid)

Slides 7thAFW_Rosado.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 The impact of the fluorescence yield on the reconstructed shower parameters

Speaker: José R. Vazquez (Universitad Complutense, Madrid)

Slides Vazquez.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Report on the Absolute Calibration of the AirLight Experiment

Speaker: Danays Morejon-Gonzalez (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Slides Gonzalez.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 Status of the JEM-EUSO experiment

Speaker: Naoto Sakaki (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Slides Sakaki.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Atmosphere-Dependent Fluorescence Calculation in Air Shower Reconstruction

Speaker: Bianca Keilhauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Slides 7AFWS_Keilhauer.pdf

Thursday 23 September

09:00 → 09:30 Analysis of the measurements of the absolute fluorescence yield by AIRFLY

Speaker: Paolo Privitera (Univ. Chicago, USA)

Slides Privitera.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Airfly Laser Calibration

Speaker: Christopher Williams (University of Chicago/KICP)

Slides Williams_7thAFW.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Total simulation of the Airfly experiment

Speaker: Martina Bohacova (Institute of Physics, Prague)

Slides Bohacova.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 On the possible role of triplet electronic states of N4 on the quenching of N2(C3Pu) by N2(X1Sg+): An ab initio study.

Speaker: Sérgio Rodrigues (Dep. Química, Universidade de Coimbra)

Slides 7AFWS_SPJRodrigues_v3.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Spectroscopic studies of nitrogen and air fluorescence using low energy electron beam and ion beam excitation

Speaker: Thomas Heindl (Physik Department E12, TU-München)

Slides Heindl.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Fluorescence yield in moist air by electron with Sr90 source

Speaker: Naoto Sakaki (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Slides sakaki.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Measurements of the spatial non-uniformities of XP3062 PMTs

Speaker: Luis Pereira (LIP-Coimbra)

Slides Pereira.pdf

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 17:00 Visit to the Old University

18:45 → 18:46 Bus @ "Parque Verde"

19:30 → 19:31 Bus @ "Hotel D. Luís"

20:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

18h45: BUS @ "Parque Verde"
19h30: BUS @ "Hotel D. Luís"

Friday 24 September

09:00 → 09:30 The near-infrared fluorescence of the air for the detection of UHECR

Speaker: Enrico Conti (INFN, Padova)

Slides Conti.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 MIDAS: a "fluorescence detector" using microwaves

Speaker: Pedro Facal San Luis (University of Chicago, KICP)

Slides Facal.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 The AMY experiment to measure the Air Microwave Yield

Speaker: Valerio Verzi (INFN, Roma)

Slides Verzi.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 GHz measurements in Karlsruhe

Speaker: Radomir Smida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Slides Smida.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Using Auger FD telescopes to detect the microwave radiation produced by atmospheric showers

Speaker: Claudio Di Giulio (INFN/LNGS)

Slides DiGiulio.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 EASIER status report

Speaker: Silvia Gambetta (INFN and University of Genova, LPNHE)

Slides Gambetta.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 The AMBER Cosmic Ray Detector: Update and Outlook

Speaker: Eric Grashorn (The Ohio State University)

Slides Grashorn.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Reconstructing the longitudinal development of muons with RPCs

Speaker: Lorenzo Cazon (LIP - Lisbon)

Slides Cazon.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 SiPMs for Cosmic Rays Cherenkov and Fluorescence Telescopes

Speaker: Pedro Assis (LIP - Lisbon)

Slides Assis.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Discussion and Closing Session

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee