7th Air Fluorescence Workshop

from Wednesday 22 September 2010 (08:30) to Friday 24 September 2010 (17:00)
Coimbra, Portugal

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Sept 2010
23 Sept 2010
24 Sept 2010
AM
08:30 --- Registration ---
09:30 Opening Session   ()
10:00 The energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Valerio Verzi (INFN, Roma)   ()
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10:30 Observation and Reconstruction of Extensive Air Showers with the Fluorescence Detectors of the Telescope Array Experiment - Daisuke Ikeda (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)   ()
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Results from the Telescope Array Experiment - Yoshiki Tsunesada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)   ()
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09:00 Analysis of the measurements of the absolute fluorescence yield by AIRFLY - Paolo Privitera (Univ. Chicago, USA)   ()
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09:30 Airfly Laser Calibration - Christopher Williams (University of Chicago/KICP)   ()
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10:00 Total simulation of the Airfly experiment - Martina Bohacova (Institute of Physics, Prague)   ()
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 On the possible role of triplet electronic states of N4 on the quenching of N2(C3Pu) by N2(X1Sg+): An ab initio study. - Sérgio Rodrigues (Dep. Química, Universidade de Coimbra)   ()
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11:30 Spectroscopic studies of nitrogen and air fluorescence using low energy electron beam and ion beam excitation - Thomas Heindl (Physik Department E12, TU-München)   ()
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09:00 The near-infrared fluorescence of the air for the detection of UHECR - Enrico Conti (INFN, Padova)   ()
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09:30 MIDAS: a "fluorescence detector" using microwaves - Pedro Facal San Luis (University of Chicago, KICP)   ()
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10:00 The AMY experiment to measure the Air Microwave Yield - Valerio Verzi (INFN, Roma)   ()
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 GHz measurements in Karlsruhe - Radomir Smida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   ()
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11:30 Using Auger FD telescopes to detect the microwave radiation produced by atmospheric showers - Claudio Di Giulio (INFN/LNGS)   ()
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PM
12:00 Atmospheric monitoring in the Telescope Array Experiment - Takayuki Tomida (University of Yamanashi)   ()
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12:30 A small linear accelerator for absolute energy calibration of fluorescence detector of Telescope Array project - Tatsunobu Shibata (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)   ()
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Comparison of available measurements of the absolute air-fluorescence yield - Jaime Rosado (Universitad Complutense, Madrid)   ()
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15:00 The impact of the fluorescence yield on the reconstructed shower parameters - José R. Vazquez (Universitad Complutense, Madrid)   ()
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15:30 Report on the Absolute Calibration of the AirLight Experiment - Danays Morejon-Gonzalez (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   ()
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Status of the JEM-EUSO experiment - Naoto Sakaki (Aoyama Gakuin University)   ()
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17:00 Atmosphere-Dependent Fluorescence Calculation in Air Shower Reconstruction - Bianca Keilhauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   ()
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12:00 Fluorescence yield in moist air by electron with Sr90 source - Naoto Sakaki (Aoyama Gakuin University)   ()
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12:30 Measurements of the spatial non-uniformities of XP3062 PMTs - Luis Pereira (LIP-Coimbra)   ()
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
15:00 --- Visit to the Old University ---
18:45 --- Bus @ "Parque Verde" ---
19:30 --- Bus @ "Hotel D. Luís" ---
20:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:00 EASIER status report - Silvia Gambetta (INFN and University of Genova, LPNHE)   ()
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 The AMBER Cosmic Ray Detector: Update and Outlook - Eric Grashorn (The Ohio State University)   ()
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14:30 Reconstructing the longitudinal development of muons with RPCs - Lorenzo Cazon (LIP - Lisbon)   ()
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15:00 SiPMs  for Cosmic Rays Cherenkov and Fluorescence Telescopes - Pedro Assis (LIP - Lisbon)   ()
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15:30 Discussion and Closing Session   ()
16:30 --- Coffee ---