Name: International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, ISVHECRI 2014
Start: 2014-08-18T02:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-08-22T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Monday, 18 August 2014
02:00
02:00 - 17:35
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Welcome

14:10 Total and elastic cross sections in hadronic collisions - Emilio Radicioni (Universita e INFN (IT))

14:45 Overall event features at the LHC (minimum bias and underlying event measurements) - Sahal Yacoob (University of Kwazulu - Natal (ZA))

15:20 Forward hadron production at the LHC - Yoshitaka Ito (Nagoya University (JP))

16:25 Heavy quark production at the LHC - Jibo He (CERN)

17:00 Diffraction, rapidity gap physics - Igor Katkov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
18:00

18:00 - 19:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
19:30
19:30 - 20:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

19:30 The Higgs boson - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
09:00
09:00 - 11:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Physics with relativistic heavy ion collisions - Benjamin Donigus (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

09:35 Low-energy hadronic interactions from fixed target experiments - Boris Popov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))

10:10 Elastic and diffractive cross sections: a theoretical perspective, in the light of LHC data - Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Overview of ground-based CR measurements - Serap Tilav (Univ. of Delaware)

11:50 Overview of direct CR measurements - Bruna Bertucci (Universita e INFN (IT))

12:25 Overview UHECRs measurements - James Matthews
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
14:00
14:00 - 16:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Acceleration of cosmic rays and UHECRs in the universe - Eli Waxman

14:35 Multi-messenger aspects: composition, acceleration, propagation - Andrew Taylor

15:10 Gamma ray astronomy and hadronic interactions - Robert Parsons
16:15
16:15 - 18:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

16:15 Possible indications of new physics in UHECR air showers, and how to be sure - Glennys Farrar (NYU)

16:35 Cosmic rays spectrum in the energy range 10$^{15}$ - 10$^{18}$ eV and its interpretation - Igor Petrov (Y)

16:55 Primary CR Energy Spectrum and Mass Composition by the Data of Tunka-133 Array. - Vasily Prosin (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics MSU)

17:15 Mass Composition of Cosmic Rays at Ultra High Energies: 40 years Retrospective of Continuous Observations at the Yakutsk Array. - Stanislav Knurenko (Y)

17:35 Recent Results from the Telescope Array Experiment - Masaki Fukushima
18:00
18:00 - 18:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

18:00 Touschek with AdA in Orsay - giulia pancheri (INFN)
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
09:00
09:00 - 11:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Recent results from neutrino telescopes - Jakob van Santen

09:35 On the astrophysical origin of PeV neutrinos - Kohta Murase

10:10 Atmospheric lepton fluxes - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 Composition from high $p_T$ muons in IceCube - Dennis Soldin (U)

11:35 Probing the Transition from Atmospheric to Astrophysical Neutrinos in IceCube - Gary Binder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of California, Berkeley)

11:55 Measurement of the Muon Content of Air Showers with IceTop - Javier Gonzalez (B)

12:15 Recent results from ANTARES - Agata Trovato (INFN)

12:35 Study of the energy deposit of muon bundles in the NEVOD detector - Alexey Bogdanov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 13:55
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

13:55 Conference Photo
Conference Photo
13:55 - 14:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
14:00
14:00 - 15:10
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Theoretical aspects of heavy-flavor production at ultra-high cosmic ray energies - Victor Goncalves (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)

14:35 Low-x parton densities and high-energy neutrino cross sections - Ina Sarcevic (university of arizona)
15:10
15:10 - 18:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

15:10 Calculation of conventional and prompt lepton fluxes at very high energy - Anatoli Fedynitch (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

15:30 Seasonal Variations of Atmospheric Leptons as a probe for Charm Production - Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

16:20 The birth of a near Universe UHECR Astronomy? - Daniele Fargion (Rome University 1 Sapienza and INFN)

16:40 Measurement of the cosmic ray all-particle and light-component energy spectra with the ARGO-YBJ experiment - Ivan De Mitri (Univ. of Salento and INFN, Lecce, Italy)

17:00 Explaining the Knee by Cosmic Ray Escape from the Galaxy - Dmitri Semikoz (APC - Paris Diderot)

17:20 The recent results from LHCf - Hiroaki Menjo (Nagoya University (JP))

17:40 Analysis of cosmic events with ALICE-LHC - Mario Rodriguez Cahuantzi (Depto. de Física - CINVESTAV (MX)) Mario Sitta (Universita del Piemonte Orientale (IT))
18:30

18:30 - 21:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Thursday, 21 August 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Modeling hadronic interactions in HEP MC generators - Peter Skands (CERN)

09:35 Modeling hadronic interactions in cosmic ray MC generators - Tanguy Pierog (KIT)
10:40
10:40 - 13:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

10:40 Shower Center of Gravity and Hadronic Interaction Characteristics - Lev Kheyn (SINP MSU)

11:00 pp Interaction at Very High Energies in Cosmic Ray Experiments - Anderson Kendi Kohara (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

11:20 Constraints of hadronic interaction models from the cosmic muon observations. - Anton Lukyashin (Faculty of Physics M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

11:40 Study of Charm Production in Forward Cone at Energy E_lab ~ 75 TeV with two-tiered XREC Exposed at Mountain Altitudes. - Alexander Borisov (LPI RAS)

12:00 Models for photoproduction at ultra-high energies and photon initiated shower development - giulia pancheri (INFN)

12:20 Initial State Characteristics of Proton-Nucleus Collisions from Glauber Monte Carlo - Maciej Rybczynski (Jan Kochanowski University (PL))

12:40 Average transverse momenta in baryon production at p-p collider experiments - Olga Piskunova (P.N.Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
14:00
14:00 - 15:10
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Theory review on low-x physics, possible saturation, new ideas - Anna Stasto (Penn State)

14:35 Relation between hadronic interactions and air showers - Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
15:10
15:10 - 18:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

15:10 Charm production in Sibyll - Felix Riehn (KIT)

15:30 Confronting the EPOS-LHC model predictions on the charged particle and muon attenuations lengths of EAS with the measurements of the KASCADE-Grande observatory - Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velazquez (U)

16:20 Updating Monte Carlo Collisions Generators With LHC Data up to $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV - Jean-Noël CAPDEVIELLE (CNRS)

16:40 Needs for LHC Experiment Planning from Results of Very-High Cosmic Ray Investigations (NEEDS – 2) - Anatoly Petrukhin (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))

17:00 The influence of very forward hadron production in air shower development - Nobuyuki Sakurai (Nagoya University)

17:20 Parametrization of gamma-ray production cross-sections for $pp$ interactions in a broad proton energy range from the kinematic threshold to PeV energies - Ervin Kafexhiu (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

17:40 Limits on Quark Nugget Dark Matter From Cosmic Ray Detectors - Kyle Lawson (University of British Columbia)
Friday, 22 August 2014
09:00
09:00 - 11:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 The mean lnA study with the Muon Tracking Detector in the KASCADE-Grande experiment – comparison of hadronic interaction models - Pawel Luczak (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

09:20 Measurement of Feynman-x Spectra of Photons and Neutrons in the Very Forward Direction in Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA - Armen Buniatyan (University Birmingham)

09:40 Multiple Shell Shower fronts in EAS with ARGO-YBJ - Giovanni Marsella (Università del Salento and INFN)

10:00 CRPropa: A Public Framework to Propagate UHECRs in the Universe - Rafael Alves Batista (University of Hamburg)

10:20 Electromagnetic and muonic shower development: breaking degeneracy in mass composition/hadronic models interpretation - Francisco Diogo

10:40 CR particle acceleration, extragalactic circuits, and transmission lines - Philipp Kronberg (University of Toronto, Department of Physics)
11:30
11:30 - 12:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 Open questions and future challenges - Paolo Lipari (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))