International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, ISVHECRI 2014

Aug 18, 2014, 2:00 AM → Aug 22, 2014, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Albert De Roeck (CERN - PH/CMG), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

The 18th meeting of the International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2014), will be held at CERN, Geneva, 18 August to 22 August 2014.

ISVHECRI is a biennial conference series launched in 1980 at Nakhodka (Russia) dedicated to very high energy cosmic ray research. A specific aspect of the ISVHECRI series is to focus on high energy hadron collisions of cosmic ray particles and related topics including all directions of very, and extremely, high energy cosmic ray studies with air showers. These Symposia highlight the accelerator studies of hadronic interactions at very high energies and the consequent interpretation of the cosmic ray data as well as the understanding of hadronic interactions from cosmic ray data. This series brings together cosmic ray physicists and scientists involved with the high energy accelerators and colliding beam facilities, including the LHC and RHIC. The ISVHECRI meeting at CERN will be an ideal opportunity for cosmic-ray and particle physicists engaged in accelerator experiments to directly discuss problems of mutual interest. 

 

Topics coverd in this Symposium: 

 

• Recent accelerator data and results • Hadronic cross sections

 

• Multiparticle production • Hadronic-interaction models

 

• Extensive air showers • High-energy cosmic-ray data

 

• Exotic phenomena • Muon and neutrino fluxes

The Symposium will consist of plenary sessions, including invited review talks, as well as highlight talks and posters selected from the submitted abstracts.

The scientific part of the meeting will start in the afternoon of Monday 18 August, with registrations open from the morning.

Monday, August 18

2:00 AM → 5:35 PM Accelerator measurements, part I

Convener: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

2:00 PM Welcome

Slides Welcome.pdf

2:10 PM Total and elastic cross sections in hadronic collisions

Speaker: Mr Emilio Radicioni (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides Presentation.pdf

2:45 PM Overall event features at the LHC (minimum bias and underlying event measurements)

Speaker: Sahal Yacoob (University of Kwazulu - Natal (ZA))

Slides OverallEventFeaturesattheLHC_2.pptx

3:20 PM Forward hadron production at the LHC

Speaker: Yoshitaka Ito (Nagoya University (JP))

Slides ISVHECRI14-itow140818.pdf

3:55 PM Coffee break

4:25 PM Heavy quark production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Jibo He (CERN)

Slides 20140818_HFProd.pdf

5:00 PM Diffraction, rapidity gap physics

Speaker: Igor Katkov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides colldiff_ik_20140818v3.pdf

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Welcome reception and Poster session opening

Book of Posters' Abstracts Posters.pdf

7:30 PM → 8:30 PM Evening lecture

7:30 PM The Higgs boson

Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

Slides Cosmix.pdf Cosmix.pptx

Tuesday, August 19

9:00 AM → 11:15 AM Accelerator measurements, part II

Convener: Jean-René Cudell (Univ. de Liège)

9:00 AM Physics with relativistic heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Benjamin Donigus (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

Slides ISVHECRI_RHIC_bd_final.pdf ISVHECRI_RHIC_bd_final.pptx

9:35 AM Low-energy hadronic interactions from fixed target experiments

Speaker: Boris Popov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))

Slides ISVHECRI_popov_final.pdf

10:10 AM Elastic and diffractive cross sections: a theoretical perspective, in the light of LHC data

Speaker: Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))

Slides VAkhoze-CR.pdf vkhoze-CR.ppt

10:45 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM → 1:00 PM Cosmic ray experiments

Convener: Masaki Fukushima

11:15 AM Overview of ground-based CR measurements

Speaker: Serap Tilav (Univ. of Delaware)

Slides GlobalView2014.pdf

11:50 AM Overview of direct CR measurements

Speaker: Bruna Bertucci (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides 2014-BERTUCCI-ISVECHRI_Aug19.pdf

12:25 PM Overview UHECRs measurements

Speaker: James Matthews

Slides Matthews_CRreview.pdf Matthews_CRreview.ppt

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 4:15 PM Cosmic rays and gamma rays up to 10^18 eV

Convener: David Berge (NIKHEF (NL))

2:00 PM Acceleration of cosmic rays and UHECRs in the universe

Speaker: Eli Waxman

Slides CR_Nu_Waxman.pdf CR_Nu_Waxman.pptx

2:35 PM Multi-messenger aspects: composition, acceleration, propagation

Speaker: Andrew Taylor

Slides Andrew_Taylor_ISVHECRI.pdf

3:10 PM Gamma ray astronomy and hadronic interactions

Speaker: Robert Parsons

Slides ISVHECRI_VHEGamma_RDP.pdf

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM → 6:30 PM Highlight talks 1

Convener: Sunil Gupta

4:15 PM Possible indications of new physics in UHECR air showers, and how to be sure

Speaker: Glennys Farrar (NYU)

Slides grf_ISVECHRI_CERN_081914.pdf

4:35 PM Cosmic rays spectrum in the energy range 10$^{15}$ - 10$^{18}$ eV and its interpretation

Speaker: Igor Petrov (Y)

Slides ISVHECRI2014_CR_Spec&MC_IP.ppt

4:55 PM Primary CR Energy Spectrum and Mass Composition by the Data of Tunka-133 Array.

Speaker: Prof. Vasily Prosin (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics MSU)

Slides prosin_isvhecri2014.pdf

5:15 PM Mass Composition of Cosmic Rays at Ultra High Energies: 40 years Retrospective of Continuous Observations at the Yakutsk Array.

Speaker: Stanislav Knurenko (Y)

5:35 PM Recent Results from the Telescope Array Experiment

Speaker: Masaki Fukushima

Slides Page-ALL-TA.pdf

6:00 PM → 6:45 PM Special event

6:00 PM Touschek with AdA in Orsay

Presentation of a movie, realized by INFN, on the history of e+e– colliders, starting from the early days of AdA (Anello di Accumulazione) in Frascati and Orsay

Speaker: giulia pancheri (INFN)

Poster toushek-ad.pdf

Wednesday, August 20

9:00 AM → 11:15 AM Neutrinos and inclusive muons, part I

Convener: Peter Grieder

9:00 AM Recent results from neutrino telescopes

Speaker: Jakob van Santen

Slides 2014-08-20_ISVHECRI.pdf

9:35 AM On the astrophysical origin of PeV neutrinos

Speaker: Kohta Murase

Slides ISVHECRI2014murase.pdf

10:10 AM Atmospheric lepton fluxes

Speaker: Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)

Slides Gaisser-20Aug.pdf

10:45 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM → 1:00 PM Highlight talks 2

Convener: Paolo Desiati

11:15 AM Composition from high $p_T$ muons in IceCube

Speaker: Dennis Soldin (U)

Slides high_pT_muons.pdf

11:35 AM Probing the Transition from Atmospheric to Astrophysical Neutrinos in IceCube

Speaker: Gary Binder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of California, Berkeley)

Slides AstroAtmNu_ISVHECRI_20_08_14_v3.pdf

11:55 AM Measurement of the Muon Content of Air Showers with IceTop

Speaker: Javier Gonzalez (B)

Slides gonzalez_icetop_muons.pdf

12:15 PM Recent results from ANTARES

Speaker: Agata Trovato (INFN)

Slides Agata_Trovato_ISVHECRI14.pdf

12:35 PM Study of the energy deposit of muon bundles in the NEVOD detector

Speaker: Dr Alexey Bogdanov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))

Slides Bogdanov_NEVOD-DECOR_ISVHECRI2014.pdf

1:00 PM → 1:55 PM Lunch break

1:55 PM → 2:00 PM Conference Photo

Slides aIMG_6760st.jpg

2:00 PM → 3:10 PM Neutrinos and inclusive muons, part II

Convener: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

2:00 PM Theoretical aspects of heavy-flavor production at ultra-high cosmic ray energies

Speaker: Victor Goncalves (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)

Slides talk_HQ_cern.pdf

2:35 PM Low-x parton densities and high-energy neutrino cross sections

Speaker: Ina Sarcevic (university of arizona)

Slides CR_2014.pdf

3:10 PM → 6:20 PM Highlight talks 3

Convener: Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)

3:10 PM Calculation of conventional and prompt lepton fluxes at very high energy

Speaker: Anatoli Fedynitch (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides ISVHECRI2014_fedynitch.pdf

3:30 PM Seasonal Variations of Atmospheric Leptons as a probe for Charm Production

Speaker: Dr Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides Desiati_ISVHECRI2014.pdf

3:50 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM The birth of a near Universe UHECR Astronomy?

Speaker: Prof. Daniele Fargion (Rome University 1 Sapienza and INFN)

Slides Fargion-CERN-20-8-2014-b.pdf

4:40 PM Measurement of the cosmic ray all-particle and light-component energy spectra with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Speaker: Ivan De Mitri (Univ. of Salento and INFN, Lecce, Italy)

Slides ISVHECR2014_DeMitri_Ivan.pdf

5:00 PM Explaining the Knee by Cosmic Ray Escape from the Galaxy

Speaker: Dmitri Semikoz (APC - Paris Diderot)

Slides Knee_Cosmic__Rays_CERN_Aug2014.pdf

5:20 PM The recent results from LHCf

Speaker: Hiroaki Menjo (Nagoya University (JP))

Slides ISVECRI2014_Menjo_20140820.pdf

5:40 PM Analysis of cosmic events with ALICE-LHC

Speakers: Mario Rodriguez Cahuantzi (Depto. de Física - CINVESTAV (MX)), Mario Sitta (Universita del Piemonte Orientale (IT))

Slides isvhecri_alice_MRC.pdf

6:30 PM → 9:30 PM Conference Dinner

Thursday, August 21

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Hadronic interaction models, PART I

Convener: Dr Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

9:00 AM Modeling hadronic interactions in HEP MC generators

Speaker: Peter Skands (CERN)

Slides 14-ISVHECRI-MCmodels.pdf

9:35 AM Modeling hadronic interactions in cosmic ray MC generators

Speaker: Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)

Slides CR_models_Pierog.pdf

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:40 AM → 1:00 PM Highlight talks 4

Convener: Ivan De Mitri (U)

10:40 AM Shower Center of Gravity and Hadronic Interaction Characteristics

Speaker: Mr Lev Kheyn (SINP MSU)

Slides lk_cg_isvhecri.pdf

11:00 AM pp Interaction at Very High Energies in Cosmic Ray Experiments

Speaker: Mr Anderson Kendi Kohara (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Slides ISVHECRI_2014_cern_KOHARA.pdf

11:20 AM Constraints of hadronic interaction models from the cosmic muon observations.

Speaker: Mr Anton Lukyashin (Faculty of Physics M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

Slides Constrains_of_hadronic_interaction_models_from_the_cosmic_muon_observations_Lukyashin_Anton.pdf Constrains_of_hadronic_interaction_models_from_the_cosmic_muon_observations_Lukyashin_Anton.ppt

11:40 AM Study of Charm Production in Forward Cone at Energy E_lab ~ 75 TeV with two-tiered XREC Exposed at Mountain Altitudes.

Speaker: Dr Alexander Borisov (LPI RAS)

Slides ISVHECRI2014-Borisov_Study_of_Charm_Production.pdf

12:00 PM Models for photoproduction at ultra-high energies and photon initiated shower development

Speaker: giulia pancheri (INFN)

Slides Pancheri-ISVHECRI2014.pdf

12:20 PM Initial State Characteristics of Proton-Nucleus Collisions from Glauber Monte Carlo

Speaker: Maciej Rybczynski (Jan Kochanowski University (PL))

Slides mryb_ISVHECRI2014_v4.pdf

12:40 PM Average transverse momenta in baryon production at p-p collider experiments

Speaker: Dr Olga Piskunova (P.N.Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow)

PDF Piskounova_CRsymp2014.pdf

Slides Piskounova_CRsymp2014.pdf

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:10 PM Hadronic interaction models, PART II

Convener: Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)

2:00 PM Theory review on low-x physics, possible saturation, new ideas

Speaker: Anna Stasto (Penn State)

Slides stasto.pdf

2:35 PM Relation between hadronic interactions and air showers

Speaker: Dr Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides rulrich.pdf

3:10 PM → 6:20 PM Highlight talks 5

Convener: Dr Alexander Borisov (LPI RAS)

3:10 PM Charm production in Sibyll

Speaker: Felix Riehn (KIT)

Slides charm_in_sibyll_v4.pdf

3:30 PM Confronting the EPOS-LHC model predictions on the charged particle and muon attenuations lengths of EAS with the measurements of the KASCADE-Grande observatory

Speaker: Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velazquez (U)

Slides arteaga_CosmicRays_ISVHECRI_2014_v5.pdf arteaga_CosmicRays_ISVHECRI_2014_v5.pptx

3:50 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM Updating Monte Carlo Collisions Generators With LHC Data up to $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Noël CAPDEVIELLE (CNRS)

Slides GHOST.pdf GHOST.ppt

4:40 PM Needs for LHC Experiment Planning from Results of Very-High Cosmic Ray Investigations (NEEDS – 2)

Speaker: Prof. Anatoly Petrukhin (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))

Slides AAPetrukhin_ISVHECRI_14_ns_aa3.pdf

5:00 PM The influence of very forward hadron production in air shower development

Speaker: Nobuyuki Sakurai (Nagoya University)

Slides nsakurai_ISVHECRI2014Ver1.4.pdf

5:20 PM Parametrization of gamma-ray production cross-sections for $pp$ interactions in a broad proton energy range from the kinematic threshold to PeV energies

Speaker: Dr Ervin Kafexhiu (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

Slides E.Kafexhiu(ISVHECRI2014).pdf

5:40 PM Limits on Quark Nugget Dark Matter From Cosmic Ray Detectors

Speaker: Mr Kyle Lawson (University of British Columbia)

Slides KL_ISVHECRI2014.pdf

Friday, August 22

9:00 AM → 11:30 AM Highlight talks 6

Convener: Bryan Pattison (Unknown)

9:00 AM The mean lnA study with the Muon Tracking Detector in the KASCADE-Grande experiment – comparison of hadronic interaction models

Speaker: Dr Pawel Luczak (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

Slides PL-isvhecri2014.pdf

9:20 AM Measurement of Feynman-x Spectra of Photons and Neutrons in the Very Forward Direction in Deep-Inelastic Scattering at HERA

Speaker: Dr Armen Buniatyan (University Birmingham)

Slides buniatyan.isvhecri14.pdf

9:40 AM Multiple Shell Shower fronts in EAS with ARGO-YBJ

Speaker: Dr Giovanni Marsella (Università del Salento and INFN)

Slides isvhecri14_marsella.pdf isvhecri14_marsella.ppt

10:00 AM CRPropa: A Public Framework to Propagate UHECRs in the Universe

Speaker: Rafael Alves Batista (University of Hamburg)

Slides rafael-crpropa.pdf

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

Speaker: Francisco Diogo

Slides fdiogo_ISVHECRI.pdf

10:40 AM CR particle acceleration, extragalactic circuits, and transmission lines

Speaker: Philipp Kronberg (University of Toronto, Department of Physics)

Slides KRONBERG_ISVHECRI_CERN2014.pdf

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM → 12:20 PM Outlook

Convener: Dr Ralph Engel (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

11:30 AM Open questions and future challenges

Speaker: Paolo Lipari (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

Slides isve-lipari.pdf