William Jones
(NASA)
05/08/2015, 14:00
CR-IN
Oral contribution
The NASA Particle Astrophysics Program covers the Origin of the Elements, Nearest Sources of Cosmic Rays, How Cosmic Particle Accelerators Work, The Nature of Dark Matter, and Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos. Progress in each of these topics has come from sophisticated instrumentation flown on Long Duration Balloon (LDB) flights around Antarctica for more than two decades. Super Pressure Balloons...
Dr
John W. Mitchell
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
05/08/2015, 14:15
CR-IN
Oral contribution
The Heavy Nuclei eXplorer (HNX) is a new instrument proposed as a NASA Small Explorer by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of California, Berkeley, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. HNX will investigate the nature of the reservoirs of nuclei at the cosmic-ray sources, the mechanisms by which nuclei are removed from the reservoirs and injected...
Prof.
Scott Wakely
(University of Chicago)
05/08/2015, 14:30
CR-IN
Oral contribution
Recent high-profile ‘anomalies’ detected in the cosmic-ray flux have underscored the importance of improving our understanding of cosmic-ray source and propagation processes. To this end, one of the key observational tasks is obtaining measurements of the relative abundances of the light cosmic-ray isotopes at relativistic energies (above ~1 GeV/n) where existing information is extremely...
Roberta Sparvoli
(University of Rome Tor Vergata)
05/08/2015, 14:45
CR-IN
Oral contribution
The CSES space mission will study the temporal stability of the inner Van Allen radiation belts, investigating precipitation of trapped particles induced by magnetospheric, ionosferic and tropospheric EM emissions, as well as by seimo-electromagnetic and anthropogenic disturbances.
CSES satellite will be launched in September 2016 and inserted into a circular Sun-syncronous orbit with 98...
Shoji Torii
(Waseda University (JP))
05/08/2015, 15:00
CR-IN
Oral contribution
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) space experiment, which has been developed by Japan in collaboration with Italy and the United States, is a high-energy astroparticle physics mission to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goals of the CALET mission include investigating possible nearby sources of high energy electrons, studying the details of galactic...
Prof.
Mikhail Panasyuk
(SINP MSU)
05/08/2015, 15:15
CR-IN
Oral contribution
Modified KLYPVE is a novel fluorescence detector of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, energies >50 EeV) to be installed on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station. The main goal of the experiment is to register arrival directions and energies of EECRs but it will be able to register other transient events in the atmosphere as well. The main component of KLYPVE is a...
Peter von Ballmoos
(IRAP)
05/08/2015, 15:30
CR-EX
Oral contribution
on behalf of the JEM-EUSO collaboration
EUSO-BALLOON is a pathfinder for JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory which is to be hosted on-board the International Space Station. As JEM-EUSO is designed to observe Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR)-induced Extensive Air Showers (EAS) by detecting their ultraviolet light tracks "from above", EUSO-BALLOON is a nadir-pointing UV...
Prof.
Eun Suk Seo
(University of Maryland (US))
05/08/2015, 15:45
CR-IN
Oral contribution
The balloon-borne Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) experiment was flown for ~161 days in six flights over Antarctica. Elemental spectra were measured for Z = 1 - 26 nuclei over a wide energy range from ~ $10^{10}$ to >$10^{14}$ eV at an average altitude of ~38.5 km with ~3.9 g/$cm^2$ atmospheric overburden. Building on the success of the balloon flights, the payload has been...
