Conveners
Astroparticle Detectors: Cosmic Particles
- Jochen Schieck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Astroparticle Detectors: Dark Matter
- Manfred Jeitler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Astroparticle Detectors: Miscellaneous
- Manfred Jeitler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Raphael Krause
(RWTH Aachen University)
2/18/16, 9:00 AM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays induce extensive air showers in the
Earth's atmosphere. Within the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina,
the Auger Engineering Radio Array has been built to measure MHz radio
emission of these showers in addition to established techniques based on
fluorescence emission and particle detection on ground. An area of
around 17km² has been instrumented by 153...
Paola La Rocca
(Universita e INFN, Catania (IT))
2/18/16, 9:25 AM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
P.La Rocca for the EEE Collaboration
The EEE (Extreme Energy Events) Project is an experiment for the detection of cosmic ray muons by means of a sparse array of telescopes, each made of three Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers, distributed over all the Italian territory. The main scientific goals of the Project are the investigation of the properties of the local muon flux, the detection of...
Valentina Scotti
2/18/16, 9:50 AM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
The Mini-EUSO project aims to perform observations of the UV-light night emission from Earth. The UV background produced in atmosphere is a key measurement for any experiment aiming at the observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) from space, the most energetic component of the cosmic radiation.
The Mini-EUSO instrument will be placed within the International Space Station (ISS) in...
Dr
Elena Vannuccini
(INFN Florence)
2/18/16, 10:15 AM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
The direct observation of high-energy cosmic rays, up to the PeV region, will increasingly rely on a highly performing calorimetry apparatus, and the physics performance will be primarily determined by the geometrical acceptance and the energy resolution of the deployed calorimeter. Thus, it is extremely important to optimize its geometrical design, granularity, and absorption depth, with...
Achim Gütlein
(Austrian Academy of Sciences)
2/18/16, 2:00 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
Many astrophysical observations can be explained by the existence of cold dark matter. Although nowadays its contribution to the energy density of the universe is known precisely, its particle nature remains still unknown. Clarifying the nature and origin of dark matter is one of the big challenges for modern particle physics.
Direct dark matter searches aim at the observation of dark...
Dr
Claudia Tomei
(INFN - Roma)
2/18/16, 2:25 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
SABRE (Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection) is a NaI(Tl) experiment designed to search for Dark Matter through the annual modulation signature. A DM signal on an Earth-based detector is expected to modulate yearly due to the change of the Earth's speed relative to the galactic halo reference frame. The long standing result from the DAMA/LIBRA experiment at the Gran Sasso National...
Dr
Mitsuhiro Kimura
(Nagoya University)
2/18/16, 2:50 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
Directional dark matter search experiment enable us to reveal the presence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). A promising detector of directional measurement is a fine-grained nuclear emulsion consisting of fine silver bromide crystals with 20 nm or 40 nm size. A critical issue for the success of the emulsion dark matter search experiment is to discriminate the nuclear recoil...
Attila Dobi
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
2/18/16, 3:15 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
The LZ is a second generation dark matter experiment. It is a follow-on to the LUX detector, which is currently the most sensitive WIMP direct detection experiment. The central LZ detector will contain 7 tonnes of active, liquid xenon. Further, LZ is predicted to observe dozens of solar $\rm ^8B$ neutrino interactions via coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Along with being extremely...
Dr
Jean-Laurent Dournaux
(GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot)
2/18/16, 4:30 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project aims to build the next generation ground-based Very High Energy instrument. It will be devoted to the observation of gamma rays over a wide band of energy, from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Two sites are foreseen, one in the northern and the other in the southern hemisphere, allowing the viewing of the whole sky. The southern hemisphere array will consist of...
Laura Cardani
(INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
2/18/16, 4:55 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
When we apply an AC current to a superconductor, the Cooper pairs oscillate and acquire kinetic inductance, that can be measured by inserting the superconductor in a LC circuit with high merit factor.
Interactions in the superconductor can break the Cooper pairs, causing sizable variations in the kinetic inductance and, thus, in the response of the LC circuit.
The continuous monitoring of...
Mr
Ankit Gaur
(University of Delhi)
2/18/16, 5:20 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
Resistive plate chamber (RPC) detectors are known for their excellent timing and good spatial resolution, which make them favourable candidates for the tracking and triggering in many high energy physics experiments. The Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is one such experiment, which will use RPCs as an active detector element. The ICAL experiment is...
Dr
Luca Gironi
(Universita` e INFN di Milano Bicocca)
2/18/16, 5:45 PM
Astroparticle Detectors
Talk
FLARES is an innovative project in the field of rare events searches, such as the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay. It aims to demonstrate the high potentiality of a technique that combines ultra-pure scintillating crystals to arrays of high performance silicon drift detectors (SDD), used to read their light. By optically coupling the two devices and working at temperatures of...
