20th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions

21 May 2018, 09:00 → 25 May 2018, 19:30 Asia/Tokyo

Noyori conference hall (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)

Yoshitaka Ito (Nagoya University (JP))

Symposium topics:

• EAS results relevant to Particle Physics
• Accelerator results relevant to Cosmic Ray Physics
• Emulsion chamber & Hybrid experiment results
• LHC pp and Heavy Ion Physics
• Exotic phenomena, manifestation of a “New Physics” beyond the Standard Model
• Hadronic cross sections, multiparticle production & hadronic interaction models
• Space experiment data related to high energy interactions
• Matter-Antimatter asymmetry
• New EAS experimental installations
• High energy neutrino and muon fluxes
• High and super high energy cosmic rays, origin & observation

ISVHECRI series:

• ISVHECRI 2016 in Moscow
• ISVHECRI 2014 in Geneve
• ISVHECRI 2012 in Berlin

Important dates:

10 January 2018  --- Registration open
  16 February 28 February 2018  
                             --- Deadline of abstract submission
   21 March 2018 31 March 2018  
                             --- Deadline of early registration
     7 May 2018  --- Deadline of Online registration
 21-23 May 2018  --- Onsite registration open
 21-25 May 2018  --- Symposium date

 

Contact:  

      Secretary of this symposium 
      isvhecri2018@isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

 

poster_design_rev3.pdf

PosterPublicLecture.pdf

PosterSession.pdf

Monday, 21 May

09:00 → 10:50 Opening and Introduction

Convener: Sunil Gupta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

09:00 Opening address

Speaker: S.Gupta and LOC

FromLOC.pdf

FromLOC.pptx

09:10 Welcome address

Speaker: Junji HISANO (Nagoya university)

About KMI @ISVHECR.pdf

About KMI @ISVHECR.pptx

09:20 Opening Remark

Speaker: Yoshitaka Ito (Nagoya University (JP))

ISVHERI2018Opening.pdf

ISVHERI2018Opening.pptx

09:40 High energy neutrino astronomy: Achievements and challenges

Speaker: Eli Waxman

Waxman- HE nu astro.pdf

10:15 Telescope Array Hybrid Composition and Auger-TA Composition Comparison

Speaker: William Hanlon (University of Utah)

TA Xmax and TA-Auger Comparison.pdf

Telescope Array Hybrid Composition and Auger-TA Composition Comparison

10:50 → 11:10 Break

11:10 → 12:30 UHECR, HECR: UHECR spectrum, composition and anisotropy

Convener: NAOYA INOUE (SAITAMA University)

11:10 Hadronic Interactions and Air Showers : Where do we stand ?

Speaker: Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)

Pierog_ISVHECRI_2018.pdf

11:45 Black hole jets in galaxy clusters as common origins of high-energy cosmic particles

Speaker: Ke Fang (University of Maryland)

cluster_Fang.pdf

12:10 Search and study of extensive air shower events with the TUS space experiment

Speaker: Dr Maria Lavrova (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

Lavrova_ISVHECRI2018.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:35 UHECR, HECR: HECR spectrum and composition

Convener: Katsuaki Kasahara

14:00 The cosmic ray energy spectrum measured with the new Tibet hybrid experiment

Speaker: Jing Huang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

J.Huang-ISVHECRI2018.pdf

J.Huang-ISVHECRI2018.ppt

14:35 Main results of the KASCADE and KASCADE-Grande experiments

Speaker: Andrea Chiavassa

Chiavassa-ISVHECRI2018.pdf

15:10 Measuring the Muon Content of Air Showers with IceTop

Speaker: Javier Gonzalez (Bartol Research Institute, Univ Delaware)

jgonzalez_muons_in_icetop.pdf

15:35 → 15:55 Break

15:55 → 18:00 Astroparticle theory (+HECR)

Convener: Prof. Kohta Murase (Penn State University)

15:55 Cosmic ray positrons at high energy

Speaker: Kfir Blum (CERN)

ISVHECR2018_Blum.pdf

16:30 Neutrinos from UHECR interactions

Speaker: Daniel Biehl (DESY)

180521_ISVHECRI-Biehl.pdf

16:55 Cutoff for Cosmic-ray Neutrino and Collider Signature with a Neutrino Portal Interaction

Speaker: Dr Wen Yin (Institute of High Energy Physics)

GZK2-2.pdf

17:20 Can strangelets solve the muon puzzle ?

Speaker: Zbigniew Wlodarczyk (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland)

WLOD_21_May.pdf

17:40 Recent Results from the KASCADE-Grande Data Analysis

Speaker: Donghwa Kang

ISVHECRI2018_DonghwaKang.pdf

18:20 → 19:50 Reception

Tuesday, 22 May

09:00 → 10:45 Accelerator measurements

Convener: Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

09:00 Recent minimum-bias measurements by ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Krzysztof Wieslaw Wozniak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

kwozniak_atlas_isvhecri2018.pdf

09:35 Review of forward physics results from the CMS experiment

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

ForwardCMS2018.pdf

10:10 LHCb: Recent and upcoming results related to cosmic ray interactions

Speaker: Dr Hans Peter Dembinski (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)

Dembinski.pdf

10:45 → 11:05 Break

11:05 → 12:35 Accelerator measurements

Convener: Jing Huang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

11:05 Recent results from LHCf/RHICf

Speaker: Takashi Sako (University of Tokyo (JP))

isvhecri2018_sako_lhcf_rhicf.pdf

11:40 Measurements of very-forward energy with the CASTOR calorimeter of CMS

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Samuel Baur (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

ISVHECRI18_SBaur_CMSForwardEnergyWithCASTOR.pdf

12:05 Some stories of Brasil-Japan Collaboration and Chacaltaya Mountain

Speaker: Shibuya Edison Hiroyuki

Stories 1.pdf

Stories 1.ppt

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:50 Accelerator measurements: Accelerator and HECR

Convener: Masanobu Tamada

14:00 Recent results from the cosmic ray program of the NA61/SHINE experiment

Speaker: Raul Ribeiro Prado (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

RaulRPrado_NA61_ISVHECRI_2018.pdf

14:35 Understanding production cross sections for galactic cosmic rays

Speaker: Prof. Fiorenza Donato (Torino University)

ISVHECRI.pdf

15:10 Investigation of abnormal absorption of cosmic-ray hadrons in lead calorimeters

Speaker: Alexander Borisov (LPI RAS)

ISVHECRI2018-Borisov_Investigation of abnormal absorption_v2.pdf

15:30 Extensive Air Showers with Unusual Spatial and Temporal Structure

Speaker: Dmitriy Beznosko (Nazarbayev University)

beznosko_oral_presentation.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 Break

16:10 → 18:10 Cosmic-ray experiments (Neutrinos and muons)

Convener: Yoshinari Hayato (University of Tokyo)

16:10 Improvement of Atmospheric Neutrino Predictiion Accuracy with Muon Observations

Speaker: Morihiro Honda

ISVHECRI2018-honda.pdf

16:35 Atmospheric neutrino flux measurement (TBC)

Speaker: Kimihiro Okumura (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

30_okumura-180523-ISVHECRI.key.pdf

17:00 High-energy neutrino-nucleus interactions

Speaker: Shunzo Kumano (KEK)

sk-nu-cosmic-ray-2018-05.pdf

17:25 Testing of almost all modern models of hadronic interactions used in cosmic rays via help of the atmospheric vertical muons energy spectra

Speaker: Anton Lukyashin (M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University)

LukyashinAnton-ISVHECRI-2018-new.pdf

LukyashinAnton-ISVHECRI-2018.pdf

17:45 Observation of Cosmic-Ray Muons in Egyptian Pyramids with Nuclear Emulsion and Discovery of New Void in Khufu's Pyramid

Speaker: Kunihiro Morishima

18:20 → 19:40 Poster

Wednesday, 23 May

09:00 → 11:00 UHECR, HECR: shower and secondary

Convener: Prof. Yusaku KATAYOSE

09:00 Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Sergio Petrera (University of L'Aquila)

Petrera-20ISVHECRI.pdf

09:35 Telescope Array Experiment

Speaker: Shoichi Ogio (Osaka City University)

Ogio_TA_ISVHECRI2018.pdf

10:10 Tests of hadronic interactions with measurements by Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Raul Ribeiro Prado (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

RaulRPrado_Auger_ISVHECRI_2018.pdf

10:35 Study of muons in extensive air showers from ultra-high energy cosmic rays measured with the Telescope Array experiment

Speaker: Ryuji Takeishi (ICRR Univ. Tokyo)

TASDmuon_ISVHECRI_v2.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Break

11:20 → 12:25 UHECR, HECR: shower and secondary

Convener: Aya Ishihara (Chiba University)

11:20 Some results from the Yakutsk array experiment and status of the modernization program

Speaker: Dr Anatoly Ivanov (Shafer Institute for Cosmophysical Research & Aeronomy)

Some results.pdf

11:45 Energy loss measurements of inclined muon bundles in the Cherenkov water detector

Speaker: Dr Semen Khokhlov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))

Khokhlov_ISVHECRI_2018_ver1.pdf

12:05 Atmospheric Muons Measured with IceCube

Speaker: Soldin Soldin

muons_in_IceCube_soldin.pdf

12:25 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Cosmic-ray experiments (Neutrinos and muons)

Convener: Sunny Seo

14:00 Cosmic neutrinos

Speaker: Markus Ackermann (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

ISVHECRI-Cosmic_Neutrinos.pdf

14:35 Neutrino Physics with IceCube

Speaker: Spencer Klein (University of California Berkeley (US))

KleinIceCubeISVHECRI.pdf

15:00 ANTARES and KM3NeT

Speaker: Paschal Anthony Coyle (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

43-ISVHECRI2018_ANTKM3_COYLE_V1.pdf

15:25 Neutrinos from ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: present and future

Speaker: Dr Mauricio Bustamante (Niels Bohr Institute)

2018-05-23-Bustamante-ISVHECRI.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:30 Emulsion Lab Tour

16:30 → 18:30 Public Lecture

19:00 → 21:00 Banquet

19:30 → 19:45 HOMAGE TO PROFESSOR OSCAR SAAVEDRA SAN MARTIN

Speaker: Edison Hiroyuki Shibuya (UNICAMP-State University of Campinas)

Homage-Oscar 1.pdf

Homage-Oscar 1.ppt

Thursday, 24 May

09:00 → 11:00 Hadronic interaction theory/model

Convener: Tanguy Pierog (KIT)

09:00 QGSJET-III model: physics and preliminary results

Speaker: Sergey Ostapchenko (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS))

isvhecri_ostapchenko.pdf

09:35 The hadronic interaction model Sibyll 2.3c

Speaker: felix riehn (LIP Lisbon)

sibyll23c_isvhecri2018.pdf

slides_v1.odp

10:05 Modelling pp, pA and AA final states with Pythia

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

ISVHECRI18.pdf

10:35 JAM: an event generator for high energy nuclear collisions

Speaker: Yasushi Nara (Akita International University)

isvhecri2018.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Break

11:20 → 12:45 Hadronic interaction theory/model

Convener: Hiroyuki Sagawa (University of Tokyo)

11:20 EPOS

Speaker: Klaus WERNER

nagoya.20.pdf

11:55 A new version of the DPMJET-III hadronic interaction model

Speaker: Anatoli Fedynitch

DPMJET_ISVHECRI2018_afedynitch.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:35 Hadronic interaction theory/model: hadron/particle/astro

Convener: Chiho Nonaka (Nagoya University)

14:00 Small-x saturation in forward hadronic interactions

Speaker: Hirotsugu Fujii (University of Tokyo)

20180524ISVHECRI-nagoya-v2.pdf

14:35 Constraining QCD transport coefficients in hadron colliders

Speaker: Akihiko Monnai (Institut de Physique Théorique, CNRS/CEA)

isvhecri18_monnai.pdf

15:00 Cosmic-ray acceleration via astrophysical coherent radiation

Speaker: Takanobu Amano

20180524-ISVHECRI.pdf

20180524-ISVHECRI.pptx

15:35 → 15:55 Break

15:55 → 17:55 Cosmic-ray experiments (Space/Balloon)

Convener: Takashi SAKO (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

15:55 The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the International Space Station: Results from the First Two Years of Operation

Speaker: Yoichi Asaoka (Waseda University (JP))

180524ISVHECRI-CALET-asaoka.pdf

16:30 Observation of Properties of Primary and Secondary Cosmic Rays by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Speaker: Alberto Oliva (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

ISVHECRI 2018 - Properties of Primary and Secondary Nuclei CRs with AMS - A. Oliva.pdf

17:05 Elemental Abundances of Ultra-Heavy GCRs measured with the SuperTIGER Instrument

Speaker: Kenichi Sakai (NASA/GSFC/CRESST/UMBC)

ISVHECRI2018_KS.pdf

17:30 Digital Archives for Nuclear Emulsion Data

Speaker: Koichi Kodama

isvhecri-2018-05-24.pdf

Friday, 25 May

09:00 → 11:00 Cosmic-ray experiments (Gamma-rays)

Convener: Takashi SAKO (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

09:00 Simulations of hadronic interactions for atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes

Speaker: Gernot Maier

DESY-20180525-ISVHECRI.pdf

09:35 Gamma-Ray Astronomy: Recent Highlights (Ground and Space)

Speaker: Stefan Ohm (DESY)

ISVHECRI.StefanOhm.25.05.2018.pdf

ISVHECRI.StefanOhm.25.05.2018.pptx

10:10 Highlights from HAWC

Speaker: Hermes León Vargas

62_HAWC-Highligths-vf-l.pdf

10:35 LHAASO Status and Prospects on Energy Spectrum Measurements of Cosmic Ray Protons, Helium and Heavy Nuclei

Speaker: Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)

ISVHECRI2018.pdf

ISVHECRI2018.pptx

11:00 → 11:20 Break

11:20 → 12:40 Cosmic-ray experiments (Space/Balloon)

Convener: Yasushi Muraki

11:20 Nucleus-nucleus gamma-ray production cross sections at low energies

Speaker: Ervin Kafexhiu

64_ISVHECRi2018_Kafexhiu.pdf

11:55 GRAINE project: precise gamma-ray observation with balloon-borne emulsion telescope

Speaker: Hiroki ROKUJO (Nagoya University)

20180525ISVECRI_rokujo0.pdf

12:20 High-energy gamma- and cosmic-ray observations with future space-based GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope

Speaker: Dr Nikolay Topchiev (Lebedev Physical Institute)

2018-05-25-GAMMA-400-Topchiev.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Future experiments

Convener: Alexander Borisov (LPI RAS)

14:00 Air shower detection by arrays of radio antennas

Speaker: Frank Schröder (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

FrankSchroeder_ISVHECRI_2018.pdf

14:35 The space road to UHECR observations: challenges and expected rewards

Speaker: Etienne Parizot (Université Paris Diderot / APC)

15:00 EXTASIS: Radio detection of cosmic rays at low frequencies

Speaker: Daniel García-Fernández

dgf_extasis.pdf

15:20 Baksan Air Shower Array: New Prospects for Old Facility

Speaker: Alexander Lidvansky (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences)

70_BASA_lidvansky.pdf

70_BASA_lidvansky.ppt

15:40 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:15 Future experiments

Convener: Junji HISANO (Nagoya university)

16:00 Future ground arrays for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays: recent updates and perspectives

Speaker: Dr Toshihiro FUJII (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

180525_FutureGroundArray_ISVHECRI2018_Fujii.pdf

16:25 Development for particle tracker with e/mu separation capability and its applications

Speaker: Prof. Akimichi Taketa (Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo)

ISVHECRI_taketa_20180525.pdf

16:50 Prospects of future accelerator measurements at the LHC for cosmic ray research

Speaker: Hans Peter Dembinski (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)

Dembinski_lhc_prospects.pdf

17:15 → 18:00 Closing remark

17:15 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

17:40 Closing address

Speaker: Yoshitaka Ito (Nagoya University (JP))

ClosingRemark.pdf

ClosingRemark.pptx