SciNeGHE 2014

4 Jun 2014, 09:00 → 6 Jun 2014, 17:05 UTC

Auditorium (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência)

Alessandro de Angelis (INFN, University of Udine and LIP/IST)

10^th Workshop on

Science with the New Generation of High-Energy Gamma-ray experiments

Fundamental physics with high energy cosmic gamma rays

All information about the workshop can be found at

http://www.lip.pt/scineghe2014.

 

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Wednesday 4 June

09:00 → 09:45 REGISTRATION

09:45 → 10:00 Welcome

Welcome address

Convener: Alessandro DE ANGELIS (Univ. Udine and INFN, Italy, and LIP and IST, Lisboa)

10:00 → 12:30 Session 2: Photon propagation and cosmology; background photons in the intergalactic medium

Convener: Elisa BERNARDINI (Humboldt University, Berlin)

10:00 From galactic stellar populations to the EBL

Speaker: Alberto Franceschini (Univ. Padova)

Slides Franceschini.pdf

10:30 EBL from galaxy evolution

Speaker: Alberto Dominguez (Univ. of California at Riverside)

Slides adominguez_lisbon.pdf

11:00 EBL signature on VHE gamma photons

Speaker: Daniel Mazin (MPI Munich)

Slides EBL_SCINEGHE2014_Mazin.pdf

11:30 VHE photon propagation and determination of the cosmological constants

Speaker: Oscar Blanch (IFAE, Barcelona)

Slides OscarBlanchBigas_PhotonPropagationAndCosmology.pdf

12:00 Intergalactic magnetic fields

Speaker: Andrii Neronov (Univ. of Geneva)

Slides Neronov.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Pause for Lunch

14:00 → 16:15 Session 3 - Axions, ALPa and so on; interactions of astrophysical photons

Convener: Alexander MOISEEV (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland)

14:00 Introduction to ALPs and review of laboratory-based experiments for ALP detection

Speaker: Axel Lindner (DESY Hamburg)

Slides talk-lindner.pdf

14:45 Photon-ALP conversion in intergalactic space

Speaker: Dieter Horns (Univ. of Hamburg)

Slides talk_horns.pdf

15:30 Photon-ALP conversions inside AGN

Speaker: Fabrizio Tavecchio (INAF Brera)

Slides Tavecchio.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 Tea Time

16:45 → 18:15 Session 1a - Almost present and future gamma detectors; their role for fundamental physics

Convener: Andreas HAUNGS (KIT Karlsluhe)

16:45 CTA

Speaker: Garret Cotter (Oxford University)

Slides Cotter_SciNeGHE_2014_V2_compressed.pdf

17:15 ASTRI Mini-Array

Speaker: Osvaldo Catalano (INAF/IASF Palermo)

Slides Catalano_SciNEGHE_ASTRI_MiniArray.pdf

17:45 HAWC

Speaker: Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Tech)

Slides SciNeGHE_HAWC.pdf

18:15 → 19:00 Contributed talks

Convener: Catarina ESPIRITO SANTO (LIP Lisboa)

18:15 Study of a Cherenkov camera demonstrator for CTA

Speaker: Nicola Giglietto (INFN Bari)

Slides scineghe14_giglietto.pdf

18:35 Measurements and tests on FBK silicon sensors with an otpmized electronic design for a CTA camera

Speaker: Francesco Giordano (INFN Bari)

Slides schineghe14_giordano.pdf

19:00 → 20:30 Welcome reception

Thursday 5 June

09:00 → 10:40 Contributed Talks

Convener: Javier RICO (IFAE Barcelona)

09:00 The GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope characteristics. Angular resolution and electrons/protons separation.

Speaker: Alexey Leonov (MPhNI, Moscow)

Slides SciNeGHE2014_Leonov_modif.pdf

09:20 The Gamma-ray Milky Way above 10 GeV: Distinguishing Sources from Diffuse Emission

Speaker: Ellis Owen (Max Planck Institute für Kernphysik)

Slides Owen_SciNeGHE_slides_v2.pdf

09:40 High-energy particle acceleration and gamma-ray emission in colliding-wind binaries

Speaker: Klaus Reitberger (Institute for astro and particle physics - University of Innsbruck)

Slides Reitberger.pdf

10:00 Photon search at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Lu Lu (Univ. Leeds)

Slides Lu_Lisbon_AugerPhoton_Final.pdf

10:20 Search for extended gamma-ray halos around AGN with VERITAS

Speaker: Elisa Pueschel (Univ. College, Dublin)

Slides pueschel_scineghe2014.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:30 Contributed Talks

Convener: Daniel MAZIN (Max-Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)

11:10 Gamma-ray Astrophysics and GRB studies with AGILE

Speaker: Francesco Longo (INFN Trieste)

Slides AGILE_Longo_Lisboa_v1.pdf

11:30 Hints for an axion-like particles from PKS 1222+216?

Speaker: Giorgio Galanti (Univ. Insubria)

Slides Galanti-SciNeGHE2014.pdf

11:50 A statistical approach to the study of blazar jet emission

Speaker: Barbara Biasuzzi (INFN and Univ. Udine)

Slides Statistical_approach_blazar_emission.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Pause for Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Session 6a - Synergies of VHE gamma detectors with different wavelengths and messengers

Convener: Dieter HORNS (Hamburg University)

14:00 Neutrinos and the hadronic component of CR

Speaker: Elisa Bernardini (DESY Zeuthen)

Slides Neutrinos_EBernardini.pdf

14:30 Propagation and Acceleration of CR: what gamma rays can say

Speaker: Roberto Aloisio (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, l'Aquila)

Slides Aloisio.pdf

15:00 HESS and galactic accelerators

Speaker: Ryan Chaves (Univ. Montpellier)

Slides Chaves2014_SciNEGHE_v2.pdf

15:30 Gamma ray astronomy with ARGO-YBJ

Speaker: Tristano Di Girolamo (INFN Napoli)

Slides DiGirolamo_GammaSciNeGHE14.pdf

16:00 → 16:25 Tea Time

16:25 → 19:30 Session 6b - Synergies of VHE gamma detectors with different wavelengths and messengers

Convener: Reynald PAIN (LPNHE Paris)

16:25 Present and future ground-based gamma-ray experiments and the study of the cosmic-ray energy spectra and composition; synergies with gamma rays

Speaker: Andreas Haungs (KIT, Karlsruhe)

Slides Haungs-Scineghe-Lisbon.pdf

17:05 AUGER: Present results and possible futures

Speaker: Mário Pimenta (LIP and IST, Lisboa)

Slides MP-14SciNsGHE-PR.pdf

17:35 Anisotropy of CR: indications for gamma rays?

Speaker: Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Tech)

Slides SciNeGHE_Taboada_Anisotropy_red.pdf

18:05 Gravitational waves and high-energy photons: the multi messenger connection / High-energy pulsars from gamma rays to gravitational waves

Speaker: Massimiliano Razzano (INFN and University of Pisa)

Slides 1 2014_Scineghe2014_multimessenger_razzano_v4.pdf

Slides 2 2014_Scineghe2014_HighEPulsarGammaGW_razzano_v3..pdf

19:05 Gamma ghosts & lensing

Speaker: Sara Buson (Univ. Padova)

Slides Buson_Scineghe_2014_lens.pdf

20:15 → 23:15 Conference Dinner

Friday 6 June

09:00 → 09:40 Contributed Talks

Convener: Nicola GIGLIETTO (INFN and Politecnico di Bari)

09:00 Solar panels as cosmic ray detectors

Speaker: Carlo Stella (INFN and Univ. Trieste)

Slides 2014_stella_solar_panels.pdf

09:20 Discrimination of gamma/proton primaries using the EAS muon content for IACTs

Speaker: Ruben Conceição (LIP)

Slides RubenPhoton2014.pdf

09:40 → 10:40 Session 1b - Almost present and future gamma detectors; their role for fundamental physics

Convener: Oscar BLANCH (IFAE Barcelona)

09:40 DAMPE (and HERD)

Speaker: Giovanni Ambrosi (INFN Perugia)

Slides 20140606_Scineghe.pdf

10:10 Gamma400

Speaker: Oscar Adriani (University of Firenze)

Slides Adriani_Scineghe2014.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:05 Session 4 - Exotics and antimatter

Convener: Patricia GONCALVES (LIP Lisboa)

11:10 Measurements of cosmic ray electrons and positrons - current status and perspectives

Speaker: Alexander Moiseev (CRESST/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland, College Park)

Slides Moiseev_SciNeGHE.pdf

11:40 Antimatter search in the cosmic ray flux with ground-based experiments

Speaker: Roberto Iuppa (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)

Slides iuppa_antimatter.pdf

12:05 → 13:00 Session 5a - Search for WIMP signatures

Convener: Patricia GONCALVES (LIP Lisboa)

12:05 Review of LCDM and implications for indirect detection / The dark matter distribution in WDM and mixed DM models

Speaker: Juerg Diemand (Institute for Computational Sciences, Univ.Zürich,Switzerland)

Slides LisbonDiemand2014.pdf

13:00 → 14:10 Pause for Lunch

14:10 → 17:00 Session 5b - Search for WIMP signatures

Convener: Ignacio TABOADA (Georgia Tech)

14:10 Fermi-LAT review - lines in particular

Speaker: Luca Latronico (INFN Torino)

Slides Latronico-Fermi-v1.pdf

14:50 Review of Dark Matter searches with Cherenkov telescopes

Speaker: Javier Rico (IFAE Barcelona)

Slides JRico_Cherenkov_DM.pdf

15:30 Complementarity between collider, direct detection, and indirect detection experiments

Speaker: Matthew Cahill-Rowley (SLAC)

Slides Complementarity_between_Direct,_Indirect,_and_Collider_Searches.pdf

16:00 Constraints on WIMP annihilation for contracted Dark Matter in the inner Galaxy with gamma-rays

Speaker: Aldo Morselli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

Slides Morselli_Lisbona_Scineghe14rr.pdf

16:30 Gamma-ray anisotropies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Mattia Fornasa (School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham)

Slides MattiaFornasa.pdf

17:00 → 17:05 Workshop End

Convener: Pedro ABREU (IST and LIP Lisboa)