Dr
Aya Ishihara
(Chiba University)
26/10/2015, 10:00
Plenary session
Following the first observation of PeV neutrino events and successful measurements of high energy extraterrestrial neutrino flux in the energy region between a few tens of TeV and PeV significantly above the atmospheric neutrino background flux by IceCube, the field of neutrino astrophysics is becoming more and more active. In this contribution, I summarize the recent experimental results from...
Dr
Olaf Reimer
(University of Innsbruck, Austria)
27/10/2015, 09:30
Plenary session
Dr
Paolo Giommi
(ASI Science Data Center, INAF, Italy)
27/10/2015, 10:00
Plenary session
Our knowledge of the extragalactic gamma-ray sky is evolving very rapidly as new data becomes available.
I will present recent results on the gamma-ray emission from extragalactic sources based on the latest Fermi-LAT catalogs (3FGL-3LAC and 2FHL), on new large samples of multi-frequency selected gamma-ray and VHE emitting blazars (1WHSP and 2WHSP), and from extensive Monte-Carlo simulations...
Dr
Andrew Smith
(University of Maryland, College Park)
29/10/2015, 09:00
Plenary session
Oral presentation
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a new and novel TeV gamma-ray detector that was recently completed and began full operation in March 2015. Located on the Sierra Negra volcano, Puebla, Mexico, at an elevation of 4,100m, HAWC is optimized for the detection of gamma rays in the 0.1 - 100~TeV range. It's 2sr field-of-view and >90% duty cycle make HAWC an ideal instrument...
Dr
Keith Bechtol
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
29/10/2015, 09:30
Plenary session
Many dark matter (DM) models predict that DM in a broad range of astrophysical settings could annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles at rates that would be detectable by contemporary telescopes and cosmic-ray experiments. I will review the status of indirect DM searches with a special focus on recent experimental and theoretical developments. I will also consider future observations...
Dr
Bruno Serfass
(University of California Berkeley)
29/10/2015, 10:00
Plenary session
Shigetaka Moriyama
(ICRR)
29/10/2015, 11:00
Plenary session
Modern cosmology requires dark matter (DM) to explain the structure of the visible universe. The nature of DM is totally unknown. One attractive candidate put forward by theory is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), which could be a thermal relic of the Big Bang. The supersymmetric extension of the standard model provides one of the major candidates for DM. With this consideration,...
Dr
Toshiyuki Nonaka
(Institute for Cosmic Ray Reseach University of Tokyo)
29/10/2015, 11:30
Plenary session
Oral presentation
The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is located in the western desert of Utah, USA, and observes ultra high energy cosmic rays in the northern hemisphere. The experiment observes cosmic ray air shower at energies > 1 EeV using the fluorescence telescopes and the surface detectors. From first 5 year data, an anisotropy called "Hot spot" in arrival direction of cosmic ray was found at energy...
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Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays at the Pierre AugerObservatory after 10 years : results and future
Mrs
isabelle Lhenry-Yvon
(Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay, CNRS/IN2P3)
29/10/2015, 12:00
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Oral presentation
The Pierre Auger Observatory has been designed to investigate the origin and nature of Ultra High Energy Cosmic rays with energies from 1017 to 1020 eV. We will review some seletected recent results obtained from data of the Pierre Auger Observatory and discuss the implication of these results for assembling a consistent description of the composition, origin and propagation of cosmic rays. We...
Dr
Hitoshi Murayama
(Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo)
30/10/2015, 08:45
Plenary session
Dr
Samaya Nissanke
(Radboud University, Nijmegen)
30/10/2015, 09:15
Plenary session
Dr
Alejandro Ibarra
(Technische Universität München)
30/10/2015, 09:45
Plenary session
The search for sharp features in the gamma-ray spectrum is a promising approach to identify a signal from dark matter annihilation over the astrophysical backgrounds. In this talk we review different scenarios leading to sharp gamma-ray spectral features and we discuss the current experiments limits as well as the prospects for detection with future instruments.
Dr
Miguel Pato
(The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Stockholm University)
30/10/2015, 10:45
Plenary session
Oral presentation
The presence of dark matter in spiral galaxies was inferred long ago by measuring the rotational speed of the gas across each galaxy. Applying the same technique to the Milky Way, a spiral itself, is much more challenging due to our peculiar position and thus the Galactic distribution of dark matter remains poorly constrained to this day. In this talk, I shall introduce two important...
Prof.
Shoji Torii
(Waseda University)
30/10/2015, 11:15
Plenary session
Oral presentation
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) space experiment, which had been developed by Japan in collaboration with Italy and the United States, is a high-energy astroparticle physics mission 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 particle...
Prof.
Masahiro Teshima
30/10/2015, 11:45
Plenary session
Dr
John Kelley
(University of Wisconsin)
30/10/2015, 13:45
Plenary session
Oral presentation
IceCube's discovery of a diffuse flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos has vitalized the emerging field of neutrino astronomy, but many questions remain unanswered. The source populations remain unidentified, and other expected astrophysical high-energy neutrinos, such as those from the GZK process, remain undetected. Details of the energy spectrum and flavor composition also are yet...
