International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2012)

10 Aug 2012, 09:00 → 15 Aug 2012, 19:35 Europe/Berlin

Leibniz-Hall (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Foto: Thomas Huntke

Friday 10 August

1 Introduction

Accelerator measurements

2 The ATLAS Hadronic Physics Program and High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: James Pinfold

Slides Pinfold-Berlin-Talk.pdf

3 New Results from the CMS experiment

Speaker: Albert de Roeck

Slides deroeck_berlin.v3.pptx

11:00 Coffee break

4 Characteristics of hadronic interactions in the forward direction

Speaker: Igor Katkov

Slides cmsfwd_ik_20120810_v1.pdf

5 Results from ALICE

Speaker: Jan Fiete GROSSE-OETRINGHAUS

Slides JFGO5.ppt

12:30 Lunch break

6 Results from LHCb

Speaker: Dmytro Volanskyy

Slides volyanskyyBerlinISVHECRI2012.pdf

7 Results from TOTEM

Speaker: Karsten Eggert

Slides Berlin_2012final_Eggert.ppt

8 The results from the LHCf experiment and future prospects

Speaker: Yoshitaka ITOW

Slides ISVHECRI2012LHCf-itow.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

9 Leading hadron production at HERA

Speaker: Armen BUNIATYAN

Slides buniatyan.isvhecri12.pdf

10 Results from NA61/SHINE

Speaker: Michael UNGER

Slides unger_isvhecri.pdf

11 New results from NA49 on hadron production in p+p and p+C interactions at SPS energy

Speakers: Hans Gerhard FISCHER, Martin MAKARIEV

Slides makariev_berlin2012.pdf

Saturday 11 August

Hadronic interaction models

12 QGSJET-II: physics, recent improvements, and results for air showers

Speaker: Sergey OSTAPCHENKO

Slides 107_Ostapchenko.pdf

13 Empirical description of rapidity density and transverse momentum distributions at s^{1/2}=22.4-7000 GeV

Speaker: Akinori OHSAWA

Slides 108_Ohsawa.ppt

EAS physics

14 LHC data and extensive air showers

Speaker: Tanguy PIEROG

Slides 109_Pierog.pdf

15 Collimation of energetic neutrinos and muons inside EAS cores

Speaker: J. N. CAPDEVIELLE

Slides collimation3.ppt

11:00 Coffee break

16 Extensive Air Showers: smoking guns and the backbone

Speaker: Lorenzo CAZON

Slides 111_Cazon.pdf

17 The interplay between the electromagnetic and the muonic longitudinal profile at production

Speaker: Ruben CONCEIçãO

Slides 110_Conceicao.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

CR physics in the knee region

18 Cosmic rays measurements around the knee of the primary spectrum

Speaker: Andrea CHIAVASSA

Slides 113_Chiavassa.pptx

19 Results on the spectrum and composition of cosmic rays from the IceTop air shower array of the IceCube Observatory

Speaker: Serap TILAV

Slides 114_Tilav.pptx

20 Primary proton and helium spectra at energy range from 50 TeV to 1X10^15 eV observed with the new Tibet AS core detector array

Speaker: Jing HUANG

Slides 115_Huang.ppt

15:40 Coffee break

21 MEASUREMENT OF COSMIC RAY SPECTRUM AND ANISOTROPY WITH ARGO-YBJ

Speaker: Giuseppe DI SCIASCIO

Slides 116_DiSciascio.pdf

22 Present status of the GRAPES-3 experiment

Speaker: Sunil GUPTA

Slides 117_Gupta.pdf

23 Energy spectrum of primary cosmic rays in a wide range of energy

Speaker: Janusz KEMPA

Slides 118_Kempa.ppt

24 Revised data on gamma-families observed in X-ray emulsion chambers of the Experiment Pamir

Speaker: Vitaly S. PUCHKOV

Slides 119_Puchov_Borisov.ppt

25 A Quark Matter Contribution to the Cosmic Ray Spectrum?

Speaker: Kyle LAWSON

Slides 120_Lawson.pdf

26 The first results of SPHERE experiment

Speaker: Sergey SHAULOV

Slides 121_122_Shaulov_new.ppt

27 Looking for strange quark matter in cosmic rays

Speaker: Prof. Sergey Shaulov

Sunday 12 August

17:00 Boat trip / Dinner

Sunday 12 August 2012, 17:00 - 20:00
Departure at 17:00 from Berlin Friedrichstraße/Reichstagsufer (boat MS Pankow)

Monday 13 August

28 The physics of EPOS

Speaker: Klaus WERNER

Slides werner.pdf

CR physics above the knee

29 UHECR Physics - Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Lorenzo PERRONE

Slides Perrone.pdf

30 Recent Results from the Telescope Array Experiment and review of HiRes data

Speaker: Pierre SOKOLSKY

Slides sokolsky.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

31 Energy spectrum of UHECRs measured by newly constructed fluorescence detectors in Telescope Array experiment

Speaker: Toshihiro FUJII

Slides 120813_ISVHECRI2012_Fujii_final.pdf

32 Where do the highest energy CR's come from? and How does the Milky Way affect their arrival directions?

Speaker: Philipp KRONBERG

Slides 126_kronberg_ISVHECRI_BERLIN_AUG2012NETZ.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

33 Status of JEM-EUSO and its test experiments EUSO-Balloon and TA-EUSO

Speaker: Andreas HAUNGS

Slides haungs.pdf

34 CRPropa 2.0 - Public Software to Model Extra-Galactic Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Nuclei

Speaker: Arjen VAN VLIET

Slides Van_Vliet.pdf

35 The GiBUU transport model

Speaker: Janus WEIL

Slides weil.pdf

Air shower measurements and interaction models

36 Interaction of Cosmic Rays in the primary energy range (0.1-1) PeV studied by the ARGO-YBJ Experiment

Speaker: Antonio SURDO

Slides ISVHECRI_surdo_pdf.pdf

37 Tests of hadronic interaction models with the KASCADE-Grande muon data

Speakers: Andreas HAUNGS, Juan Carlos ARTEAGA VELAZQUEZ

Slides arteaga.pdf

38 Measurements of the muonic component of air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Jeff ALLEN

Slides Allen_ISVHECRI_v3.pdf

16:20 Coffee break

39 Proton-air and proton-proton cross sections for particle production

Speaker: Ralf ULRICH

Slides ulrich.pdf

40 Evidence for some new physical process in ultrahigh energy collisions

Speakers: Glennys R. FARRAR, Jeff ALLEN

Slides farrar.pptx

41 A systematic study of the hybrid experiment at Mt.Chacaltaya

Speaker: Masanobu TAMADA

Slides tamada.ppt

Tuesday 14 August

42 Cosmic ray probes of classicalization

Speaker: Georgi DVALI

Slides dvali_cosm_class_berlin.pdf

43 Direct measurements of cosmic rays in space

Speaker: Roberta SPARVOLI

Slides Sparvoli_icvchre_2012.pptx

Muons and neutrinos

44 Uncertainties on low-x parton densities and the corresponding high energy neutrino cross sections

Speaker: Amanda COOPER-SARKAR

Slides 138_Cooper-Sarkar_neutrino.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

45 Theory predictions for inclusive muon and neutrino fluxes

Speaker: Morihiro HONDA

Slides 139_ISVHECRI-honda.pdf

46 Influence of hadronic interaction models and the cosmic ray spectrum on the high energy atmospheric muon and neutrino flux

Speaker: Anatoli FEDYNITCH

Slides 140_fedynitch_isvhecri.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

47 Atmospheric leptons at very high energy and the search for a prompt component

Speaker: Thomas GAISSER

Slides Gaisser-Aug14-ISVHECRIrev.pdf

48 IceCube and ANTARES

Speaker: Jürgen BRUNNER

Slides 142_Brunner-Berlin-IceCube-Antares.ppt

49 Muon production measurements with IceCube

Speaker: Patrick BERGHAUS

Slides 143_icmuons_pb_isvhecri12.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

50 Recent results of a search for cosmogenic PeV to EeV neutrinos with IceCube

Speaker: Eike MIDDELL

Slides 144_isvhecri2012_icecube_ehe_results_v2.pdf

51 The ANTARES neutrino telescope

Speaker: Annarita MARGIOTTA

Slides 145_margiotta_isvhecri12.pdf

52 Multiplicity spectrum of muon bundles and primary composition in the range 1 - 10000 TeV

Speaker: Valery PETKOV

Slides 147_Petkov_ISVHECRI2012.ppt

53 Heavy Neutrino Decay at SHALON

Speaker: Vera Yurievna SINITSYNA

Slides 152_SinitsynaVY.pptx

Wednesday 15 August

Gamma-rays

54 Review of TeV gamma-ray astronomy

Speaker: Gernot MAIER

Slides GMaier_d20120814_ISVHECRI.pdf

55 Some MAGIC contributions to the physics of cosmic ray interactions

Speaker: Rebecca Gozzini

Slides is_gozzini.pdf

56 Production cross-section of secondary gamma-rays and electron-positrons in p-p collision for the study of cosmic-ray astrophysics

Speaker: Toru SHIBATA

Slides shibata.ppt

57 Search for high-energy gamma-ray emission and upgrade of the GAMMA experiment on Mt. Aragats

Speaker: Romen MARTIROSOV

Slides Martirosov_ISVHECRI-2012_final.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

58 Generation of Cosmic rays in Historical Supernova Remnants

Speaker: Vera Georgievna SINITSYNA

Slides 151_SinitsynaVG_SNRs.pptx

Detectors and methods

59 Design of a Cherenkov telescope for Pamir-XXI Detector Array

Speaker: Vladimir GALKIN

Slides CT_design_Berlin2012-Galkin.ppt

60 The 'PAMIR XXI' Project of a Complex Setup for the PCR Study in a Wide Energy Range 10^14 - 10^18 eV

Speaker: Alexander BORISOV

Slides Pamir-XXI_Complex_Setup_Berlin2012-Borisov.ppt

12:30 Lunch break

61 Alternative detection methods

Speaker: Sebastian BOESER

Slides 20120815-ISVHECRI-Boeser.pdf

62 Summary (theory)

Speaker: Subir SARKAR

Slides Sarkar_theorysummary.pdf

63 Summary (experiment)

Speaker: Karl-Heinz KAMPERT

Slides ISVHECRI-2012-ExpSum.pdf