Prof.
Philipp Kronberg
(LANL/University of Toronto)
02/07/2010, 09:05
Anisotropy
Invited
A review will be given of what is known, and surmised about magnetic fields in space, from our Milky Way to the distant Universe well beyond the GZK horizon.
Various analysis methods are described. These include Faraday rotation (RM)
measures of extragalactic radio sources, Faraday probes of the cosmic background radiation, and the recent detection of faint diffuse synchrotron radiation in...
Prof.
Luis Anchordoqui
(University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
02/07/2010, 09:50
Anisotropy
Contributed
Non-trivial toplogical properties of string world sheets with three boundaries can give rise to superpotentials which preserve supersymmetry but violate R-symmetry by two units. This results in four point functions which permit s-wave annihilation of two neutralinos into gauge bosons. If the topological partition function is such as to allow saturation of the WMAP dark matter density for low...
Dr
Jordan Goodman
(University of Maryland)
02/07/2010, 10:30
Anisotropy
Invited
Using the Milagro data from 2000 to 2007 containing more than 95 billion events (the largest such data set in existence), we performed a harmonic analysis of the large-scale cosmic-ray anisotropy. We observe an anisotropy with a magnitude around 0.1% for cosmic rays with a median energy of 6 TeV. The dominant feature is a deficit region of depth 0.25% in the direction of the Galactic North...
Dr
Kumiko Kotera
(University of Chicago)
02/07/2010, 11:15
Anisotropy
Contributed
The quest for sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays has long been associated with the search of their secondary gamma ray signatures. While propagating, the former indeed produce very high energy photons through the interactions with particles of the intergalactic medium, or by synchrotron emission in the presence of substantial magnetic fields.
We examine the prospects for the...