Cosmic Frontier Session CF6-A

6 Mar 2013, 13:30 → 8 Mar 2013, 14:30 US/Pacific

SLAC

Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

This is a pre-meeting of the Cosmic Frontier CF6-A subgroup. This meeting is part of the preparation for the 2013 Snowmass Community Planning Summer Study. The meeting will be held March 6-8, 2013 at SLAC and will include joint meetings with the Intensity Frontier. Topic areas covered include: 1. Physics of Interactions Beyond Laboratory Energies 2. Particle Acceleration in the Cosmos 3. Cosmic Particles as Probes of Fundamental Physics 4. New Particles (Q-Balls, Anti-Nuclei, Strangelets, Primordial Black Holes) 5. Neutrino Physics from Astrophysics (in conjunction with the Intensity Frontier) To see the latest updates to this schedule and the complete schedule for the Cosmic Frontier Workshop see: https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=6199 or use the link on the left panel.

Wednesday, 6 March

13:30 → 15:00 CF6-A2 Cosmic Particle Acceleration

Galactic accelerators, cosmic-ray origins, active galaxies, gamma-ray bursts

13:30 Diffuse Gamma-Ray Backgrounds

Speaker: Prof. Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (California Institute of Technology)

13:50 Gamma-Ray Bursts

Speaker: Dr Nicola Omodei (SLAC)

Slides

• 130306_CosmicFrontier_GRB.key
• 130306_CosmicFrontier_GRB.pdf
• 130306_CosmicFrontier_GRB.ppt

14:10 Particle Acceleration in Active Galaxies

Speaker: Prof. Henric Krawczynski (Washington University in St. Louis)

14:30 Galactic Sources of High Energy Gamma Rays

Speaker: Dr Stefan Funk (SLAC)

16:00 → 18:00 CF6-A5 Neutrino Physics from Astrophysics

Understanding neutrino properties from astrophysical observations.
Supernova burst neutrinos, non-standard interactions, UHE neutrinos

16:00 Collective Oscillations in Supernovae

Speaker: Prof. George Fuller (U.C. San Diego)

16:20 EHE Neutrinos: An Overview

Speaker: Prof. Abigail Vieregg (Harvard University)

Slides slac_mar_13.pdf

16:40 IceCube Impact on Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Prof. Doug Cowen (Penn State University)

17:00 Ultra High Energy Comic Rays and Neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Roberto Aloisio (INFN)

17:20 Neutrino Anomalies Impact on Astrophysics

Speaker: Dr William Louis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17:40 Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions

Speaker: Dr Alexander Friedland (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Thursday, 7 March

11:00 → 12:30 CF6-A3 Cosmic Particles as Probes of Fundamental Physics

Lorentz invariance violation, extra dimensions, new physics

11:00 Update/Review of Cosmological Estimates of Neutrino Number

Speaker: Prof. Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University)

11:15 Limits on Extra Dimensions from UHE Neutrino Measurements

Speaker: Dr Spencer Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:30 Leptogenesis

Speaker: Mu-Chun Chen

11:45 Time Varying Constants

Speaker: Prof. Austin Joyce (U. Pennsylvania)

12:00 Limits on the Violation of Lorentz Invariance from Gamma-Ray Measurements

Speaker: Prof. Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:15 Upping the Reach for New Particles/Physics, JEM-EUSO in the ISS

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

13:30 → 15:30 CF6-A1 Physics of Interactions Beyond Laboratory Energies

Neutrino cross sections, high-energy hadronic cross sections

13:30 Neutrino Cross Sections from IceCube Observations

Speaker: Prof. Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)

Slides nu_cross_halzen.pptx

13:50 High-Energy Cross Sections from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Prof. James Matthews (Louisiana State University)

Slides matthews_auger.pptx

14:10 Telescope Array

Speaker: Prof. Gordon Thomson (University of Utah)

Slides SLAC.pdf

14:30 The Moon as a Detector for Extreme-Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Prof. Mary Reno (University of Iowa)

14:50 Auger and JEM-EUSO Sensitivity to Ensemble Fluctuations in the Cosmic Ray Flux

Speaker: Prof. Luis Anchordoqui (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

15:10 UHE Neutrinos with the TAUWER project

Speaker: Prof. James Russ (Carnegie Mellon University)

16:00 → 18:00 CF6-A4 New Particles

Anti-Nuclei, Strangelets, Q-Balls, Primordial Black Holes

16:00 AMS: Anti-Nuclei and Strangelets

Speaker: Prof. Veronica Bindi (University of Hawaii)

16:20 Q-Balls

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

16:40 Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Prof. Jane MacGibbon (University of North Florida)

17:00 The EBL and Axions

Speaker: Prof. Frank Krennrich (Iowa State University)

17:20 Anti-nuggets as Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia)

17:40 Radio Detection of UHECRs

Speaker: Dr Konstantin Belov (UCLA)

Friday, 8 March

09:00 → 11:40 CF6-A New Facilities

Future instruments to detect gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos, and anti-particles

09:00 GAPS

Speaker: Prof. Rene Ong (UCLA)

09:20 HAWC and Beyond

Speaker: Dr Brenda Dingus (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Dingus-8Mar2013.pdf

09:40 CTA

Speaker: Prof. David Williams (U.C. Santa Cruz)

10:00 PINGU

Speaker: Prof. Darren Grant (University of Alberta)

10:20 JEM-EUSO

Speaker: Prof. Angela Olinto (University of Chicago)

10:40 Break

11:00 ARIANNA

Speaker: Prof. Steven Barwick (UC Irvine)

Slides SLAC-Mar8-v3.pdf

11:20 Radar Detection of UHECRs

Speaker: Dr John Belz (University of Utah)

Slides belz_cfw.pdf