On July 1st 2019, close to 40 research institutions from nine countries officially signed the agreement for the creation of a new international R&D collaboration for a future wide field-of-view gamma ray observatory in the southern hemisphere. The founding countries of the newly created Southern Wide field-of-view Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) are Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, […]
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world-wide largest cosmic ray detector, covering an area of 3000 km2. It is operated by a collaboration of more than 400 scientists from 17 countries. The aim of the Observatory is the study of the highest-energy particles of the cosmos, up to 1020 electronvolts and above. Data of the
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The International school of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics (ISCRA) holds biennial courses for graduate students and young researchers that stress the inter-relationships between sub-disciplines in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology and focus upon recent results from different specialty areas. The 22nd Course: From cosmic particles to gravity waves: now and to come will take place from
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Two new clusters of optical modules of the Baikal deep underwater neutrino telescope, Baikal-GVD, were put into operation. The effective volume of the facility, which already includes five clusters, increased to 0.25 km3. Neutrinos, due to their weak interaction, are unique messengers of domains in the Universe, opaque to any other particles. The proposal to
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After the Particle Physics Strategy Meeting the APPEC General Assembly came together in Granada for a regular meeting on 16/17 May 2019. During this event we had the pleasure to welcome Katri Huitu from HIP (Helsinki Institute for Physics) who is now representing Finland in the GA. In addition to reports on past and planned
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The European Particle Physics Update (EPPSU) process is conducted by CERN and it gives the guidelines for the future years to the particle physics community on scientific and technological programs, organizational aspects, knowledge and technology transfer as well as interaction with society, education and outreach1. The astroparticle physics community, and hence, APPEC, enters in this
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The final workshop of the SENSE project is planned as an open meeting to present the final SENSE Roadmap and the recommended strategy towards developing the ultimate low light-level photosensors. Some other elements of SENSE will be also introduced and discussed how they can sustain after SENSE. The meeting will take place on July 9th,
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During the last meeting of the General Assembly Federica Petricca was elected as new representative of APPEC in the ECFA Detector Panel. She did her PhD in 2005 at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik and the Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich, and since then she was working on cryogenic detectors. Since 2014 she is spokesperson of the
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This first Joint ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC Seminar (JENAS) jointly organized by LAL, IPNO, IRFU and LPNHE will be held from October 14 to October 16, 2019 in Orsay. Profound explorations of both the smallest and largest structures in the universe made possible numerous breakthroughs in astroparticle, nuclear and particle physics. Additional to the well-known scientific interplay between
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Interview with Sera Markoff on the first image of a black hole On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration presented its first results – an image of the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87 – in multiple simultaneous press conferences around the world, see also here in the APPEC news. Sera Markoff
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