The 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2019) will be held at the Toyama International Conference Center, Toyama, Japan, on September 9-13. The biennial TAUP series covers recent experimental and theoretical developments in astroparticle physics by invited plenary review talks and parallel workshop sessions of invited and contributed presentations. The conference […]
Interview with Juan José Gómez Cadenas about the NEXT experiment Recently, a committee working on neutrino less double beta decay, composed by Silvia Pascoli (Chair, Durham U.), Andrea Giuliani (CSNSM), Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas (DIPC), Ezio Previtali (INFN, MI) Ruben Saakyan (UCL), Karoline Schaeffner (GSSI), Stefan Schoenert (TUM), was set in place in order do define
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ASTRI-Horn is the first Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror configuration to detect the Crab Nebula at TeV energies: Exactly 30 years after the first historical observation of Crab nebula at TeV energies, which opened the era of TeV astronomy with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), another advancement in IACT technology has been achieved. The ASTRI-Horn
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old. An inconceivable length of time by human standards – yet compared to some physical processes, it is but a moment. There are radioactive nuclei that decay on much longer time scales. With the XENON1T detector at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory, scientists were able to observe
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Needle-like structures on positively charged lightning leaders In contrast to popular belief, lightning often does strike twice, but the reason why a lightning channel is ‘reused’ has remained a mystery. Now, an international research team led by the University of Groningen has used the LOFAR radio telescope to study the development of lightning flashes in
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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. The official EHT press release is available from their website. For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking a direct image
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From 2nd to 10th October 2019 ECAP organises the 16th edition of the international School for Astroparticle Physics for PhD students in Obertrubach Bärnfels, close to Erlangen, Germany. The school will be held in english and is open for international participation. The program covers topics from astrophysics to particle physics and cosmology. Lectures are given
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On the slopes of the Mt. Elbrus, the 16th International Baksan School on Astroparticle Physics was held, organized jointly by the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of RAS and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) with the participation of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) and the Russian Foundation for basicResearch (RFBR). After a
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The Dawn V meeting to assess and develop world-wide coordination for the next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave observatories will be held at the Virgo/EGO Observatory from 26-27 May 2019 in Cascina, Italy. It follows the GWADW meeting in Elba, Italy, and the PAX VI meeting (starting immediately after Dawn, in Cascina) With the observation of
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We are happy to announce the SENSE Detector School at the Ringberg Castle in Kreuth am Tegernsee in Bavaria, Germany, from 19 – 22 June 2019. The 2.5 days mini-school for PhD and master students aims to inform about the forefront developments on low light-level detectors. The speciality of the school is the small group
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