8 December 2015 On the morning of 3 December, the installation of KM3NeT began, as the first vertical neutrino detection string was put in place in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily, and began delivering data. Hundreds of detection strings will be used to build the next generation neutrino telescope, each one carrying 18 […]
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3 December 2015 LISA Pathfinder, the European Space Agency mission to test technologies for gravitational wave detection in space, has been launched from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. LISA Pathfinder is designed to demonstrate that free particles follow geodesics in space-time. It will do this by tracking two test masses in free fall using very
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1 December 2015 The Meudon site of l’Observatoire de Paris has hosted the inauguration of the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) prototype. The GCT will detect very high-energy gamma rays for the world’s largest gamma ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The GCT prototype is first CTA telescope prototype equipped with an operational camera. It uses
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24 November 2015 The AugerPrime symposium held on 15-16 November 2015 saw the signing of a new international agreement for the operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory for the exploration of cosmic rays until 2025. Collaborators and science funding agency representatives gathered in Argentina to sign the agreement, which will allow for new scintillation detectors
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11 November 2015 There is five times more dark matter in the Universe than “normal” matter, the atoms and molecules that make up all we know. Yet, it is still unknown what this dominant dark component actually is. Today, an international collaboration of scientists inaugurated the new XENON1T instrument designed to search for dark matter
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Location: DESY, Zeuthen Date: 05/11/2015, all day More information online The International Cosmic Day enables students to get in contact with astroparticle physicists to get a first insight into their research, experimental methods and everyday work. Some basic questions which will be adressed are: What are cosmic particles? Where do they come from? How can
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Location: Hotel Sheraton, Zagreb, Croatia Date: 29/09/2015 – 30/09/2015, all day More information online In September 2015 the Horizon 2020 work programs for the period 2017-2018 will be released by the European Commission. APPEC invites all interested astroparticle physicists, colleagues from neighboring scientific fields and companies interested in F&E cooperations to a community workshop. After
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Location: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Date: 29/09/2015 – 30/09/2015, all day More information online The first annual meeting of the programme “Matter and Universe” of the project oriented funding (PoF) research field Matter will take place at the research center Jülich. The meeting at the Research Center Jülich brings together the different programme communities with activities
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Location: Karlsruhe, KIT (Campus South) Date: 21/09/2015 – 23/09/2015, all day More information online This meeting follows the HAP DM 2013 meeting, addressing recent results and developments in Dark Matter search. The workshop will be organised along plenary overview talks by senior scientists, with the additional possibility for young researchers to present their work in
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Location: Karlsruhe, Germany Date: 07/09/2015 – 11/09/2015, all day More information online The International GridKa School “Big Data, Cloud Computing and Modern Programming” is one of the leading summer schools for advanced computing techniques in Europe. The school provides a forum for scientists and technology leaders, experts and novices to facilitate knowledge sharing and information
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