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Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics

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24 June 2015

Helmholtz Association

HAP Annual Member Board Meeting

On Monday March 23, 2015, the HAP Member Board meeting was held. Several new developments were announced, among which:

  • Two new members with their groups joined the Alliance, Thomas Bretz (RWTH Aachen) and Stefan Funk (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • Two new Associated Institutions were announced, the Gravitation AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) and the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), Amsterdam.
  • Two new HAP Senior Fellows are affiliated, Claus Grupen and Hinrich Meyer
  • Several new HAP officers were elected, among them Josef Jochum and Bianca Keilhauer as Joint Scientific Coordinators

For more information on HAP visit their website.

GRAPPA Display at Science Park 904

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28 March 2015

GRAPPA Display

A recently installed small exhibition describing the activities of the GRAPPA institute is found on the first floor of the UvA Science building at Science Park 904.

The top shelf contains an overall description of GRAPPA and some public science book by our members. The third shelf from the top currently has a LEGO model for the ATLAS detector at LHC, while the bottom shelf contains some theses from GRAPPA students.

On the second shelf from the top, we have a digital display showing several images/animations: the Bullet cluster; a dark matter ring around a galaxy cluster; a movie from the Millennium dark matter simulation; a picture of the recently discovered Fermi bubbles; an artistic impression of the planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA); a movie of the real-time operation of the High Energy Stereoscopic System(HESS) provided by our member Arnim Balzer; an illustration of the Cosmological Inflation Theory; a picture of the Planck satellite and its recently published sky map; a simulation of the decay and merging of a double black hole binary system; a picture of the Cassiopeia A Nebula, the gaseous remnant of a supernova; a combined X-ray/optical image of a Pulsar Wind Nebula; an image of Sagittarius A* as obtained by the NASA Chandra satellite; and, finally, a simulation of cooling losses during accretion into the Super Massive black hole Sagittarius A* is provided by our member Solame Dibi.

The Future of Research on Cosmic Gamma Rays

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26 March 2015

26-29 August – La Palma – Canary Islands

The future of the research with space-borne and ground-based experiments dedicated to the study of cosmic rays, especially gamma-rays, will be discussed, looking in particular to its potential for multi messenger astrophysics and for discoveries in the sector of physics in extreme conditions, and to new installations in the Northern and in the Southern hemispheres.

This workshop is done in La Palma, which hosts the Observatorio de Roque de Los Muchachos (ORM), where gamma-ray astrophysics is protagonist since the last 30 years, with HEGRA and MAGIC in particular. ORM is also one of the candidate sites for CTA North and the site where the prototype of the Large Size CTA Telescope (23 m) will be installed. A guided tour of the experimental installations will be organised within the workshop.

This workshop is dedicated to the memory of Eckart Lorentz, one of the fathers of experimental cosmic-ray physics with photons in the TeV region.

Chairs: De Angelis, Alessandro
Antonelli, Angelo
Mirzoyan, Razmik

For more information please view the website.

AMS Days at CERN: The Future of Cosmic Ray Physics and Latest Results

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26 March 2015

AMS Days at CERN

CERN, Main Auditorium, April 15-17, 2015

The objective of the three-day “AMS Days at CERN” is to exchange ideas and experiences with the world’s leading theoretical and experimental physicists. This exchange will lead to a better understanding of the implications of AMS results (published and to be published) and their relevance to some of the key experiments as well as the future course of cosmic ray physics.

Please see the website for further information.