Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Nymphenburg Castle, Munich, April 22/23, 2015
The Astroparticle Physics European Consortium APPEC invites technology experts from industry, project scientists and funding agencies representatives for the APPEC Technology Forum 2015. This ATF 2015 is targeted at the astroparticle physics projects’ demands in key components needed to build low light-level cameras and detectors.
The ASPERA Technology Forum in 2010 was one of the drivers for advances in photosensors and auxiliary electronics. Since that time dedicated R&D has led to substantial improvements of the photomultiplier tube technology. Continuous developments of the upcoming SiPM devices helped overcoming major drawbacks, so SiPMs may become a mass product in the near future.
A new approach, to use optimised matrixes of SiPM with a fully-integrated readout chain, would radically simplify building imaging cameras with single photon sensitivity for astroparticle physics projects as well as for medical applications. Projects scientists show in-depth presentations with technical details of camera and detector designs and required key components. Further information is given on project timelines, required R&D, technology decisions, funding, procurement and construction plans.
Technology experts from industry are invited to present their latest products fitting the needs of astroparticle physics projects. Challenges in optimizing current technology and manufacturing of key components in quantities and qualities required by astroparticle physics projects shall be addressed.Funding agencies representatives are invited to present their position in view of the realization of coming astroparticle physics projects and of a closer R&D cooperation between academia and industry.
ATF 2015 shall provide the frame to discuss with all stakeholders a fostering of R&D activities, possibilities for standardization and device integration to reduce development and production costs.
The Second International Meeting for Large Neutrino Infrastructures organised by Fermilab, the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC), the ICFA Neutrino Panel, the IUPAP Astroparticle Physics International Commitee (ApPIC) and several worldwide funding agencies will take place at Fermilab on 20 and 21 April 2015. The meeting will be preceded by the meetings of the ICFA Neutrino Panel and ApPIC both of which will report in the Second International Meeting.
This meeting follows the International Meeting for Large Neutrino Infrastructures that took place in June 2014 in Paris, during which several agencies and laboratory directors issued a joint press release declaring that the elucidation of the neutrino sector is a worldwide priority that justifies the coherent distribution of tasks and infrastructures across the world. The press release went on to urge the international neutrino community to develop urgently the necessary coherent, international program that exploits and builds on existing infrastructures and to announce the Second International Meeting to be held in the US, to evaluate the progress made with respect to the above goals.
This Second International Meeting aims to gauge the progress that was made since last summer in terms of the development of the scientific case and the organisational aspects of the worldwide collaboration in long baseline studies. The Meeting will also chart the timeline of the decision process, examine the institutional forms that will support it and also pass in review the necessary programme of supporting measurements, prototyping and R&D. In the case of the programme of supporting measurements, prototyping and R&D, possible forms of worldwide cooperation and collaboration as well as a possible distribution of tasks at the scientific community level, as well as eventual institutional forms of common or parallel funding at the agency level, will be examined.
The first day of the meeting will address the accelerator-based programme. The second day of the meeting will be devoted to the examination of the non-accelerator physics potential of the various large neutrino infrastructures and will start the discussion of closer coordination in this domain. The format of the meeting will be similar to the first one, it will consist of open sessions followed by leading principal investigators and agency officials, followed by closed meetings at the agency level. The meeting is open to all interested participants.
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
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.
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
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.
