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TAUP 2007 Tenth International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics Sendai, Japan Tuesday, September 11, 2007 – Saturday, September 15, 2007 |
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Conference Program (preliminarily)
PLENARY SESSIONS
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
September 11 |
September 12 |
September 13 |
September 14 |
September 15 |
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PLENARY SESSIONS
Tuesday, September 11 Morning -Main hall
0 INTRODUCTION
09:10 |
Astroparticle Physics: Puzzles and discoveries |
V. Berezinsky |
1 COSMOLOGY
| 09:50 | The cosmological model: an overview and an outlook | A. Heavens |
| 10:25 | Anisotoropies of Cosmic Microwave Background and Its Polarization | N. Sugiyama |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair : | D. Vignaud |
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| 11:25 | Models for dark Energy | C. Wetterich |
２ GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
| 12:00 | Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals |
T. Tanaka |
| 12:35 | Review of experiments | A. Giazotto |
| 13.15 | Lunch Break |
Tuesday, September 11 Afternoon
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
| 14:40 | Cosmological Issues (Room C) | |
Conveners: |
S. Hannestad, M. Kawasaki, E.Masso |
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| 14:40 | Gravitational waves 1(Room B) | |
Conveners: |
B. Barish, E. Coccia, S. Kawamura |
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| 14:45 | Dark matter / antimatter in space 1(Room A) | |
Conveners: |
A. Bottino, J. Morales, T. Moroi |
Wednesday, September 12 Morning -Main hall
| Chair : | G. Raffelt |
| 09:00 | Review of direct searches for WIMPs (non-cryogenic detectors) | P. Belli |
| 09:35 | Review of direct searches for WIMPs (cryogenic detectors) | G. Gerbier +D. Bauer |
| 10:10 | Particle dark matter candidates | S.Scopel |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair : | T. Ebisuzaki |
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| 11:15 | Dark matter distribution in the galactic halo | J. Diemand |
4 Antimatter in space
| 11:50 | Observation of antimatter in our Galaxy | P. Picozza |
| 12:25 | Antimatter and gammas from dark matter annihilation | L. Bergstrom |
| 13.00 | Lunch Break |
Wednesday, September 12 Afternoon
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
| 14:30 | Gravitational waves 2 (Room C) | |
Conveners: |
B. Barish, E. Coccia, S. Kawamura |
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| 14:30 | Dark matter / antimatter in space 1(Room A) | |
Conveners: |
A. Bottino, J. Morales, T. Moroi |
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| 14:30 | HE astrophysics 1 (Room D) | |
Conveners: |
E. Lorenz, P. Michelson, M. Mori. G. navarra |
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| 14:30 | Solar, reactor and other low-energy neutrino physics 1 (Room B) | |
Conveners: |
G. Fogli, V. Matveev, M. Nakahata, D. Sinclair, F. Suekane |
Thursday, September 13 Morning -Main hall
| Chair : | R. Raghavan |
| 09:00 | Neutrinos: current status and perspectives | M. Lindner |
| 09:35 | Solar experiments | M. C. Chen |
| 10:10 | Atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos | .K. Nakamura |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| Chair : | E. Lisi |
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| 11:15 | MInibooNE results on oscillations and its implications | M.Shaevitz |
| 11:50 | Double-beta decays | F. Piquemal |
| 12:25 | Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiments:Recent results and future Prospects | K. Heeger |
| 13.00 | Lunch Break |
Thursday, September 13 Afternoon
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
| 14:30 | Dark matter / antimatter in space 3 (Room A) |
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Conveners: |
A. Bottino, J. Morales, T. Moroi |
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| 14:30 | Solar, reactor and other low-energy neutrino physics 2(Room B) |
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Conveners: |
G. Fogli, V. Matveev, M. Nakahata, D. Sinclair, F. Suekane |
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| 14:30 | Atmospheric neutrinos and high-energy neutrino beams 1
(Room C) |
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Conveners: |
J. Bernabeu, T. Kajita, C. W. Kim, R. Plunkett |
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| 14:30 | Double beta decays 1(Room D) |
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Conveners: |
F.Avignone, E. Bellotti, T. Kishimoto |
Guided tour to Matsushima and Conference Dinner at Matsushima Taikanso
16:45 Buses will leave the conference site to Matsushima
Friday, September 14 Morning -Main hall
| 09:00 | First Results of 7Be Solar neutrinos from a real time detector : Borexino | G. Bellini |
| 09:35 | Geo-neutrinos (theory and experiments) | F. Mantovani |
6 Cosmic rays and neutrinos
10:10
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Origin of UHECR (theory) |
S. Inoue |
10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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| Chair : | F. Calaprice |
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11:15 |
UHECR (observations) |
K. Kampert |
11:50 |
Acceleration of cosmic rays |
E. Berezhko |
12:25 |
HE neutrinos (theory and experiment) |
F. Halzen |
13.00 |
Lunch Break |
Friday, September 14 Afternoon
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
| 14:30 | Solar, reactor and other low-energy neutrino physics 3(Room A) | |
Conveners: |
G. Fogli, V. Matveev, M. Nakahata, D. Sinclair, F. Suekane |
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| 14:30 | Atmospheric neutrinos and high-energy neutrino beams 2 (Room B) |
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Conveners: |
J. Bernabeu, T. Kajita, C. W. Kim, R. Plunkett |
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| 14:30 | Double beta decays 2(Room C) | |
Conveners: |
F. Avignone, E. Bellotti, T. Kishimoto |
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| 14:30 | HE astrophysics 2 (Room D) | |
Conveners: |
E. Lorenz, P. Michelson, M. Mori. G. navarra |
Saturday, September 15 Morning -Main hall
| 09:00 | Gamma-rays astronomy (experiments) |
W. Hofmann |
| 09:45 | Gamma-rays sources |
C. Dermer |
8 20th anniversary of SN1987A
| 10:20 | 20th anniversary of SN1987A |
A. Suzuki |
| 11:05 | Coffee Break |
9 Underground laboratories
| Chair : | H. Sobel |
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11:35 |
Underground laboratories
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A. Bettini |
10 Panagic report / APEC road map report
12:20 |
Panagic report / APEC road map report |
S. Katsanevas |
12.55 |
Farewell |
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WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Tuesday, September 11 Afternoon
Cosmological Issues (Room C)
| Conveners: | S. Hannestad, M. Kawasaki, E.Masso |
Chair : |
E.Masso |
| 14:40 | S. Saito |
The impact of non-linear evolution of cosmological matter power spectrum on themeasurement of neutrino masses |
| 15:05 | M. Takada |
Subaru galaxy survey |
| 15:30 | K. Ichikawa |
Neutrino mass constraint from CMB and its degeneracy with other cosmological parameters |
| 15:55 | G. Mangano |
Capturing relic neutrinos with beta decaying nuclei |
| 16:20 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:50 | S. Petcov |
Low energy Dirac and Majorana leptonic CP-violation and Leptogenesis |
| 17:15 | S.Blanchet |
Dirac phase leptogenesis |
| 17:40 | S.Scopel |
Quintessential Kination and Leptogenesis |
| 18:05 | End of Session |
Gravitational waves 1 (Room B)
| Conveners: | B. Barish, E. Coccia, S. Kawamura |
Chair: |
A.Giazotto |
| 14:40 | K. Kawabe |
Status of LIGO |
| 15:10 | S. Kawamura |
The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna;DECIGO |
| 15:30 | M. Ando |
DECIGO pathfinder |
| 15:50 | S.Sato |
Displacement noise free interferometory for gravitational wave detection |
| 16:10 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:40 | F. Frasconi |
The Status of VIRGO: a large interferometer for Gravitational Wave detection
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| 17:10 | S.Reid |
Status of GEO600 |
| 17:40 | A. Heptonstall |
Development of fused silica suspensions fibres for advanced gravitational wave detectors |
| 18:00 | End of Session |
Dark matter / antimatter in space 1 (Room A)
Conveners: |
Bottino, J. Morales, T. Moroi |
Chair: |
T. Moroi |
| 14:45 | T. Asaka |
Right-handed sneutrino as cold dark matter of the universe |
| 15:05 | M. Yamanaka |
Dark matter in universal extra dimension models with right-handed neutrinos |
| 15:25 | Y. Sendouda |
Cosmic rays emitted by primordial black holes in a five-dimensional Randall- Sundrum braneworld |
| 15:45 | S. Horiuchi |
Dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way halo |
| 16:05 | A. Sabellek |
Rare components in cosmic rays with AMS-02 |
| 16:25 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:55 | J. Koglin |
Antideuterons as an Indirect Dark Matter Signature: Design and Preparation for a Balloon-born GAPS experiment |
| 17:15 | H - M. Chang(TEXONO Collaboration) |
Search of axions from a nuclear power reactor with a high-purity germanium detector |
| 17:35 | H. Wong (TEXONO Collaboration) |
Dark Matter Searches with a 100 eV threshold Germanium Detector |
| 17:55 | Y. Inoue |
Latest result from the Tokyo axion helioscope |
| 18:15 | C. Galbiati |
Initial Results on Exploration of Deep Underground Sources of Argon |
| 18:35 | End of Session | |
Wednesday, September 12 Afternoon
Gravitational waves 2 (Room C)
| Conveners: | B. Barish, E. Coccia, S. Kawamura |
Chair: |
E. Coccia |
| 14:30 | M. Visco |
IGEC2 Collaboration: a network of resonant bar detectors searching for gravitational wave bursts |
| 15:00 | M. Ohashi |
Status of LCGT and CLIO |
| 15:30 | K. Hayama |
Searches for gravitational waves triggered by the observation of astronomical events |
| 15:50 | Coffee break |
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| 16:20 | K. Arai |
Recent progress of TAMA300 |
| 16:50 | D. Tatsumi |
TAMA300 interferometer development |
| 17:10 | H. Tagoshi |
Results of the search for inspiraling compact star binaries from TAMA300's observation in 2000-2004 |
| 17:30 | N. Kanda |
Short gravitational wave signal searches in TAMA300 data : stellar core collapse and black hole |
| 17:50 | End of Session |
Dark matter / antimatter in space 2 (Room A)
Conveners: |
A. Bottino, J. Morales, T. Moroi |
Chair: |
A. Bottino |
| 14:30 | V. Kudryavtsev |
The ZEPLIN-II experiment |
| 14:50 | E. Aprile |
Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON10 Experiment |
| 15:10 | G. Gerbier |
Search for Dark Matter with EDELWEISS : status and future |
| 15:30 | R. Cerulli |
From DAMA/NaI to DAMA/LIBRA and beyond |
| 15:50 | I. Ogawa |
The ELEGANT VI experiment |
| 16:10 | W. Seidel |
The CRESST experiment |
| 16:30 | Coffee break |
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| 17:00 | S.K. Kim |
Results from the KIMS experiment |
| 17:20 | K. Abe |
The XMASS experiment |
| 17:40 | B. Odom |
The COUPP detector |
| 18:00 | P. Otyugova |
The ArDM, a Ton-Scale Liquid Argon Experiment
for Direct Dark Matter Detection |
| 18:20 | K - I. Fushimi |
The PICO-LON detector |
| 18:40 | H. Nishimura |
The NEWAGE experiment |
| 19:00 | End of Session |
HE Astrophysics 1 (Room D)
Conveners: |
E. Lorenz, P. Michelson, M. Mori. G. Navarra |
| Chair : | Y. Takahashi |
| 14:30 | K. Hoshina |
Diffuse high-energy neutrino searches in AMANDA-2 and IceCube results and future prospects |
| 14:50 | B. Vallage |
Status report on the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope |
| 15:10 | T. Montaruli |
First results of the IceCube Observatory
on High Energy Neutrino Astronomy |
| 15:30 | P. Sapienza |
NEMO |
| 15:50 | P. Rapidis |
The KM3NET Design Study |
| 16:10 | O. Deligny |
EHE Neutrino flux by the Pierre Auger observatory |
| 16:30 | Coffee break |
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air : | M. Mori |
| 17:00 | J. Bluemer | EAS Radio Detection with LOPES |
| 17:20 | Y. Takahashi |
JEM EUSO mission on International Space Station |
| 17:40 | A. Misaki |
On the Characteristics of the Neutrino Events in (Ultra-)High Energy
Astrophysics Experiment from the view point of Energy Determination |
| 18:00 | M. A. Nasr |
Study of dynamical fluctuations and Levy stability
in silicon-nucleus collisions at high energy |
| 18:20 | K. Murase |
High energy neutrino background from GRBs |
| 18:40 | K. Hochmuth | Effects of Axion-Photon Mixing on Gamma-Ray Fluxws from Magnetized Astrophysical Sources |
| 19:00 | End of Session |
Solar, reactor and other low-energy neutrino physics 1 (Room B)
| Conveners: | G. Fogli, V. Matveev, M. Nakahata, D. Sinclair, F. Suekane |
Chair: |
F. Suekane, D. Sinclair |
Solar Low BG Techniques
| 14:30 | Y. Takeuchi |
Low-energy neutrino observation at Super-Kamiokande-3 |
| 14:50 | C. Kraus |
News from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
| 15:10 | Y. Kishimoto |
KamLAND (purification status) |
| 15:30 | K. Lesko |
DUSEL |
| 15:50 | Coffee break |
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| 16:20 | V. Gavrin |
SAGE:status and future |
| 16:40 | T. Kirsten |
Retrospect of GALLEX/GNO |
| 17:00 | R. Raghavan |
LENS,MINILENS,Status |
| 17:20 | G. Zuzel |
Low-level techniques applied in the experiments looking for rare events |
| 17:40 | T. Rashba |
Low energy neutrino experiments sensitivity
to physics beyond the Standard Model |
| 18:00 | End of Session |
Thursday, September 13 Afternoon
Dark matter / antimatter in space 3 (Room A)
| Conveners: | A. Bottino, J. Morales, T. Moroi |
| Chair: |
T. Moroi |
| 14:30 | M. Tytgat |
The Inert Doublet Model: a new Archetype of wimp Dark Matter |
| 14:50 | X.- F. Navick |
Status of the RD for surface events rejection in the EDELWEISS experiment |
| 15:10 | V. Kudryavtsev |
Neutron background at the Boulby Underground Laboratory |
| 15:30 | C. Nones |
Methods to identify and eliminate surface background events inbolometric detectors for very rare events search |
| 15:50 | D. Dujmic |
Progress in directional Dark Matter detection: observation of the Head-Tail effect with low-energy neutrons |
| 16:10 | End of Session |
Solar, reactor and other low-energy neutrino physics 2 (Room B)
Conveners: |
G. Fogli, V. Matveev, M. Nakahata, D. Sinclair, F. Suekane |
Chair: |
M. Lindner |
Super Nova
| 14:30 | T. Marrodan |
LENA: A multipurpose detector for low energy neutrino astrophysics
and proton decay |
| 14:50 | E. Lisi |
Collective neutrino flavor transitions in Supernovae:
analytical and numerical aspects |
| 15:10 | S. Kawagoe |
Constraints of oscillation parameters
through MSW effect of SN neutrino |
| 15:30 | G.Raffelt |
Non-linear neutrino oscillations in core collapse supernovae |
| 15:50 | End of Session |
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Atomospheric neutrinos and high-energy neutrino beams 1 (Room C)
| Conveners: | J. Bernabeu, T. Kajita, C. W. Kim, R. Plunkett |
Chair: |
C. W. Kim |
| 14:30 | Y. Itow |
Atmospheric neutrino results from Super-Kamiokande |
| 14:55 | P. Desiati |
Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flux with AMANDA-II and IceCube |
| 15:20 | A. Mirizzi |
Impact of three-flavor oscillations (in vacuum and in matter) on solar atmosphere neutrinos |
| 15:55 | E.Akhmedov |
Neutrino oscillograms of the Earth CP violation and future atmospheric neutrino experiments |
| 16:15 | End of Session |
Double beta decays 1(Room D)
Conveners: |
F.Avignone, E. Bellotti, T. Kishimoto |
Chair: |
T. Kishimoto |
| 14:30 | S. Petcov |
Neutrino Physics Prospects of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments |
| 15:10 | H. Ohsumi |
NEMO-3 |
| 15:30 | J. Wilson |
The COBRA experiment aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in CdZnTe |
| 15:50 | N. Ishihara |
DCBA experiment for searching for neutrinoless double beta decay |
| 16:10 | H. Ejiri |
Majorana mass sensitivities of double beta decays and nuclear matrix elements |
| 16:30 | End of Session |
Friday, September 14 Afternoon
Solar, reactor and other low-energy neutrino physics 3 (Room A)
Conveners: |
G. Fogli, V. Matveev, M. Nakahata, D. Sinclair, F. Suekane |
Chair: |
M. Nakahata, F. Suekane |
Solar
| 14:30 | M.Pallavicini | Scintillator purification, detector performance and data analysis of Borexino |
Reactor and Direct mass
| 14:50 | I. Shimizu |
KamLAND(anti neutrino status) |
| 15:10 | M. Motoki |
Double Chooz - A reactor theta-13 experiment |
| 15:30 | S. Chen |
The DayaBay Reactor Neutrino Experiment |
| 15:50 | Coffee break | |
| 15:50 | S - B. Kim |
RENO: Reactor Neutrino Experiment at Yonggwang |
| 16:20 | M. Batygov | Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and Theta(13) Determination by Remoto Detection of Reactor Antineutrinos |
| 16:40 | S - T. Lin |
Low Energy Neutrino Physics at the Kuo-Sheng Nuclear Power Station with LowThreshold Germanium Detectors |
| 17:00 | H. Robertson |
KATRIN: an Experiment to Determine the Neutrino Mass |
| 17:20 | End of Session |
Atmospheric neutrinos and high-energy neutrino beams 2 (Room B)
| Conveners: | J. Bernabeu, T. Kajita, C. W. Kim, R. Plunkett |
Chair:: |
R. Plunkett |
| 14:30 | E. Radicioni |
Hadro-production results from the HARP experiment |
| 14:50 | A.Blake |
Latest Results from the MINOS Experiment |
| 15:10 | C.Jollet |
OPERA experiment |
| 15:30 | Y.Nakajima |
Status of FNAL SciBooNE experiment |
| 15:50 | H.Kakuno |
Status and Physics of the T2K experiment |
| 16:10 | Coffee break |
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E. Akehmedov |
| 16:40 | R. Plunkett |
The NOVA experiment |
| 17:00 | T.Kajita |
Updating the future neutrino oscillation experiment with the Kamioka-Korea 2 detector setup |
| 17:20 | J. Kameda |
Search for nucleon decay and n-nbar oscillations in Super-Kamiokande |
| 17:40 | End of Session |
Double beta decays 2 (Room C)
| Conveners: | F.Avignone, E. Bellotti, T. Kishimoto |
| Chair: |
F. Avignone |
| 14:30 | A. Giuliani | From Cuoricino to CUORE: investigating the inverted hierarchy region of neutrino mass |
| 15:00 | H. Simgen |
Status of the GERDA experiment |
| 15:30 | Y. Hirano |
CANDLES |
| 15:50 | H. Ohsumi |
Super NEMO |
| 16:10 | T. Shima |
MOON for next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiment; present status and perspective |
| 16:30 | Coffee Break |
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air: | E. Bellotti |
| 17:00 | K. O'Sullivan |
EXO: an Enriched Xenon Observatory for Double Bata Decay |
| 17:30 | A. Barabash |
New limits on b+EC and ECEC processes in 74Se and 120Te |
| 17:50 | F. Gatti |
MARE: an experiment for the calorimetric direct search of neutrino mass with sub eV sensitivity |
| 18:10 | S. Umehara |
Double Beta Decays of 48Ca with CaF2 (Eu) |
| 18:30 | Elena Nikitina |
Production Association Electrochemical Plant: Production of enriched stable isotopes for large-scale experiments in underground physics |
| 18:50 | F. Avignone | The Majorana project |
| 19:10 | End of Session |
HE Astrophysics 2 (Room D)
Conveners: |
E. Lorenz, P. Michelson, M. Mori. G. Navarra |
Chair : |
M. Mori |
| 14:30 | C. Cecchi |
GLAST Large Area Telescope |
| 14:50 | Y.Yukawa |
Recent results from CANGAROO-3I |
| 15:10 | T. Jogler |
A detailed study of the gamma ray emission from the High Mass X-ray Binary LS I +61 303 in TeV energies by the MAGIC telescope |
| 15:30 | S. Torii |
The CALET Mission for detection of cosmic ray source and dark matter |
| 15:50 | T. Shibata |
Diffusive gamma-rays and antiprotons |
| 16:10 | P. Bernardini |
ARGO-YBJ experiment |
| 16:30 | Coffee break |
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| 17:00 | M. Bertaina |
The primary spectrum in the transition region between direct and indirect measurements (10TeV-10PeV) |
| 17:20 | K. Kawata |
Tibet Air Shower Array Results and Future Plan |
| 17:40 | S. Das |
Propagation of UHE protons through a magnetized large scale structure |
| 18:00 | J. Bluemer |
The KASCADE-Grande Experiment |
| 18:20 | H. Tokuno |
The Telescope Array |
| 18:40 | Y. Itow |
LHCf experiment |
| 19:00 | End of Session |
POSTER SESSIONS POSTER SESSIONS (Core Time : Friday, September 14 17:45～19:45)
Cosmological Issues
C. Rott |
Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with IceCube |
A. Mirizzi |
A new cosmological bounds on neutrino radiative dacays |
Gravitational waves
T. Akutsu |
An analysis of the first observation data of CLIO for gravitational waves |
Dark matter / antimatter in space
X-F. Navick |
Status of the RD for surface events rejection in the EDELWEISS experiment |
Solar, reactor and other low-energy neutrino physics
A. Terashima |
RD for possible future improvements of KamLAND |
H. Suzuki |
Theta13 and Hierarchy by SN neutrinos |
F. Habermehl |
Mesurements with the KATRIN Pre-Spectrometer |
Y. Fukuda |
InP Detector for solar pp/7Be neutrino detections |
Y. Konno |
Quality Study Purified Liquid Scintillator |
K. Ichimura |
Background study for KamLAND Reactor Neutrino experiment |
| C. M. Cattadori | Updated results from the 3 ton Gd loaded liquid scintillator target after 2 years of data taking at LNGS |
F. Calaprice |
Scintillator Purification and Containment |
Atmospheric neutrinos and high-energy neutrino beams
A. Misaki |
Comprehensive Analysis of Neutrino Events in Super-Kamiokande Type Detector from the view point of Computer Numerical Experiment |
Double beta decays
Y. Tsubota |
CANDLES light Guide system(temp) |
G. Ito |
CANDLES trigger system |
N. Ishihara |
DCBA experiment for searching for neutrinoless double beta decay |
T. Kurenkova |
Supply of stable isotopes from Russia |
HE Astrophysics
M. Ono |
EHE neutrino induced events nearthe IceCube detector |
| Speaker : | Dr. Atsuto Suzuki |
| Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba (Nobel laureate) | |
| Place: | Sendai mediatheque |
| Date : | September 16th |
| Time : | To be announced |
Scientific Program at Sendai Civic Auditorium |
Public Lecture at Sendai medeatheque |
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