Andrii Neronov – Galactic and extragalactic contributions to the astrophysical neutrino flux

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

Spectral and anisotropy properties of IceCube astrophysical neutrino signals reveal evidence for a sizeable Galactic contribution to the neutrino flux in the Southern Hemisphere. I will review this evidence and relate it to the absence of Galactic component signature in the muon neutrino signal from the Northern sky. I will...

Francesco Longo – GRB observations at High and Very High Energy

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

Gamma Ray Bursts are among the most powerful astrophysical phenomena. In the recent past many observations shed light on their high-energy (HE, E>10 MeV) emission properties. In the seminar I will describe the observations of GRBs by the currently operating HE satellites AGILE and Fermi. I will discuss the main...

Philipp Mertsch – Cosmic ray anisotropies: unravelling sources and transport

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

The arrival directions of Galactic cosmic rays are highly isotropic. This is expected from the presence of turbulent magnetic fields in our Galactic environment that repeatedly scatter charged cosmic rays during propagation. However, various cosmic ray observatories have identified weak anisotropies of various angular sizes and with relative intensities of...

Alexander Fieguth – XENON1T & the challenge of direct dark matter detection

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

Driven by the profound evidence from cosmology and astronomy the existence of dark matter is well-established as a part of our universe. Despite the fact, that there is five times more dark matter than baryonic matter out in the universe, its nature remains puzzling up to now. The promising idea...

Harm Schoorlemmer – Observing the TeV gamma-ray sky with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) collected more than a year of data in its full configuration. With its large field of view and high uptime it is exposed to two-thirds of the sky every day. From the light distribution in the arrays water-Cherenkov tanks we discriminate between electromagnetic and...

Livia Ludhova – JUNO: the first multi-kton liquid scintillator based neutrino detector

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a neutrino experiment under construction near Jiangmen, China. Its main component  will be a spherical 20 kton liquid scintillator detector placed in a 700 m deep underground laboratory. The experiment is designed for the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy by measuring oscillation...

Francois Brun – The H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) is a hybrid array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes observing the very high energy gamma-ray sky. In the past decade, this experiment has significantly contributed to the field of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. In particular, the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey (HGPS), conducted from 2004 to...

Laura Spitler – A Brief History of Fast Radio Bursts

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration radio beacons from a so-far unidentified class of extragalactic sources first discovered about a decade ago. Their inferred distances, and therefore radio burst energies, challenge models based on known source classes, while their inferred rates suggest they are fairly common. While most sources have so-far...

Anatoli Fedynitch – State-of-the-art atmospheric lepton flux Tools

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

Atmospheric leptons receive steady interest from several scientific communities. At low and intermediate energies, atmospheric neutrinos are the signal for studies of fundamental neutrino properties and at high energies, they constitute the background for the characterization of the features of the astrophysical neutrino flux. We have studied in depth the...

Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften

Hörsaalgebäude Physikum Staudtstr. 5, Erlangen, Germany

The ECAP will participate in the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" on October 21. For more information, see the corresponding website of the Department Physik: click here.