Aspen Mini-Workshop on UHECR

 

Saturday, August 27

 

9:00 10:10

 

Overview of Experimental Status

10’

Katsushi/Graciela

Open Remarks

30’

John Belz

Status of HiRes and Energy spectrum (PPT)

20’

Paul Mantsch

Status and Overview of Auger (PPT)

 

 

 

10:10 – 10:30

 

(Coffee Break)

 

 

 

10:30 12:00

 

Energy Spectrum: Experiments

20’

Paul Sommers

Auger Energy spectrum (PPT)

40’

Katsushi Arisaka

Determination of Absolute Energy and Evaluation of Systematic Errors (PPT)

 

 

(Discussion on Energy Determination and Systematics)

 

 

 

12:00 – 2:00

 

(Lunch)

 

 

 

2:00 3:40

 

Energy Spectrum: Theories

20’

Angela Olinto

Energy Spectrum and GZK feature (PPT)

20’

Pasquale Blasi

Transition from galactic to extragalactic CR and its implications for UHECR (SXI)

15’

Denis Allard

UHE nuclei propagation (PPT)

30’

Floyd Stecker

UHECR and tests of Lorenz in variance violation (PPT)

 

 

(Discussion on Energy Spectrum)

 

 

 

3:40 – 4:00

 

(Coffee Break)

 

 

 

4:00 5:30

 

Gamma / Composition

20’

John Belz

Gamma and Composition in HiRes

20’

Katsushi Arisaka

Gamma and Composition in Auger

20’

Graciela Gelmini

Photons as UHECR

 

 

(Discussion on Gamma/Composition)

 

 

 

7:00 – 9:00

 

(Dinner)

 


 

 

Sunday, August 28

 

9:00 10:20

 

Anisotropy

20’

John Belz

Anisotropy, BL Lac correlation in HiRes

20’

Arun Tripathi

Anisotropy studies in Auger

20’

Glennys Farrar

Evidence for multiple types of UHECR sources within existing data

 

 

(Discussion on Anisotropy)

 

 

 

10:20 – 10:40

 

(Coffee Break)

 

 

 

10:40 12:00

 

Neutrino, Future

20’

Tom Weiler

What we can learn from neutrino CR

15”

Denis Allard

Cosmogenic neutrinos

20’

Katsushi Arisaka

How to improve Energy/Composition Measurements in Auger

10’

Glennys Farrar

SD on top of New York

 

 

 

12:00 – 2:00

 

(Lunch)

 

 

 

2:00 3:30

 

Future Direction

20’

Hartmut Gemmeke

Radio Detection, Now and future

20’

Corbin Covault

Cherenkov Detection

15’

John Belz

Status of TA/TALE

20’

David Cline

EUSO/OWL and beyond

 

 

 

3:30 – 3:50

 

(Coffee Break)

 

 

 

3:50 5:30

 

Discussion on Future Direction

20’

John Harton

Status of Auger-North

15’

Katsushi Arisaka

Auger-North: Science and Detector

15’

Paul Sommers

Science Case for Auger-North

15’

Angela Olinto

Science Case for Auger-North

 

 

(Discussion on Future Direction)