RADHEP-2000
Agenda for RADHEP-2000
UCLA Faculty Center
480 Chancellor Young Drive, UCLA Campus
Nov. 16-18
THURSDAY:
November 16, 2000
California Room
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I. Introduction Th, 8:00--9:20
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8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:05 Introduction (Saltzberg/Gorham)
9:05-9:15 Welcome
(Roberto Peccei, UCLA Dean of Physical Sciences
and Vice-Chancellor of Research)
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II. Historical review Th, 9:20-10:40
(chair: Al Odian)
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9:15--9:55 The discovery & early history of radio (Trevor Weekes)
pulses from extensive air showers
10:00--10:25 Radio detection of high energy showers in
Dielectric media--a historical view (Boris Bolotovsky)
10:25--10:40 coffee
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III. UHECR models and Physics - I Th, 10:40--12:00
(chair: Graciela Gelmini)
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10:40--11:05 Neutrinos above 10^15 eV: Theory & outlook (Halzen)
11:10-- 11:35 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Superheavy
Particles in the Universe (Kuzmin)
11:40--12:05 Probing Physics at Extreme Energies with
Cosmic Ultrahigh Energy Radiation (Sigl)
12:05 -- 1:15 lunch
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IV. Experiments I Th, 1:15 -- 2:45
(chair: Francis Halzen )
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1:15--1:40 Status of the RICE Experiment (Besson)
1:45--2:10 Results/Review from Australian Radio Telescope
UHE Neutrino Search (Hankins)
2:15--2:40 Results/Review from Goldstone Radio Telescope
(Gorham)
2:45--3:15 Coffee
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V. UHECR models and Physics -II Th, 3:15--4:55
(chair: Alex Kusenko)
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3:15--3:35 Signatures for a Cosmic Flux of Magnetic Monopoles
(Wick)
3:40--4:00 UHE particle acceleration at relativistic and (Ostrowski)
ultra-relativistic shocks
4:05--4:25 Signatures for 10^18 eV neutrinos from photon
sources at high redshift (Postma)
4:30--4:50 The relic neutrino connection (Weiler)
6:00 dinner at faculty center
FRIDAY:
November 17,2000
California Room
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VI. Experiments II Fri, 9:00-- 12:00
(chair: Kurt Liewer)
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9:00--9:25 Monitoring of Cherenkov emission pulses from
the Moon with Kalyazin radiotelescope
(Rustum Dagkesamanskii)
9:30--9:55 Recent results & outlook for EAS radio (J. Rosner)
Detection
10:00--10:25 Studies on Radioemission from EAS by the Gauhati
University Cosmic Ray (GUCR) Group
(Kalpana Roy Sinha)
10:30--11:00 coffee
11:00--11:25 The View from Auger (Zas)
11:30--11:55 The View from Agasa & Telescope Array (Teshima)
12:00--1:15 Lunch
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VII. Simulations Fri, 1:15--3:25
(chair: Doug Bergman )
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1:15--1:35 Summary of simulations of HE showers in
Dielectrics (E Zas)
1:40--2:00 Theoretical estimates on detection of
particles in the Moon
(Alvarez-Muniz)
2:05--2:25 Signal Characteristics from Electromagnetic
Shower in Ice using Geant (Razzaque)
2:30--2:50 Coherence vs. Multiple Scales in Hadronic Shower
Evolution (Roman Buniy)
2:55-3:25 coffee
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VIII. Accelerator Measurements Fri, 3:55 -- 5:00
(chair: Alice Bean)
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3:25-3:50 Coherent Radio Radiation of 15 MeV -- 30 GeV
Electron and Photon bunches in Thin and
Thick Radiators (Ispirian)
3:55--4:20 Planning for the Generation-X Hadronic (Ralston)
Testbeam Experiment
4:25--4:55 Measurements of Coherent Radiation at Argonne
and SLAC (Saltzberg)
Workshop Banquet Dinner:
Location: Acapulco Restaurnt (7pm)
dinner speaker:
"Reminiscences of Gurgen Askaryan" (Boris Bolotovsky)
SATURDAY
November 18
California Room
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IX. Experiments III Sat, 9:00--10:20
(chair: Maryanne Cummings)
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9:00-9:25 The View from HiRes (Sokolsky)
9:30-9:50 Study of Salt Neutrino Detector (SND) (Masami Chiba)
9:55-10:15 Status of RAHMAND Experiment (Zheleznykh)
10:20--10:45 coffee
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X. Radar & related possibilities Sat, 10:45--12:00
(chair: Doug McKay)
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10:45--11:10 Detection of Energetic Particles by a network of
HF propagation paths in Alaska.
(Alfred Wong)
11:10--11:30 Radar Detection possibilites of
Extensive Air Showers
(Gorham)
11:35--11:55 A proposed experiment to detect >10^18 eV
air showers with the Jicamarca radar system (T. Vinogradova)
12:00--1:15 lunch
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XI. Acoustic Techniques Sat, 1:15--2:15
(chair: Enrique Zas)
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1:15--1:40 Review of acoustic detection of UHE particles
(Learned)
1:45--2:10 Hydro Acoustic Detection -- SADCO Status (Zheleznykh)
2:15--2:45 coffee
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XII. Future possibilities, outlook and outreach Sat, 2:45--4:20
(chair: Chuck Naudet)
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2:45--3:00 Introduction of high school students to (A. Blanovsky)
an astrophysics project
3:05--3:25 Large scale radio detectors in ice (D. Seckel)
3:30--3:55 Concepts for large area ground- & space- (P. Gorham)
based radio detection of UHE particles
3:55--4:10 10 km^3-sr detection using downward going
EeV muons (S. Barwick)
4:15--4:40 EUSO/OWL (Y. Takahashi
or K. Arisaka)
4:40-- Discussion & closing remarks
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SUNDAY: Goldstone tour
(You must sign up in advance on registration form.)
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7:00 Meet vans at at UCLA & depart by 7:15
10:00 Arrive at Goldstone & checkin
10:15--11:15 Tour of research antenna DSS 13
11:20--12:00 Tour of teaching system at main center
12:00-12:30 lunch
12:30--1:10 DSS24-DSS25 visit
1:20-3:00 DSS14 (70m antenna) tour
3:00-6:00 return to UCLA