Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics 2009
(TAUP 2009)
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Volume 203
Rome, Italy 1-5 July 2009
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COSMOLOGY
PERSPECTIVES IN COSMOLOGY ...... 1 Alexander Vilenkin
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
THE PRESENT GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTION EFFORT ...... 7 Keith Riles
DIRECT DARK MATTER SEARCHES
RESULTS FROM THE DAMA/LIBRA EXPERIMENT...... 13 R Bernabei, P Belli, F Cappella, R Cerulli, C J Dai, A d'Angelo, H L He, A Incicchitti, H H Kuang, X H Ma, F Montecchia, F Nozzoli, D Prosperi, X D Sheng, Z P Ye
RESULTS FROM THE CDMS II EXPERIMENT ...... 20 Jodi Cooley
THE XENON100 DARK MATTER EXPERIMENT AT LNGS: STATUS AND SENSITIVITY...... 25 Elena Aprile
THE WARP EXPERIMENT...... 31 R Acciarri, M Antonello, B Baibussinov, P Benetti, F Calaprice, E Calligarich, M Cambiaghi, N Canci, C Cao, F Carbonara, F Cavanna, S Centro, M B Ceolin, A Chavarria, A Cocco, F Di Pompeo, G Fiorillo, C Galbiati, L Grandi, B Loer, G Mangano, A Menegolli, G Meng, C Montanari, O Palamara, L Pandola, F Pietropaolo, G L Raselli, M Roncadelli, M Rossella, C Rubbia, R Saldanha, E Segreto, A M Szelc, S Ventura, C Vignoli
PARTICLE DARK MATTER INTERPRETATIONS OF DIRECT SEARCHES ...... 38 Alessandro Bottino
DARK-MATTER QCD-AXION SEARCHES ...... 44 Leslie J Rosenberg
NEUTRINOS
PROGRESS IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF NEUTRINO PROPERTIES ...... 50 J W F Valle
FRONTIERS OF LOW ENERGY NEUTRINO PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS ...... 59 G Ranucci
STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF SHORT BASELINE STUDIES ...... 69 Mark Dierckxsens
STATUS AND PROSPECT OF ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS AND LONG BASELINE STUDIES ...... 75 Takaaki Kajita
NEUTRINOS FROM CERN TO GRAN SASSO: THE CNGS PROJECT ...... 81 Marcos Dracos
NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY ...... 87 Stefan Schönert
SUPERNOVA NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS: WHAT DO WE UNDERSTAND? ...... 93 Amol Dighe
COSMIC RAYS AND HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINOS
OBSERVATIONS OF ULTRA HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS...... 99 G Matthiae
ON THE ORIGIN OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS...... 105 Pasquale Blasi
ULTRAHIGH ENERGY NEUTRINOS: THEORETICAL ASPECTS ...... 112 M Kachelrieb
GAMMA RAYS AND ANTIMATTER IN SPACE
GAMMA RAY OBSERVATION FROM GROUND ...... 118 M Mariotti
SPACE-BASED OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAYS ...... 124 Philippe Bruel
DETECTION OF ANTIMATTER IN OUR GALAXY ...... 130 Piergiorgio Picozza, Roberta Sparvoli
DARK MATTER SIGNALS IN SPACE ...... 137 Pierre Salati
UNDERGROUND LABORATORIES
UNDERGROUND LABORATORIES: COSMIC SILENCE, LOUD SCIENCE...... 143 Eugenio Coccia
WORKSHOP SESSION: DARK MATTER SEARCHES
THE ARGON DARK MATTER EXPERIMENT (ARDM) ...... 152 Christian Regenfus
RESULTS FROM THE FIRST SCIENCE RUN OF ZEPLIN-III...... 156 M I Lopes
THE LUX DARK MATTER SEARCH...... 159 D N McKinsey, D Akerib, S Bedikian, A Bernstein, A Bolozdynya, A Bradley, J Chapman, K Clark, T Classen, A Curioni, E Dahl, S Dazeley, M Dragowsky, L de Viveiros, E Druszkiewicz, S Fiorucci, R Gaitskell, C Hall, C Hernandez Faham, L Kastens, K Kazkaz, R Lander, D Leonard, D Malling, R Mannino, D Mei, J Mock, J A Nikkel, P Phelps, T Shutt, W Skulski, P Sorensen, J Spaans, T Stiegler, R Svoboda, M Sweany, M Tripathi, N Walsh, R Webb, J White, F Wolfs, M Woods, C Zhang
INVESTIGATION OF AMBIENT AND µ-INDUCED NEUTRON BACKGROUND IN LSM ...... 162 Klaus Eitel
STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF A DEEP UNDERGROUND LABORATORY IN CHINA...... 165 K J Kang, J P Cheng, Y H Chen, Y J Li, M B Shen, S Y Wu, Q Yue
RESULTS FROM DMTPC 10-LITER DETECTOR...... 168 D Dujmic, J Battat, T Caldwell, L Fedus, P Fisher, S Henderson, R Lanza, A Lee, J Lopez, A Kaboth, G Kohse, J Monroe, R Vanderspek, T Sahin, G Sciolla, I Wolf, R Yamamoto, H Yegorian, S Ahlen, A Inglis, K Otis, H Tomita, H Wellenstein
UNDERGROUND LOW FLUX NEUTRON BACKGROUND MEASUREMENTS IN LSM USING A LARGE VOLUME (1M3) SPHERICAL PROPORTIONAL COUNTER...... 171 I Savvidis, I Giomataris, E Bougamont, I Irastorza, S Aune, M Chapelier, P H Charvin, P Colas, J Derre, E Ferrer, G Gerbier, M Gros, P Mangier, X F Navick, P Salin, J D Vergados, M Zampalo
PROGRESS REPORT ON DRIFT-II...... 174 Mark Pipe
DARK MATTER SPIN-DEPENDENT LIMITS FOR WIMP INTERACTIONS ON 19F BY PICASSO ...... 177 Berta Beltran
DIRECT DARK MATTER SEARCH USING CCDS...... 180 J Estrada
NEW LIMITS ON LOW-MASS WIMP DARK MATTER WITH SUB-KEV GERMANIUM DETECTOR...... 185 Henry T Wong
AXION COLD DARK MATTER REVISITED...... 188 L Visinelli, P Gondolo
LATEST RESULTS FROM THE CERN AXION SOLAR TELESCOPE ...... 191 Igor G Irastorza
EDELWEISS-II DARK MATTER SEARCH: STATUS AND FIRST RESULTS...... 194 Véronique Sanglard
BGO SCINTILLATING BOLOMETER: ITS APPLICATION IN DARK MATTER EXPERIMENTS...... 198 N Coron, C Cuesta, E García, J Gironnet, J Leblanc, P de Marcillac, M Martínez, Y Ortigoza, A Ortiz de Solórzano, C Pobes, J Puimedón, T Redon, T Rolón, A Salinas, M L Sarsa, L Torres, J A Villar
THE EXPECTED BACKGROUND SPECTRUM IN NAI DARK MATTER DETECTORS AND THE DAMA RESULT ...... 201 V A Kudryavtsev, M Robinson, N J C Spooner
TECHNICAL ASPECTS AND DARK MATTER SEARCHES ...... 204 R Bernabei, P Belli, F Cappella, R Cerulli, C J Dai, A d'Angelo, H L He, A Incicchitti, H H Kuang, X H Ma, F Montecchia, F Nozzoli, D Prosperi, X D Sheng, Z P Ye
INERT DOUBLET MODEL AND DAMA: ELASTIC AND/OR INELASTIC DARK MATTER CANDIDATES...... 207 Chiara Arina
RELEVANCE OF ION-CHANNELING FOR DIRECT DM DETECTION...... 210 Graciela B Gelmini
ELASTIC AND INELASTIC LSP-NUCLEUS SCATTERING ON MEDIUM-HEAVY NUCLEI...... 213 P Toivanen, M Kortelainen, J Suhonen, J Toivanen
ANAIS STATUS REPORT...... 216 J Amaré, S Borjabad, S Cebrián, C Cuesta, D Fortuño, E García, H Gómez, J Morales, Y Ortigoza, A Ortiz de Solórzano, C Pobes, J Puimedón, A Rodríguez, M L Sarsa, J A Villar
TIDAL EFFECT IN THE RADON-DUE NEUTRON FLUX FROM THE EARTH'S CRUST ...... 219 V V Alekseenko, Yu M Gavriluk, V V Kuzminov, Yu V Stenkin
DARK MATTER SEARCH BY MEANS OF SEGMENTED SCINTILLATOR (PICO-LON) ...... 222 K Fushimi, Y Kameda, K Harada, S Nakayama, H Ejiri, T Shima, K Yasuda, S Umehara, R Hazama, K Imagawa
RELIC SIGNAL PRODUCED BY THE ANNIHILATION OF DARK MATTER PARTICLES...... 225 Anton N Baushev
RIGHT-HANDED SNEUTRINO WIMPS IN THE NMSSM...... 228 David G Cerdeño
CALCULABLE NEUTRINO MASSES IN AN INVERSE SEE-SAW SCENARIO AND DM CANDIDATES...... 231 F Bazzocchi
ASTROPHYSICAL BOOST FACTOR AND DARK MATTER INDIRECT DETECTION...... 234 Timur Delahaye, Pierre Brun, Jürg Diemand, Stefano Profumo, Pierre Salati
GALACTIC POSITRONS AND ELECTRONS FROM DARK MATTER AND ASTROPHYSICAL SOURCES ...... 237 Roberto Lineros
WORKSHOP SESSION: COSMOLOGICAL ISSUES
GRAVITATIONAL REHEATING IN QUINTESSENTIAL INFLATION...... 240 Stefano Scopel
RELIC DENSITY OF NEUTRINOS WITH PRIMORDIAL ASYMMETRIES...... 243 Sergio Pastor
CONSTRAINING SUPER-CRITICAL STRING/BRANE COSMOLOGIES WITH ASTROPHYSICAL DATA...... 246 Vasiliki A Mitsou
PHANTOM DARK ENERGY AND THE STEADY STATE 'ON THE AVERAGE' UNIVERSE ...... 250 Anton N Baushev
DIRAC-BORN-INFELD AND K-INFLATION: THE CMB ANISOTROPIES FROM STRING THEORY...... 253 Christophe Ringeval
WORKSHOP SESSION: DOUBLE BETA DECAY
THE MAJORANA PROJECT ...... 257 C E Aalseth, M Amman, J F Amsbaugh, F T Avignone Iii, H O Back, A S Barabash, P S Barbeau, J R Beene, M Bergevin, F E Bertrand, M Boswell, V Brudanin, W Bugg, T H Burritt, M Busch, G Capps, Y-D Chan, J I Collar, R J Cooper, R Creswick, J A Detwiler, P J Doe, Yu Efremenko, V Egorov, H Ejiri, S R Elliott, J Ely, J Esterline, H Farach, J E Fast, N Fields, P Finnerty, B Fujikawa, E Fuller, V M Gehman, G K Giovanetti, V E Guiseppe, K Gusey, A L Hallin, R Hazama, R Henning, A Hime, E W Hoppe, T W Hossbach, M A Howe, R A Johnson, K J Keeter, M Keillor, C Keller, J D Kephart, M F Kidd, O Kochetov, S I Konovalov, R T Kouzes, L Leviner, J C Loach, P N Luke, S MacMullin, M G Marino, R D Martin, D-M Mei, H S Miley, M L Miller, L Mizouni, A Montoya, A W Myers, M Nomachi, J L Orrell, D G Phillips Ii, A W P Poon, G Prior, J Qian, D C Radford, K Rielage, R G H Robertson, L Rodriguez, K P Rykaczewski, A G Schubert, T Shima, M Shirchenko, D Steele, J Strain, G Swift, K Thomas, R Thompson, V Timkin, W Tornow, T D Van Wechel, I Vanyushin, K Vetter, R Warner, J F Wilkerson, J M Wouters, E Yakushev, A R Young, C-H Yu, V Yumatov, C Zhang, S Zimmerman
THEORETICAL STATUS OF THE DOUBLE BETA DECAY...... 260 Amand Faessler
DEVELOPMENT AND INSTALLATION OF THE GERDA EXPERIMENT ...... 265 A Smolnikov
PROBING THE MAJORANA NATURE OF THE NEUTRINO WITH NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY ...... 270 Stefano Morisi
COVARIANCES OF NUCLEAR MATRIX ELEMENTS FOR OVββ DECAY...... 273 G L Fogli, E Lisi, A M Rotunno
NEW CONCEPTS FOR A GASEOUS XENON DETECTOR FOR DOUBLE BETA DECAY...... 276 D Sinclair
TEST OF THE SINGLE STATE DOMINANCE HYPOTHESIS FOR THE TWO-NEUTRINO DOUBLE BETA DECAY ...... 279 O Moreno, R Álvarez-Rodríguez, E Moya de Guerra, P Sarriguren, F Šimkovic, Amand Faessler
MOON FOR DOUBLE-BETA DECAYS AND NEUTRINO NUCLEAR RESPONSES...... 282 K Fushimi, Y Kameda, K Harada, S Nakayama, H Ejiri, T Shima, K Yasuda, R Hazama, K Imagawa
SEARCHING FOR LEPTONIC NUMBER NON-CONSERVATION WITH NEMO-3 AND SUPERNEMO...... 285 F Mauger
NEUTRINO MASS, NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE ELECTRON CAPTURE AND RARE BETA DECAYS...... 288 M T Mustonen, J Suhonen
SEARCHING FOR DOUBLE BETA DECAY WITH THE ENRICHED XENON OBSERVATORY...... 291 Lisa J Kaufman
NEXT: SEARCHING FOR THE NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY WITH A GAS- XENON TPC...... 295 P Novella
FROM CUORICINO TO CUORE: INVESTIGATING NEUTRINO PROPERTIES WITH DOUBLE BETA DECAY ...... 298 Monica Sisti
STATUS OF THE COBRA DOUBLE BETA DECAY EXPERIMENT ...... 301 Kai Zuber
THE DCBA EXPERIMENT FOR STUDYING NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA-DECAY...... 304 N Ishihara, G Iwai, H Iwase, Y Kato, M Kawai, Y Kondou, T Haruyama, T Inagaki, Y Makida, T Ohama, K Takahashi, S Takeda, Y Yamada, H Igarashi, T Ishikawa, T Sumiyoshi, E Tashiro, T Ishizuka, S Kitamura, Y Teramoto, I Nakano, Y Sakamoto, Y Nagasaka, N Tamura, K Tanaka, R Ito
SEARCH FOR DOUBLE BETA DECAY OF 106CD IN TGV-2 EXPERIMENT...... 307 N I Rukhadze, Ch Briançon, V B Brudanin, P Cermák, V G Egorov, A A Klimenko, A Kovalik, Yu A Shitov, I Štekl, V V Timkin, Ts Vylov
STUDY OF 48CA DOUBLE BETA DECAY WITH CANDLES ...... 310 I Ogawa, T Kishimoto, S Umehara, G Ito, K Yasuda, M Wada, K Matsuoka, M Nomachi, K Fushimi, R Hazama, H Ohsumi, K Okada, Y Tamagawa, S Yoshida
WORKSHOP SESSION: GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND NEUTRINOS
STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE VIRGO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTOR ...... 313 T Accadia, F Acernese, F Antonucci, S Aoudia, K G Arun, P Astone, G Ballardin, F Barone, M Barsuglia, Th S Bauer, M G Beker, A Belletoile, S Bigotta, S Birindelli, M A Bizouard, M Blom, C Boccara, F Bondu, L Bonelli, R Bonnand, L Bosi, S Braccini, C Bradaschia, A Brillet, V Brisson, R Budzynski, T Bulik, H J Bulten, D Buskulic, C Buy, G Cagnoli, E Calloni, E Campagna, B Canuel, F Carbognani, F Cavalier, R Cavalieri, G Cella, E Cesarini, E Chassande-Mottin, A Chincarini, F Cleva, E Coccia, C N Colacino, J Colas, A Colla, M Colombini, A Corsi, J-P Coulon, E Cuoco, S D'Antonio, A Dari, V Dattilo, M Davier, R Day, R De Rosa, M del Prete, L Di Fiore, A Di Lieto, M Di Paolo Emilio, A Di Virgilio, A Dietz, M Drago, V Fafone, I Ferrante, F Fidecaro, I Fiori, R Flaminio, J-D Fournier, J Franc, S Frasca, F Frasconi, A Freise, M Galimberti, L Gammaitoni, F Garufi, G Gemme, E Genin, A Gennai, A Giazotto, R Gouaty, M Granata, C Greverie, G Guidi, H Heitmann, P Hello, S Hild, D Huet, P Jaranowski, I Kowalska, A Królak, P La Penna, N Leroy, N Letendre, T G F Li, M Lorenzini, V Loriette, G Losurdo, J-M Mackowski, E Majorana, N Man, M Mantovani, F Marchesoni, F Marion, J Marque, F Martelli, A Masserot, F Menzinger, C Michel, L Milano, Y Minenkov, M Mohan, J Moreau, N Morgado, A Morgia, S Mosca, V Moscatelli, B Mours, I Neri, F Nocera, G Pagliaroli, C Palomba, F Paoletti, S Pardi, M Parisi, A Pasqualetti, R Passaquieti, D Passuello, G Persichetti, M Pichot, F Piergiovanni, M Pietka, L Pinard, R Poggiani, M Prato, G A Prodi, M Punturo, P Puppo, O Rabaste, D S Rabeling, P Rapagnani, V Re, T Regimbau, F Ricci, F Robinet, A Rocchi, L Rolland, R Romano, D Rosinska, P Ruggi, B Sassolas, D Sentenac, R Sturani, B Swinkels, A Toncelli, M Tonelli, E Tournefier, F Travasso, J Trummer, G Vajente, J F J van den Brand, S van der Putten, M Vavoulidis, G Vedovato, D Verkindt, F Vetrano, A Viceré, J-Y Vinet, H Vocca, M Was, M Yvert
UNDERGROUND CRYOGENIC LASER INTERFEROMETER CLIO...... 318 Shinji Miyoki
EINSTEIN TELESCOPE SITE SELECTION: SEISMIC AND GRAVITY GRADIENT NOISE...... 321 J F J van den Brand, M G Beker, M Doets, E Hennes, D S Rabeling
STATUS OF SUPERNOVA NEUTRINO DETECTORS...... 324 Walter Fulgione
SEARCH FOR NEUTRINOS FROM CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA FROM THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF DETECTORS...... 327 Alec Habig
FUTURE SUPERNOVA NEUTRINO DETECTORS ...... 330 Kate Scholberg
USING NEUTRINOS TO SEARCH FOR GRAVITY WAVES ...... 333 G Pagliaroli
WORKSHOP SESSION: SOLAR, REACTOR AND LOW-ENERGY NEUTRINOS
RESULTS FROM THE SOLAR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT BOREXINO ...... 336 Lothar Oberauer
LOW ENERGY NEUTRINO PHYSICS AT SUPER-KAMIOKANDE...... 341 Michael B Smy
INP SOLID STATE DETECTOR FOR A MEASUREMENT OF LOW ENERGY SOLAR NEUTRINOS ...... 345 Yoshiyuki Fukuda
LINEAR SOLAR MODELS: A SIMPLE TOOL TO INVESTIGATE THE PROPERTIES OF SOLAR INTERIOR ...... 348 F L Villante
STANDARD AND NON-STANDARD ANALYSIS OF SOLAR AND REACTOR NEUTRINO DATA...... 351 Mariam Tórtola
REMAINING INCONSISTENCIES WITH SOLAR NEUTRINOS: CAN SPIN FLAVOUR PRECESSION PROVIDE A CLUE?...... 354 João Pulido, C R Das, Marco Picariello
GEO-NEUTRINO FLUX CALCULATION ...... 357 S T Dye
A SEARCH FOR SUPERNOVA RELIC NEUTRINOS AT SUPER-KAMIOKANDE ...... 360 Takashi Iida, Kirk Bays
NEUTRINO AND ANTINEUTRINO SPECTRAL SPLITS FROM COLLECTIVE EFFECTS IN SUPERNOVAE...... 363 Irene Tamborra
THE NUCLEAR RESPONSE OF TERRESTRIAL DETECTORS TO LOW-ENERGY NEUTRINO SPECTRA ...... 366 T S Kosmas, V Tsakstara
LONG-TERM STUDY OF LOW ENERGY COUNTING RATE WITH THE LARGE VOLUME DETECTOR...... 369 G Bruno
REACTOR NEUTRINO DETECTION FOR NON PROLIFERATION WITH THE NUCIFER EXPERIMENT ...... 372 A Porta
INVESTIGATING THE NUCLEAR RESPONSE OF TE ISOTOPES TO SN-NEUTRINOS...... 375 V Tsakstara, T S Kosmas, P C Divari
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS AT THE NEXT-TO-THE-LEADING ORDER...... 378 A Aleksejevs, S Barkanova
THE DOUBLE CHOOZ EXPERIMENT – TOWARD THE HIGH PRECISION MEASUREMENT IN THE QUEST FOR θ13...... 381 Jelena Maricic
MAGNUS APPROXIMATION FOR NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS WITH THREE FLAVORS IN MATTER...... 384 Alexis A Aguilar-Arevalo, Juan Carlos D'Olivo
THE KATRIN EXPERIMENT...... 387 Marcus Beck
MEASURING NEUTRINO MASS WITH RADIOACTIVE IONS IN A STORAGE RING...... 390 Mats Lindroos, Bob McElrath, Christopher Orme, Thomas Schwetz
MEASUREMENT OF NEUTRINO-ELECTRON SCATTERING CROSS SECTION AND THE EW PARAMETERS AT THE KUO-SHENG REACTOR NEUTRINO LABORATORY...... 393 M Deniz, H T Wong, S T Lin
ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF NEUTRINOS ...... 396 Carlo Giunti, Alexander Studenikin
NEUTRAL CURRENT REACTION CROSS SECTIONS FOR THE STABLE 100MO ISOTOPE ...... 399 K G Balasi, T S Kosmas, P C Divari, H Ejiri
WORKSHOP SESSION: ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS AND HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINO BEAMS
CURRENT MINOS NEUTRINO OSCILLATION RESULTS...... 402 Alec Habig
PROBING θ13 WITH GLOBAL NEUTRINO DATA ANALYSIS ...... 405 G L Fogli, E Lisi, A Marrone, A Palazzo, A M Rotunno
STATUS OF THE T2K LONG BASELINE NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENT...... 408 Atsuko K Ichikawa
THE CONTRIBUTION OF NEAR DETECTORS TO THE T2K NEUTRINO MEASUREMENTS...... 411 Magali Besnier
EMULSION ANALYSIS IN THE OPERA EXPERIMENT ...... 414 N Naganawa
STATUS OF THE ICARUS T600 DETECTOR AT THE LNGS ...... 417 Alessandro Menegolli
ARGONEUT, A LIQUID ARGON TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER IN A LOW ENERGY NEUTRINO BEAM...... 420 Joshua Spitz
THE LONG BASELINE NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENT AT DUSEL ...... 423 Jelena Maricic
A SEARCH FOR STERILE NEUTRINOS AT CERN-PS ...... 426 E Calligarich, S Centro, D Gibin, A Guglielmi, F Pietropaolo, C Rubbia, P R Sala
NON-STANDARD NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS IN THE TYPE-II SEESAW MODEL ...... 428 He Zhang
THE VERY LOW ENERGY RANGE OF ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS...... 431 Orlando L G Peres
SENSITIVITY ON EARTH CORE AND MANTLE DENSITIES USING ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS ...... 434 Celio Adrega de Moura, Ofelia Pisanti
COSMIC NEUTRINOS AT ICECUBE: θ13, δ AND INITIAL FLAVOR COMPOSITION...... 437 Arman Esmaili
WORKSHOP SESSION: EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
ASTRONOMY'S NEW MESSENGERS: A TRAVELING EXHIBIT ON GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE PHYSICS...... 440 Marco Cavaglià, Martin Hendry, Szabolcs Márka, David H Reitze, Keith Riles
GRAN SASSO NATIONAL LABORATORY: OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES...... 443 R Antolini, A Di Giovanni, M Galeota, S Sebastiani
WORKSHOP SESSION: HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS
M 87 AND CENTAURUS A: LABORATORIES FOR VHE PHYSICS OF JETS AND NEAR SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES ...... 447 M Raue
RECENT RESULTS FROM VERITAS...... 453 David Hanna
GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY WITH THE ARGO-YBJ EXPERIMENT...... 457 Tristano Di Girolamo
HAVE CHERENKOV TELESCOPES DETECTED A NEW LIGHT BOSON?...... 460 Marco Roncadelli, Alessandro De Angelis, Oriana Mansutti
CHERENKOV TELESCOPE ARRAY – THE FUTURE OF GROUND-BASED GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY...... 463 Robert Wagner
FIRST RESULTS OF THE ANTARES NEUTRINO TELESCOPE...... 466 J D Zornoza
THE BAIKAL EXPERIMENT – FROM MEGATON TO GIGATON...... 469 A Avrorin, V Aynutdinov, V Balkanov, I Belolaptikov, D Bogorodsky, N Budnev, I Danilchenko, G Domogatsky, A Doroshenko, A Dyachok, Zh-A Dzhilkibaev, S Fialkovsky, O Gaponenko, K Golubkov, O Gress, T Gress, O Grishin, A Klabukov, A Klimov, A Kochanov, K Konischev, A Koshechkin, V Kulepov, D Kuleshov, L Kuzmichev, E Middell, S Mikheyev, M Milenin, R Mirgazov, E Osipova, G Pan'kov, L Pan'kov, A Panfilov, D Petukhov, E Pliskovsky, P Pokhil, V Poleschuk, E Popova, V Prosin, M Rozanov, V Rubtzov, A Sheifler, A Shirokov, B Shoibonov, Ch Spiering, O Suvorova, B Tarashansky, R Wischnewski, I Yashin, V Zhukov
KM3NET: A CUBIC-KILOMETRE SCALE DEEP SEA NEUTRINO TELESCOPE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ...... 472 A Margiotta
LIMIT ON THE DIFFUSE FLUX OF ULTRA HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINOS USING THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY ...... 476 Pierre Billoir
EVOLUTION OF THE COSMIC RAY ANISOTROPY ABOVE 1014 EV...... 480 Piera L Ghia
HYBRID DETECTION OF ULTRA HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS WITH THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY ...... 484 Mariangela Settimo
NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN MHD SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS...... 487 S Kawagoe, T Takiwaki, K Kotake
COSMIC RAY STUDIES WITH THE OPERA DETECTOR AT GRAN SASSO ...... 490 Nicoletta Mauri
POSTER SESSION
INVESTIGATION OF ββ DECAY IN 150ND AND 148ND TO THE EXCITED STATES OF 150SM AND 148SM ...... 493 A S Barabash, Ph Hubert, A Nachab, V Umatov
THE BIPO DETECTOR...... 495 S Cebrian
PAMELA SUB-DETECTORS CAPABILITY IN LIGHT NUCLEI IDENTIFICATION ...... 497 Lucia Consiglio
POSITIONING, ALIGNMENT AND ABSOLUTE POINTING OF THE ANTARES NEUTRINO TELESCOPE ...... 499 F Fehr, C Distefano
BACKGROUND LEVEL ESTIMATIONS USING PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS IN NEW GENERATION GE EXPERIMENTS ...... 501 H Gómez, S Cebrián, J Morales, J A Villar
FIRST OPERATION OF AN 18-FOLD SEGMENTED N-TYPE HPGE DETECTOR IN LIQUID NITROGEN ...... 503 I Abt, A Caldwell, D Lenz, J Janicsko, J Liu, X Liu, B Majorovits, F Stelzer
PAMELA MISSION: CONSTRAINTS TO COSMIC RAYS PROPAGATION FROM NUCLEI ...... 505 L Marcelli
HANOHANO: HAWAIIAN ANTINEUTRINO OBSERVATORY...... 507 Jelena Maricic
RESULTS OF THE RADIO-DETECTION EXPERIMENT HASRA (HAWAII ASKARYAN IN SALT RADIO ARRAY) AND PROSPECT FOR UHE NEUTRINO DETECTION IN SALT...... 509 Radovan Milincic
DETECTION OF FAST NEUTRONS WITH LIF AND AL2O3 SCINTILLATING BOLOMETERS ...... 511 N Coron, C Cuesta, J Domange, E García, J Gironnet, J Leblanc, P de Marcillac, M Martínez, Y Ortigoza, A Ortiz de Solórzano, C Pobes, J Puimedón, T Redon, T Rolón, M L Sarsa, L Torres, J A Villar
TECHNIQUE TO MEASURE THE COSMIC MUON FLUX AT THE OLD CANFRANC UNDERGROUND LABORATORY...... 513 A Rodríguez, J M Carmona, S Cebrián, T Dafni, J Galán, I G Irastorza, H Gómez, F J Iguaz, G Luzón, J Morales, J Ruz, L Seguí, A Tomás
R-PROCESS AND MASS VARYING NEUTRINOS...... 515 F. Rossi-Torres, M. M. Guzzo, P. C. de Holanda
100 + 100 NEW OBSERVATION OF 2β2V DECAY OF MO TO THE 0 1 LEVEL OF RU IN THE ARMONIA1 EXPERIMENT ...... 517 P Belli, R Bernabei, R S Boiko, F Cappella, R Cerulli, F A Danevich, S d'Angelo, A Incicchitti, V V Kobychev, B N Kropivyansky, M Laubenstein, P G Nagornyi, S S Nagorny, S Nisi, F Nozzoli, D V Poda, D Prosperi, O G Polischuk, V I Tretyak, I M Vyshnevskyi, S S Yurchenko
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