Workshop on a Southern Gamma-Ray Observatory

8 Jun 2017, 09:00 → 9 Jun 2017, 19:00 US/Eastern

Goergen Hall

Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison), Miguel Mostafa (Penn State), Segev BenZvi (o=rochester,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

This workshop follows up a two-day meeting held in Puebla, Mexico in November 2016 on the deployment of a future wide-field TeV gamma ray observatory in the Southern Hemisphere.
The HAWC Collaboration will host this meeting on June 8 and 9, 2017 on the campus of the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, USA. Registration includes a fee of 70 USD which covers incidental expenses and a group dinner on Thursday June 8.

Thursday 8 June

Welcome and Introduction

Discussion of workshop goals and development of a wide FOV white paper.

1 SGSO Science Case

Speaker: Dr Harm Schoorlemmer (Max-Planck-Institute für Kerphysik)

Slides SGSOScienceCase.pdf

2 Community Feedback

Speaker: Dr J. Patrick Harding (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Harding_SouthernObservatory.pdf

3 Minutes: Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Segev BenZvi (o=rochester,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Minutes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kWrOQXU5k5XLmix7cZ9I5luSekcQeVP259RnYN_ZJlM/edit?usp=sharing SGSOWorkshopNotesJune8-92017.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Galactic Astronomy

Workshop/brainstorm session on galactic astrophysics accessible/desirable for a southern wide FOV array.

4 Minutes: Studying Galactic Particle Acceleration

Speaker: Segev BenZvi (o=rochester,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Minutes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kWrOQXU5k5XLmix7cZ9I5luSekcQeVP259RnYN_ZJlM/edit?usp=sharing SGSOWorkshopNotesJune8-92017.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Lunch on your own.

Extragalactic Astronomy

Workshop/brainstorming session on extragalactic physics accessible/desirable for a southern wide FOV observatory.

5 Minutes: Monitoring the Transient Sky

Speaker: Segev BenZvi (o=rochester,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Minutes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kWrOQXU5k5XLmix7cZ9I5luSekcQeVP259RnYN_ZJlM/edit?usp=sharing SGSOWorkshopNotesJune8-92017.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Other Physics

Ancillary topics that are accessible to a wide FOV observatory: cosmic ray physics, beyond the Standard Model, etc.

6 Minutes: Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Segev BenZvi (o=rochester,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Minutes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kWrOQXU5k5XLmix7cZ9I5luSekcQeVP259RnYN_ZJlM/edit?usp=sharing SGSOWorkshopNotesJune8-92017.pdf

18:00 Dinner

Group dinner, University of Rochester

Friday 9 June

ICRC Contributions

Discussion of ICRC contributions from PSU and MPI-K.

7 Baseline Design for a Next Generation Wide-Field-of-View Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Observatory

Speaker: Dr Harm Schoorlemmer (Max-Planck-Institute für Kerphysik)

Slides ConceptICRC.pdf

8 On the scientific motivation for a wide field-of-view TeV gamma-ray observatory in the Southern Hemisphere

Speaker: Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State)

Slides Abstract-South-2017.pdf

Design Considerations

9 Minutes: Design Considerations

Speaker: Segev BenZvi (o=rochester,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Minutes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kWrOQXU5k5XLmix7cZ9I5luSekcQeVP259RnYN_ZJlM/edit?usp=sharing SGSOWorkshopNotesJune8-92017.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Summary

Summary of workshop discussions.

12:30 Lunch

Boxed lunches available in Goergen Hall.

Open Session

Open time for collaboration, software development, etc.