New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics

Mourao A.M., Pimenta M.981-256-625-2

Table of contents :
CONTENTS……Page 6
Preface……Page 10
Group Photo……Page 11
Part 1 Overviews in Astroparticie Physics……Page 12
An Overview of the Status of Work on Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays……Page 14
Gravitational Waves from Compact Sources……Page 36
Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics……Page 58
Black Holes and Fundamental Physics……Page 82
Part 2 Contributions……Page 102
Cosmic Ray Physics……Page 104
Phenomenology of Cosmic Ray Air Showers……Page 106
First Results from the MAGIC Experiment……Page 121
How to Select UHECR in EUSO – The Trigger System……Page 131
Pressure and Temperature Dependence of the Primary Scintillation in Air……Page 135
Overview of the GLAST Physics……Page 140
Velocity and Charge Reconstruction with the AMS/RICH Detector……Page 145
Isotope Separation with the RICH Detector of the AMS Experiment……Page 151
Gravitational Waves and Compact Sources……Page 156
Gravitational Radiation from 3D Collapse to Rotating Black Holes……Page 158
The Role of Differential Rotation in the Evolution of the r-Mode Instability……Page 173
Analytica r-Mode Solution with Gravitational Radiation Reaction Force……Page 180
Space Radiation: Effects and Monitoring Particles from the Sun……Page 188
Simulations of Space Radiation Monitors……Page 192
GEANT4 Detector Simulations: Radiation Interaction Simulations for the High-Energy Astrophysics Experiments EUSO and AMS……Page 197
Software for Radiological Risk Assessment in Space Missions……Page 202
Neutrino Physics……Page 208
Results from K2K……Page 210
SNO: Salt Phase Resuits and NCD Phase Status……Page 220
The ICARUS Experiment……Page 225
Cosmoiogicai Parameters Measurements……Page 230
High Redshift Supernova Surveys……Page 232
SNFactory: Nearby Supernova Factory……Page 239
A Polarized Galactic Emission Mapping Experiment at 5-10 GHz……Page 244
Gataxy Clusters as Probes of Dark Energy……Page 249
Black Hole Physics……Page 254
Acoustic Black Holes……Page 256
Superradiant Instabilities in Black Hole Systems……Page 263
Microscopic Black Hole Detection in UHECR: The Double Bang Signature……Page 270
Generalized Uncertainty Principle and Holography……Page 275
Testing Covariant Entropy Bounds……Page 283
Dark Matter and Dark Energy……Page 288
Dark Energy – Dark Matter Unification: Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model……Page 290
Cosmology and Spacetime Symmetries……Page 304
Scalar Field Models: From the Pioneer Anomaly to Astrophysical Constraints……Page 309
Branewortds Conformal Fields and Dark Energy……Page 316
Sun and Stars as Cosmological Tools: Probing Supersymmetric Dark Matter……Page 323
ZEPUN III:A Xenon Detector for WIMP Searches……Page 331
Dark Matter Detectability with Cerenkov Telescopes……Page 338
List of Participants……Page 344