Workshop on a Southern Gamma-Ray Observatory

Jun 8, 2017, 9:00 AM → Jun 9, 2017, 7:00 PM 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.

Thu, June 8

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Welcome and Introduction

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

9:00 AM SGSO Science Case

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

Slides SGSOScienceCase.pdf

9:20 AM Community Feedback

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

Slides Harding_SouthernObservatory.pdf

10:00 AM 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 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Galactic Astronomy

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

11:00 AM 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 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

Lunch on your own.

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Extragalactic Astronomy

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

2:00 PM 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

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Other Physics

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

4:00 PM 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

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Dinner

Group dinner, University of Rochester

Fri, June 9

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM ICRC Contributions

Discussion of ICRC contributions from PSU and MPI-K.

9:00 AM 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

9:20 AM 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

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Design Considerations

9:45 AM 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 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Summary

Summary of workshop discussions.

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

Boxed lunches available in Goergen Hall.

1:30 PM → 6:00 PM Open Session

Open time for collaboration, software development, etc.