CRA Seminars
The CRA Seminars provide the opportunity to foster interdisciplinary research in astrophysics, gravitational wave physics, numerical relativity and particle astrophysics. The seminars are open to external participation via phone conference. If you would like to participate, recommend a speaker, or receive notice of the seminars, contact Dr. Christy Pierce at christina.pierce [at] physics.gatech.edu.
Time: Thursdays at 3:00pm (coffee and cookies at 2:45pm in Howey N201)
Venue: Howey N210
Teleconference Phone: (404) XXX-XXXX
Next Seminar
| Date: December 3, 2009 | Speaker: Dr. Andreas Tepe (CRA) |
| Title: Marrying AMANDA and Having an Affair with SUSY | |
| Abstract:
As a new member of the School of Physics, I would like to introduce myself while giving a brief
survey over the work of my Ph.D. thesis. The thesis includes two main parts: the integration of the
AMANDA into the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole, and the search for supersymmetric
particles with the IceCube detector. IceCube and its predecessor AMANDA are very large detector arrays melted down into the Antarctic polar icecaps. AMANDA has a higher instrumentation density and is located inside the one cubic kilometer volume of IceCube. This makes it a valuable low energy upgrade to IceCube and increases the sky coverage for low energy events. The thesis deals with the hardware efforts to merge both detectors. The second part of the thesis focuses on the possible detection of supersymmetric (SUSY) particles. Several SUSY models include conservation laws (e.g. R-parity), which encourage the assumption of pairwise SUSY particle production. Under certain circumstances long living charged slepton pairs are predicted, which can produce distinguishable double track signatures in a large volume neutrino detector. The work in the thesis contains the simulation of double tracks and the development of a filter algorithm searching for the SUSY signatures. |
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Schedule for the Fall 2009 Semester
| Sep. 17 | CRA Open House | Pizza and Astrophysics for new GaTech PhD Students |
| Sep. 24 | Aden Draper (CRA) | Balancing the Cosmic Energy Budget: The Cosmic X-ray Background, Blazars, and the Compton Thick AGN Fraction |
| Oct. 1 | Dr. Richard Miller (University of Alabama, Huntsville) | Ex Luna, Scientia! Nuclear Astrophysics from the Moon |
| Oct. 8 | Dr. Virginia McSwain (Lehigh University) | Multiwavelength Observations of Gamma-ray Binaries |
| Oct. 15 | Dr. Jane Rigby (Carnegie Observatories) | The cosmic history of rapidly star-forming galaxies |
| Oct. 22 | Dr. Dawn Williams (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) | Radio Detection of Extremely High Energy Neutrinos |
| Oct. 29 | Dr. Matt van Adelsberg (KITP) | Cosmic Rays and Collisionless Electron Heating in Balmer Dominated Shocks |
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| Nov. 19 | Professor Jordan Goodman (University of Maryland) | A Recent Look at the TeV Sky from Milagro and Look Forward to HAWC |
| Nov. 26 | --- | --- |
| Dec. 3 | Dr. Andreas Tepe (CRA) | Marrying AMANDA and Having an Affair with SUSY |