Workshop UHECR Snowmass White Paper

Wednesday Oct 20, 2021, 10:00 AM → 1:00 PM America/Chicago

This workshop will be held as a virtual event

Frederic Sarazin (Colorado School of Mines)

Short (about 2 hours) workshop, where the overall organization and structure of the White Paper will be presented. The objectives of this mini-workshop will be to collect feedback from the UHECR community-at-large and encourage contributions to the various tasks and topics that will be covered by the WP. The workshop will consist of a very short introduction of each topic followed by ample time for discussion.

The recording of the workshop can be found here.

 

10:00 AM → 10:05 AM Welcome / White Paper goals

Speaker: Fred Sarazin

10:05 AM → 10:25 AM Outline of the White Paper

Current Organizational structure
Call for contributors & Conveners

Speaker: Fred Sarazin

Miniworkshop.pdf

10:25 AM → 10:45 AM The UHECR Paradigm Shift

Discussion of section 2 of the WP the time includes

Speakers: Alan Coleman, Eric Mayotte

Sec 2. Current Understanding.pdf

10:45 AM → 11:05 AM Physics at the energy frontier – the synergy between UHECRs and Particle Physics

Discussion of Section 3 of the WP. Time includes discussion time

Speaker: Dennis Soldin

Sec3_ParticlePhysics.pdf

11:05 AM → 11:25 AM Pinpointing the Most Extreme Physical Processes in the Universe

Discussion of Section 4 of the WP. Time includes discussion time

Speaker: Tonia Venters

Sec4_AstrophysicsTheory.pdf

11:25 AM → 11:45 AM Stepping up to the new challenges

Discussion of section 5 of the WP. Time includes discussion

Speakers: Eric Mayotte, Johannes Eser (University of Chicago)

Workshop_Sec5.pdf

11:45 AM → 12:15 PM The next generation observatories

Discussion of section 5 of the WP. Time includes discussion time

Speaker: Frank Schroeder

SnowmassUHECRwhitepaper_Sec6_20oct2021.pdf