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.

 

1 Welcome / White Paper goals

Speaker: Fred Sarazin

2 Outline of the White Paper

Current Organizational structure
Call for contributors & Conveners

Speaker: Fred Sarazin

Miniworkshop.pdf

3 The UHECR Paradigm Shift

Discussion of section 2 of the WP the time includes

Speakers: Alan Coleman, Eric Mayotte

Sec 2. Current Understanding.pdf

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 The next generation observatories

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

Speaker: Frank Schroeder

SnowmassUHECRwhitepaper_Sec6_20oct2021.pdf