Conveners
Parallel Sessions (II): Session 2B - beta
- Thibeau Wouters (Utrecht University)
Parallel Sessions (II): Session 2A - alpha
- Noor Koster
High-energy cosmic rays constantly bombard Earth's atmosphere from outer space, initiating particle cascades called air showers. The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest observatory in the world dedicated to detecting these air showers. It consists of more than 1,600 surface detectors distributed over an area of 3,000 km². Recently, the surface detectors underwent a major upgrade, called...
The aim of the NEXT experiment in Groningen is the study of the decay properties and masses of Neutron rich EXotic heavy nuclei produced in multi-nucleon Transfer reactions. This type of reaction comes with the experimental challenge of a wide angular distribution of the reaction products. To overcome this challenge, the NEXT experiment uses a solenoid separator to separate and to focus the...
The permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of a fundamental particle is a CP violating property, and can be used as a sensitive probe for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The electron leaves a greatly enhanced EDM signature when bound to a heavy polar molecule. This has allowed molecular precision measurements to explore well into the parameter space of BSM theories. A next generation...
Quantum chromodynamics predicts a phase transition from hadronic matter to deconfined quarks at extreme densities, yet its exact nature remains uncertain. Neutron stars offer a unique opportunity to probe this transition, but bulk properties—mass, radius and tidal deformability—provide only indirect signatures, which require many detections to resolve and are ineffective if the discontinuity...
Since the first detection of a gravitational wave (GW) in 2015, more than 300 confident detections have been made, making data analysis increasingly computationally demanding. As the next generation of ground-based detectors is expected to increase the number of detections by three orders of magnitude, new and efficient inference methods are needed. A Neural Likelihood Estimator (NLE) has...
