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Recent results on LIV studies using MAGIC telescopes from the observation of GRB 190114C
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)On January 14, 2019, the most energetic photons ever observed from a gamma-ray burst were recorded by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes, detecting GRB 190114C at TeV energies. We used this unique observation to probe an energy dependence of the speed of light in vacuo for photons, as predicted by several quantum gravity models. From a set of conservative assumptions on the possible intrinsic spectral and ...Conference Paper -
Understanding the origin of the extended gamma-ray emission and the physical nature of HESS J1841-055 using observations at TeV energies with the MAGIC telescopes
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)With the improved sensitivity with respect to the previous generation, current space-borne and ground-based gamma-ray telescopes have made the number of γ-ray sources detected at GeV- TeV energies increase many folds over the last decade. Many of the detected extended gamma-ray sources are not associated with any known sources at other wavelengths. Understanding the nature of these sources and the origin of the observed high energy gamma-ray ...Conference Paper -
Prototype Open Event Reconstruction Pipeline for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceThe Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory currently under construction. It will improve over the current generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) by a factor of five to ten in sensitivity and it will be able to observe the whole sky from a combination of two sites: a northern site in La Palma, Spain, and a southern one in Paranal, Chile. CTA will also be the first open gamma-ray ...Conference Paper -
Construction status and prospects of the Hyper-Kamiokande project
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceThe Hyper-Kamiokande project is a 258-kton Water Cherenkov together with a 1.3-MW high-intensity neutrino beam from the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). The inner detector with 186-kton fiducial volume is viewed by 20-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and multi-PMT modules, and thereby provides state-of-the-art of Cherenkov ring reconstruction with thresholds in the range of few MeVs. The project is expected to lead to ...Conference Paper -
Benchmarking the Science for the Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO)
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceThe Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is the project to build a new extensive air shower particle detector for the observation of very-high-energy gamma-rays in South America. SWGO is currently planned for installation in the Southern Hemisphere, which grants it a unique science potential among ground-based gamma-ray detectors. It will complement the capabilities of CTA, working as a wide-field instrument for the monitoring ...Conference Paper -
Basalt fiber composites for the robotic fabrication of a lunar habitat
(2022)IAC-2022This study investigates the mechanical properties of a novel composite for a lunar space habitat. The research aims to identify high-mechanical strength materials for a robotically fabricated habitat with in-situ resources. Several basalt fiber types and cementitious matrices were investigated for building a fiber-reinforced composite. The effect of the basalt fiber type - chopped, spooled, and long; and fiber percentage - 1 wt. %, 5 wt. ...Conference Paper -
Towards observations of nuclearites in Mini-EUSO
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceMini-EUSO is a small orbital telescope with a field of view of 44◦ × 44◦, observing the night-time Earth mostly in 320-420 nm band. Its time resolution spanning from microseconds (triggered) to milliseconds (untriggered) and more than 300 × 300 km of the ground covered, already allowed it to register thousands of meteors. Such detections make the telescope a suitable tool in the search for hypothetical heavy compact objects, which would ...Conference Paper -
Prospects for neutrino astrophysics with Hyper-Kamiokande
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceHyper-Kamiokande is a multi-purpose next generation neutrino experiment. The detector is a two-layered cylindrical shape ultra-pure water tank, with its height of 64 m and diameter of 71 m. The inner detector will be surrounded by tens of thousands of twenty-inch photosensors and multi-PMT modules to detect water Cherenkov radiation due to the charged particles and provide our fiducial volume of 188 kt. This detection technique is established ...Conference Paper -
UCIRC²: EUSO-SPB2’s Infrared Cloud Monitor
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceThe second generation of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB2) is a balloon instrument for the detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies above 1 EeV and very high energy neutrinos with energies above 10 PeV. EUSOSPB2 consists of two telescopes: a fluorescence telescope pointed downward for the detection of UHECRs and a Cherenkov telescope pointed towards the limb for the ...Conference Paper -
Search for Gamma-ray Line emission from Dark Matter annihilation in the Galactic Centre with the MAGIC telescopes
(2022)PoS: Proceedings of Science ~ 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)We present the first search for dark matter (DM) spectral lines in the Galactic centre (GC) region with the MAGIC telescopes. The MAGIC telescopes, located on the Canary island of La Palma (Spain), are sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from 50 GeV to 50 TeV. MAGIC has performed indirect DM searches in various astrophysical targets, such as dwarf spheroidal galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Observations at high zenith angles ...Conference Paper