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Participation of the CRD delegation in European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Košice, Slovakia
The 21st ECRS - European Cosmic Ray Symposium was held at the Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia, from Thesday, September 9th to Friday September, 12th, 2008.
The scientific program included oral and poster presentations covering the following topics:
1. Relationship of cosmic rays to the evironment.
2. Energetic particles and the magnetosphere of the Earth.
3. Energetic particles in the heliosphere.
4. Solar-terrestrial effects on different time scales.
5. Cosmic rays below the knee.
6. Cosmic rays above the knee.
7. High energy interactions.
8. GeV and TeV gamma ray astronomy.
9. European projects related to cosmic rays.
Approximately 150 scientists from 20 European countries delivered 76 oral and 120 poster presentations. The interests of the symposium have considerably changed from research of high energy galactic cosmic rays (knee- region physics, muons, stronginteractions) to the solar terrestrial connections and solar physics and space weather.
The Armenian delegation (A.Chilingarian and G.Hovsepyan)presented 3 oral and 2 poster presentations:
A.Chilingarian; Surface Particle Detectors in the Space Weatherforecast; Research of the Galactic Cosmic Rays from knee till cutoff(10^16-10^19) eV at Aragats Cosmic Ray Observatory;
G. Hovsepyan; Size and Energy Spectra of incident cosmic radiationobtained by the MAKET ANI surface array on mountain Aragats.
Poster presentations:
Hybrid particle-detector network located at Middle-Lowlatitudes for Solar Physics and Space Weather research P2.12A; Parameters of theAragats Space-environmental Center monitors as measured at the start of 24-th SolarCycle.
The International board of the symposium was set to be held in Turku, Finlandin 2010.
As usual, during the symposium the Armenian delegation participated in the European projects meetings: At the INTAS 8777 project meeting the Armenian delegation reported on the new electronics to be commissioned for the large Aragats Multichannel Muon Monitor (AMMM) and calculations of the most probable primary proton energies for the Aragats particle detectors.The next project meeting will be held in Izrael in February-March just before the project termination. The draft of the final project should be preparedby the end of 2008.
After the conference, a one day meeting of the “Real-Time database for highresolution Neutron Monitor measurements” (NMDB - Grant Agreement Number 213007 was held at the Kosice technical university.
Having listened to all package leaders and discussed the current status of the project, it was decided to make some important changes and rearrange some project tasks.The next meeting was planned at Kiel, Germany on December 3-5, 2008.
The Armenian delegation proposed to include in the meeting a scientific session with 2 topics:
Filtering algorithms for time series smoothing;
Space Weather alerts based on NM data.
A meeting was also held with the Bulgarian and Croatian delegation on the installation of SEVAN particle detectors. Both groups have already prepared the PM and scintillator housings. The Armenian experts will finalize the detector assemblage in late Autumn or Winter of 2008.
Figure 1Gagik Hovsepyan reporting on MAKET-ANI final results
Figure 2 At poster session. Fromleft to right: I.Yashin, (MePhI, Moscow, Russia), A.Chilingarian (YerPhI,Armenia), P.Spillantini (scientific attaché of Italian Embassy in Moscow), D.Timashkov( MePhI,Moscow, Russia – acknowledged as the best young scientist of the symposium).
Figure 3 INTAS collaborationmeeting. From left to right: R.Butigover, E.Fluckiger (both Bern university,Swiss), A.Chilingarian (YerPhI, Armenia) and project coordinator R.Hippler(Greifswald univ., Germany).
Figure 4 A.Chilingarian and the chair of the European symposiums board sir Arnold Wolfendale discussing thefine structure of the “knee”.
Figure 5 Prof J.Stamenov (directorof Institute of Nuclear Physics of Bulgarian Academy of science) explains theSEVAN detector status in Bulgaria.
Figure 6 NMDB meeting. From left torigjt: G.Hovsepyan (YerPhI, Armenia), E.Vashenyk (Polar Institute, Apatiti,Russia, R.Butigover, E.Fluckiger (both Bern university, Swiss), A.Chilingarian(YerPhI, Armenia)