Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics

THOMAS K. GAISSER isMartinA.PomerantzProfessorofPhysicsattheUniversity of Delaware. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt prize. His research at the Bartol Research institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy includes cosmic-ray physics, atmospheric neutrinos, and neutrino astronomy.

RALPHENGEL is a senior scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He specializes in the application of high energy physics to problems in particle astrophysics, focusing on the physics and detection of high-energy and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. He is an author of several simulation codes commonly applied in cosmic ray physics.

ELISA RESCONI is a Heisenberg Professor of Physics at the Technical University Munich (TUM). Prof. Resconi’s research focuses on experimental physics with cosmic particles at TUM’s Physics Department and Cluster of Excellence “Uni- verse”, and includes studies of neutrinos in both astrophysics and particle physics. Most noteworthy, Prof. Resconi has developed novel methods in the search for cosmic neutrinos and their astrophysical sources, and in the fundamental study of neutrino properties.