Name: NMDB Meeting 2025: Cosmic Ray studies with Neutron Detectors
Start: 2025-03-19T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-03-21T19:10:00+02:00
Location: Physics Department

NMDB Meeting 2025: Cosmic Ray studies with Neutron Detectors

from Wednesday, 19 March 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 21 March 2025 (19:10)

Monday, 17 March 2025
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

09:30

09:30 - 10:00
Room: Seminar Room
10:00 Welcome & Introductory Talks
Welcome & Introductory Talks
10:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

10:00 Welcome to the University of Athens - Ε. Nistazakis (Chairman of Physics Department, University of Athens)

10:10 Welcome to NMDB meeting 2025 - Helen Mavromichalaki (University of Athens)

10:15 The Significance of Neutron Monitor Measurements over Time - Erwin Flückiger (University of Bern, Switzerland)

11:00 The history and the current status of the Neutron Monitor DataBase - Christian Steigies (CAU Kiel)
11:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:45
Room: Seminar Room
11:45 Session 1
Session 1
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:45 Observational evidence on the mechanism of relativistic particle acceleration in solar eruptions - Karl-Ludwig Klein (Observatoire de Paris)

12:35 Shape and extend of the solar wind transition surfaces: Solar Alfven and Sonic surfaces, the heliosphere and CR modulation - Xenophon Moussas (Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Session 2
Session 2
14:30 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:30 Neutron Monitors and Cosmic Ray Science - Monica Laurenza (INAF- Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy)

15:00 GOES Solar Energetic Particle Observations During the Ground Level Enhancements 74-76 of 2024 - Juan Rodriguez (University of Colorado CIRES)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Room
16:00 Session 2
Session 2
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

16:30 Solar events of the 25th activity cycle - Ashot Chilingarian (Yerevan Physics Institute)
Thursday, 20 March 2025
10:00 Session 2
Session 2
10:00 - 11:45
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

10:00 High energy proton recordings during GLE74 on 11 May 2024 - Athanasios Papaioannou (National Observatory of Athens)

10:30 GLE #75 caused by a solar energetic particle event on 8 June 2024 - Stepan Poluianov (University of Oulu, Finland)

10:50 Modeling the solar event responsible for GLE74 in May 2024 - Manon Jarry (IAASARS - NOA)

11:10 High latitude muon and neutron observation of the Forbush decrease during the May 2024 solar storms - Martin Schrön (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany)

11:30 Research of cosmic rays at the Lomnicky stit observatory - Ján Kubančák (Institute of Experimental Physics SAS)
11:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:00
Room: Seminar Room
12:00 Session 3
Session 3
12:00 - 13:10
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

12:00 Neutron Monitor Data as input to European projects: SWESNET and PECASUS - Norma Bock Crosby (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)

12:30 The response of ANeMoS GLE Alert system to the recent Ground Level Enhancements of 2024 - Maria Gerontidou (National an Kapodistrian University of Athens)

12:50 GLE alert and afterwards - Rolf Bütikofer (University of Bern, Switzerland)
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 14:30
14:30 Session 3
Session 3
14:30 - 16:20
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:30 Energy Sensitivity of a Neutron Monitor: A Monte Carlo Study - Danislav Sapundjiev (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium)

15:00 Selection of the Solar-Diurnal Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays by Local and Global Methods - Nataly Shlyk (IZMIRAN)

15:20 Ground-based observations of temporal variation of cosmic ray spectrum during Forbush decreases - Alejandro Sáiz (Mahidol University)

15:40 Measurement of Cosmic-ray Neutrons with a High Efficiency Spectrometer - Ariel Tarifeno-Saldivia (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (CSIC-UV))

16:00 Solar Energetic Particle transport during the GLE73 event on 28 October 2021 - Eleni Lavasa (NKUA, NOA and ATHENA RC)
17:00

17:00 - 20:30
Friday, 21 March 2025
10:00 Session 4
Session 4
10:00 - 11:50
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

10:00 CaLMa’s way, from the space to ground - Juan José Blanco Ávalos (University of Alcalá)

10:30 Neutron Monitors at Jungfraujoch - Lukas Baeni (University of Bern)

10:50 FORBUSH EFFECTS AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH SOLAR, INTERPLANETARY AND GEOMAGNETIC PHENOMENA - Maria Abunina (IZMIRAN)

11:20 miniTRASGO: A Compact RPC Tracker for Global Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Monitoring - Alberto Blanco (Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (LIP))

11:30 ARTEMIS–JEAN LOUIS STEINBERG (ARTEMIS-IV/JLS) MULTICHANNEL SOLAR RADIO SPECTROGRAPH UPGRADING THE INSTRUMENT & A STUDY OF TYPE III BURSTS - FANIS SMANIS (HERON LAB/UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY)
11:50 Poster Session - Coffee Break
Poster Session - Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:30
Room: Seminar Room
12:30 Session 4
Session 4
12:30 - 13:10
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

12:30 On the usability of small-scale scintillation muon telescopes - Semyon Belov (IZMIRAN)

12:50 HLEA and THIMON: Enhancing Neutron Monitor Data from the Summit of Haleakalā - Nikolay Nikonov (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Veronica Bindi (Physics & Astronomy Department, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 14:30
14:30 Session 5
Session 5
14:30 - 15:50
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:30 The ARTEMIS-IV\JLS free access database (ARTDB): Off to a Good Start-With Room for Improvement - Spiridon Armatas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics)

14:50 Neutron background monitoring for the IAXO-D0 detector prototype - Víctor Martínez Nouvilas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

15:30 The current Status of NEST - Nicolas Fuller (LIRA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, France)
15:50 Open Discussion & Closing
Open Discussion & Closing
15:50 - 16:50
Room: Seminar Room

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