Henning Gast



Selected Presentations:

"Cosmic-ray research with AMS-02 on the International Space Station and in Juelich",
Invited talk in seminar of Julich Supercomputing Centre, October 2012, Jülich, Germany

"News from PAMELA and AMS-02",
Invited talk at ATP-Meeting, September 2012, Zeuthen, Germany

"Recent results of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.)",
Invited talk at 15th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, August 2011, Moscow, Russia (pdf)

"Exploring the Galaxy at TeV energies: Latest results from the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey",
Poster presentation at 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing, China, August 2011 (pdf)

"Charge dependent solar modulation in light of the recent PAMELA data",
Talk at 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, Lodz, Poland, July 2009 (odp) (pdf)

"Towards a precise measurement of the cosmic-ray positron fraction",
Dienstagsseminar RWTH Aachen, 30 June 2009 (pdf)

"Cosmic-ray spectroscopy with the balloon-borne PEBS detector",
DPG Munich, 13 March 2009 (odp) (pdf)

Identification of Dark Matter (IDM2008), Stockholm, Sweden, August 2008 (odp) (pdf)
DPG Freiburg, 7 March 2008 (odp) (pdf)
Report on first testbeam results (preliminary version), Hausseminar I. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen, 2 November 2007 (odp) (pdf)
Report to Graduate School on Elementary Particle Physics at the TeV-scale, Bad Honnef, 27 August 2007 (odp) (pdf)
30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, July 2007 (odp) (pdf)
DPG Heidelberg, 6 March 2007 (odp) (pdf)
Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, 22 February 2007 (odp) (pdf)
Hausseminar I. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen, 24 November 2006 (odp) (pdf)
PEBS workshop, Aachen, 29 May 2006 (pdf)
DPG Dortmund, 30 March 2006 (pdf)
Rencontres de Moriond, March 2006 (pdf)
Diploma ceremony Aachen, 28 January 2005 (pdf)
DPG Mainz, 30 March 2004 (pdf)

Schools:

CERN Summer School 2006 (poster)
Herbstschule Maria Laach 2005 (talk)
Alpbach Summer School 2005 (report) (presentation)
CERN Summer Student 2004 (report)

Conference Proceedings:

32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing, China, August 2011:
H. Gast et al., Exploring the Galaxy at TeV energies: Latest results from the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (pdf)
A. Bochow et al., Very-high-energy gamma radiation from supernova remnants as seen with H.E.S.S. (pdf)
F. Sheidaei et al., Discovery of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the vicinity of PSR J1831-952 with H.E.S.S. (pdf)

31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, Lodz, Poland, July 2009:
H. Gast and S. Schael, Charge-dependent solar modulation in light of the recent PAMELA data (pdf)
R. Greim et al., A high-resolution scintillating fiber tracker with SiPM array readout for cosmic-ray research (pdf)
G. Roper Yearwood et al., A New Instrument for Testing Charge-Sign Dependent Solar Modulation (pdf)

11th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD08), October 2008, Siena, Italy:
G. Roper Yearwood et al., A Scintillating Fiber Tracker With SiPM Readout, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 197 (2009) 245-249 (doi)
R. Greim et al., Silicon photomultiplier arrays - a novel photon detector for a high resolution tracker produced at FBK-irst, Italy,
Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 197 (2009) 83-86 (doi)

Identification of Dark Matter (IDM2008), Stockholm, Sweden, August 2008:
H. Gast et al., Indirect dark matter search with the balloon-borne PEBS detector, PoS(idm2008)023 (arXiv)

30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, July 2007:
H. Gast et al., PEBS - Positron Electron Balloon Spectrometer (pdf)

Vienna Conference on Instrumentation 2007:
P. von Doetinchem et al., PEBS - Positron Electron Balloon Spectrometer, NIM A 581 (2007) 151-155 (doi) (arXiv)
H. Gast et al., A high resolution scintillating fiber tracker with SiPM readout, NIM A 581 (2007) 423-426 (doi) (arXiv)

7th UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe:
J. Olzem et al., Cosmic-Ray Positron Identification through Bremsstrahlung Conversion, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 173 (2007) 51-55 (doi)

Rencontres de Moriond 2006:
H. Gast et al., Indirect Dark Matter Search: Cosmic Positron Fraction Measurement from 1 to 50 GeV with AMS-01 (arXiv)

Publications:

H.E.S.S. collaboration, A. Abramowski et al., Probing the extent of the non-thermal emission at TeV energies from the Vela X region with H.E.S.S., in preparation
Co-author of 10 additional publications in peer-reviewed journals, as member of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

B. Beischer et al., A high-resolution scintillating fiber tracker with silicon photomultiplier array readout, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 622 (2010) 542-554, (doi)
B. Beischer et al., Perspectives for indirect dark matter search with AMS-2 using cosmic-ray electrons and positrons, New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 105021 (doi)
H. Gast, Towards a precise measurement of the cosmic-ray positron fraction, PhD thesis, RWTH Aachen University, 2009 (arXiv) (pdf)
B. Beischer et al., Comparison of Geant4 transition radiation and ionization loss simulation to testbeam data, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 583 (2007) 485-493 (doi)
The AMS-01 collaboration, Cosmic-ray positron fraction measurement from 1 to 30 GeV with AMS-01, Phys. Lett. B 646 (2007) 145-154 (doi) (arXiv)

Activities:

H.E.S.S.

PEBS

C++ Kurs April 2009


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